FAITH CAPSULE: Declaration of testimonies is the evidence decoration of one.

John 10:1-30

Jesus declared, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (John 10:9-11) 
In His word, there is positive to meditate as a testimony. 
Jesus encourages all to go in and out and find pasture.
In Jesus, there is life to have life abundantly.
He is the good shepherd that gives for the sheep. 
It is clear that if the word of God that is deliverance and preservation should have a place in the heart, by meditation day and night, that such shall have a mouth of confession.
What man confesses is a declaration. 
Making a declaration can sound like testimony. 
Do you have the word that you diligently meditate in your heart?
What are your testimonies in the face of the wicked world?
David is one testimony of the doing of God in His life to experience a great and mighty deliverance. 
With declaration as a testimony of David, he overcame Goliath.
In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) 
David refused to be discouraged but gave an account of his experience of God over his life as he responded to King Saul. 
David said, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) 
God is a good God. 
God distinctively pays and hears the words of mouth with the testimony of His doing.
King Saul could not delay or deny David with his discouraging word for David not to fight Goliath.
David is with the testimonies of God for his victory experiences of his past.
Do you have any testimony of God over your life as decoration for your declaration against challenging force in life?
Declaring, testifying, God to honor His name gives glory to His name.
Glorifying will provoke the attention of God.
As a believer, allow good treasure of the heart to bring forth good by confessing, declaring testimonies of the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you constantly meditate and confess to the good of God to experience a positive result.

FAITH CAPSULE: Worshipping God is separation from all to God.

Genesis 12

The calling of Abraham by God separated him from all in his life to God.
God called Abraham out of his family to a land unknown to him. (Genesis 12:1-2) 
Every separation to God counts before God and will count such for an uncommon assignment that is special. 
The separation of Abraham to the word of God was accounted to him for righteousness because it was evidence that he believed in God. 
Romans 4:3 records, “For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted, to him for righteousness.”
When man conspicuously responds to the word of God by denying engagement to the love of the world, it becomes separated from self to God. 
It is worshipping God when separated from all to God.
Give self to worshipping God. 
Separation to God is the avenue that leads to assessing and possessing all that God has in place for any that shall obediently answer to God in all His commandments. 
God is not a slave master, He does not force one to worship Him, but the choice to answer belongs to one called.
Abraham could not substitute anything for answering to worship God when he separated himself from his world to God. 
As an acclaimed believer, are you separating from the word for the calling of God? 
What are the things of the world at the center of your life? 
What is it that is denying you to worship God?
Until one is empty of things of the world, there will be no space for God to occupy in the life of such.
Worshipping God is living godly. 
Godliness counts before God.
Is your love centered on the world than to live by the word of God?
The will of God for man is to serve God by worshiping God. 
Worshipping God is to be separated from the world to God by His word. The love of things of the world is a way not to worship God. However, he who does the will of God abides forever. 
The book of 1 John 2:15-17 records, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 
Worshipping God is separation from all to God.
To be separated unto God is a way to find God. 
Seeing God is not possible for one with the filth of this wicked world. 
Seeing God is seeking God diligently, and such shall experience the reward from God. (Hebrews 11:6)

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live life to worship God for His glory over your life.

FAITHCAPSULE: The calling of God is not a ticket to escape but entices challenges.

2 Timothy 2

In the life of answering to the calling of God, challenges, hardship, or afflictions can be a life experience. 
Challenges, afflictions, and hardship are always birds of the same feather, and they flock together in the name of trouble. 
Challenges, hardship, and affliction are often found in association or accompany the calling of every called one by God. 
The bible makes us realize in 2 Timothy 2:3-4, “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
Are you one answering to the calling of God experiencing challenges or hardship?
Is affliction knocking on your path?
Can you consider yourself a good soldier of Jesus Christ?
If yes, be assuredly confident that God never forsakes His called ones, the ones walking in the line of His word that is standing as the soldier for God.
If you are living for God, keep in mind that, regardless of challenges, hardship, or affliction shall not be excused, from you but God shall keep you. 
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.”  God never forsakes His children.
Imagine Jeremiah, in the calling of his life God warns him, “They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you”, says the LORD, “to deliver you.” (Jeremiah 1:19) 
Do you wonder why God allowed Jeremiah to face any challenge while answering the calling? 
The great thing is that God is God, and He will always have His way. 
God delivers; God is the same God yesterday, today, and forever.          
Challenges will not stop knocking at the life of a believer. 
As a soldier of God, hardship might raise its weapon; affliction will possibly try to take over in the calling of God, but the Lord God shall deliver His own out of them all.
Being an acclaimed believer that is a soldier of Jesus, remain focused on God but not on the challenges of this world. 
As an acclaimed believer, stand as a soldier of Jesus by knowing that God is able. 
A true believer, a soldier of Jesus, must be encouraged that whatever your challenge is today, God alone that is above all shall deliver in all. Answering the calling of God is not enough but fully completing the assignment of God is what counts. 
It is wisdom to know that answering to the calling of God is not a ticket not to experience challenges. Challenges will answer where there is the calling of God, but God shall deliver in all.

Prayer for today: Ask for the enablement of God to endure challenges in His calling over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is no substitute for prayer.

Luke 3

God is the Lord God that reigns forever. 
With prayer, one possesses the key that opens heaven.
Prayer is a key, while faith is the ignition.
Faith is crucial because, without faith, God is not pleased. 
Hebrews 11:6 confirms, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Are you praying with expectation for an answer? 
Does your prayer have faith?
Word points out that without faith, God is not pleased. 
When with faith, God is pleased to reward one praying before Him.
Jesus demonstrates to all that with prayer, heaven opens. 
Luke 3:21 records, “When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.”
Jesus prayed with faith for an answer from heaven, and the answer came from the open heaven. The bible records, “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ’You are My beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.’”(Luke 3:22)
The prayer by Jesus is a testimony to the fact that when a prayer finds a door to heaven, the Holy Spirit, which represents the presence of God, will come down and descend on the one praying. 
With the Holy Spirit descending, the voice of God will then sound in the direction of the one praying. 
The voice of God shall speak direction if the one praying has the ear to hear the voice of God. 
There is a need to have the grace of God to hear the voice of God when it sounds in one praying before God.
When heaven opened for Jesus, He heard the voice from heaven saying to Him, “You are my beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.” 
Remember, it takes faith for one praying to please God.
God is a prayer-answering God.
All should know and understand taking the time to call unto God.
How is your prayer life?
The word pointed out what it takes with prayer. 
Psalm 109:4 of David states, “…But I give myself to prayer.”
Just as stated by David in Psalm 109:4, the book Acts 6:4 says, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 
Are you a believer with a prayer life or an unbelieving believer with no prayer life?
As a believer, how is your prayer life? 
A prayer-less believer is like a vehicle with headlights, driving in the dark without the headlights turned on. 
With such, it will only take a moment before a disaster happens by driving in the dark without light (prayer).
In these days of spiritual wickedness, there should be no substitute for prayer.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and strength to increase prayer time before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The three friends of Daniel experienced decoration of the presence of God.

Daniel 3

In this new season or your new beginning in life journey, with desire, make it a priority to become a decorated vessel of God.
One that trusts and hopes in God rest in God.
Trusting and hoping in God prompts one to declare the works of God. 
Knowing to declare the works of God is in positions for one to become decorated with the presence of God.
To declare the works of God is to be obedient to God and disobey the gods of this world. 
The three friends of Daniel (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) demonstrated what it means to declare the works of God and be decorated by the presence of God. 
The three friends of Daniel disobeyed King Nebuchadnezzar by not worshiping a gold image. 
With King Nebuchadnezzar, a failure not to worship the gold image shall die in the burning fiery furnace. 
Attempts to get them to worship the gold image did not work, and the king questioned: Who will deliver the three friends from his hands?
The three friends of Daniel, in the face of untimely death, declare the wonder-working God stating, “…O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18) 
It is impossible to declare the wonder-working God in the face of a life and death challenge.
The three friends declared for God and experienced decoration with the presence of God.
God uncommonly decorated the three friends in the history of creation. 
God showed up for the three friends by sending an angel for deliverance.
The king saw and testified God whom he did not know before, he was astonished, and states, “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”(Daniel 3:25)
The three friends encountered decoration of God, and the king could not resist announcing the awesomeness of God.
The three friends of Daniel could not become a victim of the wicked as they remained close to God. 
The three friends of Daniel trusted in God, and their hope could not become hopeless.
The three friends worshiped God by their testimony to deny worrying in the face of sudden death.
Are you with trust and hope in the awesomeness of God that delivers?
Ignore the wicked; focus and hold onto God in these days of rising challenges, and you shall be standing for the glory of God without a doubt before the enemy. 

Prayer for today: Ask to know God with trust and hope to become decorated by God.