FAITH CAPSULES: Know to watch and pray, not wailing with empty noise.

1 Peter 4 

Waiting on God to experience His presence, to receive expectation demands watching and praying unceasingly.
There is no place that the word demands praying without watching or watching without praying.
What is your prayer of expectation like in your life?
Repeatedly, the word of God asks to watch and pray, not wailing (prolong cry) to provoke with empty noise but to remind God by His word that does not return void to Him.
Engage watch and pray, though like labor, but continually is with the expectation to experience the hand of God. 
Watch and pray, always before God!
To watch and pray is what Jesus repeatedly urges in His words.
As a believer in God, with faith to receive demands watching and praying the evidence of one with expectation for manifestation.
Are you watching and praying as Jesus urges in His word or worrying in the ground of praying before God?
Entering the labor room of prayer should not be with a mind centered on worrying. Seek before God always with expectation for manifestation the evidence of watching and praying.
To be watching and praying is giving attention to God for His visitation.
Watching and praying is listening to hear from God and not speaking over the word of God that visits with an answer.
Watching and praying is to seek and see the move of God at the time of His visitation in response to calling on Him.
Watching and praying is not a time of standing as a spectator or taking a position to be carried away with the challenges of the wicked world.
Are you worrying about burdens and heavy-loaded, not watching and praying?
Jesus demonstrated the nature-labor of praying in Luke 22:44, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
Watching and praying demands consistency and is not convenient but can be loaded with physical, emotional, or spiritual labor.
Watching and praying with expectation for the manifestation is with the character of living life to the glory of God. 
What is your approach to engaging the presence of God for the manifestation of your expectation?
Approaching the prayer room with no preparation to experience God is evidence of a casual attitude.
Attitude is an action that demonstrates the faith of one seeking God in watching and praying to experience the manifestation of expectation.
Jesus, in His word of direction, repeatedly emphasized watching and praying, and the Bible records: 
Matthew 26:41, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
Peter also admonishes watching and praying.
1 Peter 4:7 records, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers”
Always watching and praying is the direction for all not to become the victim of evil occurrences in the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask to know living life by watching and praying continually.

FAITH CAPSULES: Praying demands continual knowing that God answers prayer.

Psalm 91 

Praying the word of God should be continuous engagement.
Pray the word of God before to gain His presence.
Psalm 91 admonishes all, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Reading or quoting the word of God and not spending time to study the word of God is like dwelling but not abiding by the word of God.
It is the same as hearing but not living life by the word of God, the character of running in and running out of the secret of God not staying to dwell and abide in God.
The word of God is the secret of God that does not hide for one that will seek God in His word. (Isaiah 45:19)
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The word of God is the presence of God.
Give yourself to the word of God, the presence of God that is the secret of God.
In this wicked world, gain the presence of God. 
Retain His presence, to live life as an overcomer to the glory of God.
PRAYER
Ask that God enable you to gain and understand His word, His secret, dwelling and abiding in His presence.
Ask that the rest of God, the peace of God shall become your portion continually.
Ask that His presence shall take over your life not to become a victim of terror in the night, arrows that fly in the day shall not locate you, pestilence of the darkness shall not come your way, the pestilence that walks in the noonday shall not come to your way of life.
Prayerfully, with knowledge, understanding dwell and abide in the secret place of God, the word of God.
Dwelling and abiding in the presence of God shall know the way of God to become exposed to the peace of God.
Moses, at a point in the calling of God over his life, gains the understand to ask from God to show him His way. 
In Exodus 33:14, God responds to the request of Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
The rest of God is the peace of God.
Isaiah 26:3 records the promise of God for ones seeking Him with understanding, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You Because he trusts in You.”
To gain the PERFECT peace of God, not the peace of wife, husband, or family or friend, but the PEACE OF GOD is for MIND STAYED ON GOD (to be mindful of God have mind that stays on God Psalm 8:4) OR TRUSTS IN GOD (to trust and hope in God shall be blessed by God Jeremiah 17:7). 
PRAYER
Ask that God enable you to have a mind that stays on Him and you know to trust and have hope in God continually that peace of God become your portion.

FAITH CAPSULES: Pray from the word of God, not just from the head.

2kings 5

Know that the word of God is His command, His statutes, and is the testimony of God.
Living God-given life is by keeping the testimonies of God that provoke the blessings of God.
One with desires of the blessing of God should diligently keep the testimonies of God. The word of God speaks to all, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy 6:17)
PRAYER
Ask that you live life to be keeping His commands not to become complicated in days He has given you.
Ask that you will know to keep the testimonies of God to claim and not to miss out on the blessings of God for your life.
God is good. 
In this wicked world, what reduces one is evil.
One can consciously or unconsciously experience being reduced in life physically, spiritually, or emotionally.
With prayer, God shall intervene to bring one out of forces that reduce victim.
Mark or disease that is not of God, placed on one can reduce one. 
Praying the healing word of God shall deliver.
2kings 5:1 records the issue of Naaman that reduced him, “Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.”
PRAYER
Ask against every conscious or unconscious mark of sickness be washed, not to be reduced in life. (Hebrews 10:22 testifies, “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” Ephesians 5:26 makes us know that God sanctifies and cleanses with the washing of water by the word.”)
Ask that the healing and deliverance word of God shall locate you, bring you up, and not reduce.
1 Chronicles 4:9, “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.”
What is reducing Jabez in life was his given name.
Prayer for today: 
Ask that whatever is reducing you not to answer fully in life to the glory of God should be erased, removed permanently in my life.
Ask against what reduces you shall be terminated and not have a place in your life.
Ask that whoever or wherever that is in position reducing you shall begin to experience the hand of God to be scattered.

FAITH CAPSULES: Keep the testimonies of God to experience the blessing of God.

1Timothy 4

Know that the word of God is His command, His statutes, and is the testimony of God.
Living God-given life is by keeping the testimonies of God that provoke the blessings of God.
One with desires of the blessing of God should diligently keep the testimonies of God. The word of God speaks to all, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy 6:17)
Let there be desire in you to experience the blessings of God.
Keeping the testimonies of God is seeking Him to receive His blessing.
What you keep in the word of God (testimony of God) is what you have received to become of you and position you for the blessings of God.
Psalm 119:2 encourages, “Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The promise of God does not return to God void.
Isaiah 55:11 testifies, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
Living God-given life, be encouraged in the word of God, keep the word of God that does not return void.
It is one that void the word of God not to claim the promise of God.
Keeping the testimonies of God will be meditating on the word of God.
Meditating the word God continually is communicating with God not to miss His presence.
The word of God identifies keeping His testimonies in Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Keeping God’s testimonies by meditating on His word is set to gain the blessing of God’s success.
In the journey of life, give self to testimonies of God by meditating on His word continually.
The Bible identifies when you meditate the word of God:
Psalm 77:6, “… I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search.”
Psalm 77:12, “I will also meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your deeds.”
Psalm 145:5, “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works.”
1Timothy 4:15, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”
The word of God is God.
The word of God is His command, is His statutes, is His testimonies, and one that will live life by keeping the word of God, meditating the word of God will experience the blessings of God.
Keep the testimonies of God to experience the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to keep His testimonies.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the word of God to avoid distraction.

Genesis 2, 3

A distraction will take the attention of one away from what is supposed to be doing in life.
Distraction will not announce itself when approaching one but will consciously or unconsciously gain a position in life.
Distraction can cause extreme agitation of the mind or emotions in life.
Distraction can be evidence of the issues of life and will give place not to have the peace of God.
Undeniably, giving oneself to listening to the word of God is the antidote to deny distraction, not to gain position in life.
God listens to all.
God created all to be able to listen.
Without a doubt, one that listens to the word of God during the day and night to keep all His commandments (word of God) will not have a place to become a victim of distraction.
Jesus emphasized the importance of listening when He spoke rhetorically in John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” 
By listening to God, one will gain understanding against distraction.   
Get to know with the understanding that to derail man from arrival at the center of divine assignment is also in distraction.
Distraction comes to man through the agent of the devil to derail with deception and lying.
The documentation of Adam and Eve is for all to learn to avoid distractions that will come through deception.
God commands Adam, “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
After the command of God to Adam, the serpent approached Eve with distraction to deceptively twist the word of God to Adam saying “…Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1) With Eve, the serpent lied about the command of God for Adam.
By the recording of the word of God, He did not command Adam and Eve not to eat of every tree, but God commanded them not to eat just one of all the trees.
The distraction of Eve was the evidence of not listening to understand the command of God when she wrongly responded to the serpent, “…We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” (Genesis 3:2-3) 
Eve interacted with the serpent.
Eve was not able to listen to the word of God to become a victim of distraction. 
In life, distraction, a deception will settle one for derailment not to arrive in the center of the divine assignment.

Prayer for today: Pray not to be a victim of distraction.