FAITH CAPSULE:  Meditate the word of God day and night.

Joshua 1

Meditating the word of God is maintain continual communication with God. One that is in communicating with God will gain and retain the presence of God. 
Through the quotes below, meditate the word of God day and night.
BE RESPONSIBLE TO ASK DIRECTION FROM GOD 
Be responsible, seek the perfect way of God.
Responsibly, the venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines is the reason why David inquired direction from God in 1 Samuel 23:2, “Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”. The Lord said to David, “…Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” The warrior Men with David were not encouraged to go with him against the Philistines, but his responsibility to inquire from God assured victory against the Philistines. Responsibility is asking for the direction that is certain to arrive at the expected end of the journey.
DO NOT LIVE A LIFE OF A LIAR
To adopt twisting the truth of God will become convinced that lying can make a way where there is no way. 
Do you know that twisting the truth of God is the evidence of taking distance from God?
Twisting the truth of God will keep one far from God, to become set for evil. Psalm 56:5 testifies, “All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.” Are you one with no means of controlling yourself from unwarranted talking, taking you to a route of twisting the word of God? Pray not to live the life of a liar.
WITH DESIRE PRAY FOR THE HAND OF GOD OVER YOU
The book of Ezra repeatedly testifies the hand of God seeing the Israelites through the journey of life. Ezra 8:31 states, “…And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.” In your journey of life today and days to come, desire for the hand of God to come upon you. 
In the hand of God, there is an answer for deliverance and preservation. Prayerfully, continually, know to ask for the hand of God. The Lord God is not partial. Ask, and His hand shall answer for you.
WITH DESIRE TO BE REVIVED CALL ON GOD TO REVIVE YOU
To become revived is to experience renewal with strength, to become energized, to be active, and not be denied to live life to the glory of God.
In life, to become revived by God will enhance one physically, spiritually, and emotionally. 
With the desire to be revived, the psalmist asked from God, “Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.” (Psalm 119:88) The key to it all is to become REVIVED by GOD. 
Is it your desire to be revived by God?
With the desire, understandably ask God to revive you just as the psalmist did.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God to meditate will gain entrance into your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Follow the word of God to keep you away from the path of sin. 

2 Samuel 11, 12:1-25

One that follows the word of God does not despise God but takes a position to see God. Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one that is despising the word of God will sink into sin. 
With sin, one is not seeking God and will not see God. 
The Case of the sin of David and Hezekiah:
King David saw and sent for Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. The Bible records, “…and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:4-5)
David was wrong by his attempt to cover up his doing with Bathsheba when he sent Uriah to the front of war for his death. It was a wicked act from David, a man identified by God as one after His own heart. (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God will not overlook the sin of anyone regardless of the past good act before God. Before God, the only way to come out clean of sin is to turn away (repent) from sin.
The sin of King David before God called for Prophet Nathan to go and rebuke David. At the approach of David by Prophet Nathan, David repented his sin. 2 Samuel 12:13 records the response of David, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.  
Repentance will bring forth redemption.
The repentance of David before God granted Him the mercy of God. 
God did not withdraw His spirit from David and not cut off His word from him. 
The word of God speaks to all, “Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.” (Proverbs 1:23) All need to learn from turning to God to gain the presence of God. David was rebuked, turned to repent and retain the hand of God over his life. 
Hezekiah was sick with the mark to die when the word of God rebuked him through Prophet Isaiah stating, “…thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’” (Isaiah 38:1) The bible records the response of repentance by Hezekiah, “Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD.” (Isaiah 1:2) Just like David, Hezekiah repented at the rebuke of Isaiah, the prophet of God, and the word of God gave life to Hezekiah in the place of death.
What is it that stops you from turning away from sin to God at His rebuke?
With sin, no one will gain the presence of God. 
Come out of sin, live life by the word of God, gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to locate you for deliverance from sin.

FAITH CAPSULE: In the hand of God, there is an answer for deliverance and preservation.

Exodus 3

Without a doubt, the hand of God has brought you this far in your journey of life. Acknowledge God for His hand that is not short in keeping you.
Isaiah 59:1 record: “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.”
The hand of God is what to trust and hope for over your life.
In your journey of life, this month and years to come, desire for the hand of God.
Prayerfully, continually, know to ask for the hand of God.
The word of God encourages all to give themselves continually to prayer and the ministering of the word. Why not pray the word of God that does not return to Him void?
Ask, reminding God to extend His hand to you, as He was extending in the Bible. God is not a partial God to deny your prayer but will answer yes, no, or wait.
God is not talkative, and the only thing God cannot do is that God cannot fail. Matthew 7:7 speaks to all, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” 
Ask that your current or the new month will answer for you as your month of the stretch-out hand of God, striking every representative of Pharaoh in your life. 
The hand of God did not fail when it brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. God is not a partial God, and He will not fail to answer your calling for His stretch hand.
In these coming days, weeks, and years, whatever it is that holds one down not to gain motion, experiencing stagnation, the stretch-out hand of God that you call for will not deny you in the name of Jesus. 
Exodus 3:19-20 records the word of God for the deliverance of Israel, 
” But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand. So, I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders…”  There is no mighty hand that will militate against you when the stretch-out hand of God answers for you. Ask that God shall look upon you and your family to acknowledge all your endeavor in the name of Jesus.
In your new month, prayerfully meditate for the stretch-out hand of God for deliverance and preservation.
Is it your desire to experience the stretch-out hand of God over your life?
What one does not seek before God (that is good) is what one will not see to receive and become for such.
What one fails to claim will not be passed to one.
It is assurance in the word of God that what one does not think or ask will not be active in such.
God is not a careless giver, and it is what you desire before God is what God deposits in you.
Meditate on the word of God, and call the month as your month of the stretch-out hand of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the stretch out hand of God over your life. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, no excuse for sin or sinning.

Genesis 3

A failure not to do as commanded by the word of God is disobedient.
Every disobedient before God is sinning to God. 
With sin, no man can reach God. Disobeying the word of God does not have an excuse before God but only leads to a consequence. Romans 3:23 admonishes, “…all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
To become short of the glory of God is not to access the presence of God.
Is sin and sinning your way of life?
There is no legitimate excuse for one with sin before God.
Adam and Eve violated the word of God, and there was no reasonable excuse for their sin. 
Adam did not ask God for a helper when God created Eve as his helper. Genesis 2:20-22 confirms, “…But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” 
The sin of Adam was rooted in the disobedient of Eve but was not a legitimate excuse before God.
Genesis 3:9-13 documents that God called on Adam for his sin and his excuse for sin: “Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”So, he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.”And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
The sin of Adam does not have a reasonable excuse before God but called for the pronouncement consequences over Adam by God.
For your sin before God, are you counting on excuses before God? 
Be warned, know, and understand that sin and sinning are not excusable before God.
Title or role engaged before God will not count but bring painful consequences to the sinner, a disobedient to the word of God.
As a temple of God, are you taking care of your temple God? 
The word of God records, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) Answering as a believer does not stop the consequence of God. 1 Corinthians 3:17, documents “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” (1 Corinthians 3:17) Are you defiling the temple of God in you? 
Keep away from sin before God that always sees it all.
No excuse for sinning will excuse anyone from the consequences of sin.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you not to be a vessel of sin and sinning.

FAITH CAPSULE: Challenging trouble can be of affliction.

Psalm 3

Psalm 34:19 records to encourage against challenging trouble, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” For a righteous one, challenges will come, but the deliverance of God will manifest.
Among identified points that King David engaged for his deliverance in the time of challenging troubles are:
FIRSTLY, DAVID ACKNOWLEDGED GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David, in time of his challenging trouble, his worshiping of God was not distracted.
David gave himself to worshiping God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble. He acknowledged God for what God has done and could do at the time of challenge.
Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God to provoke the intervention of the deliverance hand of God.
Acknowledging God in a challenging time is a self-deliverance to overcome.
SECONDLY, DAVID CRIED TO GOD
David cried out to God alone, not to a man
Crying out to God will not elude one from God but will receive the attention of God for self-deliverance in times of Challenging trouble.
David testifies, “I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.” (Psalm 3:4) Crying is not a sign of weakness but a way of getting the attention of God.
Often, pride will deny one from crying out before God, but David cried out to God with no spirit of pride.
The evidence of crying out before God with a voice is a cry from the depth of heart as David testifies that he cried to the Lord God. 
Crying out before God with a wide-open mouth should be with the expectation to be filled with manifestation. 
David testifies that the Lord heard him from His holy hill.
THIRDLY, THE TESTIMONY OF TRUST AND HOPE OF DAVID 
The Bible records testimonies of David, “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.” (Psalm 3:5) 
In a time of challenging trouble, the trust of David in God made him lay with the hope, not to lose his sleep in the challenging of his life.
Trusting God at the onset of challenging trouble but not having hope in God can deny the testimony of deliverance. With understanding, David was with trust, hope to provoke the intervention of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 testifies of trust and hope, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
David laid and went to sleep in a challenging time just as Jesus lay and slept in His time of challenging trouble of the storm at His cross-over journey. (Mark 4:35-41) 
To gain victory in a time of challenge, have trust and hope in God.
Meditates on Psalm 34:19 to remain encouraged in challenging trouble that, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
God is a good God that delivers at all times in all challenges.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to become established over your life.