FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God requests to ask, and God will not deny.

Proverbs 4

Jesus is the wisdom of God for all. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Many claim the wisdom of God but lack the understanding to have a knowing edge.
Proverbs 4:7 buttresses, “wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
In this challenging, unstable world of wickedness, a believer, living by the word of God, will have understanding rooted in wisdom and knowledge to be stable. 
In all your getting, in addition to the wisdom (if you have it), you must get understanding.
To have understanding, with prayer before God, not by determination, ask from God.
What to ask for in understanding?
Know to ask for understanding heart to discern.
An understanding heart is what all need to be able to discern between good and evil. When King Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice, God appeared to him in a dream to ask him what to do for him.
King Solomon asked God, “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” (1 Kings 3:9) 
The request of Solomon pleased the Lord.
PRAYER
Ask for understanding heart to discern just like King Solomon did.
(Understanding heart to discern will be able to see, detect in the endeavors of this wicked world.)
Know to ask for understanding not to walk a pathless wilderness.
Job, in the times of painful challenges of his life he responded to the critics over his life, “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” (Job 12:24)
Are you experiencing unceasing critics from close ones and ones in the distance from you that do not know that God is in your wilderness journey of life?
A wilderness journey of life is with a path, the prescription of God to arrive at the promise of God. 
God directed the Israelites to navigate the wilderness to arrive at the Promised Land. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” 
The direction of God is the path in the wilderness not to wander.
It is the understanding of God that will lead in the path of wilderness to arrive at the calling of God.
PRAYER
Ask from God to enable you not to walk in a pathless wilderness of the journey of life. 
Ask for the understanding to be receptive to the direction of God in the journey of life.

Gain understanding from God that is a source to live life for the glory of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Afflictions are imminent, but live by His word and be delivered.

2 Kings 6:1-23

Under heaven, no man is immune from experiencing affliction. To know God is taking a position to experience deliverance. Psalm 34:19 is encouraging for all that knows God, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out them all.” 
Get to know God, and when affliction strikes, you shall not fail to experience the deliverance of God.
The word of God is an assurance for deliverance in all afflictions. 
In the world, there is none with a title or not that is with an exemption for encountering affliction, but the hand of God is not short to deliver all that live life by the word of God.
The children of Israel were not an exemption from affliction, but God’s outstretched hand of God delivered the Israelites. 
Just as challenges exists and persists in the life of unbelievers, so it is in the life of believers. Believers are not immune to experiencing challenges, but they can be un-moveable in the face of challenges.
Are you quoting the word of God as a believer, not living life by what you are quoting of God?
Knowing to be quoting the word of God is not enough to bring deliverance in the face of affliction. However, understanding the word of God is enough to deliver. Proverbs 11:9 admonishes, “…but through knowledge, the righteous will be delivered.” 
If you are one that with the knowledge of the word of God, affliction will not keep you down but be delivered. God will not fail to perform and perfect. 
As a believer, are you spending time to engage the word of God that is knowledge to deliver? 
Are you thinking of what you should do in response to all the confrontations that are before you? 
There is always an answer to address what is in place of challenges. As a believer, it is not wrong to ask, “What should I do?” However, it is worthy of caution in your asking because there is no room for complaint against God. It does not matter how many believers or giants in the Lord are surrounding you, asking from God, “What should I do?” is exercising faith in God. 
The servant of Elisha had seen miracles done by the hand of his master, a giant in the Lord. Despite all testimonies through Elisha, when confronting challenge came, the servant asked, “What shall we do” 
The book of 2 Kings 6:15 recorded, “And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ‘Alas, my master! What shall we do?’” In the word of God, there is always an answer in times of confronting the challenge. Elisha answered his servant, “…Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” (2 Kings 6:16) 
If you are living by the word of God, there will be afflictions, but the Lord will deliver you out of them all.

Prayer for today: Ask that your eyes see the deliverance of God in place for you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Personalize the Word of God as your personal mail from God.

Romans 15

The word of God is His documentation for all to learn, to gain understanding, knowledge, to live life according to the will of God.
Romans 15:4 enlightens all, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” 
This Faith-mail is rooted in the written Word of God for dealing with the daily challenges of life. When the Word of God is believed and received as Faith-Mail addressed to one, from God, to personalize to keep at heart, it will make one full of faith. 
Faithful will know to confess the word of faith when faced with ups and downs of life. 
Through the pages of this book are letters rooted in the Word of God. 
In this challenging world, skim through the book Faith mail, expose yourself to engage the word of God. The Word of God is God, the All-Knowing, and knows the heart and faith of all. It is the level of one in faith that will determine how God responds. 
Keep your heart to be occupied by the Word of God, to live life by the will of God.
King Saul could not live by the will of God. His unlawful sacrifice made God reveal David, “…I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” (Acts 13:22) 
Indeed, David set himself to seek after the heart of God. 
Thus, God said I have found in David, a man after my own heart. 
In David’s words, he spoke not from his head to impress a man but spoke from his heart by stating that, “I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.” (Psalm 16:8)
Personalize the Word of God as personal mail sent by God to you for your healing and deliverance.  Psalm 107:20 confirms, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
It is worthy to receive the Word of God as a faith-mail sent to keep one, to deliver one, and preserve one from destruction. 
This day, begin to set the word of God before yourself to live life by faith (Habakkuk 2:4); to walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7); to watch, stand fast in the faith (1 Corinthians 16:13); to have purified heart (Acts 15:9).
To receive the Word of God personal as faith-mail for deliverance and preservation will allow God to lead in the path of life and to live life for the glory of God. 
The journey of life demands faithfulness to keep one to abide in the presence of God. 
Are you full of the Word of God, to walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; to serve Him and hold fast to Him?

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to receive His word into your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give ear to my call Lord my God.

Psalm 141

This day, pray the word of God as Acts 6:4 records, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
When God calls one, He will back such up not to be a failure. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 informs us, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
It could be that you are on the right track to your center of divine assignment but yet delay because of a lack of understanding to see clearly in your calling like Moses.
Moses was on the right track but to be trapped on the right until God call his attention for him to be opened up and see what he carries to go forward to his divine assignment.
God called the attention of Moses in Exodus 4:2, “So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
The moment Moses got the attention of what it takes to move forward in the calling of his life, every hindrance of delay, deny, stagnation, inactivity, and inaction gave up for his advance in the calling of God.
PRAYER
Ask that the calling of God in your life to become activated over your life.
Ask that your ears, eyes, and mind become open to seeing all that the Lord God has put in place for the direction of God that will enable you to answer the calling of God over your life.
Ask that every agent of denial, delay, stagnation be converted for motion by the hand of God over your life not to be a failure in the name of Jesus.
God is near at all times, but man is always far from God.
With the desire to near to God, David knows to ask God to DRAW HIM when he said, “Draw near to my soul and redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies.” (Psalm 69:18)
Psalmist also testifies, “But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” (Psalm 73:28)
One that is near to God will experience a soul that is redeemed, and deliverance from enemies will become for one.
If to be drawn near to God is possible without prayer, David would not have prayerfully asked from God.
The creations of God are by His Word, and they cover the earth, which is the testimony that God is near to all that will acknowledge the nearness of God. Psalm 75:1 declares, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
When the name of God is near, then the presence of God is not far but near to give heed to those that know to call on Him.
PRAYER 
Ask that whatever keeping you far from God should be permanently terminated that you be near to God.
Ask that God will redeem your soul and deliver you from the enemies of your life.  

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is like food to be feeding on.

Luke 4:1-13

Daily, what do you feed on to fill you?
Whatever a man feeds on is what a man carries and not become empty. 
Are you one that feeds on the word of God to experience what to be when feeds on the word of God?
One that is empty will always have an empty talk because one cannot give out what one does not carry on the inside. 
One that is empty of the word of God does not take to the position of deliverance. 
The word of God is here for healing and deliverance from destruction. (Psalm 107:20) 
The word of God, His commandment is like food, Job 23:12 testifies, “I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” Without doubt, the word of God should be taking in as food as Jeremiah 15:16 states, “Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.”
The word of God is like food to feed on continually without excuse not to feed.
Are you empty of the word of God lately? 
Is your talk not producing results of a child of the Living God? 
God does not listen to empty talk. Job buttress in Job 35:13, “Surely God does not listen to empty talk, nor will the Almighty regard it.” 
In this wicked world, can you afford to live life as an empty one?
When one becomes empty, one will end up wasted because wickedness will come in and dwell in one that is empty. When you first turned your life to God, He gave you deliverance. 
With the deliverance of God, you are to be filled up by His Word. However, if you have turned away from God, you will be back to being empty. 
What happens to be empty is mentioned by Jesus in Matthew12: 43-45, “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation?”
The devourer of man is a specialist of returning to one that is not feeding on the word or one that does not remain continually become full of the word of God.
It is time to come out of emptiness and not become wasted in the face of the wicked world. Do not forsake the word of God but take to the word of God as a necessity. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to fill you.