FAITH CAPSULE: With prayer before God, it is time to stand against the troubling challenge.

Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 records, “To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.”  Time gives every engagement a meaningful approach and adds value to the steps that man takes in life. 
Indeed, there is a time for everything in life. 
Make a move at the right time not to fail to experience the deliverance of God. As an acclaimed believer amid challenging trouble that has destroyed the line which separates right and wrong, there is a time to act: There is a time to be quiet, and a time to speak out loud; a time to be defensive and a time to go on the offensive. 
Today might be your day to go on the offensive against all troubling forces that do not represent God but evil work against your life.
David sought God to go on the offensive against a time of trouble in His life. Psalm 138:7 records, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.”
Psalm 143:11, “Revive me, O Lord, for Your name’s sake! For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.”
Ask God in the name of Jesus, to pluck you from any company representing wickedness militating or agitating your life. He is a living God with hands that can redeem you. Ask that the same hand that delivered the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt shall answer for you. Exodus 3:20 testifies the hand of God, “So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.”
In a challenging time, prayer is the weapon for a believer of God to go on the offensive against all troubling forces that do not represent God but of evil.
God is true to deliver in times of troubling challenge.
Trust and hope in the word of God.
Psalm 34:19 testifies, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
One living by the word of God is on the right track before God as a righteous.
In the face of challenging trouble, make the right time before God that does not fail.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength of praying against the troubling time of challenge.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is here already, with understanding, celebrate continually.

John 3

Jesus is here! 
The angel Gabriel approached Mary to inform her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you, have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom, there will be no end.” (Luke 1:30-33)
God, in His goodness and mercy, sent His Word for all not to perish.
Remember that the Word of God is God.
John 1:1 points it out to all that: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Jesus, the Word of God, is here not that He is yet to come! John 10:10 records the word of Jesus: “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Jesus is here already, with understanding, celebrate continually.
Jesus is the gift of God for all to embrace, to have a place for in the inn.
Do you have space in your inn for Him?
With spaces for Him in your inn, occupy yourself with the continual celebration of Him.
Celebrating Him without understanding is giving to a glamorous celebration that does not carry weight before God.
With understanding, engage in a meaningful glamorous celebration all year.
Are you one that celebrates the gift of God at a selected time of convenience celebration?
With understanding, get to know and be giving continual celebration for the birth of Jesus.
Jesus is the gift of God, and the celebration of Jesus entails giving back to God by living life for the glory of God.
Live life for the glory of God by obedience to the word of God.
To obey is to be living as commanded by God. 
Are you a believer by mouth but not a believer by heart, not living the way of God?
God truly loves His creation to give His Son.
John 3:16-18 records:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jesus is here!
Celebrate Him continually, with understanding, give yourself to live life to the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Delay will not deny your expectation.

Exodus32

Delay is when your expectation late or postponed.
Delay can be painful and not a fun time to endure.
Are you experiencing a delay in any area of life?
Delay can be discouraging with a lack of manifestation.
As a believer, understand and know that with God, a delay is not a denial. The Israelites requested for another leader when Moses delayed on the mountain. 
Before Aaron, the Israelites said, “…make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” (Exodus32:1) 
Before God, is your expectation experiencing delay?
The Israelites could not wait on God.
In the word of God, understand and know that waiting on God will not be wasted.
The word of God testifies the character of God towards one that waits on Him. Isaiah 64:4 records, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Delay, Deny, and doubt can be persistent in life to prompt discouragement in waiting for God.
Be encouraged, and God will not fail you when waiting on Him.
Be meditating on the testimony of David as Psalm 40:1-3 states, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear and will trust in the Lord.”
God is not a partial God, and He will give to your word of meditation.
Remind God concerning the works of His hand, ignore delay but be encouraged. 
Do not be anxious in your waiting on God.
Your delay will turn unto deliverance if you trust and wait in the name of Jesus. The Bible declares in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  A state of the world will generate concern but give yourself to the word of God.
Take all to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and the peace of God will take over you. Deny delay; declare all His goodness and His mercy that never expire. 
From today, have faith, God will not deny you!
From today, have faith, God will not deny you!

Prayer for today: Ask that the spirit of discouragement will not have a place in you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Hear to keep the word of God, to have faith, not fear of the world.

2 Kings 6

Faith is rooted in hearing the word of God; faith is the source of fearing God. 
Failure to hear the word of God leads to living in fear of evil.
To live life before God is to be hearing the word of God for keeping the word of God. 
Romans 10:17 informs all, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Without the effect of hearing the word of God to have faith, the evil way will have the place. 
God wants all to hear His word to fear Him. 
Ecclesiastes 12:13 emphasizes the need to fear for God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.” Man must continually hear the word of God to be able to fear God.
Evidence of the importance of hearing the word of God to fear God as Deuteronomy 4:10 record the word of God through Moses: “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.” One must be hearing the word of God to give self to the fear of God.
To fear God is the evidence of having faith in God to depart from evil doing. Job 28:28 said it well, “And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding.’”
Fearing God is taking a position to be experiencing the blessing of God.
Psalm 128: 4, “Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.”
Will you turn to live a life of the fear of God?
Isaiah 35:4 encourages fearing God as a way of life, “Say to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you.”
One with a fearful heart for God is living by the fear of God.
Become hearing and keeping the word of God to have faith to fear God. 
A heart with the absence of faith in God will be mindful of the evil way of life.
Will you give yourself to prayer in the place of challenges?
With prayer, faith will rise while fear of challenges will subside.
For example, when the challenges confronted Elisha and his servant, the servant was overcome with fear.
With fear, the servant asked Elisha about what to do, and Elisha said:
Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. (2 Kings 6:16-17)
Give yourself to the word of God for you to have faith, not living fear in the rampant of fear in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God shall become established in your heart. 

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that is representing your barrenness?

1 Samuel 1:1-28 

The Bible records how Elkanah, Hannah, Peninnah, and all of Peninnah’s sons and daughters went to Shiloh every year to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts. 
Every year they went, nothing changed in the story of Hannah. 
Hannah was barren yet going and coming to worship at Shiloh. 
On every trip to Shiloh, 1 Samuel 1:4-7 records, “And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb. And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.” 
Trips of Hannah to Shiloh must have been emotionally challenging, but there was no record of her forcing with none.
Hannah was the neediest and probably the quietest. 
Hannah was barren, but she trusted God for intervention and did not stop going to serve God.
Hannah maintained her focus on serving God when God looked upon her and visited her.
In your life challenges, what is it that is representing barrenness?
Are you experiencing a delay in the calling of God over your life?
Waiting on God demands persistence, but God will act, and you will experience the visitation of God.
Be persistent, call on God without a doubt. 
Persistent is a demonstration of faith to please God. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “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.” 
The situation with Hannah was: God closed her womb, and God opened her womb.
The persistence of Hannah provoked the hand of God to open her closed womb. God responded to Hannah with blessings beyond her expectation. Know today that God is God. Let no man seal up the close door that is already upon you. 
In every area of life, choose persistence with the understanding that it is not beyond God to open or close the door over your life.
God alone is God!
Hannah persistent, and God at His appointed time, remembered her. 1 Samuel 1:20 records: So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked for him from the Lord.
If you have received the calling of God over your life, remain focus on God.
If your expectation from God is experiencing delay, know that delay will fail to deny the manifestation of God over your life.
Hannah testified that she has asked from God.
Just like Hannah, are you waiting for the direction of God as you answered His calling? Give the name for your expectation as: I have asked from God.
God will act on your behalf.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to remain focus on Him for His appointed time.