FAITH CAPSULE: Forgetting what God has done will not want to wait on God. 

Psalm 106:13-33

Do not be discouraged by the reason for the delay in your expectation from God. Importantly, know that delay is not a denial, but give yourself to Psalm 103:2 that says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.” Blessing the name of God all the time and in all things is the evidence that one remembers Him. 
Forgetting what God has done or what He can do is enough to lead one into taking a route of sin. 
By the hand of God, the children of Israel came out of the bondage of Egypt but could not remember what the Lord did for them. Psalm 106:13-14 mentions, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” (Psalm 106:13-14) The Israelites overlooked; failed to recall; unable to remember; unable to call to mind what the Lord did for their salvation from the bondage of over four hundred years. When there is a failure for one not to remember the beginning, arrival at the destination shall experience a complication.
As a result of the truth that the Israelites could not remember the works of God, failure not to wait for the counsel of God took charge of their life. By their testimony, it is evident that not to wait on God is a passage to become wasted, a failure to arrive at the promise of God. 
The Israelites lost exceedingly.
Are you one that is clouded by the delay of your expectation, to have forgotten the works of God?
Can it be that you are disregarding the works of the hand of God? 
Isaiah 5:12-13 records about disregarding the work of God, “The harp and the strings, the tambourine and the flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” (Isaiah 5:12-13) 
With a failure not to give regard to the work of God as commanded by God, there will be no regret in doing what does not glorify His Name. 
Also, not to have attention to what God has done will deny one from responding to what God is doing or what God can do.
Where are you standing?
Are you failing not to give regard to God or not giving attention to what God is doing or what He can do?
It is iniquity not to give regard to the work of God or not to consider the operation of His hands because He is a Jealous God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to remember and not disregard the works of His hand.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is not too late to wait on God.

Psalm 27

Know to be waiting on God.
Knowing to wait on God will not live a life of waste but live life for the glory of God.
This season, in all your going and coming, in all your endeavors, ask God to enable you in waiting on Him continually.
Waiting on God is asking from God. 
Waiting on God will always lead to an unfailing direction of God.
The way to have the rest of God is in waiting on Him, and not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
God is a good God and to end in astray way is not of God. 
God is a God of time and process. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. 
The timing of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Waiting on God can be defined as to remain unmoving until expected manifests. 
Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. 
Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and for a
definite purpose, that is, for something expected. 
Without absolute trust in waiting on God, there will be no result emerging from waiting on God. The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) 
Trusting in God is what energizes waiting on Him. 
Trusting in God does have blessings, and not to trust in God will also generate curses. God spoke in Jeremiah 17:5, “…Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.”  
As regard blessing in trusting, the same word of God states in Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
How can you wait on whom you do not trust, to have hope in Him? 
The combination of having trust and hope in place will enable waiting on Him.
There is a consequence when waiting on God to know in your way of life.
Waiting on God will reveal where one is doing wrong in the right place.
Wait on God to know and correct what you are doing wrong in the place of doing right.
God is a God of the eleventh hour. The eleventh month of the year is not too late for God to locate you at your expectation. God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “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.”  
Meditate the month as your month of waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you in waiting on Him continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Receive and believe in the living word of God that is the source of joy.

Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4

Jesus’ speech to His disciples confirmed that in His word is the source of joy when He said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11) 
John also confirms the word of Jesus as a source of joy, stating, “And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” (1 John 1:4) 
Paul the apostle buttresses, “…Christ is preached; and in this, I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.” (Philippians 1:18) 
If you are one that allows the entrance of the word of God, retain and be full of the joy of the Lord in your life.
What is taking away the joy of the Lord?
One with sorrow does not have joy.
Choose joy to deny sorrow.
Nehemiah encourages against sorrow in his word to the Israelites when he said, do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10)
Are you experiencing sorrow?
Receive and believe in the living word of God that is the source of joy.
Exchange sorrow for joy to be strength-full, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
One that is hearing and hearing the word of God is bound to be full of joy to access the presence of God. The psalmist testifies, “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11) 
Has He promised and not do? 
In the place of joy, one with joy should not have a place for worrying in the world. One that has received and believes in the word should have no place for worrying but rejoicing because Jesus, the word of God, source of joy commands, “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:31-33)
As one that claims to have accepted Christ, to live the purpose of God will have the strength of God that is rooted in joy.
What is it that is denying the joy of God in your life?
In a time of every challenging situation, engage the word of God by knowing that challenging situations shall eventually work together for good for you that is with the presence of God.
Be living life by His word, then joy and rejoicing will become your portion regardless of challenging things in the world. 

Prayer for today: Ask God that the word of God to become established in you.

FAITH CAPSULE: An act of disobedience will dislocate you unfailingly.

1 Samuel 15

Obedience demands commitment but denies convenience. 
Obedience demands agreement or submission.
Think of it and know that obedience is sacrifice.
The word of God demands full obedience with no excuse or compromise. 
Rising in response to the word of God is not enough without moving directly to the word of God.
King Saul was an example of rising in obedience to the word of God but could not move forward to do according to the word of God.
For example, God sent Samuel to Saul, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel 15:2-3) King Saul rose in obedience but failed to move according to the word of God.
Saul spared some and destroyed as decided on his own against the word of God. Disobedience to God will always provoke the rejection of disobedience by God.
Rising in obedience to the word of God is not enough without moving obediently to God. 
Many are failing before God, not obeying according to the word of God.
Are one with a disobedience lifestyle before God?
Jonah, a servant of God, answered but failed to move according to the word of God. The Bible records, “Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 ’Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.’ 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.” (Jonah 1:1-3) Jonah responded by hearing but followed the dictates of his heart.
The disobedience of Jonah was a half-obedience.
The disobedience of Jonah led him to the belly of a fish, a dark place, as an unfamiliar ground for Jonah. 
An act of disobedience will dislocate you unfailingly.
Disobedience to the word of God is in complete obedience. 
So many have started in the calling of God but failed as incomplete before God.
Jonah, by his disobedient, he entered self-affliction.
Jonah called on God, “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: ‘I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice,” (Jonah 2:1-2) 
God answered Jonah, and his repentance to God delivered him from incomplete obedience. Full obedience is all that counts before God. Excuse for disobedience failed King Saul. 
Before God, complete obedience is disobedience.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to be a failure in His calling over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Meditate quotes that are rooted in the word of God.

Joshua 1

GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WORD OF GOD
Psalm 143:8 testifies, “Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning. For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk for I lift up my soul to You.”  Hearing, observing, and obeying God in the morning will make the difference for the day. Make provision for hearing the word of God first in the morning. Trust and hope in God for daily endeavors. Also, what man hears will be like a compass for navigation through the challenges of life. 
Give yourself to the word of God to lead you with deliverance.
KNOW TO AVOID SELF DESTRUCTION
Pride is a route to self-destruction.
It is pride that denies man not to hear and give ear to the word of God. Jeremiah 13:15 buttresses, “Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.” 
Search yourself to identify what is denying you from giving yourself to a route of self-destruction. Whatever seems right but not the word of God is not right before God. Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Pride is doing against the word of God.
BE RESPONSIBLE TO PURSUE GOD 
Pursuing God is a responsibility, which is the ability to act on your own, without supervision. Pursue God to become godly. Today, acclaimed believers are not conversant in the word of God but conversant in the things of the world, having a form of godliness but lack of the power of God. 2Timothy 3:5 refers to wicked ones, the non-lovers of the Lord, stating, “having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! Be a responsible one to pursue God by living godliness with the evidence of the power of God in your life.
RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE GOD IS THE PRICE FOR GREATNESS
The venture of David to save Keilah from Philistines made David inquire direction from God. In 1 Samuel 23:2 records, “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.” 
Inquiring from God in the time of deciding for the unfailing direction is the evidence of one that is responsible before God. Get to know that responsibility is the price to be great in the hand of God.
Be responsible for seeking the direction of God.
LIVE LIFE FOR THE CALLING OF GOD
The called one that obeys the direction of God will be connected to God to arrive center of divine assignment in life.
However, answering the calling of God will mount with challenges, but obedience to God will deliver in it all. Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
In the journey of answering the calling of God, stagnation will delay and, mockery will mount to discourage but, the miracle of victory will answer.
Are you called by self, by a certain man, or by God?
Live life for God.

Prayer today: Ask God to enable meditation of His word.