FAITH CAPSULE: This season, deny distance distraction, and God will enable you.

John 4:43-54

This season, with your desire, ask that God will enable you to encounter His word.
John 4:46-47 records, “So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.” A certain note-able (noble) man in the city, among his people, heard about Jesus and went to Jesus. 
Are you one that has heard about Jesus without your response to Jesus?
Who are you, and what is your delay with the attempt to deny your encounter with your deliverance? 
Many times, you have heard of Him, but go to Him. In this season, if you will come in contact with the testimony that Jesus is Lord and the Word of His mouth is power, healing deliverance and preservation shall be your portion. 
Is it your desire to seek Him?
What is holding you back from seeking Him? Is it your distance that is denying your coming to Him? 
Once, while Jesus was passing a village, ten lepers who stood afar off did not allow distance to deny them to encounter healing and deliverance. The Bible states that the ten lepers lifted their voices and said, Master, have mercy on us! (Luke 7:12-13) 
Why are you holding back for your healing and deliverance from coming to Jesus? The lepers denied distance and received their healing when the healing Word of Jesus answered in their direction.  
The son of a nobleman (a note-able man) was dying when he came to Jesus. John 4:49-50 documents the conversation of the nobleman with Jesus, “The nobleman said to Him, ‘Sir, come down before my child dies!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your son lives.’ So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.” 
Do you believe in the power of His Word? The same power that answered for the nobleman is still available answering for those who deny distance to approach Jesus for their healing and deliverance. 
This season, deny distance distraction, keep on looking unto God.
As the nobleman received healing direction from God to go on his way, he believed and went without question or doubt. 
When you believe and go on your way by His direction, the same word is still alive today, and expect His word to locate you for your healing and deliverance. 
The nobleman went on his way as directed by Jesus, “And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him saying, ‘Your son lives!’” (John 4:51) If you have believed in His word, you will receive your breakthrough news in Jesus’ name. 
This season, from today, in all your endeavors, make encountering Jesus your priority and engage His healing Word of direction.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will answer in your life to the glory of God.   

FAITH CAPSULE:  August 2021, God, enable me in all endeavors.

Job 42

What is your desire from God in the coming days?
Know that it is what you desire that God will deposit in your life.
Determination is not enough to see through the journey of life without praying with understanding before God.
Ask from God, confessing consistently that: August 2021 is your month of God enabling you in all your endeavors for His glory. 
August 2021, God, enable me in all endeavors.
To be enabled is empowered, equipped, approved, or allowed by God.
Why not ask God to enable you in all your endeavors in the coming days?   
The word of God admonishes all to keep asking, seeking, knocking.
Matthew 7:7-8 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
To be praying before God is the rod of a believer.
It is good to pray for doing right before God, not just determination.
Asking to do right before God, all things shall be for His glory in the life of those that seek Him. 
Matthew 6:33 said it all, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Ask that in the coming days, week, to be enabled in all your endeavors.
God is a good God and has placed all the help in place for all His creation.
With understanding, be asking Him for enablement to engage all His help in place for you to achieve.
PRAY THE WORD OF GOD:
Ask that God will enable you to take your eyes away from challenges, that you will keep your eyes on where God is taking you to.
Also, God will enable you to deny distraction of all forms for your arrival at the divine assignment of God over your life.
The help of God for deliverance from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was in place saying to Lot and his wife, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17)
Lot kept eyes on the word of deliverance to escape destruction while his wife could not keep her eyes on the word of God to become destroyed. Genesis 19:26 records, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
The ability to do the word of God for deliverance and preservation demands hearing and to see in the word of God. Unlike the wife of Lot, Job heard and saw in the word of God not to become distracted by his challenges. Job testifies, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5) 
Enable me in all my endeavors, Lord God my creator.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to hear and see in His word constantly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Launch out as commanded by His word.

Luke 5

Four seasoned professional fishermen toiled all night with no fish to show. After the day for fishing and set to depart, to various destinations with no fish to show for, after an all-night toiling, Jesus showed up to them. 
Jesus called the fishermen back to fishing at where they toiled all night with no result. Jesus said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)
Are you experiencing a lack of no result in any area of life? 
Is it your job that is experiencing stagnation?
What is your experience of no result in any area of life that demands the miracle intervention of God?
Jesus sent a word for the fishermen to launching into the deep where there was no fish to show after all night. 
The word of Jesus sounded foolish but was backed with power because Jesus said it. At all times, it is wise to answer when He commands. Know it that, “…the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:25) 
Are you receiving a similar command that calls for you to launch out deep where there is nothing to show? Simon responded, to Jesus, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word, I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.” (Luke 5:5-6)
Launching out at His command is breaking through for abundance where there is none to show. 
Launching out in the place of hopelessness is an act of faith. 
Abraham acted in faith by obeying God. 
God called Abraham out of his comfort to the unknown ground. Hebrews 11:8-10 documents “…he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” 
Abraham launched out to the calling of God while he left his family behind.
Abraham dwelt and waited for the manifestation of the promise of God. 
There was no record of doubt among the fishermen, and neither was there any record of complaint recorded for Abraham. They acted by launching into the command of God the word of God that is rooted in power. 
Are you giving yourself to the word of God that is healing, deliverance, and preservation?
Know to trust, and hope is the word of God that sounds in your direction.
Launch out as commanded by His word; let down all, and He will lift you above and beyond your expectation. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to do as His word commands you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The work that will build one is to believe in God. 

Jeremiah 1

Acts 20:32 speaks to all with no exemption, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” The same word that built up and brought forth creation is still the same, building up those who receive and believe in God in His word.
Know what the word of God is as John 6:63 documents, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” It is worth remembering that the same word that creates everything is there to give more than all can imagine.
For example, meditating on the word of God will build one for the glory of God. It is one thing to memorize the word, another to know memorization and meditate the word. Knowing the word and not knowing to memorize and meditate is empty; it generates no power. 
Meditation will cause one to observe and do what the word requires to do.
To be built by the word demands consistent meditating on the word of God.
The word of God is powerful and can never deny itself nor fail, but man can fail to engage the word as a builder.
The work that will build one is to believe in God. 
With curiosity, the disciples asked Jesus, “…What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” (John 6:28) Jesus responded, “…This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (John 6:29)
Do not compromise the word of God, but with a desire, the word will build you. Just as there is no substitute for food for man to grow physically, so there is no substitute for the word to grow spiritually. Jeremiah 15:16 testifies that the word is as food. The Bible record, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your word was to me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart…”  
Are you feeding on the word of God? 
When feed on the word of God is constant, to become built for God will have a place. 
Know to give ear and mind for the entrance of the word of God. Jeremiah 13:15 admonishes, “Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.”  The Lord has spoken, be a believer, play your part and receive His word that will build you up for the glory of God.
It is worthy, know to be hearing the word of God constantly for you to be a build-up for the glory of God.
Become a build-up one as living testimony before God, do exploit, to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Look up to God to enable you to be built by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: A hypocrite is an identity of the wicked ones.

Matthew 15

Wickedness is defined as evil by nature and by in practice, highly offensive or obnoxious. 
Wickedness is an ungodly sin. 
It is the wickedness on earth that provoked the hand of God to destroy man on earth during the time of Noah. Genesis 6:5 record the testimony of God about the wicked-on earth, “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” 
Since the time of the testimony of God, the wicked-on earth continues today.
Today, wickedness knows no bounds. It reigns outside the church (among unbelievers), and it reigns inside the church (among believers). Within a group of believers, if there is a question about who is wicked, hardly would any accept giving to wickedness doing. As an acclaimed believer, have you ever considered or seen yourself as one that engages wickedness in doing? 
Jeremiah pinpointed who and what qualifies one as wicked (especially within the church). Jeremiah complained about why the way of the wicked prospers. In Jeremiah 12:2, Jeremiah speaks before God, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes they have taken root; they grow, yes they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” 
The word of Jeremiah points out that the wicked are those that speak the word of God but do not carry it in their mind. Many are with a mouthful of the word of God but only mindful of self, not of God.
It is wickedness to be deceitful.
The wicked ones grow and prosper, and nothing over their forehead identifies them. Are you an acclaimed believer, deceiving believers, and outside of believers?
The wicked are those that could be highly conversant speaking the word of God while the word of God is absent or far from the mind. 
 A hypocrite is an identity of the wicked ones.
The word of Jesus also refers to the wicked ones as hypocrites. Matthew 15:7-9 states, “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” 
Yes or no if you consider yourself a hypocrite? 
A hypocrite is a pretender. 
A hypocrite is one whose walk and talk do not match. 
A hypocrite is also a person that knows about the word but does not practice it. 
If what you possess is not what you profess, you have failed in doing what you say, and you are a son of the wicked; in vain, you worship Him.
There is a need to serve God in deed and truth, not live life as a wicked one. 

Prayer for today: Lord, enable me not to live life as wicked.