FAITH CAPSULE: The lack of trust and hope is not acceptable before God.

Numbers 13

During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel could not trust and have hope to see in the word of God to take them to the Promised Land. 
They trust God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years but had no hope to arrive at the plans and promise of God.
While the Israelites were at the Wilderness of Paran, waiting to move into the Canaan, God spoke to Moses to send men to spy out to the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent out spies to the land of Canaan. 
The spies returned with a report and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, the report was without hope because of the fear of the people of the land. Numbers 13:31-33 states, “But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 
The report of the spy lacks trust and hope in the deliverance of God.
The lack of trust and hope of the Israelites prompted fear that is not acceptable before God. 
Except for Joshua and Caleb, the Israelites complained, confessed negative before God.
God responded to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises when there is no full attention to the conditions to receive from Him. 
Give full attention to the word of God that says, blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. (Jeremiah 17:7)

Prayer for today: Ask God to locate you with trust and hope at all times.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have a dream, and yet every step is coming out negative? 

Genesis 37

A dream is also a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep. 
For the young Joseph, his dream was a revealing journey with no direction of engaging his journey dream. 
Joseph had a dream full of ups and downs but eventually arrived at his journey dream.
Joseph had a dream, “There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright, and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.” (Genesis 37:7) The dream of Joseph sounds positive but received with negative by his brothers.
Joseph, with no direction, he had to pass through.
Do you have a dream, and yet every step is coming out negative? 
For your dream to come through, you have to pass through before arrival. The Joseph dream at age seventeen did not come to manifestation until he was thirty years old. Joseph waited for thirteen years to have his dream come through. 
The Bible records that Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. (Genesis 37:3) 
For his dream, he encountered hate; envy took a stand against him and to become lost from his base. 
Unknowingly, Joseph began the journey of his dream when he passed through the pit of lack and went into slavery before arriving at the land of his dream center of manifestation. 
Interestingly, his brothers were the agents of hate and evil that set to destroy or deny the dream of Joseph.
The brothers of Joseph were also unknowingly the ones that set to bring his dream to manifestation. 
Trust and hope in God for all your step to arrive at the center of your divine assignment. Know that agenda of wicked will not derail you regardless of the delay.
When a man proposes, God disposes.
God is the Almighty One, and there is none besides Him. 
As a believer of the living word of God, know this day that God sees all. Today, make it a point to be looking to God in all situations. 
Genesis 41:46 points out, “Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.” 
A dream of thirteen years of the journey seemed like an endless dream, but it came to manifest. 
Does your dream seem like no manifestation?
With God, nothing is impossible.
The journey that began at age seventeen of Joseph did not get him to the top until he was thirty years old. 
The timing of God is different from the timing of all. 
God does not keep to the timing of any man but keeps man in His own time. 
It does not matter how long it takes to crawl out of the pit, God, and only God will bring your dream to manifestation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to see you through at His appointed time for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Focus on God continually, with a mind that stays on God.

Psalm 73

The active of the wicked is to do evil.
Genesis 6:4 records the word of God about the wicked, “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.”
Are you questioning the acts of the wicked ones before God?
God pays attention to the acts of the evil of the wicked ones, He sees all.
The way of the wicked appears better and glamorous. However, none should focus on the acts of the wicked ones.
Focus on God continually, with a mind that stays on God.
Only God is the judge, and all should allow God to judge as He pleases.
Are you observing the doing of wicked activities?
To you, does it appear as if wicked doing will last forever?
God sees it all, and His appointed time will respond to the wicked ones and their activities under heaven.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 buttresses, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
Are your ways rooted in wickedness?
God sees all the doings of all. 
Wickedness has its seat in the heart.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 made it known about the seat (heart) of the wicked, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” The deceitful heart can be the heart of an unbeliever or an acclaimed believer, but you should not deceive yourself because God cannot become deceived. 
Can you search if you are wicked? 
Any man that claims to be a believer should not carry a heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked. 
Psalm 73 identifies what the heart of wicked one is like:  
Pride serves as their necklace.
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge with abundance.
They have more than heart could wish. 
They increase in riches.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily (arrogantly)
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Are you an acclaimed believer that has the word of God un-internalized, not translated into practice but engages life as a wicked one? 
In these wicked days, it is time to make amends and know that the sentence against an evil work will be judge speedily by God that sees it all.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you that your heart shall have no dwelling place for wickedness.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you confessing positive or negative in your calling or speaking?

Numbers 14

The Bible records what the word of God yesterday, today, and tomorrow says to all, “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24). 
Do you know to call on God?
Are you calling on Him with no answer?
David demonstrates the understanding to call on God as 2 Samuel 22:4, Psalm 18:3 records, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so, shall I be saved from my enemies.” 
With understanding, know God by His word, to engage Him at what He says.
God said, “I will hear before they call,” David knows, and he said, ‘I will call’.
Are you sure of getting answers when you call on God? 
With faith, without a doubt, David was sure of getting a result because he demonstrated that there is an answer in calling on the only gracious and merciful God that hears before is called. 
Just as the Lord promised to answer before the call on Him, He also said that He hears while speaking to Him. 
In your calling or speaking, know to avoid negative confession but let positive confession be your communication before God that hears at all times.
Are you confessing positive or negative in your calling or speaking?
The Israelites confessed negative, before God, and He heard with a response to the Israelites, “…I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you” (Numbers 14:27-28). 
Often, man forgets that God that gives ear does have an ear to hear. 
Understand and know that God answers call, and He also pays attention to hear while you speak. 
Concerning your challenges, what are you communicating to God or before God?
Most times, life in this world is affected by the words of your mouth and 
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”  
Often, confessing positive gives positive answers, while negative confession gives to negative. 
All should be aware that God that hears does not stop to hear at every moment of the communication of man.
Take control of your mouth, and not your mouth be in control of you.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 warns, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error…” 
As much as there is nowhere to hide from God, it is true that your spoken words cannot be hidden from God without Him hearing you. 
Why not abstain from speaking negative words but speak positive words to His hearing?
Are you one that truly believes in the living word of God that assures all that God hears? 
Begin to speak positive, understand, and know He hears and answers all.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with understanding in all your ways of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God is all you need.

Ezra 7

The pages of the Bible testify that Jesus is on the right hand of God.
Mark 16:19 records, “So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” 
At the time of the martyred of Stephen for his faith, the Bible records, “But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:55-56) 
1 Peter 3:22 documented, “who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.” 
Jesus is at the right hand of God tells the truth that one that accepts Jesus does have access to the right hand of God.
Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior living by the Word of God?
Take note that it was with the living Word that God created all. John 1:1-3 documents, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” By the word of God, Jesus (the Word of God) at the right hand of God, is what gives life. 
Jesus came from His right hand to give life to every living, with understanding, call in the Jesus name, asking God to open His right hand for you.  
The Psalmist understands and knows what is occupying the hand of God by stating, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16) With your understanding, specifically, pray in the name of Jesus, for the right hand of God to open for you, satisfying your desire. 
With the expectation to experience the hand of God, meditate the hand of God as the Bible identifies:
In the hand of God, there is deliverance. It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel from the slavery of over four hundred years (Deuteronomy 5:15). 
The hand of God, when it comes upon one, it will help just as it helped in the days of the Old Testament. 
Ezra testifies the hand of God as the agent of granting every request during their time of rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6) 
Ezra also testifies to the hand of God as good when they were able to get to Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:9) 
Ezra 7:28 also states, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…” 
Ezra repeatedly testifies the hand of God as states in Ezra 8:31, “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.” What would one do without the hand of God in life?
As a believer, look up for the hand of God, call in the name of Jesus that occupies the right hand of God to take charge of your direction, deliverance, and preservation.

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