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.

FAITH CAPSULE: Find God to live life for the glory of God.

Psalm 75

Consistently, make it your way of life to find God, to keep you, to lead you, and preserve you not to become a waste in the life He has given you. God is near for all that is not far from Him by finding Him. 
To find God more is knowing more of God, not just knowing about God.
To find God demands:
Listen to God in His word.
Watch for God to locate Him.
Wait on God.
LISTEN TO FIND GOD
Listening to God will provoke the blessing of God by keeping His ways, hearing the instruction of God not to despise His word to find God.
Blessed is one that listens, while the curse is for one that fails to listen to God. Without listening to God, there will be no understanding and not find God. The word of Jesus in John 8:43 points out, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
To hear is not listening, but hearing and hearing by the word of God is one that listens. Listening will understand and found God, living life right before God.
WATCH TO FIND GOD
The word of God that sounds in the direction of one to find God demands attention to see or observe God in His words. 
Joshua 1:8 records about meditation: “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Meditating is communicating with God to find God.  
Watch and pray will lead not into temptation for sin. Without sin, one will see God, and with sin, no one can see God.
God is near for all that give attention to see Him by identifying the work of His hand. Psalm 75:1 testifies, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” Keep it in mind, the work of God is His Word, and calling His name for His word, is the evidence that He is near.
Know it that in seeing God is found in the work of His word.
WAIT TO FIND GOD
It takes to wait on God to claim expectation for seeking from God.
The manifestation of expectation in God is the evidence of one that finds God. 
God is a good God that will wait to act for those who wait on Him.
The recording of waiting on God are the testimonies of finding God.
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.”
One that is waiting on God is with the testimony of one that finds God.
Wait on God, find God to experience His grace, mercy, and the blessings of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to find Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is your desire before God that see all things?

Psalm 27

What is your desire in life?
Desire means a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
In life, whatever a man desires to be is what man seeks after.
In life, what do you desire? 
One with desires to live heaven on earth will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” 
What do you desire?
It takes the desire that you have for living life for God that will make you seek God. 
Also, it is when one desires for God that will prompt God to deposit in you what it takes to seek Him diligently.
Having a desire for God demands active devotion to God, not a mouth desire.
Desire with devotion, and God will deposit strength to desire in you.
King David knows what is best to desire when he said, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
What is your desire before God that see all things?
There are so many choices that can make or break you by what you desire. 
However, the things one desires will have a direct effect on the choices that one makes in life. Mark 8:34 encourages having a good desire saying, “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up the cross, and follow Me.” 
Think right and answer to yourself: what is your desire in life?
Having a desire to seek God is not by forceful calling, but a calling of choice. 
Your desire for God must be in place for you to prompt God to deposit desire in you.
Have desire first, and will become deposited in your life. 
God created all with the freedom of choice because He is not a slave-master but a saving-master. 
He said, “Whoever desires.” Have you ever thought about the calling that you claim to have answered, or are you just going with the flow of the crowd?
Imagine desire for God: Can anyone possibly carry a cross in one hand and carry self on the other hand? It is impossible. 
Think about the desire for God.
Decide to repent and rededicate your life for Christ. 
God sees all, pretending as the desired one, for God should not walk-in line with the crowd with deception about desire. The time is at hand for Him to identify one. It will cost God nothing to expose one with no desire for Him.
In life, have the desire for God, and He will make it possible by enabling you to live life for His glory.
Your integrity counts most before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you for your desire for Him.