FAITH CAPSULE: Faith with patience is a need for the life journey.

Romance 4

In the journey of life, it is having faith with patience that is complete, not to live a life of waste but to arrive at the plans of God.
The journey of life should be fueled by faith with patience as the key for the ignition to live right before God.
The Bible describes faith as: “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). 
Faith has a source.
The Bible emphasizes the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17).
Take to mind that the word of God which comes can also cease from coming when there is disengagement from hearing the word of God. 
The journey of life demands constant engagement to the word of God. 
In the journey of life, one that is having faith with patience will answer as the just ones. Habakkuk 2:4 buttresses, “…the just shall live by his faith.”
All that pertains to living life is living by the word of God (living by faith). 
The word identifies, we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7); we watch, stand by faith (1 Corinthians 16:13); faith purifies the heart (Acts 15:9); we are saved by faith through grace (Ephesians 2:8). 
Without a doubt, patience is crucial for anyone journeying through life to have faith in God.
About Patience: Patience is the ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay. 
Faith plus patience will be full of faith to be answering as faithful. 
Many have faith, but the majority are not faithful. 
As an acclaimed believer, do you have faith with patience to claim the blessings of God in the journey of life? 
Abraham is an example of one that engaged the journey of life, having faith with patience to obtain the promises of God.
The Bible records the promise of God for Abraham in his journey of life: “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.” (Genesis 17:1-4) 
Through the journey of life of Abraham, faith with patience enabled him not to doubt the promise of God to make him a father, despite his old age.
Romans 4:20-22 buttresses the journey of faith with the patience of Abraham:
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 
Are you still waiting despite your desire seems like it shall not manifest? Today, give yourself to the testimony of Abraham and know that faith with patience shall not fail. Bible records in James 1:4 “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”God shall not fail you if you have and know to hold on faith with patience.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you with faith and patience.

FAITH CAPSULE: Time of God demands waiting on Him.

Isaiah 40

Time belongs to God alone nit to any man.
Time belongs to God, but the clock belongs to man to turn forward or backward.
The appointed time of God is the fullness of His time.
Galatians 4:4 points out, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman…”
God has made everything beautiful in its time, not by the clock of man. Ecclesiastes 3:11 records, “He has made everything beautiful in its time…”
Time belongs to God is the reason for you to trust and hope in Him at all times as Psalm 62:8 admonishes all, “Trust in Him at all times…” 
Are you counting on God to wait on His time, or man to for clock?
It does not matter how long you monitor your clock, but it matters not to make your move until it is the timing of God for you.
Mind you to know that God is God. 
God is not a slave master but a saving master. He alone is the perfect creator that knows time before time. God will not force you to focus on Him, but you focus on his face to reflect on you.
Time of God demands waiting on Him.
Waiting on God for His appointed time is encased in trust and hope in Him.
In a time of expectation from God, do not assume to move outside of the timing of God.
Waiting for the timing of God demands to be patient as Psalm 40:1 testifies: I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.
James 5:7 encourages by adding persevering to the patient when waiting on the timing of God: Therefore, be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.
The timing of God does not delay or disappoint to fail for one that waits patiently on Him. 
In your waiting on the timing of God, do not compare but remain patient not to move outside of the timing of God.
Waiting on the timing of God and not move by comparing to others, give self to the admonition of Isaiah 40:31, But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
In your waiting for the time of God, do not run where you are to walk, do not walk where you are to run.
Judging by your clock, does it seem that your destination experiencing a delay? Proverbs 14:12 warns against giving self to seems, there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Keep the focus on the timing of God to discover that delay is not a denial to arrive at the destination.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the grace of the patient to be waiting on His time.

FAITH CAPSULE: One with no training will not live by the command of God.

Deuteronomy 32

In the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, Moses spoke, “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word, you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.” (Deuteronomy 32:46-47) 
Among the points in the message of Moses for the Israelites speaks to all are: 
1. Command your children to be careful to observe all the words of God (the law of God is the law of God).
A child with no training is not possible to submit to the command of God by living life to observe the words of God.
Are you training your child enough before God?
Does the training that you give to your child counts before God?
All belongs to God. Children belong to God while parents are with the assignment of God as a caretaker to train the children for God. 
Pages in the Bible, the word of God, request for the training of children.
Proverbs 22:6 records, “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Ephesians 6:4 also records, “And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.”
One that does not train children enough is the same as one that does not train children at all.
God is watching and will not look away from not living life by His word.
Eli could not train his children enough not to violate God, not to corrupt, and not know God. (1 Samuel 2) 
The failure of Eli before God, for not to train his children enough records: For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them. (1 Samuel 3:13) Eli knows about the wrong but failed to control, restrict or delimit them, the evidence of his not enough to train his children.  
2. The word of God is not worthless but is worthy to give life to be able to arrive at the promise of God.
Deuteronomy 32:47 speaks it out, For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word, you shall prolong your days.
The word of God is a life wire, to be alive through the journey of life, not to live a life of waste.
One that receives training by the word of God shall not miss in the promise of God.
Be trained in the word of God to see as it sounds in your direction.
The word of God is not idle. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: With understanding, do you count on praising God?

Psalm 22

Just has God inhabits praise, the enemy evil one inhabits the complaint.
Pray that praising God shall be your portion continually. 
Give yourself to praising God for keeping you this far.
Praise Him with understanding.
Psalm 47:7 records, For God, is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. Praising God is the understanding, to gain a known edge, to claim in His word of promise, to carry His presence.
By praising God with the understanding, you carry the presence of God.
Psalm 22:3 records: But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
Isaiah 42:10 states: Sing to the Lord a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
Ask that in this month and coming months, that singing song to the glory of God shall be your way of life.
Ask that praise of victory will not cease in your life this month and coming months.
Are you a believer in God?
With understanding, do you count on praising God?
It is ignorant to be limiting praising God continually.
In life, ignorance makes a destitute of a believer.
Often, it is evidence of a belief that makes one that claims to be a believer to take to a way that is not right but wrong before God. Proverbs 16:25 records, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
PRAYER:
Today, ask that God will replace you away from every way that seems right you have engaged. 
Ask that in the remaining of this year that God will deliver you from ignorant of wrongdoing.
Often, it is ignorant that leads one to wrongdoing that keeps one far from God.
How far are you from God that is near to all at all times regardless of wrongdoing before Him?
With sin, one that is far or walks far from God will fall for the enemy.
It does not matter who you are, and or your title will not be your evidence not to be far from God. 
In your walk, despised wrongdoing to observe His word, His way that is His presence. Proverbs 23: 26 admonish all: My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways.
Prayerfully 
Ask from God to enable you to give your heart that will make your eyes to observe His ways.
Ask that God will make His strength be established in you not to fall.
The strength of God is His word.
Job 4:4 testify word of God as His strength: Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees.
Ask that the strength of God to answer against everywhere wrongdoing has placed you wrong before God this year.
Get yourself to praising God as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God give you the heart to walk in line with Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks the heart.

Luke 22

The heart of a man is like a playground for the devil when not kept diligently from becoming a victim on earth. 
The bible describes the heart: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) 
“This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.” (Ecclesiastes 9:3)
Judas spent time with Jesus, but his heart is a testimony of one a victim as a target for the act of Satan in his life. The Bible records, “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” (Luke 22:3-4) 
Satan went after the vulnerable heart of Judas, and he was able to establish his plan to betray Jesus. 
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks the heart.
Peter was close to Jesus, but he was not the exception of becoming a victim of the devil. 
Once Jesus said to Peter: Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren. (Luke 22:31-32) 
The heart of a man is always a target for the strike of Satan.
Ananias and Sapphira were not forced to sell their possession but lied about the proceedings of their selling. 
Acts 5:3 records the response of Peter to Ananias and Sapphira lie: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land for yourself? (Acts 5:3) 
A heart that is engaged by meditating the word of God will keep the heart from negotiation with the devil. 
Determination is not enough to keep focus from giving heart to Satan.
Why?
It was a determination that failed Peter in his attempt to deny Satan, not to deny Jesus. 
Thank God that Jesus prayed for Peter because He knew that determination is not enough against the devices of Satan. 
In your daily journey, to be diligent for keeping your heart away from devices of Satan, pray as David prayed before God: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)
In this challenging world of wickedness, what is the state of your heart? 
Prayerfully, meditate of God to be the keeper of your heart diligently, from becoming the devices of Satan.
God answers prayer.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you, that you will not become a victim of devices of Satan.