FAITH CAPSULE: Distraction will derail or deny arrival to the calling of God.

Psalm 22

Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your life?
Continually, know it to be giving attention to deny distraction that comes from closet ones or ones from distance to distract you in life.
Deny distraction in your life.
Having accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior does not exempt you from encountering distraction, but vigilant not to become a victim.
Many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but the agents of distraction are in place to deny the attention of focusing on God to live life for God. 
Does that sound like you?
If you have received Jesus into your life, stand still by looking up to God to avoid distraction not to become derailed from dwelling and abiding in the presence of God.
Martha was a victim of distraction. 
When Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, she could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain a position in the presence of Jesus. Luke 10:38 records, “Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’” (Luke 10:40) 
Just like Martha, have you welcomed Jesus into your house? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but distraction denied her from the presence of Jesus.    
Who or what is your distraction? 
Without discrimination, devices of distraction will derail or deny anyone with the loss of focus on God.
Anyone that is not careful, distraction will assault to prevent from arriving at the divine assignment of God.
When distraction takes a position in the life of man, it will be almost impossible to gain or prevail in the journey of life. 
Distraction can be a disruption or disturbance.
Distraction can be a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, answering to the calling of God.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will derail to deny a man from having faith to see God.
In the challenging time of today, deny distraction, focus on God alone. Do not become a victim of failure and evil occurrence over your life.
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device of the enemy to avoid, and not to become derailed from arrival at the assignment of God.
There is no one with exception from distraction.
The prayer is to ask God to uphold you and watch. 
The word of God repeatedly warns all to watch and pray.
The pattern of distraction to be derailed in answering the calling of God shall not be your portion.

Prayer for today: Ask from God not to become a victim of distraction from answering in His calling over you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life demands from all to be responsible before God.

1Timothy 4

To live a life of responsibility before God will make for greatness in life. Among ways of living for responsibility before God are:
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS MEDITATING THE WORD OF GOD
One meditating on the word of God will know God by observing the word of God to live a life of responsibility before God.
After the death of Moses, God called Joshua to the importance of meditating His word saying, “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.” (Joshua 1:8) 
Meditating the word of God day and night is continual communication with God to know, to do according to the word of God.
1Timothy 4:1 records the importance of meditating the word of God, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”  
Psalm 119:15 also record, “I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.” Be responsible, meditate the word of God continually, to experience failure impossible in life. Get to Know God by studying the word of God, not skimming through the word of God.
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS HAVING COMMITMENT TO GOD
Responsibility is a life of commitment to the word of God.
One with a commitment to the word of God will have the word of God in the heart, not just in the mouth.
Are you a believer by mouth? 
Life of responsibility with a commitment to God will consign self to seeking God with all heart, with all soul, with all strength.  Deuteronomy 4:29 records the consequence of responsible for seeking God, “…you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Responsibility of commitment to the word God will not be discouraged by the surrounding world not to seek God diligently, to find God.
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS ASKING GOD FOR DIRECTION
In the journey of life, it is a responsibility to always ask for the direction of God that never fails but leads to greatness.
In life, be responsible, seek the perfect way of God that leads to the expected journey of life.
Responsibly, the venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines is the reason why David inquired direction from God in 1 Samuel 23:2, “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.” The warrior Men with David were not encouraged to go with him against the Philistines, but his responsibility to inquire from God was the assurance for victory against Philistines.
Responsibility is asking for the direction that is certain to arrive at the expected end in the journey. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to live a life of responsibility to the glory of His name.

FAITH CAPSULE: God reverses irreversible.

Psalm 3 

Worshiping God in the place of worrying is acknowledging God that reverses the irreversible in challenging trouble of times.
When trouble increases, it will become challenging trouble. 
It is challenging trouble that will persist to become a hardly resolved or to become permanent pain with whom or where it exists.
One that tolerates challenging trouble without expectation for self-deliverance is taking a position for pain in the journey of life.
Are you experiencing challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble demands deliverance for one with attention to address the root of the challenge trouble in the life of man.
Challenging trouble in the life of one can be the decisions made on behalf of one by the parents or grandparents or loved ones, not knowing the consequence of decisions made.
Also, the root cause of challenging trouble might have been out of the good intention to help with not becoming of pain.
What is the root of your challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble can be of affliction passed down from family in the journey of life.
However, Psalm 34:19 records to encourages against challenging trouble, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Be conversant with the word of God as a manual of life that is with answers to reverse challenging trouble, to cease permanently.
In life, there is no man with an exception not to experience challenging trouble.
For example, King David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, repeatedly experience challenging trouble but overcame it all. 
Psalm 3:1-2 testifies the evidence to the challenge of David, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.”
The Bible identifies how David came out of challenging trouble for learning: 
DAVID ACKNOWLEDGES GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David, in time of his challenging trouble, his worshiping of God was not distracted.
David gave himself to worship God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble when he acknowledged God for what God has done, and what He was doing in his life, the evidence of what God will do in his life. Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God, provoking the intervention hand of God.
The disobedience of Jonah to the word of God positioned him in challenging trouble. 
Jonah, like David, also acknowledges God when he looked up to God to remind God about how God has brought him far in life. 
Jonah acknowledges God as he promised to sacrifice before God with the voice of thanksgiving.
Acknowledging God is a self-deliverance to overcome challenging trouble.

Prayer for today: Ask God to activate you to acknowledge Him for His hand in your challenging time.

FAITH CAPSULE: Come out of sin to seek God diligently.

Exodus 32

A decorated name for sin is PRIDE. 
Pride is a personal ride to self-destruction.  
The desire to live life for the glory of God is seeking God diligently. 
One that follows the word of God does not despise Him but will take a position to see God. Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one that is despising the word of God will sink into sin. 
With sin, man is not seeking God and will not see God. 
It is not possible to be seeking God diligently and be telling lies as a way of life, deceiving and manipulating others, expecting to see God. 
Does that speak to you?
With the life of all, there is nothing that is hidden from God because He hears and sees all. 2 Chronicles 16:9 make it know, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…”  Gain understanding and knowledge in the word of God that you cannot hide from God but to turn from sin, away from self-destruction.
Sin is a sin before God; sin can last for a thousand years, but a day is enough for God to expose a thousand years.
Are you conversant with telling lies, deceiving to manipulate your world? 
Despite your ways of sin, claiming the hand of God in your acclaimed deceptive miracle, know it that God will not overlook His judgment at His appointed time. Seek God diligently, come out of sin abhor iniquity. 
With your life of sin, deceiving your world by claiming His name, word of God warns, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23) 
Your life of sin is not seeking God, but getting exposed to the devil, for self-destruction. 
There is no way a man can give acceptable glory to God with hidden lies while presenting lies as truth. Romans 3:7-8 testifies, “For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.” 
Does the word speak to you?
Be truthful with no deception, come out of sin to seek God diligently.
Do you know any of your sins that can be a stumbling force against your seeking God, to see God? 
Is there any, repent for your redemption before God?

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to come out of sin, living life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give your heart to fear God. 

The word of God is to enter, to occupy the heart of all, for all to live life for God.
The heart that it enters will fear God.
God treasures those who fear Him.
To fear God is with ones that have wisdom and knowledge, the source of stability, the strength of salvation. Isaiah 33:6 testifies, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.” God treasures it when one fears Him.
Fear God by your way of living life.
Living life by the fear of God is taking a position not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 points out the need for all to be living life by the fear God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
Are you one that keeps the word of God in the head with no space for the word of God in the heart?
In life, let the fear of God become your identity before God. 
The fear of God is the identity of Job before God as God testifies, “there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (Job 2:3)
To fear God in the heart will have a pleasing life before God.
Have a heart of fear for God to shun the evil not to have a place in you.
One that does not fear God will not abide in His command, to dwell in the presence of God.
Through the pages of the Bible, word records what will become of those who fear God:
“Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.” (Psalm 33:18)
“The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” (Psalm 34:7-9)
“And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.” (Luke 1:50)
Let the fear of God keep you under the eyes of God.
With the desire and determination to fear God without prayer will not work.
Today, get to understand and know in the promise of God that when you fear God, you will fear none before God to claim the promises of God.
The book of Isiah 41:10 speaks it to all, “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Fear God is the will of God for all.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you want to live life in His fear.