FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is the source of Joy, the stability to have strength.

John 15

The word of God is describable as:
Livewire, Sustenance, and wellspring.
The word of God as a livewire is a bright spark.
The word of God is as sustenance.
The word of God as wellspring is a source.
Indeed, by description, the word of God is the only way to have a life as purposed for all man by Jesus.
The Bible records, Jesus is the way (John 14:6), Jesus is the word of God (John1:1). Jesus confirms in His word, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Have you received, to be-living (belief) by the word of God?
If yes, there is a need for you to consciously live life in the joy of the Lord.
In times of today’s instability and wickedness of the world, the joy of the Lord is the strength to those who give self to the word of God as, livewire, sustenance, and wellspring.
Knowing Jesus (the world of God) is the source of joy that gives stability to have strength that does not cease.
Isaiah 33:6 buttress, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation…”
In this wicked world, gain understand and knowledge that Jesus (the word of God) became for all as wisdom from God. (1 Corinthians 1:30) With wisdom, joy will have a place the strength of God.
Do you know that the word of God is the joy, the strength to live not to become a victim of instability wicked world?
With wisdom, choose Jesus’ spoken word as John 15:11 records, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” Jesus emphasizes again in John 17:13, “But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” The word of God is the source of Joy.
One with His joy is bound with the strength that surpasses all understanding. The word of God is the joy of God that will replace sorrow.
Nehemiah spoke the word of God to comfort the Israelites with encouragement for strength to replace sorrow in their challenges in Nehemiah 8:10, “…Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Give self to meditating the word of Jesus, that your joy may be full.
Those who meditate the word of God as the source of livewire, as sustenance, as wellspring shall know the joyful sound. Psalm 89:15 records, “Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.”
In this wicked world, is there any challenge that will not bow to directions in the word of God?
None!
Directions in the word of God is deliverance and preservation, the evidence of joy.
If you begin to give yourself to the word of God, pay attention in your meditation for the joyful sound, direction and preservation shall be your portion.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to become your hunger, for the word of God to take charge as your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: You are too quiet to be victorious!

Jonah 1, 2

Do you have a reason to cry before God?
Crying out to God is not the evidence of weakness but communicating with caring God.
God is a caring God; He is mindful of man to give heed to the crying of man before Him.
Psalm 8:4 testifies, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?”
The Israelites cried out to God, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.” (Exodus 2:23) The cry of the Israelites gained the attention of God for their deliverance.
Your cry out to God will bring your deliverance from the bondage of the wicked world.
Jonah’s disobedience to God’s word was the cause of his cry for the mercy of God over his life. needed to cry out to God due to his self-inflicted affliction. Jonah 2:1-2 records, “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice.” Jonah, a prophet of God’s disobedience positioned him for self-destruction.
God called on Jonah, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD…” (Jonah 1:2-3) Just like Jonah, have you taken to disobedience in the calling of God over your life?
God is a caring God, giving heed to the cry of His children but it is not encouraging to be giving self to disobedience in His word.
Is it your title or position that is holding you back from crying out to God, for His mercy?
No man is above crying out before God, for His mercy where there is a need.
David, a man after God’s own heart cried out to God for God’s attention in the face his challenge. David testified, “In my distress, I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.” (Psalm 18:6) Cry out to God in time of distress. God was not a partial God to deny the crying of blind Bartimaeus. The bible records about Bartimaeus cry to gain God’s attention, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47-48) The blind man Bartimaeus cried out but could not be quiet.
Do not be quiet to deny God’s attention for your deliverance.

Prayer for today: Cry out to God to give heed to the challenges of your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have an excuse to avoid His calling?

Exodus 4

When God was set to use Moses for the deliverance of the Israelites, Moses could not block his ears from hearing to avoid and answer to God if it was possible for him.
Moses does not want to answer God’s calling.
However, Moses had no choice but heard and repeatedly refused God with different excuses, claiming to be incompetent for the calling of God.
Moses responded to God’s calling with excuses, to avoid giving him for God’s calling as stated, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.” (Exodus 4:1) God answered to each of Moses’ question with encouragement for Moses not to avoid God’s calling.
Moses responded to God, the Creator of all that he was not eloquent; he was slow of speech and slow of tongue. (Exodus 4:10)
The excuses of Moses before God is his agenda to avoid answering God’s calling.
Are you avoiding God’s calling just like Moses?
With God, no man’s excuse counts to deny God’s calling.
God alone is God; He creates all and He knows all more than one knows self.
God responded to Moses’ excuse about his disable with speech and his slow of the tongue, “So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.” (Exodus 4:14-15)
For Moses, none of his excuse was enough for him to escape God’s calling, but made him available for God.
Are you still avoiding God’s calling?
When God called out Jeremiah, there was no enough excuse to avoid the calling of God. Jeremiah considered himself a youth but God responded, “…Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you…” (Jeremiah 1:7-8) The calling for Moses was with God’s direction, the calling of Jeremiah was set to be well established by God’s direction.
Whatever one is using as a ground of hiding to avoid God’s calling is definitely within the reach of God’s calling.
The same God that called Moses with speech and slow of the tongue also called young Jeremiah. God is having an appointment for you; go and ask Him where you are to go and what you are to do.
Today, where you are is not too late to deny you from answering to God’s calling, His plan for your life, for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the excuse of failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: Your choice is to allow or disallow distraction.

Job 2

Samson was pressed by his wife when he revealed the secret of God upon his life to his enemy.
Judges 16:18-20 records the distraction of Samson, “When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.”
Samson’s wife as his distraction was not an excuse, but his choice.
During the challenges of Job, his wife was an agent of distraction with the device to derail Job from living life for the glory of God. Unlike Samson, Job’s choice denied his wife from derailing him.
Bible records Job’s wife’s device of distraction, “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9)
Unlike Samson, Job resisted his wife’s device of distraction by responding to his wife’s distracting device, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10)
Are you avoiding devices of distraction before you?
Continually, give attention to deny distraction from the inside or distraction from the outside that is set to deny your divine assignment in the journey of life.
Deny distraction in your life.
Many accepted to welcome Jesus into their hearts as Lord and savior but the agents of distraction are in place to deny the attention of many from living life for God.
Does that sound like you?
With Jesus in your heart, you must be living life like Him, behave the word of God, to avoid an unfruitful life. For anyone who has welcomed and received Jesus into one’s life, there is a need to maintain His presence.
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house but could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain from 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.”
Are you like Martha?
Have you welcomed Him into your house by receiving Him?
Martha welcomed Jesus 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) Distraction denied Martha from Jesus’ presence in her house.
There is nothing wrong in serving God but distraction can derail a believer from arriving at God’s divine assignment.
Martha welcomed Him into her house but became distracted.
Who or what is your distraction?

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s intervention not just your determination.

FAITH CAPSULE: Search self to know if you are a wicked one.

Psalm 73

Are you living life as a wicked one?
Do you know if you are wicked one or not?
Stealing, or hurting others is not the identification of a wicked one.
Jeremiah in his curiosity about what it means to identify a wicked one is in his word, “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.”
Among wicked ones are ones quoting and making noise about the word of God but far from God.
Search self to know if you are a wicked one that is comfortable of doing evil.
The wicked, despite their wickedness, are living a life that makes a man wonder why and how it could be for the wicked ones to be having a life that appears better and glamorous. However, no man should focus on how wicked ones are living life but to only be careful and have heart directed to the love of God. None is judge except God and all should allow God to do as He pleases. The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 stated, “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?
One thing is clear, God sees it all and He will only move against the wicked at His appointed time.
Wickedness has its seat in the heart of man. Jeremiah 17:9-10 made it known about the seat (heart) of wicked stating, “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 unbeliever’s heart or the acclaimed believer’s heart.
Can you identify if you are wicked or not wicked?
Any man that claims to be a believer should not be mistaken for a heart that is not deceitful and desperately wicked. Among man, Psalm 73 identified some glaring wicked heart:
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 knows the word of God but not live life by God’s word?

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge over your life not to be a wicked one.