FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is a solution to resolve any situation.

1 Samuel 13 

King Saul was instructed by Samuel to wait for lawful sacrifice before going to war against Philistines but could not wait for instruction.
As Philistines gathered together to fight the Israelites, King Saul could not wait for seven days as instructed by Samuel.
1 Samuel 13:9 records, “So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering.” King Saul, tragically disobeyed both the Law of Moses and the instructions of the Prophet of God. (Leviticus 1) 
King Saul could not wait as instructed.
Is waiting to address your confronting situation a challenge or a solution?
Get to know the truth, waiting in obedience to instruction rooted in the word of God, shall always culminate favorable expectations. 
After the disobedience of Saul, Samuel arrived to ask, “What have you done?” 
Saul answered, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12)
It is always a foolish thing to disobey the command of God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God. 
Psalmist admonished, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3)
A believer in God must understand that to wait on God endures a period of waiting without knowing how long to get an answer from God. 
Waiting on God can be a delay but never a waste of time. 
In a time of waiting, among what to exercise as a believer must engage are:
Be of good courage; rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him; do not fret; keep His way; let your soul wait silently.
The above truth about waiting is identifiable in the scriptural verses listed below:
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.”
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:5, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”
Hosea 12:6, “… wait on your God continually.”
Does your situation demand to wait on God? 
God is true to answer when we wait patiently by abiding in His word obediently. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to remain to wait on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?

Exodus 3, Colossians 3:1:17

Are you an acclaimed believer of God but serving God with the lack of understanding?
In life, particularly, lack of understanding of the acclaimed believer to be serving God is limiting the manifestation of the power of God over their life.
Are you a believer of God that is living life by the word of God or one that is living life as if one living time of the Egypt of Pharaoh, not living according to the word of God?
As an acclaimed believer, there should be evidence of living out of Egypt of Pharaoh time today. 
God wanted the Israelites out of Egypt of Pharaoh when He spoke to Moses, “When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12) God also sent Moses to Pharaoh, “ Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me…” (Exodus 4:22-23)
God is jealous that He wants nothing from all but to free and serve Him.
What does it mean to serve God? 
To serve God demands from all to seek Him diligently and set the mind on things where God is above.
The book of Colossians 3:1-2 clearly states, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”
Seeking God will come with the challenges of this world.
Among challenges not to seek God diligently are:
-One that is yet to be dead in their trespasses will not rise to serve God.
-Inability to put off the body of the sins of the flesh.
-Setting the mind on the worldly things more than things above will not serve God diligently.
There is no excuse to take the mind off from the things of God, to avoid missing the presence of God.
Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?
Have you separated yourself from worldly things you once walked with as a way of life? 
The word requires all to put to death members on the earth, such as fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. The members on earth will bring the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Colossians 3:6-7)
Word also points directly for all to put off: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of our mouth, do not lie to one another. (Colossians 3:8-10)
Be renewed in knowledge according to the word of God. 
Serve God diligently to experience the power of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him, seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you thinking or asking?

Proverb 4

It is not rocket science to know that what you are thinking or asking will match what you are experiencing or what you are going to experience in life.
In your heart, what are you thinking or asking that is related to the issues of life?
How you take charge of your heart will lead you through the issues of life. The word of God in Proverb 4:23 warns, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
Are you keeping your heart to deliver you from thinking right, or asking wrongly?
What is the condition of your heart to determine what you are thinking or asking?
Luke 6:45 admonishes, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
Give self to the word of God, not just for memorization for declaration of the word of God, but for meditation as decoration to navigate without falling in the issues of life.
What are you thinking or asking that you speak out before God?
On the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, their thinking and asking were negative. God heard the Israelites, and they became terminated not to arrive at the Promised Land. 
Numbers 14:28 records and responded to the negative confession of the Israelites, “…As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.” 
There is no excuse to be asking with an error before God.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 warns against excuse for error, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” 
As an acclaimed believer, you should know the truth (John 8:32) not to count on error, but to keep heart diligent from thinking or saying what is wrong in the hearing of God.
As an acclaimed believer, get to know that the power of God that you carry will not fail to answer to your thinking or what you are asking. Ephesians 3:20 states, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
In life, nothing is hidden from God and is the reason why thinking or asking, becomes a confession that is negative or positive.
By your thinking or asking, avoid negative confession, be positive, God is hearing!

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable His word to abundantly occupy your heart, not to become a victim of negative confession, in thinking, and asking before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Regardless of your challenge, approach God with thanks and joy.

Job 1 

Giving thanks to God should be rooted in the heart, not just in the tongue.
One that knows to give thanks to God should approach God with joy. Ephesians 5:20 states, “Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 
Do you know to give thanks to access to the presence of God?
Be thankful and be joyful before God.
The Bible records, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4)  
Psalm 9:2, “I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to your name, O most High.” Psalm 16:11, “In Your presence is fullness of joy…” Proverbs 8:30, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing, always before Him.” The scriptural verses testify that without joy, God is not accessible. Apostle Paul stated well, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4) The calling for joy by the Apostle Paul was expressed with simplicity, emphasis, and with a shout!
In every meeting with God, all His children must go before Him with joy. To come before God is celebrating with joy, the evidence of a thankful heart.
Let it be clear to you that the evil one never shies away from where there is a joy, but with his plan to convert one with joy to sadness. 
Also, let it be aware to you that your calling is to maintain your joy regardless of challenges. 
In the life of Job, Satan was at work to turn around joy to sad of Job.
The book of Job 1:6-7records, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So, Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” (Job 1:6-7) 
Every interruption of Satan is always with bad intentions. 
The Satan is empowered to go to and fro looking for one to devour. 
It was the Satan that initiates pain for Job while he was where the sons of God are gathering in His presence. Bible documents, “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So, Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.” (Job 1:11-12) 
Can you imagine how the wicked one delivered every form of affliction over the life of Job? 
In between and through it all, Job did not complain before God and did not condemn God. Job cried to God, and he eventually received more blessings after his time of testing times, than when he first started to enjoy all that God bestowed upon him.

Prayer for today: Ask with joy, give a heartful thanks to God, for all things.

FAITH MAIL: Give self to continual complementing before God that has never fail.

Exodus 16

Have you been complaining more or complementing God for He has done or all His doing in your life?
Acts of the complaint do not have a place before God.
Complaining can be a quick turnaround from complementing for victory in place of set back.
Does that speak to you?
Regardless of an unexpected challenge, always remember that there is nothing impossible for God to turnaround for good. 
Give self to continual complementing before God that has never fail.
God destroyed the Egyptians on behalf of the Israelites at the entrance of the Red Sea. Moses and the children of Israel declared a new song to praise God. The Israelites stated in their praise, “Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.” (Exodus 15:6) 
Indeed, the right hand of God is still with power, as it was then.
The right hand of God has not changed to lift His children. However, after crossing the Red Sea, the hand of God that saw them through the Red Sea was more than enough not to encourage complaint, but rather the Israelite had a quick turnaround from victory, deliverance to complaining, and looking back. 
Have you been complaining more or complementing God for His mercy? 
Complaining became a pattern of engaging challenges by the Israelites. At the place called Marah, the Israelites could not turn to God with compliments, but the complaint became their ways before God. Exodus 15:23-24 records, “Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”  The complaint of the Israelites against Moses was an indirect complaint before God.
The Israelites could not count on the blessing of God that brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
If you can count the blessings of God over your life, there should be no place for complaining at where you are in your journey. 
Despite the complaint, God gave them water through Moses. 
After the Marah Episode was the drama of crying for what they have left behind in Egypt. There was no realization to them that getting to the Promised Land involves leaving behind the past in an attempt to claim the Promised Land. 
The Israelites complained about meat when God showed up to meet their need for meat. God attending to the Israelites should have been enough not to generate any more complaints about the lack of their journey, yet again they complained about water. Exodus 17:3 record, “And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”  Complaining was the confession of death when they died, with none of them saw the Promised Land.
Give yourself to complimenting God for all He has done; all He is doing and all He will do in your life.

Prayer for today: Ask by giving a compliment to God in all things.