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CALLING OF GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: When God calls you, do not look away from His direction.

Genesis 19:1-29

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. Revelation 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
God alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days. 
1Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” God alone is above and beyond all, and Psalmist states it clearly, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God will make and un-make, He alone is the unchanging changer that is in position to reverse the irreversible. God creates all.
God creates all for divine assignment, His calling comes with the process, for His purpose over your life. 
The calling of God for you must be connected to God continually by dwelling and abiding in His direction, the only way to answer the calling of God in life.
God has a calling for all with a different assignment. 
God’s calling will break you at the initial of calling but will no doubt turn you to God’s blessing when you obey Him as directed.
The ones that He breaks are meant to be blessed, the evidence that God does not leave you alone at His calling.
When God calls you, do not look away from His direction.
When God called Lot and his family for salvation, the wife of Lot looked outside of God’s direction to position her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God will come with challenges but obedience to God will deliver you. Know to remember, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”  (1Thessalonians 5:24) 
When God calls you, do not allow doubt for you to be discouraged from answering the calling of God.
Deny doubt, answer to God’s calling for your life.
Discouragement will question you with negativity to redirect your calling wrongly. 
Engaging the calling upon your life, commit yourself to no man but God alone. The word of God in John 2:24 is for understanding, to be cautious, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.”
When God calls you, there will be no negotiation for your preference of how or when to answer God.
God is the Creator of all and sees before or beyond the journey in life. Also, time belongs to God for the called one to arrive at the divine assignment of God.
When God calls, there will be no prior arrangement; there will be no announcement before calling; there will be no baggage to hinder or slow you down.
Where are you today?
Consciously or unconsciously, your journey of today is possible to be a journey that is leading you into the calling of God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to live life for His calling over you.

WHO WILL NOT FEAR GOD?

FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God is rooted in giving attention to the word of God.

Job 1

Give your heart to fear God. The command of God is designed for all to fear Him because time belongs to God for His doing. 1 Timothy 6:14-16 admonishes all, “…that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.” 
Will you give your heart to fear God?
God treasures those who fear Him.
To fear God is with ones that have wisdom and knowledge, that is the source of stability, the strength of salvation. Isaiah 33:6 points out, “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 in the fear of God is taking a position not to fail in the journey of life.
To fear God is rooted in giving attention to the word of God by inclining ear, keeping God’s word in the depth of heart not just in the head.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 identifies for all to live 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.”
To fear God in the heart will have a pleasing life before God.
Have a heart of fear for God to live life for God.
It is the will of God for all to fear God and know to train children that will live life in the fear of God.
Know and understand to fear God in every way of life, it is the conclusion of the whole matter.
The word of God that speaks to one speaks to all to fear God for the ways of living life as Job 28:28 records, “…And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding…” Jeremiah 10:7, “Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You. “
Who will not fear God? 
Give yourself to prayer, that the fear of God becomes established in your hearts not to depart from God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that His fear be established in your heart.

THE DIRECTION OF GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?

Exodus 3

The command of God is His direction.
In the direction of God, there is a way where there is no way. 
God’s direction is certain to deliver when there is full obedience to His direction. 
In His direction doubt will lead to self-denial, misdirection, fear will rise, and faith will sink you.
God’s calling is His direction. 
When He calls you, he will back you up and not fail. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 buttresses, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Today, disallow doubt from interfering your journey of life, know that God’s direction shall not fail.
Know it that doubt will provoke disobedience to God’s direction and not to ask from God.   
Know God, know His promise as Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.” Often, instead of asking as promised in the word of God, one will give to fear; complaint and full of excuses before God.
Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?
When it was time for God to make a way out of bondage for the Israelites, He called Moses to lead the Israelites saying, “…I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:10) 
In the calling of God, Moses responded with doubt saying, “…Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11)  
God responded to Moses, “…I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you…” (Exodus 3:12) 
When God calls you, He is certain to back you up unfailingly. 
Moses listened to God, with understanding, he answered to the calling of God over his life.
In life, there is no reason to stop asking from God prayerfully in faith and not in doubt. 
It was Moses that also asked prayerfully in faith in Exodus 33:13 “Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”  
In your journey of life, know to ask from God with faith, not in doubt.
God is not a wicked God but a good caring God. 
Moses asked prayerfully, and God answered him, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) 
Always ask Him and know to be holding onto His answer that is set to manifest.

Prayer for today: Ask God to uphold you not to be a victim of doubt.

PRAY IT TODAY

FAITH CAPSULE: Giving self to prayer with attention will gain God’s attention.

Isaiah 64

Prayer is not a playing ground but a ground to prevail by giving self continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.
Prayer must be engaged with expectation for manifestation.
Prayer is seeking God diligently to find God.
The only thing God cannot do is, “God cannot fail but will answer with…yes, no, or wait”
Prayer is where God waits to act for those that wait on Him” as word of God testifies in Isaiah 64:4, “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.”

Paying attention to our prayer BEFORE GOD will gain the attention of God because it is the evidence of praying before God with understanding. Psalm 47:7 let us know that all our seeking God should be with understanding when it states, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” Giving self to prayer before God is seeking God to gain God’s attention for manifestation.

With understanding in the word of God, pray the following prayer points today: 

God spoke in Genesis 6:5, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
This hour of self-deliverance, individually, each will pray against evil occurrence in this wicked world by asking that the Word of God be established in one’s life, this hour in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Pray, ask that the healing nature of God’s word answered in your life.
Pray that deliverance and preservation power in the word of God will have a place in your life.
Pray that the word of God is established in your life, that you live life for the glory of God.

Paul the Apostle admonishes all in Acts 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” If we do as it is written, the word will not fail for us. We will pray the word of God in Jeremiah 23:29 that says, “‘Is my word not like fire?’ says the LORD. ‘And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?’” 
Pray, by asking from God that the fire in the Word of God to burn off all that does not represent God in the journey of your life physically, spiritually, or emotionally in the name of Jesus.
Pray by asking for the hammer nature of the Word of God to break down every rock of hindrance in your life.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to give ears to your prayer point for today.

ARE YOU SEEKING GOD?

FAITH CAPSULE: How are you seeking God?

Matthew 6

In this wicked world come out of religion, give yourself to a commitment to God. 
Commitment to God is seeking God diligently.
How are you seeking God?
What is the purpose of your need to seek God? 
Seek God diligently is seeking God first as Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Seeking God is the testimony of those who love God as Proverbs 8:17 records, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”
One that believes in God and knows that God is a rewarder of those who seek Him are ones that will seek God diligently as Hebrews 11:6 records, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is seeking God diligently to find God as Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God. 
Living life for God will follow the word of God right.
Seeking God diligently is following righteousness as pointed in Isaiah 51:1, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” With today’s world of wickedness, it is wise for one to listen and to give self to the word of God. One that is not giving ear to hear will not know God, to gain an understanding of God. Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.” 
Seeking God diligently is serving God. 
Serving God is following God with no hidden agenda because God knows all. 
Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow God in John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” 
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. 
Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently, to find Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. 
Above all, one that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by the word of God that is true. John 8:12 confirms, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him.
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of the servant of the Lord.
Serve God by living life for God to gain His promises and not be a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to establish you in serving Him diligently.