FAITH CAPSULE: In the life of all, God is absolutely in control to allow or disallow.

Exodus 2

The birth of Moses at the appointed time of God made it impossible for the law of Pharaoh to kill male born. Moses escaped death at birth; he later turned out to be a murder that has to run from the palace where he was raised. Moses’ effort to run from Pharaoh’s reach after the killing of an Egyptian on behalf of his Hebrew brother brought him to Midian. Nothing happens by accident.
God alone is in a position to allow and disallow all that happens in the life of man. God is in absolute control either we like it or not. For example, He alone allowed Job’s challenges when Satan asked for Job. God responded to Satan, “And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.” (Job 2:6-7)
In the life of all, God is absolutely in control to allow or disallow.
In Moses’ life, all that happened prepared him for where he was going. In order for Moses to become a shepherd in the hand of God, he has to be trained as a shepherd. Where you are going, you do not know, you only know about where you are now. Are you paying attention to God? When Moses was living in the palace, he would not have imagined becoming a shepherd. Nevertheless, he ended up becoming a shepherd in the hand of God. To be used by God is a great attainment that cannot be compared or traded for anything. You know who you believe, and that is enough to encourage you to stand firm in whatever condition or situation you encounter.
If Moses missed his training, he probably would have been out of place and miss the calling upon his life.
When he was received by the priest of Midian, he did not allow pride or anger to get in the way of God’s plan for his life.
The character was in place in the life of Moses. It is written, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.” (Exodus 2:21) Contentment is what made the difference in the life of Moses. Life from the palace to tent could never have been an easy transition, but he was contented. Do you have God in your life? If you do, it is a good thing to ask Him to impact you with the spirit of contentment. 1Timothy 6:6 buttress the importance of contentment stating; “Now godliness and contentment is a great gain.” With contentment, Moses was in place to engage the calling upon his life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to impact you with strength and wisdom not to miss out His plan for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: By your action or word, do not add to God’s command.

Genesis 3

Whatever God says is important and it demands full attention to avoid misrepresentation. God does not waste His word and He means what He says. God spoke to Adam in the Garden of Eden, “Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:15-17) When the chief of all deception cunningly approached Eve with its destructive agenda, he asked Eve, “…Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1) Eve opened the door for the devil when she responded to the devil by adding to what God does not say when God gave Adam the command. She added to God’s command stating, “…Nor shall you touch it, lest you die.” (Genesis 3:3)
Are you one that consciously or unconsciously adds or take away from the word of God? It does not matter who you are when you add to the word of God, you are set for failure. Before God, it is not acceptable for any man to add or take away from His word.
By your way, not only by His word, are you adding to the word of God? Romans 3:7-8 records: “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?” Deception in the name of God is adding to God what does not belong to God. There is no way by which any testimony that is loaded with inexactness is going to please God and same it is when one consciously or unconsciously say what God did not say.
God gave a detailed word of command to Jeremiah directly for His people. After giving His word, He commanded Jeremiah, “Therefore prepare yourself and arise, and speak to them all that I command you.” (Jeremiah 1:17) Delivering God’s message demands preparation because with preparation comes detail presentation. A well-presented message is what keeps the messenger from sinning against God. He sent Moses, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” (Numbers 20:8) Moses went as directed, but presented Gods command according to his own desire. Moses did not speak but struck the rock twice with his rod. (Numbers 20:10) Moses, by his word and action he added to God’s command which failed him to step on Promised Land.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you will not walk outside of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Hope is rooted in believe.

Numbers 20

Claiming to have hope in God is not only by mouth but must be rooted in the heart. Anyone that does not keep heart diligently as requested by God’s word cannot and does not understand and know to have hope in God.  The word of God stated: “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Do you have a heart with hope in God?
The Bible records what it takes to have hope in God: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear…”
A heart that is sanctified (separated) for God will have hope in God.
A heart that is sanctified to God is a heart that seeks God diligently.
Among ways to sanctify heart for God, to have hope in God is meditating the word of God.
Meditating the word of God:
Joshua 1:8 records the meaning of meditating to have the heart for hope: “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.” Giving self’s heart to God in His word day and night will no doubt do according to the word of God and have hope in God. Giving self to meditating God’s word day and night will know God enough to trust and remain standing in hope for God’s response. Meditate the word of God but not just to memorize God’s word.
Sanctifying heart to God is hallowing God:
Hallowing God according to His command is the evidence of heart with hope. When the word of God locates a man for direction, hope in the man’s heart will do as commanded. Moses could not do as commanded by God but do against the word of God. The Bible records about Moses failure to hallow God when God said: “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”  Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Matthew 20:7-12)
A failure not to believe God for His word is not having hope to do as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to establish His word in your heart to trust and hope in Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God is a must for all man to avoid living a wasteful life.

Deuteronomy 6

Fearing God without ceasing is finding and gaining access to God without failure. Do you fear God? There is none that is born to this world with the fear of God. To fear God is rooted in studying the word of God to have faith in God. God treasures those who fear Him. To fear God is the way not to live a wasted life.
With fear of God is taking a position to be claiming the promise of God.
Among the promises of fearing God are:
The fear of the Lord prolongs days. (Proverbs 10:27)
In the fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence. (Proverbs 14:26)
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death. (Proverbs 14:27)
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom. (Proverbs 15:33)
By the fear of the Lord, one departs from evil. (Proverbs 16:6)
The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil. (Proverbs 19:23)
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life. (Proverbs 22:4)
The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. (Psalm 34:7)
The fear of the Lord is His treasure. (Isaiah 33:6)
To fear God is a must for all man to avoid living a wasteful life.
The Bible’s question is for those who claim serving God: “serve the Lord with fear.”(Psalm 2:11) Are you serving God with fear? Does your way of life demonstrate the fear of God?
Is it your desire to live life by fearing God?
The desire to have the fear of God is not in determination without prayer. Peter determined not to deny Jesus but the prayer of Jesus answered for him not to fail but stand for Christ.
Jesus told us to ask, seek and knock in Matthew 7:7 and God also said the He will give when He said, “…I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.” Why not begin to pray earnestly to God, to give you one heart, one way to fear Him?
Make it a serious point to live life with the fear of God. In the journey of life, Abraham served God because he feared God. Hebrews 11:8 testified, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.”
To be living life year after years without the fear of God is not God’s will for all His creation. Just like Abraham, fear God to be obeying His word for remaining in His presence.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you a one heart and one way to fear God in all days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you available for God’s calling?

Genesis 37

Until a man is stripped off of this world, to be decorated by the living word of God for declaring awesomeness of God over a man’s life will not be possible. Are you available for God’s calling? One that is called by God and set for God’s calling indeed and in truth will live life for the glory of God. When God calls a man, with no idea of God’s calling, challenges will come with many afflictions but deliverance is in the hand of God for the called one. Psalm 34:19 buttressed, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Have you been called or are you on a journey with no idea of the journey’s destination?
Joseph had a colorful life because of his father’s love for him above his brothers. Jacob, the father of Joseph testified his love for Joseph as stated in Genesis 37:3, “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. Also, he made him a tunic of many colors.”
Are you experiencing a colorful life with no expectation of calling that is able to discolor your life but yet not able to terminate your deliverance to the glory of God? Genesis 37:23 records the stripping of Joseph unexpectedly from his brothers, “So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. (Genesis 37:23)
God knows the agent of stripping you for God’s positioning of your life’s journey.
Pray for God’s established hand upon your life to live life for His glory.
When God calls to send you, self-control shall be out of your control.
When He called Joseph, he became a slave; he could no longer move at his own will or self-control. Joseph came under the authority which he could not control. Calling of God will lead called into an unknown route where learning is waiting for called one to know and become obedient to God. Jesus learned obedience by the things which He suffered that means ones that He calls is not exempt to be excused from having Jesus’ experience.
When God calls to send you, there will be the experience of an uncomfortable of a chain, pain, and iron which restricts one’s movement. When He sends you, input from you to control time and timing in your journey is not relevant because He alone will be in charge of controlling time.
The journey to get to the divine assignment is in the hand of God.
Just like Joseph, are you on a journey which destination is not known to you? As an acclaimed believer, remain the focus, knowing that same God that saw Joseph through to his divine assignment will also see you through without falling off.

Prayer for today: Ask from God for the strength to move you in His direction over your life.