FAITH CAPSULE: whatever a man sees is going to have a direct effect on man’s thinking and what man says.

Exodus 14

Miracle brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but they could not see positive in the word of God to see them through to Promised Land. At a point, in journey of The Israelites Pharaoh approached the Israelites with agenda to return them back to where the Lord God delivered them from. It is written, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10) The Israelites could not see positive in the word of God’s promise which delivered them by God, through Moses. Disability not to see in God’s promise made the Israelites to see the Egyptians catching up behind them. Without doubt, whatever a man sees is going to have a direct effect on man’s thinking and what man says.
What are you seeing in your challenge? The Israelites saw fear and spoke negative. The Bible recorded their response, “Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? ¹² Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12) The Israelites saw it wrongly and said it wrong as a result they ended wrong. After having been brought this far in life; after having witnessed the grace of God in many areas of your life, why is it so difficult to see that God alone is in control? Have you taken your eyes away from what God said and what He is saying to you through the pages of the Bible?
Mark it down, whatever a man beholds will eventually hold man down in the journey of life. Moses knew exactly the cause for the negative confession of the Israelites and he responded stating, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13) When there is no clarity of sight it is certain that misjudgment will take place, confusion will bring forth complaint and rebellion will gain ground. Just as Moses lived through his journey meditating day and night, you also should meditate on the word of God day and night. Meditating will cause you to know that God is with you; He will not leave you nor forsake you. (Joshua 1:5-6) With meditation there will be clarity of sight. See in your new season that God shall favor you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to teach and lead you in the coming days.

FAITH CAPSULE: Dwelling at the same ground is possible to be an evidence of not seeing in the promises of God.

Deuteronomy 1

This season see in God’s promises to possess. Promises of God through the pages of the bible are well laid for man while His children languish and not able to see and possess promises of God. Seeing in the promise of God is to receive and possess His promise. God promised the Israelites to possess land that flows with milk and honey (Promised Land). In their journey from the bondage of over four hundred years they made the choice to dwell too long at Horeb instead of moving forward to God’s Promised Land. To be dwelling too long, away from the promise of God for a man’s life is abiding outside of the promise of God. Does that sound like you?
Dwelling wrongly is taking step out of God’s word. God responded to the Israelites wrong dwelling, He sent Moses to the Israelites stating, “The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.  Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land…” (Deuteronomy 1:6-8) Dwelling wrongly of the Israelites was the evidence of not seeing in the word of God.
Seeing in the word of God will work against doubt. However, not seeing in the word of God will accommodate doubt for man to miss out of God’s promise. Israelites could not see in the word of God, but doubt set up a place in their journey to over stay at Horeb. The Israelites should not have had any reason for doubt but to move forward and possess God’s promise. The Israelites proved shortsightedness by not moving forward but rather went forward with a spying mission. Moses testified, “Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.” (Deuteronomy 1:22) The Israelites wanted to possess the Promised Land by seeing the world around them instead of seeing and engaging the word of God. Israelites demonstrated wanting to make sure God knows what He was talking about when He asked them to move forward. Evidently, the Israelites could not see as commanded by God. Ability to see in what God says is a direct effect to possess God’s promise. Month after months you continue to dwell at the same ground. Could it be you are not able to see in the promises of God to bring you out of stagnation? It is time to ask for clarity of sight that you may see in God’s word and be able to move and possess His promise for you.

Prayer for today: Ask God that the new month shall be your month of clarity of sight to see in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: This prevailing month wait on God for His open hand in your direction.

Matthew 6

To be alive today is not by right but by the privilege of God. Day after days, week after weeks, month after months is a privilege of God. Worrying instead of worshiping God is obedience to the word of God. It is written, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? (Matthew 6:25-27) As a believing believer, take to the warning word against worrying by patiently waiting on God. God will not deny any sincere attention to His word but always attend to any attention that is given to His word. Possibly, disappointments are by the day but waiting on the promise of God is certain to convert impossibility to possibility. This month of prevailing, be encouraged by waiting on the promise of God. Isaiah 30:18 encouraged “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for Him.”  God is waiting for those who wait on Him. Without any doubt, there is no record of any who waits on God and become wasted.
Bondage of over four hundred years was not enough for Egypt to deny God’s visitation of salvation over the Israelites. As a believer of the word of God, be rest assured that this month will answer as your prevailing month to the glory of God. Waiting on God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
This prevailing month wait on God for His open hand in your direction. Bible testified His open hand: Psalm 104:28, “What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.” Psalm 145:16, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” Prayerfully speak to God given month as a prevailing month and expect the open hand of God to fill you by satisfying your desire.
God is in control of every challenge and the enemy cannot be more powerful. Open hand of God is on the side of ones that wait on God diligently. Mark it, lying, deception and manipulation is not waiting on God but wasting out from the presence of God. Give self continually to prayer, experience prevailing month for God’s glory over your life. It does not matter how long you have been waiting, but it does matter that in waiting, wait only on Him and be of good courage.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s grace to remain focus to be waiting on Him without failing.

FAITH CAPSULE: This month does not mean that it is late to prevail  but keep on waiting on God.

Luke 15:11-32

Prayer is waiting to prevail in this month and not be a victim of wicked world. Psalm 27:14 declared, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” In time of challenging need, how do you wait? The psalmist is saying, in our waiting on the Lord we must be of good courage. It is possible to claim waiting on God and not be of good courage but living as a worry-full believer. Any time worrying is in place, worship is out of place. Are you one that cannot wait without worrying? Do not be a worry-full but be a worship-full before God.
Man’s failure to wait on God is possible to reposition man from arrival at God’s divine assignment.
It was a time of war against the Philistines when King Saul failed to wait as commanded by Samuel. Saul assumed priestly entitlements by offering a burnt offering. In his act, he violated the command of God. Saul’s excuse for failing to wait was recorded, “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) Saul could not exercise good courage as a result; his heart was not strengthened but weakened. He was worried, and he violated worshiping God correctly.
Inability to wait for God’s appointed time is to experience interruption to claim inheritance in place for man.  The prodigal son could not wait when he requested his portion of the inheritance from his father and took a journey to a far country where he wasted his inheritance. It was wrong for the prodigal son to move when it was not time or not called to go ahead of his timing in the journey of life. Interruption intercepted to waste prodigal’s son inheritance from his father. Luke 15:13-14 recorded, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.”  Every failure to wait on God’s timing is an avenue to be distanced from God’s planning for a life of abundance.
Praying is waiting before God. Praying is prevailing in this wicked world.
Truly, there is nothing like giving self to prayer by waiting on God’s appointed time. It is not too late to give up on waiting for God’s divine visitation. In this month, continual wait by knowing that praying the word of God is prevailing in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of enablement to be living as a worship-full believer and not be a worry-full believer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Praying the word of God is prevailing in this continual wicked world.   

Acts 12:1-19

Apostle Paul stated, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4) Truly, there is nothing like giving self to prayer and to the ministry of the word of God. Daniel gave himself to prayer as a vivid prayer. Daniel’s wicked world served him as dinner for hungry lions, but lost appetite became the portion of hungry lions. Daniel survived from hungry Lion’s den with no single scratch.
Praying the word of God is prevailing in this continual wicked world. Daniel prayed in the face of his wicked world as it is written, “…in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” (Daniel 6:10) A vivid praying believer’s character is giving self to praying before God.
A vivid praying believer are ones that will ask, see and know to receive from God.
God was set to take the children of Israel to the Promised Land while the Wall of Jericho took a stand to deny the Israelites’ passage. It is written, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.” (Joshua 6:1-2) God commanded Joshua to see victory when victory was yet in place. Joshua’s encounter demonstrated the need to give self to praying and be able to see, know and to receive what God has put in place for break through.
Giving to constant prayer by church, before God is a prevailing church. The Bible recorded in Acts 12:1-2, “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” The hand of Herod which went out against James, took the life of James. It was the same hand that was raised in direction of Peter with attempt to kill Peter, “So when he had arrested him, he put him in a prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.” (Acts 12:4) Herod had evil agenda for Peter.
Is there any evil agenda against your life or your church brethren? Peter was to experience evil agenda like one that took the life of James but, “…Constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.”  (Acts 12:5) Giving self to prayer is prevailing in this continual wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace and strength to increase in the altar of prayer.