FAITH CAPSULE: what are you giving back to God?

Genesis 22

God the perfect creator is a true giver. King David’s testimony of God as a true giver stated, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm 8:4) By virtue of David testimony, evidently, God loves us. In God’s love is God’s giving to man. God gave us is beloved One for our salvation stating, “And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”” (Matthew 3:17) In other places, Jesus, the beloved is identified as the gift of God. Romans 5:18, recorded, “…even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.” Jesus is the indescribable gift of God to man.
To God the good giver, what are you giving back to God?
What is it that you are set to get rid but turn to as gift for God? It can be a wrong gift! God deserves our best as gift and giving self to God for His glory is a worthy gift. Think of it, can a door be opened with a finger? When a man is giving gift to God with one finger instead of a whole hand (whole heart) the chances to an open door is limited. Giving gift to God with a finger is like giving without the whole heart. God is the giver of all and He alone can take all away. It is more than worthy to always give back to God with all heart. Man must understand and know to always give to God in His name and not in any man’s name.  Are you giving back to God by mouth or giving to Him by Heart? Answer to the question will no doubt determine believer’s journey on earth. Abraham’s gave to God with his whole heart which is the evidence of his love for God.
God called Abraham to deliver a sacrificial offering, “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:1-2) Without hesitation, Abraham delivered his offering to God. Abraham’s obedience allowed Abraham to have an open door of communication from above.
Offering delivered gift without hesitation is the evidence of cheerful giving to God.
In all your giving, give back to God cheerfully.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of giving cheerfully in all of your giving.

FAITH CAPSULE: When God remembers, He also rescues.

Psalm 34

God alone but not man is in position to deliver man in all challenges. Regardless of world challenges or affliction it is worthy to give self to trust and hope in God. Psalm 34:19 encouraged, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Indeed, with trust and hope in God, captivity will not captivate man. Jehoiachin had been in captivity for thirty-seven years when God raised his head and brought him out of captivity. “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.” (Jeremiah 52:31) God used Evil-Merodach, the king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift up the head of Jehoiachin. It is man that God will empower to carry out His deliverance agenda in man’s challenges. Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. When God remembers, He also rescues. Having used Evil-Merodach to rescue Jehoiachin, God in His awesome power changed the garment of Jehoiachin from garment of prison to garment of God’s preserved. From being fed with prison food he began to be eating regularly before the king all days of his life. God is true to perform and He performs to perfect.
There is nothing which God is incapable of doing and His capability has no measure. It is the same God that visited Daniel in the den of hungry lions. The same God delivered Peter from the sudden death of Herod. God’s divine intervention broke the chain of prison over the life of Paul and Silas. Are you waiting on God by praying with understand? Concerning your challenge, it is not time to stop waiting on God prayerfully. God is a prayer-answering God. With understanding, know and make it a note in your heart that the One and only capable God brought out the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years is more than able to silent your challenges. God is perfect to perform miracle in the place of mockery.
There is none like God, He makes a way where there is no way and He alone reverse the irreversible. God’s name is not share-able by any god. Hallow Him, adore Him as the King of kings; the Lord of lords. King David testified, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10)
Prayer for today: Ask God for His divine intervention in all areas of challenges.

FAITH CAPSULE: Evil can delay man but cannot deny God’s creation.

Genesis 31

God is the Almighty Creator. God alone is the perfect creator. God created man to call man for His purpose. Man must know to live life as one that is called by God. However, God is not a slave master but a saving master and that is the reason why man must live life for God. Know it that man will get to God’s calling divine center regardless of evil agenda to deny man. Evil can delay man but cannot deny man. Today, man should know God for His promise that, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” (1Thesalonia 5:24)
All power belongs unto God and there is no other that is capable of hurting any God’s divine assignment in man’s life. It was God that called Jacob to return and Laban was not in position nor possess any power that was capable to deny God. Laban was not in God’s position as a result he was powerless.
God created man to live for God’s glory but not to live for evil’s glory. Jacob lived life for God as God’s own creation.  Jacob made the choice not to inform nor bid farewell to Laban the Syrian when God called him to return. It is written, “Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”” (Genesis 31:3) Evidently, God called for Jacob’s return but then, the relationship between both Jacob and Laban was no longer favorable. After Jacob had left, Laban went after him with bad intentions because Rachel stole Laban’s household idol. With all his bad intentions, God appeared to him in a dream and cautioned him to be careful in his dealing with Jacob. As a result, when he caught up with Jacob, he stated, “It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’” (Genesis 31:29)
Concerning your life, evil minded man is powerless but God is powerful. Have you been called out by God? Is your move in response to the calling of God? Do not move on your own understanding. In every calling of God, let your move be based on trust and hope in the Lord with all your heart; avoid leaning on your own understanding; be conscious of His presence; let no wrong assumption take charge of your ways and know it that God will permit no man to deny God’s agenda over your life. God is not a man that He should falter because He is faithfully capable to accomplish His word.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: See in the wonders of God in the word of God and you will do exploit to God’s glory.

Numbers 14

Are you counting or are you complaining? Counting blessings is praising Him for what He has done to provoke more of His doing. Complaining will complicate man’s journey.  Regardless of what your challenges are, it is important to see it in the word of God that the Lord is more than able to see you through. Power belong to God; the word of God is power of wonder. Psalm 114:8 buttressed, “Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob, Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.” Begin to see it that the One who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters is more than able to turn around your story above and beyond your expectation. See it that God does not slumber nor sleep but He is awake and mindful of you in your challenging situation. It is important to know for sure that complaining does not settle well before God. Complaining is sin and God will not overlook sin. God did not overlook the complaint of the children of Israel against Him. Assuredly, your complaint against God shall get His attention. The Israelites complaint turned the journey of eleven days to the journey of forty years. The Israelites complaint caused them to wander in the   wilderness when they supposed to be a wonder to their world.
If you will see the wonders of God in the word of God you will do exploit to God’s glory. The time of the year is not evidence that God’s visitation for your breakthrough has expired. Are you or are you beginning to be complaining in any way you have engaged in your journey of life? The Israelites took to the way of wilderness which supposed to be a passage for passing through but they ended up living their life in the wilderness. The complaining of the generation that came out of Egypt caused them to live, to wandered and died in their wilderness journey. Have you seen any of His acts in your life? The book of Numbers 14:22-23 documented, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.” It is worthy to stop complaint and start counting God’s blessing by identifying each of His blessings. See what God has done and it will enable you to see through and know that God is a wonder working God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from engaging complaint before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Obeying promises in the word of God is opening self to claim and possess the promises of God.

Deuteronomy 1

In the pages of bible, promises of God are not closed for man that will open self and to expose self to claim the promises of God. Obeying the promises in the word of God is opening self to claim and possess the promises of God. It is interesting how God’s promises for His children in the pages of the bible are well laid while man languish and not able to see and possess God’s promises. For example, God promised the Israelites a land that flows with milk and honey (Promised Land). At a point in time, during their journey from the bondage of over four hundred years they made the choice to dwell too long at Horeb. For man, dwelling too long against the promise of God is taking self-closed from God’s promises to be opened for self-destruction.
As a result of the Israelite dwelling too long, God 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)
In the word of God, there was a need for the Israelites to see in the promise of God that the Promised Land was set for them. 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 land by seeing the world around them before seeing and engaging the word of God. It was a demonstration that they wanted to make sure God knows what God was talking about when God 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 possessing His promise. Month after months are you dwelling wrongly at wrong ground. Could it be you are not able to see in the promises of God for you? It is time to ask for clarity of sight that you may see in God’s word and be able to move and possess God’s promise.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to become open to possess God’s promise for your life.