FAITH CAPSULE: Engage His secret place as a dwelling place to be locating His visitation.

2 Kings 19

With prophesy or declaration over the new month as: “Month of God’s visitation”, man must gain and retain God’s location to avoid missing visitation God. Among location not to miss God’s visitation is dwelling in the secret place of God. What is it about dwelling in the secret place of God as the location not to miss His visitation?
For example, reading and not studying the word of God can be compared to going into the presence of God and coming out without spending reasonable time to gain from God. Studying and living life by the word of God is an evidence of dwelling in the secret place of God. The word of God is not just a story but in it are the secrets that keep one to dwell under shadow of the Almighty God. Psalm 91:1 stated, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Without any doubt, there is no other place where a believer should dwell and abide not to miss His visitation. The secret of God is in the word of God. Studying and learning to gain understand, knowing God in His word is having a place in the secret of God. Word of God, the secret of God is unfailing promise that is beyond any man’s imagination. Engage His secret place as a dwelling place to be locating His visitation.
In addition to be expecting and not to miss God’s visitation is to watch and pray. Word repeatedly admonished need to watch and pray. Temptation is one to draw man outside of God’s location for God’s visitation at God’s appointed time. Matthew 26:41 warned, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” It is important to watch and pray not to miss when God comes with visitation.
In time of challenge with the need for direction, waiting patiently must be in place not to miss out of God’s visitation for God’s direction. Documentation of Elijah’s need for direction in time of his challenge made him to take location of waiting on God’s visitation. For Elijah it is written, “Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, butthe Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” (2 Kings 19:11-13)
Taking location before God will allow not to miss His visitation.

Prayer for today: Ask God for grace to keep you in location not to miss His visitation.

FAITH CAPSULE: God will cause you to preside over your persecutors.

Jeremiah 52

What God said to one speaks to all. It is written, God spoke to Moses how to identify His name, “…The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.” (Exodus 3:15) There is none like God that makes a way where there is no way. God shares no name with no any other god. Whatever holds man down is not beyond of God’s deliverance. Regardless of how long you have been held down, God’s visitation shall deliver salvation. God is enthroned and sits as king forever.
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. God will use anyone to lift you from every challenge that is keeping your head down. 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 also made him to change the garment of Jehoiachin from that of a prisoner to that of one who eats regularly before the king all the days of his life. God is true to perform, and He performs with perfection.
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. God’s visitation caused the lions not to have appetite for fresh meat even though the lions were starving to have meat. Are you waiting on Him in prayer concerning a challenge that seems unmovable? Continually trust and hope in God by waiting on Him. Your time of concerning challenge is not the time to stop waiting in prayer but to top up your waiting in prayer to God. God is a prayer-answering God. Know it and make it a note in your heart, get the understanding that God who brought Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years will convert your challenge to a glorious change. God alone is Jehovah Sharma and He will hear to answer at the calling of His Name.
Stand in faith by calling on God’s forever name. With faith God is pleased, without faith God is not pleased. Proverbs 16:7 buttressed, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” With faith, please God to experience His visitation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to remember you and visit you with salvation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Moving forward through the year, trust and hope in God is your vehicle.

Genesis 31

This year, it is true that you have not been looking up to God continually but He has brought you this far. This new month, turn around to be looking up to God continually. God alone brought you this far and He will see you further. The psalmist testified, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:1-4) With understanding, man will know to engage God’s help which have been in place in place for man since God’s time of creation. God, is the true helper of man and truly he does not sleep nor slumber.
When God calls to move man, no challenge is able to deny God’s calling or moving man forward. In God’s calling to move man forward, mountain shall be removed for man’s passage. God alone will return you to the center of your divine assignment, He will permit no man to hurt you.
The story of Jacob’s return to his location was the unfailing calling of God. 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) Relationship between Jacob and Laban was no longer favorable at the time of God’s calling for Jacob. After Jacob had left, Laban went after him with bad intentions because Rachel stole Laban’s household idol. Laban’s bad intentions prompted God’s appearance to Laban in a dream which cautioned him to be careful in his dealing with Jacob. When Laban 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)
When God calls for you there will be no other power under heaven that can stand against you. All power belongs unto God. God alone but not man called you for turnaround into His divine purpose over your life. When God called Jacob to return, Laban was no longer in any power position to deny God. Concerning your life, man is powerless but God is powerful. In moving forward by the calling of God, trust and hope is your vehicle. In this season let your moving forward be with understanding and conscious of His presence. In moving, disallow wrong assumption but know it that God will permit no man to hurt you as you. God is not a man that He should falter; He is faithfully capable to accomplish His word.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of His strength in your going forward.

FAITH CAPSULE: Acclaimed believers are not hearing God’s calling but busy giving self to personal calling.

Matthew 5

Personalizing the written word of God means you will relate with God to answer His calling. It is written, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” (Matthew 5:13) The word of God speaks individually to man. The word calls man to answer as salt and be seasoning world but not to live as a “no good one that is place under foot of wicked world.” Are you answering His call upon your life? Matthew 5:14-16 is written as a calling for man, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Word of God speaks personally to man that listens to hear. Word of God is calling man as light but not comparing man to light. Are you living as light not as darkness? Have you taken a position outside of God’s calling? Man, that is true to God’s word; living as believer of God should take a position in God’s created world as light. Acclaimed believer is to answer His calling without hiding but terminating darkness. As a believer of God’s word, are you personalizing the word of God to hear His calling upon your life for His glory?
Acclaimed believers are not hearing God’s calling but busy giving self to personal calling. Believers are pleasing self but not pleasing God according to God’s calling. World is not experiencing light while darkness is covering the world. When God calls, He is able to back you and see you through. Did He call you? It is time to answer His calling by rising up and shine for God’s calling. Isaiah 60:1-2 warned with encouragement to answer God’s calling as stated, “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.” Think of it, there is nothing to live for but to live for God. The challenges of living for God are huge and it can be exhausting and painful. However, it is always gainful in every answering for God’s calling. God is faithful and if He calls you He will back you up when you chose not to back out of His calling.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take over your days and moment that you will live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: When seeking God does not have a place in the heart of man the heart of man becomes dull.

Genesis 18, 19

It is important to seek God for deliverance with a heart that is active but not dull. A dull heart can possibly the cause of taking God’s word for joke. Jeremiah 10:21 pointed out a dull heart experienced situation, “For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, and have not sought the LORD; therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.” When seeking God takes its place in the heart of man the heart of man should not be a dull heart. However, when seeking God does not have a place in the heart of man the heart of man becomes dull.
God spoke to Abraham, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” (Genesis 18:20-21) When God was set to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of sin He spoke to Abraham and Abraham took the word of God serious. Abraham demonstrated the evidence of active but not dull heart. By virtue of the fact that he took the word of God serious, he repeatedly interceded on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah but there was nothing in place for God not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. The purpose of God revealing His word to Abraham was for Lot to be delivered from destruction which was set for Sodom and Gomorrah.
The angels that were sent to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah approached Lot and said, “…Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place! For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” (Genesis 19:12-13) In life, how much one knows God (not knowing about Him) will also determine how serious one take to His word. Taking the word of God serious is not a heart of joke which is not active in response to God. Lot knew God enough not to take His word for a joke. Lot, not wanting his people to destruction, responded to the messengers of God, “So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.” (Genesis 19:14)
God is not a comedian. Every single word of God should not be taken for joke. A dull heart is not active to obey the word of God. There was no further indication that the sons-in-law followed Lot to the ground of escape from destruction. You can avoid destruction by taking to the word of God. The word of God is for deliverance and preservation from destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace for a heart that is active in responding to God’s command.