FAITH CAPSULE: Your new month or season is your new relocation by the mercy of God.

Genesis 19

It is written, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! For His merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord endures forever.” (Psalm 117) Mercy of God was in place for Lot and his family but Lot’s wife failed to see the mercy of God in her relocation. As an acclaimed believer, do you see God in your relocation? Mercy of God has relocated you into your new season or a new month. Your new month is moving you forward.
A failure to see that God is moving you forward is the passage to self-destruction. Think of it and know that challenges you have carried through the past month into new month shall not be permanent. Believe it, confess it and know that, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19) Your new month shall not run out without your God’s visitation for your deliverance in Jesus name. Regardless of any provoking challenge in your new month, refreshing hand of God shall answer upon your life fully. In this new month, your relocation, you are to burst out with constant thanks giving to God. Know it that all things work together for good when giving thanks for all things are in place in man’s life. Embrace where you are with thanks giving to God and allow the past to be in the past. Glorify God so that He may be glorified in the life He has given you. Having life today is not because of merit but because of His mercy. Having life today is not a right but because of the privilege of God.
Those who live by faith will see in faith and move by faith knowing that the truth of the Lord endures forever. The truth of God is in His word. He gave His word to warn Lot stating, “…Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17)
An escape from self-destruction demands setting sight on the Unchanging changer, the Commander of commands. The word of God was too difficult for Lot’s wife to obey because she could not look away from her past, her comfort zone. The Bible recorded that Lot’s wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) Could it be that your relocation is God’s way of repositioning you for better? What is it in your past that cannot be forgotten and is causing you not to see God ordering your step? Looking back is an evidence of worry instead of glorifying God. God is moving you forward, relocating you in a new month. God’s deliverance and His preservation will answer for you as your portion in Jesus name.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take over your days and your moments for His name to be glorified over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Engage the way of everlasting, disengage from the way of eternal damnation.

Psalm 139

It is written, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” (Psalm 90:2) “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.” (Psalm 145:13) “How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.” (Daniel 4:3) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
Why not meditate the verses above and take to the way of God?
There is a way of everlasting and there is a way of eternal damnation. It is clear through the word of God that no man can take to both ways at the same time. Both ways are engage-able by man’s choice. Which one of the two ways are you taking in your journey of life? The way everlasting is to God just as the way to eternal damnation is to devil. All the above scriptural verses testified where God is. The place of God is in place for obedient ones to God. Today, make the right choice. Engage the way of everlasting, disengage from the way of eternal damnation.
Wicked ones are set for eternal damnation.
Wickedness operates from the heart. Jeremiah testified, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) Deception; lying; manipulation are the identities of wicked ones that is set on eternal damnation. Are you keeping your heart to avoid missing everlasting? Ending up in eternal damnation is not a right choice? The word of God pointed out avoidance of eternal damnation stating, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Eternal damnation must be a “no-go” place. The psalmist wanted to make sure that the way of eternal damnation is not his portion when he spoke, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
This day, get the understanding to know that people of God become destroyed for lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6) The way of the wicked; the way to eternal damnation is the evidence of lack of knowledge. It is clear in the word of God that knowing about the word of God and not do the evidence of not knowing the word of God. The word of God that is near your mouth but far from your heart is your identity as the wicked one. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) Clearly from across the pages of the bible, wicked ones are set on the way of eternal damnation. Make the right choice in God and become vessel that is set for everlasting. God cannot be deceived, decide right by taking to the route which lead to God’s presence.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to gain and be retained in the route of everlasting.

FAITH PRESCRIPTION: Give your prison situation up to God in the name of Jesus.

Mathew 11

Prison does not only have be a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction. A prison can be living in a situation that have placed man in self-confinement. With any form of confinement resulting from life situation, doubt will rise in man’s life. With doubt fear will cause faith to doubt. Does it sound like your situation? Trust and hope in God for a miracle intervention and know it that the hand of God is not short to bring you out of confinement or out of any situation. God will make a way for His glory over your life situation. Give your prison situation up to God in the name of Jesus. Doubt or fear is agent of the devil and will not announce before it strikes any man’s life.
Imagine, John the Baptist doubted Jesus. It is written, “And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” (Matthew 11:2-3) Is there any representative of prison in your life that is causing doubt of what Jesus can do? John the Baptist, while spending time in prison doubted Jesus. Imagine, it was John that baptized Jesus. It is written, “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him” (Matthew 3:13) John the Baptist bears witness of Jesus, “…Behold The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.”’ (John 1:29-30) John also exalted Jesus when he stated that, “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.” (John 3:31)
Despite all which John the Baptist knew about Jesus, when he was in the prison of his life, he doubted Jesus. Imagine John the Baptist wanted to know what he already knew. Remember you have heard it all and you have seen it all about Jesus. Today, if you will hold on to all that you have known you will depart from doubt into faith to deny fear. Jesus’ response to John’s doubt speaks to all with doubts, “…Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Mathew 11:4-6) Where there is doubt faith tends to drown. Hebrew 11:6 recorded, “…But without faith it is impossible to please Him…” With faith, declare to your situation that Jesus is Lord and there is nothing He cannot do.

Prayer for today: Ask for grace of God to deliver and keep you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: In all walks of life, there is no excuse that is excuse-able before God.

Genesis 3

Despising the word of God is dishonoring God which is the lack of fear of God. The book of Proverbs 13:13 cautions, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Are you despising the word of God which is the lack of fear of God?
Foolishness is the identity of lack of the fear God.
The Psalmist stated it, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” They are corrupt, they have done more abominable work, there is none who does good.” (Psalm 14:1) Man’s foolishness is in the heart while demonstration is the act of no fear for God.
David had no room in his heart for foolishness but full of fear for God. The fear of God in David’s heart restrained his act by not killing King Saul the king of God’s people.
David’s way of life qualifies as a lesson to fear God. In Psalm 34, David spoke out, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” (Proverbs 34:11) Are you a true believer that listens to hear and be one with understanding of the fear of God?
David Psalm 34 taught four points to learn and know the fear of God as stated: Keep your tongue from evil, keep your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (Psalm 34:13-14) Bible is written for our learning. Man, that will learn from David’s word will no doubt but live life as a God-fearing man.
Adam and Eve had a better excuse by wanting to be excused by God for their disobedience to the word of God. Adam and Eve’s excuse was not excusable before God. Adam and Eve ate from the tree which God gave command not to eat. God approached Adam asking, “…Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11) Adam responded to God with man’s best excuse which was the worst inexcusable then and till today. Adam gave excuse stating, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12) Are you excusing your disobedience before God or are you repenting before God for your forgiveness? Disobeying the word of God is despising the word of God. Disobeying God is foolishness. Foolishness is a conscious or unconscious of saying there is no God. How can we not obey the One that created us? How can we look around and not look up to see sky among His creation and not know that indeed God is near? Psalm 75:1 buttressed, “…For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” With God, no excuse is excusable when God disobeyed. To fear God is for our own good because it keeps us not to depart from God. When we can obey fully by fearing God, He will preserve us fully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your heart obeying according to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Your action is your conduct that is measured by God.

Genesis 6, 7

As an acclaimed believer, your act is your action. As an acclaimed believer, how are you conducting yourself knowing that it counts before God? Do you not know that, “…for the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” (1Samuel 2:3) Every conduct of a believer counts and how it counts will determine how you relate to God. Apostle Paul spoke, “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” Christianity is not to impress man but to press forward for the Kingdom of God; to press forward and not to be cut off in God’s divine agenda in the life of man. Apostle Paul warned, “…let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ…”
There is a command to stand fast in the spirit. Those who stand fast in the spirit are the ones that cue themselves in the command of God. Why not stand fast in the word of God? Taking a cue in the word of God will make one a commander in this world. Your action is the testimony of how you stand in the Lord. If your action is worthy of Christ, you will be steadfast in Him. Your action is your evangelism to unbelievers of God that in your vicinity. Act right as a believer that lives in the word of God.  As the year goes by, let the word of God be your commander and let it take a charge of your heart.
Conduct is a personal behavior and it catches God’s attention. The word of God testified about Noah stating, “…Noah did according to all that God commanded him…” (Genesis 6:22) Noah conducted himself in line with God’s command and destruction could not locate him. Conducting oneself in God’s word is living in obedience to God. Apostle Paul was asking for a conduct that binds believers together for the advancement for the faith of the gospel. Can you identify the differences in your action? Have you heard people say to you that you are the Bible that they are reading? Christianity is a way of life. God cannot be deceived, let not your conduct be of deception. Whatever your conduct is behind closed doors should not be an embarrassing issue when it is conducted in the open. Have you been playing religion? Ones that are playing or acting religion will only last for a while before the truth prevails. Do not be overtaken by sin because God will not overlook sin. It is about time for self-examination and sincerity before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to constantly act right.