FAITH CAPSULE: God is still in position to be extending hand of deliverance from destruction.

Genesis 19

At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah because of wickedness, two angels came to the land. Lot saw the angels and decided to host the angels overnight. As a result of hosting the angels, he struggled with the wicked ones of the land that wanted to know the angels carnally. Wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah persisted to break into Lot’s house as Lot resisted the wicked. The angels decided to pull Lot into the house from the hands of the wicked ones. The bible recorded scene between Lot, the wicked ones and the two angels, “And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.  But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.” (Genesis 19:9-11) This year, pray that the hand of God will be in position to be pulling you into safety from every land that is marked for destruction. God is still in position to be extending hand of deliverance from destruction.
As Lot was pulled to safety from destruction by the angels, he was also delivered by the angels from lingering so as not to become a victim of destruction. Genesis 19:15-16 stated, “When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”  And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Ask God for His mercy to be pulling you and to be bringing you out where lingering is set to hold man down for inevitable destruction. This year, plead for God’s consistent mercy to deliver you from every of your inconsistency before God. God is a living God; a merciful God and the hand of God is not too short to deliver. Ask for the same hand that delivered the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt. The agents of wickedness against the life of Lot became blinded. Blindness is what will make wicked agency become weary and unable to locate you. God’s hand answered for Lot and He will answer on your behalf. Devote to your desire and God will deposit your desire.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the hand of God to have His upon you as your director in this wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: This season, shut self in the word of God; shut out the world.

2 Kings 4:1-7, Psalm 107

Elisha, the prophet of God, gave word to a certain woman with debt and full of lack by stating, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; do not gather just a few. And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.” (2 Kings 4: 3-4)  By the word of God’s prophet the certain woman was to go and borrow empty vessels. Borrowing more vessels by the certain woman was to add more to her debt. Realistically, the word of God’s prophet does not sound reasonable and convincing in the ear of the woman and to the world of then and the world of today.
However, the woman obeyed the word of prophet as she went and did according to the word of God’s prophet. The certain woman did exactly by shutting her door to keep out the world. The word of God from the prophet of God will always terminate struggle when we do accordingly to the word. Applying our daily lives in the word from God by shutting out the world around us will make us victory. Indeed and in truth it is not possible for us to open up to the world while at the same time open up to the word of God.
In the face of challenges, engaging word from God to shut self in the word of God is shutting out the world around us out. In this new season, shut self in the word of God and be a living testimony of victory in every area of challenges.
The woman’s lack was turned into abundance as she shut out the world around her. This season, shut self in the word of God; shut out the world. Victory, deliverance and preservation should answer for man that shut self in the word of God. The certain woman did according to the prophet of God’s word and reported to the prophet as recorded, “Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.” (2 Kings 4:7)
Are you going to be available for the word of God in this season?
Taking to the word of God is shutting self in the word of God that is sent by God to deliver us from destruction. (Psalm 107:20) This season, come out of religion by knowing about God but get to know God.

Prayer for today: With the grace of listening and hearing, ask God to give you a word that will terminate your lack. Ask for the grace to know God and be shutting self into the word of God and shut out the world.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God is not shortened to extend deliverance miracle.

Matthew 14:22-36

The Gift of God is here not that He is coming. Jesus, the gift of God for man testified, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus is here to give life abundantly are you doubting His word? It is doubt that denies man from taking the Gift of God for man. With doubt trouble treats man. Jesus said, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? (Luke 24:38) With doubt, believe of man becomes shattered in the heart. Jesus encouraged us “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. (John 14:1)
Faith is what pleases God. Faith is also a key to ask and receive from God. Are you a believer with faith? Most times when believers operate faith like a floating balloon, it is doubt that can deflate balloon and cause it grounded. The word of God demands faith with no doubt. James 1:6 bolstered us against doubt stating, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”
Once, disciples of Jesus were on a journey on the water ahead of Jesus. While the disciples were in the middle of the journey on the sea, the boat experienced waves. Jesus could not abandon His disciples when He walked on the waves of the water. Peter saw Jesus walking on the water and asked from Jesus for him to walk like Jesus on the water. Jesus called Peter to walk as the story of Peter changed because of faith. The bible recorded, “So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.  But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:29-30) Jesus was not a stranger to Jesus’ miracles but Peter became an estranged disciple of Jesus to miracles of Jesus. Man should not believe in God and operate doubt at all time. Peter’s challenge was none other challenge than allowing doubt in the place of faith. Just as Peter was sinking instead of walking on his troubled water, Jesus reacted as it is written, “And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.” (Matthew 14:31-32)
Without doubt, it was doubt of Peter that caused his faith to sink in the troubled water of Peter.
Are you experiencing or seeing troubled water ahead of your journey? It is important to see that the hand of God is not shortened to extend deliverance miracle.

Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance from the spirit of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know and be able to seek for God’s mercy.

Psalm 25

Mercy is attainable from God when we beg Him for it
Job was a man testified of by God as one who there is none like on the earth; a blameless and upright man; one who fears God and shuns evil (Job 1:9). It was this same man with such a testimony by God that found himself in a position of begging God for mercy when he stated, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). Job’s merit before God was not automatic in obtaining God’s mercy. Job was in a needy situation with no choice to beg God for mercy. Begging for mercy is same as asking for mercy. The Psalmist stated, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). Mercy of God is obtainable when we ask according to the Word of God which commanded us to ask, seek and knock.
Mercy is attainable when we ask God for forgiveness
Word of God makes us to realize that every time a call on God to forgive is rendered mercy will respond on behalf of the one calling and asking for forgiveness. It is written, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5). God is good and merciful; there is no iota of evil when He is responding to His children that ask for His forgiveness. Asking for forgiveness is a very sure way of obtaining mercy as it is obvious all through the pages of the Bible. It is written, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confess and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). Mercy of God is all that it takes for man to live life to the glory of God.
Mercy is attainable when we devise good
Anyone that devises evil gets evil in return while ones that devises good gets good in return. Once Haman devised evil against the Jews but Esther, while responding to Mordecai’s guidance, got to the ground where she could counteract the devised evil of Haman. The Bible stated, “Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.” (Esther 8:3) Esther’s devised good and mercy answered on behalf of all her people (Jews). The Word of God is true as stated in Proverbs 14:22, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. With the understanding of the truth in the Word of God that mercy is obtainable from the throne of grace, it is worthy to actually know and be able to seek for God’s mercy so that the mercy of God will reign and rule in one’s life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to walk worth for His mercy.

FAITH CAPSULE: In the coming days, weeks, months, with understanding get to know what it takes to be obtaining mercy of God.

Genesis 39

Mercy belongs to no man but to God that gives mercy. Mercy is God’s compassionate or kind forbearance that never runs out. Mercy of God is constantly in place to answer for God’s creation as He (God) chooses. The mercy of God, not our merit, is the reason God answers. God cannot be intimidated or manipulated for the release of His mercy by any of His creation. With God’s mercy in place for His creation, nothing under heaven is powerful enough to displace man from overcoming the challenges of the world.
Despite of Pharaoh’s stone of heart, it was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years and the bible recorded it, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) In the coming days, weeks, months, with understanding get to know what it takes to be obtaining mercy of God.
Among the many ways of provoking God to obtain His mercy are:
Mercy is attainable when our life aligns with the word of God
Every time our lives line up with the Word of God, He will always be with us. Joseph’s life is an evidence of one that constantly lined up his walk with the Word of God. Every time there was an incident that could tempt him to violate the Word of God, he did not because his life was lined up with the Word of God.  In one instance, he could have accepted but he denied the offer to sleep with his master’s wife by claiming, “…How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9)  So he fled from her offer. It can be concluded that Joseph’s acknowledgment of his God was enough for God to be provoked, extending His mercy to Joseph. The Word went further to declare, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21) When we live our lives in line with the word of God, God’s mercy becomes undeniably obtainable.
Mercy is attainable when we love God
Do you know what it means to love God? Many, who demonstrated their love for God, were able to obtain God’s mercy. The Bible recorded what it means to love God when Jesus stated, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15). Joseph is also a good example of someone that kept God’s commandment forbidding adultery. Joseph’s fleeing from sleeping with his master’s wife was because of his love for His God.
Going to church is not possibility of obtaining the mercy of God; running around to give or receive gift in the season of the celebration of Jesus Christ is not the way to be obtaining the mercy of God. Align your life with the word of God; love God and mercy shall always answer as your portion.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to live life outside of His mercy.