FAITH CAPSULE: God’s increase in man’s life will entice the enemy’s attention.

Exodus 1

The Bible recorded after the death of Joseph, “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” (Exodus 1:8-10) Suddenly, the children of Israel became a threat to the new King of Egypt. God’s blessing of the children of Israel was the cause of fear for the Egyptian’s new king. God’s blessing was increasing the children of Israel while the enemy attempted to reduce them. Does this sound like your situation? God’s increase in man’s life will entice the enemy’s attention to terminate man. God’s over man’s life will increase the attempt of enemy to reduce man. God’s increase of the growth of the children of Israel gave the Egyptians attention with wicked agenda as recorded in Exodus 1:13-14, “the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. God is never asleep nor slumber caring for His children. God is a God that waits to act for His children that wait on Him. God will act to deliver man that waits for God. When God blesses, He add no sorrow. (Proverbs 10:22) God moved concerning the children of Israel when He heard their cry.
Despite the crying out of the Israelites, the new king of Egypt did not stop at making life miserable for the children of Israel. King went further and made command to kill every newborn son of the children of Israel. If you will let the enemy have its way in your life, he will not let go but will go beyond making you miserable with attempt to kill and destroy. Pharaoh meant evil agenda in his attempt to terminate the children of Israel because of their growth but power belongs to God for the deliverance of the Israelites from the power of Pharaoh.
Have you specifically asked God concerning all that is causing you pain? With God, it is never too much or too late to cry out to God for deliverance. Count on God not on man as the word encouraged, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” (Mark 10:27)  Are you willing to see God terminate every Pharaoh that is hunting your life? The Israelites came out of the bondage of over four hundred years in the hand of Pharaoh of Egypt; the mark of pain remained over the land of Egypt.

Prayer for today: Asking from God that every agent of the wicked in your life shall encounter God’s permanent termination.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is truly mindful of man but man is mindful of the world.

Psalm 8, Habakkuk 3

Perfect God is described, “O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds His chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind, who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.” (Psalm 104:1-4) What is it that is not true about God? Absolutely, nothing is false about God’s description. He cannot fail but His creation is not true to His truthfulness. Above all, God is so mindful for ones that are not sober.
God is forever true. God is truly mindful of man but man is mindful of the world. Psalmist questioned about God’s mindful for man, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.” (Psalm 8:3-6)
Man is not sober enough to know the mindful of God for man. By virtue of His mindful, He created man with dominion over the works of His hand. Man is not sober enough to get understanding but maintains worry. Habakkuk was a man greatly troubled by what was happening. Justly like today, he saw that Judah had fallen and turned away from God to false gods and evil pursuits. Habakkuk was sober enough to ignore chaos in a time of horrible spiritual decline.
Regardless of the chaos of his time, he made a choice to enter into the joyful presence of the Lord with hymn of faith as stated, “Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls—Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.” (Habakkuk3:17-19) Habakkuk’s hymn of faith asked for “feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills”
There should be knowledge in place for man that if man does have dominion over deer, then the kind of feet to walk on high hills is more than in place for man to avoid victim chaos of today.

Prayer for today: Ask for the feet that will make you walk on you high hills.

FAITH CAPSULE: Today, many are claiming to be a believer but still conform to wickedness of today’s world.

Psalm 51:10, Romans 12:1-12,

How man keeps mind will testify to man’s conformity to the wickedness of the wicked world of today. The word of God admonished “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) Today, claiming to be a believer is not a license of escape from the wickedness of the world of today. Evil is the wickedness of today. As a believer that fears God do you embrace or despise evil? Proverbs 8:13 pointed out, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” Claiming to fear God and not despise wickedness makes a joke of acclaimed believer. Today, many are claiming to be a believer but still conform to wickedness of today’s world.
Do you conform (comply) with things of this wicked world? Paul the Apostle warned in Romans 12:2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God”. Conform is described as an action or behavior in correspondence with current customs, rules, or styles. The warning is for us not to conform to wickedness of this world.
The ruler of this world is the wicked one; the liar and the destroyer, the devil, the Satan himself. Satan is the serpent that engineered the falling of man when he led Adam and Eve into the disobedient. Adam and Eve conformed to the Satan when God kicked them out of the Garden of Eden. The same skill that the enemy used for the misplacement of Adam and Eve is still very much in operation today. Man that keeps heart diligent; man that does not comply with this wicked world is taking a position not to be a victim of this wicked world. Take to the word of God constantly, consistently and know that daily word of God is to meet the challenges of the day.
The mind of man is to be constantly renewed by the word of God in the wicked world otherwise wicked world will remove man from where the Lord wants man to be. Determination is not enough to withstand the wicked world but watching and praying is a way to withstand the wicked world. Why not turn to God and begin to pray the prayer of psalmist as stated, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) In this wicked world of today, do not be conformed to this world.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to conformed to this wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to the word of God which is the light to navigate this world of darkness.

Genesis 6

Wickedness of man is turning the earth darker. The wickedness of earth did not just start; the wickedness of earth has been in place since the bible days. God identified the wickedness of earth as stated in Genesis 6:5-6, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” Wickedness on earth is not reducing but it is increasing. By virtue of wickedness, the earth continues to get darker.
How are you engaging the earth where wickedness reigns while darkness did not reduce?
Are you experiencing challenges of darkness as you navigate your calling in this wicked world?
Why not wait on God rather than waste away? The world is getting darker and it only takes light to navigate darkness. The word of God reveals to us in John 1:1 “…light shines in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” In these days that the world is getting darker, why not engage light that shines in darkness and worry? Worrying is a possible avenue to sickness as a result, give light a chance in your life. The light that is needed is the word of God. Psalm 119:130 confirmed word as the light, “The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
Are you sick and tired of all that is going on around this wicked world?
If you are sick of this wicked world, it is worth to begin to seek Him who has the power to take away and add all that will make the difference in your world. The word of God encouraged in Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is more than mouth claiming to be a believer or church goer. What makes the difference in this wicked world is seeking Him indeed and in truth. To be able to seek, there has to be a desire to seek God. Desire and seeking God can be compared to engine and motor. Desire is the engine while seeking is the motor. The Psalmist buttressed, “One thing I have desired of the LORD that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4) In this wicked world, desire and seek God so as to resume motion for transformation in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for His grace to give self to the word of God which is the light to navigate this world of darkness.

FAITH CAPSULE: Manifestly, fleeing from the presence of God is to be presentable for the adversary of man.

Jonah 1

The word of God is alive, it is not letter. A failure to obey the word of God is making a choice that is opposite of living life. A failure is self-created of self-destruction. When Jonah failed to obey the word of God, he faced his own self-created self-destruction. Without doubt, the word of God is God. Hearing and listening to the word of God is to obey the word of God so as to assess the presence of God.
The Bible recorded in Jonah 1:1, “Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” God called on Jonah but he failed to move in response to God’s calling. Jonah’s disobedience to the word of God was described as Jonah’s departure from the presence of God as stated “…Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.” (Jonah 1:3)
Manifestly, fleeing from the presence of God is to be presentable for the adversary of man. As a result of Jonah’s disobedience, the vehicle of transportation encountered a mighty tempest on the sea. Jonah’s disobedience set the passengers up for destruction. Jonah was approached as a result to the trouble on the storm. Despite Jonah’s disobedience he went further and claimed in Jonah 1:9, “So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” Imagine a man that knows the word of God disobeying God’s word and standing on the same ground claiming the fear of God in his life? At every time that you hear God’s command and you move in opposite direction of God’s command, you are heading in the direction of self-created self-destruction. Jonah was heading in the direction of self-destruction. God is the only creator of man, the commander with expectation to be obeyed. God expects our obedience and none to be disobeyed. Obeying nine out of ten God’s command the same failure as in obeying one out of ten. Despite Jonah’s claim of the fear of God, he was still in the journey of disobedience.
Are you a present day Jonah? Are you a conscious obedience or disobedience of the word of God? Disobeying the word of God is building up a self-destruction. Obeying every living word of God is walking on a ground that does not disappointment obedient children of God. In the life of journey, obey the word of God to avoid self-destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of obedience to the living word of God.