FAITH CAPSULE: Seeing in the word of God is to resume the purpose of His word.

Exodus 3

Evidently, it is not enough to hear the word of God and not see the picture in the word of God. God wants us to hear and see in His word in our direction. Have you been hearing the word of God and not see in the word of God? In the testimony of creation, “…God said, “let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good…” (Genesis 1:3-4) If God can see in His spoken word, He surly expects from us to see when He speaks to us. Until man can see in His living word one will not be able to engage God’s divine assignment for man. Jeremiah and Moses needed to see in the word of God. The word of God is not for decoration it is for declaration. Seeing in the word of God is to resume the purpose of His word in the life of all that hears His word.
In order for Jeremiah to resume his divine assignment there was a need for him to see in the word of God. The word recorded, “Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the Kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:9-10) The Lord put His word in Jeremiah’s mouth but Jeremiah needed an enablement to see what was put in His mouth for him to move in God’s purpose and plan for his life. We have the Word in our hand and we have it in our heart, but seeing it as power to bring about manifestation is what the Lord God is waiting for. Jeremiah had it in his mouth but needed to see the word.
Moses needed to see and move in the direction of God’s plan for His life. Until Moses was able to turn aside and see he could not engage God’s assignment for his life. Bible recorded, “Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:3-4) After Moses had turned and saw what was in place for him to move in the direction of God’s plan, the story of his life changed forever to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be seeing in the word of God that sounds in your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Always be thanking God with a heart full of joy in the face of adversity or challenge.

Psalm 16

Habakkuk 3:17 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.” Is your labor experiencing challenges like that of fig tree situation as stated above? The word of Habakkuk 3:17 is a challenging which no man wants to pass through. It is challenging like a place in the depth of a valley where there seems no way out and no end in sight. Most challenges keep man not to rise and climb out of the depth of valley. With true sense, no man wants to sow with no result of fruitless. Indeed, it is not pleasant to have no fruit where the vines should be bringing forth fruit as the crown of labor. In life, when hard labor seems to be producing a result like that of lack of labor it becomes evidence that challenging is beyond man’s comprehension. Habakkuk stated a way of addressing comprehensive challenge, “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” (Habakkuk 3:18) Without doubt, Joy and rejoicing is a way of gaining the presence God.
It is a heart of joy and rejoicing that give thanks to God regardless of comprehensive challenge. Word of God makes us to know that in the presence of God is the fullness of joy. (Psalm 16:11) Think of it, where do you want to be found in the time of challenge that is beyond your comprehension? Think of it, in this wicked world of today, man should know that in the presence of God is to engage the way for solution. God is true to deliver when man decide to trust and hope in the hand of God.
Jesus was in the midst of the family of Lazarus at a time of mourning for Lazarus’ untimely death. As the family and friends were wailing, crying, and gnashing of teeth, Jesus in their midst “… lifted up His eyes and said, “Father I thank You that you have heard Me.” (John 11:41)  Try thanking Him with a heart full of joy in the face of adversity or challenge, and then wait to see if God will act or not on your behalf. If you will receive all that the Lord has put down in the pages of scripture for our learning, all the miracles that were testified will not escape you. Try God and see that He alone is faithful and true to His word of deliverance and preservation. If man will trust and hope in Him, He will enable man to walk on high places.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of knowing to be thanking God in all.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is meant for man to feed on and not to be a victim of self-destruction.

Psalm 18

Man can fast by not eating bread for days but the word of God should not be put on fast under no circumstances. Word from the mouth of God is a live wire for man in this wicked of world. Jesus declared the importance of the word from the mouth of God, “But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4)
It is exceedingly important for man to settle it in the heart that the word of God is God Himself. Think of it, the word of God is His mark (signature), the mark of God only represents God. In life, hear the word that proceeds from the mouth of God to take a position in the presence of God as shield. The word of God that located Abram answered as shield for Abram as stated in Genesis 15:1, “After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” The word of God that came to Abram was God Himself. Psalm 18:30 buttressed, “The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.” The word of God is God, a proven shield and not any other God that shielded Abram.
The word of God that proceeds from the mouth of God is meant for man not to be a victim of self-destruction. God already sent His word as stated in Psalm 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” If we are more dependent on word from the mouth of God more than daily bread, living life should be better.
A believer that claims to be feeding on the word of God but yet with no evidence of ways of God, lack of understanding becomes the testimony of such believer. Jesus questioned and answered the issue of lack of understanding as stated, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”(John 8:43) According to the word of God, lack of understanding is the evidence of listening disability. Lack of understand as a result of listening disability leads to failure to feed on the word of God.
Jeremiah had understanding when he found the word of God. He testified, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.” (Jeremiah 15:16) Word of God is indeed the manual life for man that feeds on the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace that makes word of God become a personal priority to feed on.

FAITH CAPSULE: To ask or think in one’s conscious heart will get God’s attention.

Ephesians 3

Whatever is meditated in the heart is what we think in the heart.
What are you thinking in your heart?
A positive thinking breeds a positive manifestation while a negative thinking breeds negative manifestation. To be thinking or to think before God is also a way of meditating. To be thinking things demands one’s conscious mind to call and get God’s intervention.
By thinking things is a way of calling on God and get answers as God stated in His word, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” (Jeremiah 33:3) In the book of Zechariah 13:9 God also encouraged the need of thinking things as a way to call on Him as He stated, “They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” Truly, thinking about things in the heart will get God’s response as Isaiah 65:24 buttressed, “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.” Are you thinking things or meditating things consciously in the heart for God’s intervention or to lift the name of God?
The importance of things which man meditate or think about in one’s conscious heart (mind) will get God’s attention beyond man’s expectation. There is great grace to receive from God when thinking things occupies the heart of man as stated in the book of Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Evidently by the word of God, when asking or thinking things becomes a way of calling God for expectation, manifestation becomes exceedingly abundantly answers according to the power that works in man.
Do you have the power that works in man for manifestation exceedingly, abundantly through thinking? The power that works in us points out in Jesus’s question and answer in John 6:28-29, “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
According to the above scripture, the power of God that works in us is in believing in Him whom He sent. God said it that He sent His word to heal and deliver us from our destruction. (Psalm 107:20) The power of God is the word of God which is Jesus. Jesus Himself declared, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) With believe of word that works, ask or think with expectation from God to do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the heart to ask or think from Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Peter and John followed Jesus and carried His mark.

Acts 3

Signature of Jesus is His mark. His signature is over the life of man that truly follows Him. As an acclaimed believer of Jesus, do you carry the mark of Jesus or do you desire­­ to have His signature in your life? The sad thing is that many have followed Jesus; many are following Jesus without mark of Jesus in their life. Many are trapped following the signs of Jesus. Indeed, it is always the ones that carry His mark (signature) that will make a mark in this world of challenge.
The Bible recorded, “After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased.” (John 6:1-2) The bible identified that the great multitude followed Him because they saw signs which He performed. The multitude then and today only followed Jesus but do not carry the mark of Jesus. Carrying the mark of Jesus makes man to answer for Jesus as a salt and light of the earth. Jesus stated, “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. “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.” (Matthew 5:13-15)
True followers of Jesus are bound to be a light of this wicked world. Matthew 5:16 recorded the word of Jesus, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Peter and John followed Jesus and carried His mark. They were salt and light to live as solution to the needy of world. It was the mark of Jesus in the life of Peter and John that made a certain lame man from the womb received healing. At the gate of the temple called Beautiful, the lame was begging for alms when he paid attention to seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple. It is written, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”  So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”(Acts 3:4-6) The lame man got his healing.  As an acclaimed believer, carry Jesus’ mark and be a solution to your world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be a solution of your world.