FAITH CAPSULE: In living life, are you in any position of lameness stagnation?

Acts 3

Stagnation is rooted in lameness. In the journey of life where stagnation persists, delay and denial will disrupt getting to the expected end. Lameness in life can be a position or a condition where no man desires to be. It is absolutely certain that no man would love to be in a position of lameness concerning any issue of life. Peter and John operated as agent that delivered a lameness man with stagnation. The Bible recorded, “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.” (Acts 3:1-2)
Are you experiencing physical or spiritual lameness?
Are you in position of financial lameness and stagnation?
The lame was stagnated outside of temple while inside of the temple was a place of healing. The lame man had been in that situation since birth. Lameness and stagnation often reduce what man does not want to be.
Are you one with experience of lame but yet not know?
Many have been lame ever since the time of mother’s womb and could be of generational curse.
Are you having a “lame” experience in any area of your life?
Are you at the right location and at the right time to receive your deliverance?
If you can identify your location and time then your situation is half-solved. The lame man was at the gate of the temple at the hour of prayer. When he saw Peter and John, he asked for alms, but being the hour of prayer; Peter and John had more to offer him. Bible recorded, “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.” (Acts 3:4-5) In time of your consciousness or unconsciousness lameness, you have been inside but not outside the temple but yet no deliverance healing for you. If you will begin to come with attention for expecting manifestation, your story will be changed. Lame man received healing.
Peter testified the deliverance healing of the lame man in Acts 3:16, “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Regardless of your lameness stagnation, if you will give attention with expectation, then the faith which comes through Him will deliver your lameness stagnation.

Prayer for today: Ask God, to reverse irreversible of lameness stagnation in every area of your life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The knowledge to fear God comes from learning in the word of God.

2 Kings 23

In the world today, man is full of himself while God is empty in man. The empty of God in man is the evidence of lack of fear of God. Man no longer fears God with their heart but with the mouth.
The lack of fear of God is the evidence of misplacement of the word (command, law) of God and it is the automatic route into path of eternal damnation.
Without any compromise, the will of God for man is to fear God. There is no one that is born on earth with the knowledge to fear God. The knowledge to fear God comes from learning in the word of God. Just as the children of Israel were commanded to learn the fear of God, so it is meant for all man to learn the fear of God. Deuteronomy 31:12-13 buttressed the need to learn and fear God, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” In truth, where the book of law is lost learning will be abandoned and the people will forsake God. To Judah that was lost from the book of law, God promised to bring calamity on the land. Josiah was delivered from the consequence of being without the book of law because, his heart was tender, and he humbled himself before the Lord when he heard what was spoken against the land by God. (2 Kings 22:19)
The Law of God will cause tenderness of heart. With a tender heart there is a place for humility. Without humility obedience is not possible. The word recorded about Jesus, “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:8) Josiah was obedient to the word of God because of his tender heart.
The will of God is for man to fear Him.
Do you fear God indeed and in truth? Are you lost from the word of God? When the Israelites were lost from the Book of the Law they missed out of teaching to learn and fear God.
Man can be deceived but God cannot be deceived.
Fear God, “…seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul seek Him and you will found Him” (Deuteronomy 24:29)

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to impact you with fear of His name.

FAITH CAPSULE: Locate rest in the promise of God.

Hebrews 3

Our rest is in the promise of God not in the world’s solution.
Make the choice by engaging your rest solution in the presence of God. The presence of God is in the word of God. For example, the Israelites through their journey, in the wilderness, were led constantly by the presence of God. God’s presence was giving them direction and leadership through Moses which always resulted in rest when they obeyed and not disobeyed. All God did to lead was send His word through Moses and bible testified, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” (Psalm 103:7)
Without doubt, the presence of God is the word of God.
The word of God delivers. Wherever deliverance reigns, rest resides. Our days should be in the promise rest solution of the word not the wicked world solution.
Jesus alone is the rest solution for any one that will accept and allow the word to have its place in his/her life. Having rest is engaging the heart in the word of God by not engaging and maintaining a harden heart (turning against the word of God). The Psalmist talked about harden heart and Hebrews 3 also stated, “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter my rest. (Hebrews 3:7-11)
Harden heart to the word of God is a rebellious way.
Harden heart in times of wilderness situation often turn man from God
Harden heart is a way of testing and trying a proven God instead of taking a rest in God.
Hardness of heart is what leads man astray (way of destruction).
Hardened heart leads and place man in the wrath of God.
In the journey of life, hearing the word; having a receptive heart and not having a hardened heart gives promise rest of God to man.
Having rest in the promise of God is profitable if heart gives no room for hardness.
Hebrew 4:1-3 states, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.  For we who have believed do enter that rest…”
God cannot void His promise of rest for man that obeys instead of disobeying the word of God. As a believer, avoid all that makes man to become short of God’s promise of rest.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of heart that centered diligently on His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Honoring God will no doubt bring honor’s God to you.

Genesis 39, Daniel 6

Worshiping God is giving honor to God. Honoring God is not in quoting the word of God but living and behaving the word of God. God does not move by just the words of our mouth but by the actions behind His word in our mouth. Bible described God, “…For the LORD is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3) Worshiping God is our action that measures before God.
God is a faithful God and His word cannot be broken. God confirmed the validity of His word when He spoke, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11)
Do you know that honoring God will no doubt bring honor’s God to you?
Know that when you make a life style of honoring God is what will no doubt bring honor of God to you. Consciously or unconsciously, are you taking steps to honor God? Through the pages of scripture we are to learn and identify what it means to be honoring (be worshiping) God. Some men took deliberate steps to honor God in all ways of living life. God responded to men that honored Him with honor beyond their imagination. Among men that honored God and were highly lifted up by Gods honor were Daniel and Joseph.
Daniel knew the gravity of denying other gods to honor his God. Daniel was set by his enemies for not honoring gods but God as a result he went to his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem. Daniel knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. (Daniel 6:10) Daniel honored God and God honored him by shutting up the mouth of lion not to hurt Daniel.
Joseph had a good reason to despise God but he honored God. Joseph was in position to become the master of the house when his master’s wife persistently attempted to lie with him. The Bible recorded, “But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside.” (Genesis 39:11-12) Joseph dishonored the wife of his master to honor his God.
Make honoring God your life style like Joseph and Daniel and He will honor you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God upon your life and be a vessel of honor.

FAITH CAPSULE: Joy and rejoicing maintains the presence of God.

Psalm 16

Living life for the glory of God is the key to retain the presence of God. Living for the glory of God demands knowing and understanding God by His word. Will you engage or increase studying the word and not be skimming through the word.
Apostle Paul repeatedly used the word rejoice in his speech because he knew the effectiveness of the word as a source of revelation to living life to the glory of God. It is indeed to get the revelation of rejoice. The book of Philippians 4:4 stated, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”
Rejoice can also be defined as joy activated. Are you a man that possesses reason to be in joy but remains dormant? For example, one that accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior accepts the reason to having joy into one’s heart. The joy accepted is not written over the forehead of the one that accepts Jesus. The only way the joy can be evident in the life of one that accepted Jesus is when joy is constantly activated by rejoicing. Again, the joy that is not activated by rejoicing is same as one lacking joy. When Angel Gabriel was sent by God to deliver the favorable news to Mary, the only way for Angel Gabriel to deliver the favorable news of joy was to first of all command Mary to rejoice. Luke 1:28, “And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” The news of joy will only settle when there is a place for rejoicing.
Think of it: when there is no water tank there will be no place to retain water for storage. This is same that Angel Gabriel made sure to deliver favorable news of joy where there was a place for rejoicing.
Very important, joy and rejoicing maintains the presence of God.
Psalmist buttressed, “…In Your presence is fullness of joy…” (Psalm 16:11) “Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” (Proverbs 8:30) God cannot be found in a joyless environment. Revelation about joy and rejoicing maintains a believer in the presence of God.
God attributes is visible around anyone that chooses to acknowledge His attributes. Psalmist described Him, “Good and upright is the Lord…” (Psalm 25:8) God is truly a good God that does no evil but good. With the understanding that He is a good God, living life should always be with rejoicing. Living life by rejoicing is demonstrating trust in God, knowing that He does no evil but good. Psalm 33:21 testifies, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.” Without doubt there is no way to gaining His presence without rejoicing.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to continually rejoice by praising God; by magnifying Him with thanks giving.