FAITH CAPSULE: Are you placing more focus on what you want more than how the Lord has been providing for your needs?

Exodus 16

It is written, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.” (Jeremiah 17:7) Trusting God without having hope in God shall result to no blessing. Trusting God and having hope in God makes man to rest on God and not be rebellious.  Many times the Israelites trust in God but no hope in God. The Israelites trust God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope in God meeting their needs.
Are you troubling to seek after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). Having faith is to trust and hope on what He has for us.
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping in God to meet their needs. Without trusting and hoping in God they resulted to complaint. The children of Israel’s remembrance of what they were eating in Egypt (fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic – Numbers 11:5) was a clear demonstration of the fact that their wants were overriding the Lord’s provision of their need for the journey.
Are you placing more focus on what you want more than how the Lord has been providing for your needs?
The children of Israel’s lack of want at hand turned them to a vessel of complain before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion.
Complaining is a destiny terminator and it denies getting to the Promised Land.
The Israelites craved for a pot of meat and bread. In God’s provision for them, God gave instruction to make them have enough according to their need stating, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.” (Exodus 16:16) Despite God’s instruction that was enough for meeting needs, some went above and beyond God’s instruction by taking more than needed. As a result of not following instruction, all the children who took more eventually lost all that was taken (Exodus 16:18-21). The children of Israel were lost in their desire for wants and they could not recognized needs provided by God. Trusting and hoping in God is enough to meet our needs. Be patient, look up to God and know that God’s provision is always on time to meet needs. Paul confirmed, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to deliver and preserve you from the spirit of complaining.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is good He wants you to move forward out of stagnation.

Deuteronomy 1:1-19

God is not a God of stagnation.
Are you experiencing any stagnation in the journey of weeks, days, or months?
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long and not recognize the fact that you are not moving forward?
God repeatedly bring His children out of stagnation despite His children are comfortable with stagnation.
Terah the father of Abram decided to move forward but yet stagnation later made up with him.
The word recorded, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. ³² So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32)
Terah’s destination was Canaan but Haran became his place of stagnation where he spent two hundred and five years before he died.
Are you on journey of stepping forward but not of stopover?
Terah’s stepping forward from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan became his stopover at Haran as his dwelling place. God who called you out of bondage or stagnation did not design your stopover as a dwelling place. God is a good God. It is time to search heart and step forward in God’s design for your life. Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the concerning stagnation of Israel from bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in plans of going forward?
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. Faith demands from the children of Israel to turn from where they might have been having comfort to where God committed to take them.
Faith demands from the Israelites not to make dwelling place at stop-over.
Faith also demands from us that we see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to move forward.

FAITH CAPSULE: Evidently, challenges will not change its way of knocking after a believer

2 Timothy 2

In the life of answering to the calling of God, challenges, hardship or afflictions cannot be ruled out not to experience. Challenges, afflictions and hardship are always birds of the same feather and they flock together in the name of trouble. Challenges, hardship and affliction are often found in association or cannot be separated from the calling of every servant of God. The bible makes us to realize in 2 Timothy 2:3-4, “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
As an acclaimed believer, is there any unexpected challenge or hardship in your path? Is it affliction knock on your path?
Can you consider self as a good soldier of Jesus Christ?
If yes, be assuredly confident that God never forsake His assigned soldier regardless of challenges, hardship or affliction. Psalmist admonished, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19) God never forsake His children.
Imagine Jeremiah, in the calling of his life God warned him, “They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.” (Jeremiah 1:19)
Do you wonder why God allowed Jeremiah to face any challenge while he is attending to God’s assignment? The great thing is that God is God and He will always have His way. God is able to deliver; God is the same God yesterday, today and forever.
Evidently, challenges will not change its way of knocking after a believer. As an army of God, hardship might raise its weapon and affliction will possibly try to take over in the calling, but the Lord God shall deliver His own out of them all.
Evidently, challenges will not change its way of knocking after a believer. As an army of God, hardship might raise its weapon and affliction will possibly try to take over in the calling, but the Lord God shall deliver His own out of them all. Being an acclaimed believer or a good soldier of Jesus, one should not go about looking for trouble where there is no representative of trouble. As acclaimed believer, as a good soldier of Jesus it is for you to know and be encouraged that whatever your challenge is today, God alone that is above all alone shall deliver you in all. Answering to the calling of God is not enough but fully completing God’s assignment is what counts. It is wisdom to know that answering is not a ticket not to experience challenges. God is able to deliver you out of all.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s enablement to endure challenges in the calling of calling.

FAITH CAPSULE: Does the word of God means to your navigation in the world of darkness?

Psalm 119:129-136, John 1:1-18

It is written, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” (John 1:1-5) Without doubt the Word of God is the life and the life was the light of men. The world is wickedly clouded with darkness and the only way to navigate to the expected end is to be filled with the Word of God.
The Word that was in the beginning with God is also the commandment and the law of God.
Does the word of God means to your navigation in the world of darkness?
The bible admonished the word, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105) For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life. (Proverbs 6:23)
The light that we all need is here and also speaks across the pages of the Bible for anyone that will hear. The light of God is needed in the world that is clouded by darkness. It is the light of God in man that gives direction and clarity that becomes man’s portion. With word in man there will be no falling for darkness. With word man shall be able to stand and not be a victim falling flat.
Are you allowing the Word of God and not the word of world in your life?
The word of the world is like striking a match which blows off at the slightest hiss of the wind.
The Word of God is a light that is untouchable by blows at the slightest hiss of the wind unlike word of world.
The Word of God in the life of man keeps man from becoming a victim of the love of wicked word.
Do you have a place for the Word of God to be a part in your life?
Jesus the word of God came to give life and to give it more abundantly. (John10:10)
Are you granting Him access into your life?
The Psalmist confirms the need for the word to enter stating, “The entrance of the word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130) How can the Word enter without spending time to study the Word? Allow the Word of God to accesses you and it will generate light to navigate the wicked darkness of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace that grants word to access your life for navigating through darkness world and not be a victim of wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Worshiping God is to be separated to God.

Genesis 12

The will of God for man is to serve God by worshiping God. Worshiping God is to be separated to God. The love of things of the world is a way not to worship God. However, he who does the will of God abides forever. The book of 1 John 2:15-17 buttressed, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
Worshiping God is separation unto God and it is an evidence of believing God. To be separated unto God is to find Him. Seeing God is impossible where one is surrounded by the filth of this wicked world. Seeking (worshiping) God demands all of our being and those that are able to seek Him diligently shall be rewarded because He is a rewarder of those who seek Him diligently. (Hebrews 11:6) Separation unto His command is always a high order of worship whenever man obediently becomes separated to the word of God.
Abraham separated as commanded by God when he answered to God’s calling to depart his country, his family and his father’s house to a land unknown to him. (Genesis 12:1-2) Every separation to God counts before God and commits God to count on one for uncommon or special assignment. Abraham’s separation to the word of God was accounted to him for righteousness because it was evidence that he believed God. (Romans 4:3)
When man conspicuously responds to word of God by denying engagement to the love of world it becomes separation to God. Worshiping God is separation to God. Separation to God is the avenue which leads to assessing and possessing all that God has in place for any that is able to obediently separate to Him.
God is not a slave master who will force us to worship and it makes it the more reason why engaging worshiping God is a choice to be made by individual. Abraham could not substitute anything for following in line of worship when he repeatedly separated himself fully to every word of God.
As an acclaimed believer, are you separating to word of God?
Is it your love of the things of the world at the center of your life?
What is it that is denying you to worship God?
Until you are empty of world of things in your life you cannot have a space for God in your life.
Worshiping God is living godly. Godliness is counting on nothing but the One that sustains the breath in us.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of worshiping God to become your portion.