FAITH CAPSULE: Think of it, there is no time in time to be engaging complaining.

Psalm 119:1-48

In this particular season of the year there is no time for complaining unto God. Are you looking around enough? As a living soul begin to give thanks more than the thanks of the past. Think of it, there is no time in time to be engaging complaining. Acts of complaining are the evidence of rebellious spirit. The children of Israel, due to their never-ending complaining against gracious God provoked God’s response in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.” God has brought you this far and He does not plan to cut off your going further if rebellious spirit shall not be your composition against Him. Just like the Israelites, can you make sure that nothing is testifying against you in the presence of God?
Great and mighty testimonies of God are everywhere. The testimonies are enough for meditating that is enough for thanking God instead of complaining to God.
The word of God pointed out, “The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.” (Psalm 19:8) The testimonies of God are more than enough to lead and take believers into the promises God. Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies? The Psalmist knew what he was doing when he testified in Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Psalm 119:14, I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches, Psalm 119:24, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors, Psalm 119:46, I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. The testimonies of God are worthy of mediation.
Do you have testimonies to lift up to God in thanks giving instead of giving complain to God?
What are the testimonies of your heart? The testimonies of God provoke faith. Hebrew 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Let today be your day of meditating on the testimonies of God that provokes thanksgiving in the place of complaining. In the place of complaining, a journey of eleven days turned out to be journey of forty years.
Are you thanking God to keep God’s hand upon you?
God cannot be deceived but decide in your heart to be true to God. Allow fear of God to demonstrate your love in appreciation with thanks giving.

Prayer for today: Ask that the heart of thanksgiving shall be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trust and hope in all His word and truth shall make you free.

Acts 16

Paul and Silas’ boldness and character were trust and hope in the truth word of God to glorified God. It happened that Paul commanded a spirit out of a girl and her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone; they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into jail. (Acts 16:19)
While at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God. As they sang, a great earthquake caused the foundations of the prison broken and immediately all the doors were opened with everyone’s chains loosed. Paul and Silas did not flee but waited bye and spoke word that gave salvation. Paul and Silas led a family to baptism. With trust there was character; with hope there was boldness. Paul and Silas demonstrated that they know the truth and truly the truth made them free from the prison.
Certainly, without doubt the word of God is the truth. Indeed, the truth, the way and the life is one that cannot be separated from each other. Thomas among the disciples of Jesus said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:5-6)
Jesus is the word of God.
Are you abiding in the word? To abide in the word is to know the truth. Knowing the truth is the key but not knowing about the truth.
Just like Paul and Silas, abide in the word and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31-32)
In the wicked world is to know the truth about trust and hope in the Lord and be free.
Jeremiah 17:7 stated, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”
Are you claiming trust without hope?
Claiming trust in the Lord is not complete without claiming hope in Him.
Do you trust and not hope?
Trust is character while hope is confidence. Many trust on God (they are active in church) but no hope which is boldness. Trust is character; Hope (confidence) is boldness.
Do you have trust and hope (boldness and character)? It is boldness and character that makes you free.
Saul trusted God and he waited for seven days as commanded by Samuel. However, when all his people were scattered, he lost hope and had no confidence in the word of God’s prophet. Saul could not be free but lost. (1 Samuel 13)
As an acclaimed believer, trust and hope according to word of God. Allow the truth of word make you free.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to stand firm on the truth of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Does your situation demands waiting on God?

1 Samuel 13:1-15

King Saul was instructed by Samuel to wait for a lawful sacrifice before going to war against Philistines but could not wait for Samuel’s instruction. As Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel King Saul could not wait for seven days as instructed by Samuel. It is written, “So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:9) With Saul’s action, he tragically disobeyed both the Law of Moses and the instructions of God’s prophet. (Leviticus 1)
King Saul could not wait as instructed.
Is waiting to address your confronting situation a challenge?
The truth is that waiting in obedience to instruction shall always culminate favorable expectation.
After disobedience act of Saul, Samuel arrived at Saul, he asked him, “what have you done” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12)
It is always a foolish thing to disobey God’s commandment.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God.
Psalmist admonished, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3)
A believer in God must understand that to wait out endure a period of waiting. Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.
In time of waiting, among exercise a believer must engage are:
Be of good courage; rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him; do not fret; keep His way; let your soul wait silently.
The above truth about waiting is testified in the scriptural verses listed below:
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.”
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:5, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”
Hosea 12:6, “… wait on your God continually.”
Does your situation demands waiting on God?
God is true to answer when we wait patiently by abiding in His word obediently.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Serving God demands seeking God and setting mind on things where God is above.

Colossians 3

In life, the lack of understanding to be serving God is limiting the manifestation God’s power among the majority of acclaimed Christian.
As an acclaimed Christian, there should be an evidence of living out of Egypt of today. God wanted the Israelites out of Egypt when He spoke to Moses, “When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12) God also sent Moses to Pharaoh stating, “ Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.  So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me…” (Exodus 4:22-23)
God is a jealous that wants nothing from us but to free and serve Him.
What does it means to serve God?
Serving God demands no carnality that is evidence among today of acclaimed Christians.
To serve God demands from believers to seek God and set mind on things where God is above.
The book of Colossians 3:1-2 clearly stated, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”
To be an acclaimed Christian that seeks and set on things above are what makes a true server of God. In truthful God, when serving God is indeed, power of God becomes evidence in the server of God.
The challenges that reduce acclaimed Christian are:
-Majority acclaimed Christians are yet to be dead in their trespasses which deny rising with Christ.
-Majority acclaimed Christians are struggling to put off the body of the sins of the flesh.
-Majority acclaimed Christians have set mind on so much of the earth things more than things above.
The word makes it clear that if we serve God by seeking and setting mind on above things we shall be a candidate not to miss to appear with Him in glory.
Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?
Have you separated yourself from what you once walked when you lived in them on the earth?
The word requires us to put to death our members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. The members on earth will bring the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience which we have once walked. (Colossians 3:6-7)
Word also pointed directly to us what we should put off: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of our mouth, do not lie to one another. (Colossians 3:8-10)
As a serving Christian, put off the old man with his deeds and put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the word of God.
Be a serving God Christians to experience the power of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of understanding to serve God.

FAITH CAPSULE: A mouth-full thanks giving is not the same with a heart-full thanks giving.

Exodus 2

Gratitude is feeling of being grateful or thankful. Gratitude is the identity of one with contentment.
Are you grateful or thankful to God in your situation?
A mouth-full thanks giving is not the same with a heart-full thanks giving. With contentment is to know satisfaction and be able to give heart-full thanks to God. Without doubt, regardless of situation, giving thanks to God knows the fear of God. The book of Proverbs buttressed, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19:23)
Contentment, satisfaction is the evidence of fear of God that should always fuel heart-full thanks giving to God.
Do you know why you are thankful to God?
Are your thanks giving meaningful?
God cannot be deceived in all our character but let your thanks giving be a heart-full thanks giving at always.
For Moses, contentment can be considered as a major or main character in him that lined him up for a noticeable assignment for God. The bible recorded, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.” (Exodus 2:21) Moses, having lived in the palace of Pharaoh for forty years, ended up in Midian, a strange land. Moses refused to get carried away by the exuberant palace life and could not ignore his brethren’s suffering. In his act of support for one of his brethren, he became a murder and had to flee from the palace because of Pharaoh’s attempt to persecute him. Moses was content to live in the desert, with Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; a strange land. There was no evidence or demonstration of bitterness or complaint with his new family in the land. Moses’ contentment is a considerable point that made him and he became agent in the hand of God for God’s assignment.
To be content is to be a provoker of the move of God’s hand for favor, guidance, deliverance, preservation and many more of God’s blessings. 1Timothy 6:6-7 buttressed, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” For Moses to have come out of a palace and into a strange land with a testimony of being content had to have undoubtedly gained Heaven’s attention. Moses contentment speaks a great deal of his character. His action demonstrated that he brought nothing to this world and no material wealth could have kept him away from doing what was right when doing right demanded it. Moses had faith and God was pleased to use him for a great and noticeable assignment.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be giving thanks in all things and for all things.