Faith Capsule: Adam and Eve’s disobedience caused every man and woman’s generational curse.

Numbers 12

Consider this, during the days of Moses, “Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. ² So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it…” (Numbers 12:1-3) The dissension of Aaron and Miriam was a blow to the whole population of the children of Israel. Delay answered in the lives that did not violate God. The innocent suffered set back, young ones could not move forward all paid the price for what they did not do. Are you wondering or seeking why sudden stagnation or delay where doors have been opened? What are the causes of your stagnation or delay? Consider taking it to God in prayer for His intervention. The dissension of Aaron and Miriam caused them delay and stagnation on the course of their journey when, “Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.” Just because of Miriam the whole entourage suffered stagnation. Miriam’s situation is not an unlikely incident in the present day.
Adam and Eve’s disobedience was the cause of curse to all generation. Genesis 2:16-17, “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  Death was not in the plan of God for man but Adam and Eve provoked God with their act of disobedience and death came to place for all man. The situation of Adam and Eve can be understood but the excuse was not acceptable to God. Disobedience of Adam and Eve opened up the door of death for all man. At times when challenges such as stagnation, mockery, rejection come to place in the life of an individual, the source is either known or unknown. In the book of Genesis, it was mentioned how Adam and Eve’s disobedience caused every man and woman’s generational curse.
Are you experiencing any kind of stagnation in any area of life with no idea of its source? There is no door which prayer cannot open. For Miriam’s case, the Bible stated, “…Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!” (Numbers 12:13) Undoubtedly, the prayer of Moses changed the situation from stagnation into motion. Concerning your stagnation, consider crying out to the Lord for His divine intervention. Today, working out one’s salvation through the blood of Jesus is not a discouragement but an encouraging avenue to seek God for His lovingkindness and mercy.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understand concerning all that confronts you.

Faith Capsule: God’s willingness to help us is stronger than our desire to be helped by God.

2 Chronicles 14, 15, 16

The book of Isaiah 30:18 documented, “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.” Going by the scriptural verse, it is safe to conclude that God is God that waits for us to wait on Him. God waiting for us to wait on Him testifies to the truth that anytime we take our challenges to a caring God the challenges shall be permanently terminated. A failure not to take challenges to God for testifies to not relying on God.
Asa faced a confronting challenge when Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah. (2 Chronicles 14:9) Asa knew he was not able to fight the battle when he called on God for help because of his reliance on God.
2 Chronicles 14:12-13 stated how God responded to help Asa because Asa relied on Him, “So the Lord struck the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So the Ethiopians were overthrown, and they could not recover, for they were broken before the Lord and His army. And they carried away very much spoil.” When God fight our battle the battle becomes a permanent termination. Later in Asa’s reign, he could not rely on God but failed by not waiting on God that always wait for us to call on Him.
It happened that when Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, Asa turned to Ben-Hadad of Syria for help. The result of Asa’s turning to Ben-Hadad does not settle well for Asa before God. As a result, “…Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.” Asa did not do well by not relying on God and it testified to the truth that Asa’s heart was not loyal to God when Hanani the seer stated in his word to Asa, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.” (2 Chronicles 16:9) Having a loyal heart before God is to know and always wait on God. Activate a loyal heart for God and His eyes will locate you to show Himself strong on your behalf.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to have a loyal heart for God.

Faith Capsule: Along the way, one should not just take any way because not all ways will  lead one somewhere.

Exodus 33

The book of Proverbs 14:12 states, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” The way that seems right is potentially a dangerous way; the way that seems right is not a confirmed way and it is possibly a guessing way. The way that seems right does not always have life in its end but death. Avoiding a way that seems right is engaging the way of God. There is nothing to lose anytime we engage God in prayer for direction before taking to steps of life. In life, every decision demands a direction that should lead to successful ending. The only possible way of getting to a successful ending is inside of God’s direction. It was clear that God called Moses to lead the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years to the Promised Land but it was not liberty for Moses to take to his own way. On the way, one should not just take any way because not all ways will lead one somewhere.
Despite God’s calling of Moses as the shepherd, he could not make a move without asking God for His way. He did not assume any way as being the right way. Moses always asked God for direction. The book of Exodus 33:13 documented, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” With Moses’ requisite, it is evident that in the way of God there is the ability to know God. The way of God is encased the grace of God. The way of God is the way of going up from where you are now but not going down. In the way of God there is an unfailing promise to be delivered. The way of God is the way out of bondage. The way of God delivers victory at all avenues of life. In the way of God, everything   it takes not to be replaced by the enemy is in place. The only condition is to ask and know how to endure the challenges of the giants along the way. The failure to ask or to hear as directed is the avenue to self-destruction. God responded to Moses’ request for direction in Exodus 33:14, “And He said, ‘My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.’” The Word of God is God and His word is His presence. When you engage His word, His word will have a place in you. You will be in the right place as you engage your journey. Take to the word of God for direction

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to know and constantly turn to Him for direction; ask God to deliver you from taking any way that seems right to you.

Faith Capsule: A believer that is full of word should be full of joy.

Philippians 4

Joy and rejoicing should be the identity of a true believer, a believer that is full with the word of God. A believer that truly knows God, a believer that worships Him in the spirit shall be one that knows to maintain joy. The book of Philippians buttressed, “For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:3) Also, rejoicing in Him regardless of any confronting situation is the evidence of trusting God that does not fail. One that is full of self cannot possibly have a space for the Word of God. To be full of the word of God is to be full of God. Without doubt, a believer that is full of word should be full of joy. God spoke in Joshua 8:1, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” One that meditates on the word of God as commanded by God should carry God’s word and be joyful. The word of God is full of promises that are set to become manifested if man gives self to the condition of His promises. It is important to believe that the word of God (promises of God) cannot fail, locate God’s promise concerning your challenge, believe that your situation is solved while it is yet unsolved and keep rejoicing.

Habakkuk 3:17 documented a confronting situation “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.” The situation documented is not one that anyone would not like to be in. It can be compared to having a place in the depth of a valley where there seems to be no way out, and no end in sight as to when the time of rising and climbing out of the depth of valley. There is no one that wants to plant a tree without yielding fruit. Regardless of the situation, Habakkuk 3:18 testified, “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” Allow the testimonies of God to fill you that you may be full of joy and rejoicing as emphasized by Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the spirit of rejoicing in every area of your life.

Faith Capsule: Maintaining zeal for God is to keep hot love for God.

Numbers 25, John 2:13-22

The level of a believer’s zeal is the driving force in how a believer seeks God. Invariably, how much you seek God will determine how much you can see in Him. Seeking God casually will not deliver same result compared to seeking Him zealously. Zealousness for God is a proof of man’s love God. Zealousness for God draws man to God. James 4:8 buttressed, “Come near to God and he will come near to you.” Zeal that is rooted in understanding and knowledge of God shall be fired up by revelation while producing result that is not of this world. Maintaining zeal for God is to keep hot love for God. The word of God that is fire is the source of maintaining hot love. (Jeremiah 23:29) Love that is not hot will grow cold because of the wickedness of the world. With cold love zealousness becomes punctured.
In Jesus, we see what it means to be zealous for the course of the kingdom’s business. The bible recorded, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.  And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”  Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.” (John 2:13-17) The action of Jesus is a demonstration of Zeal for God. In Jesus’s action we see a principle of fighting a good course for God’s glory. Phinehas the son of Eleazar demonstrated zeal for God.
While on the journey to the Promised Land, the children of Israel provoked the anger of the Lord by joining to Baal of Peor while they were facing the wrath for their sin, “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.” (Numbers 25:7-8)  The zealousness in Phinehas made him to see wrong act against God; it caused him to rise up and not be a part of the congregation that silently accommodated wickedness. His action provoked God’s blessing upon his life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the zeal of God to eat you up.