Faith Capsule: Take to the word and the word will see you through.

2 Kings 6

See Right: It is the promise you have received that will make you see right and not see wrong. The Israelites entered into their supernatural breakthrough when they came out of bondage of over four hundred years and set for the journey to be established in their supernatural breakthrough (the journey to the Promised Land). As they continued in their journey, they encountered a road block…impenetrable one.  The bible recorded in Joshua 6:1-2, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.  And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.” The word commanded Joshua to see victory when victory was not yet in place for the Israelites. It is faith to see a way where there was no way. Just as was commanded, the Israelites took over Jericho and could not be stopped by the wall.
Elisha and his servant needed a supernatural breakthrough from the destruction that was set against them in the hand of the king of Syria. They were surrounded by horses and chariots and a great army. When Elisha’s servant saw it, he cried out, “…Alas, my master! What shall we do?” (2 King 6:15)  Elisha could see a greater force in place for him as a result; he could not be moved but responded to his servant “…Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”  And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.’” (2 Kings 6:16-17) Word of God is true to deliver. Take to the word and the word will see you through.
Meditation: Meditating as commanded by God is what will make man to be in position not to confess negative; it will keep man not to see wrongly; meditation will keep man from thinking negative thought. Meditation will keep man’s heart to diligently remain focus on God. God spoke to Joshua after the death of Moses stating, “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.” (Joshua 1:8) The word of God that is power will not depart from your mouth only when it becomes your thinking day and night…meditation will help establish our mind with the word and cause our ways to prosper. Those who think right will see and say what is right and then have it right.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you engage the word constantly and consistently.

Faith Capsule: The enemy cannot be more powerful.

Numbers 14:1-38

Adversaries of man from great and effective open door will succumb and not be effective if man will constantly engage: positive confession, think positive, See right and meditate on the word.
Confess Positive: It is very important for man to know and pay attention to what comes out of mouth. One that is trusting God for supernatural breakthrough will learn and know to be confessing positive even in the face of negative challenge. Expressing what one is expecting from God is what provokes expectation to be manifested. Confessing positive is expressing expectation, it is the evidence of faith and faith is what pleases God. The Israelites could not confess right at the juncture of supernatural breakthrough. They forget all the miracles before Pharaoh in Egypt. Pharaoh and his forces could not stop them; Red Sea failed to trap but negative confession terminated them when they said, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!  Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” ⁴ So they said to one another, “let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”(Numbers 14:2-4) God responded to the Israelites negative thought stating, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:  The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30) Expecting supernatural breakthrough demands a consistent positive confession in the face of all opposition.

Think Positive: As a creation that cannot hide from the Creator, are you thinking what is right? As a believer, that trusts in God, in the face of challenges think positive instead of negative? God sees and hears our thought clearly. Let God know in your thinking that with Him, nothing is impossible. Know to think that He is able to see you thru and He shall be provoked to move on your behalf for a positive result. Our thoughts are not hidden from God. It was the intent of the thoughts of man that called for God’s attention and it caused God to be sorry that He made man. (Genesis 6:5-6) The book of 1 Chronicles 28:9 buttressed, “…Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you…” The Bible also pointed out that as a man thinks in his heart so he is (Proverbs 23:7) …think positive and it shall become right for you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be constantly positive with no iota of negativity.

Faith Capsule: To open up to Christ is an avenue to supernatural breakthrough.

John 1:1-18, 1John 1

The word of God declared, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130)Proverbs 14:15 identified the simple one as believers of every word. The entrance of the word is what gives light not the hearing of the word. Are you one that is hearing but word not gaining entrance? Coming to church, working in church, holding positions or answering to title is not evidence that word is entering you.
Are you allowing the words to gain entrance for light to have a place? Whatever makes word to gain entrance in man, understanding must be added to man and it is understanding that gives a knowing edge in life.
It is not possible to hear God indeed and in truth and doubt Him.
Bible makes us to realize that, “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” (1John 1:5). The Psalmist testified, “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1). Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith confirmed when He spoke, saying, “…I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12) Can you realize the importance of allowing the word to enter? The word, if allowed to enter in you will make light of you in the wicked word of darkness.
Proverbs 2:10-11stated, “When wisdom enters your heartand knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you;understanding will keep you,to deliver you from the way of evil,from the man who speaks perverse things…”  Just as the word testified that God is light, it also makes us to realise that Jesus became wisdom for us. The book of 1 Corinthians 1:30 stated, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…”
The word, wisdom wants to enter…Jesus wants to enter that He might have a place in us and us with Him. He said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20)
Have you opened your door for Him to enter? When we open to Him we actually open our self to a great effective door which is supernatural breakthrough.
Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 16:9, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” Supernatural breakthrough door is great and effective which no man can deny but many adversaries surrounds man in attempt to deny man. All adversaries man should be watchful for are within man.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be opened up for the word to gain entrance in your life.

Faith Capsule: Do not neglect Old Testament attempting to navigate into the blessings of God.

Malachi 3

Bible recorded how Jesus took His stand against Satan’s temptation. Matthew 4:1-3 stated, “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.  Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” Satan tempted Jesus and Jesus responded, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”(Matthew 3:4) Interestingly, Jesus response was from the Old Testament’s book of Deuteronomy 8:3 which stated, “…that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.”

Satan was not done with Jesus when he took Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple asking Jesus to throw Himself down if He was the Son of God. Again, Jesus responded, “It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.” (Matthew 3:7) Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy 6:16 to shut Satan up. As if the Satan is deaf and not able to hear and see that Jesus is not in position for him to sway to sin, he went further by leading Jesus to a high mountain promising to give Jesus what does not belong to him if Jesus should fall down and worship him. Jesus responded, “…Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”(Matthew 4:10) Without debate Jesus’ quotation from the Old Testament’s Deuteronomy 10:20 derailed Satan’s temptation. Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, the one we are to live life by His example proved to us that Old Testament is very much our manual for life as much as the New Testament.
Are you one of those that are reducing the words of Old Testament and expecting to increase in the blessings of God’s promise? For example, the Old Testament’s book of Malachi 3:8-10 stated “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.” Do not neglect Old Testament attempting to navigate into the blessings of God. It is important to engage and embrace both Old Testament and New Testament for the manifestation of His blessings.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to open your understanding.

Faith Capsule: God’s way is different and most times sound foolish to man.

Judges 7

Whatever He says and no matter how it sounds to you go ahead and do it. His word is authentic, He has never fail and He will not fail. What He says might sound foolish but only remember that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (1 Corinthians 1:25) Whatever you have heard from Him through the pages of the bible is not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6) Has He spoken to you through His prophets? Jehoshaphat the King of Judah once admonished his people, “…Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.” (2 Chronicles 20:20) God is still in the business of locating and lifting His people up regardless of challenges.

Jerubbaal (Gideon) was confronted by a war bigger than himself. It was a war which God commanded him to reduce his men of war when he was looking for more. At the time he was commanded to reduce, twenty-two thousand returned and ten thousand remained. Despite his need for more, God said to him they are still too many. God commanded him to bring them down to the water where He wanted to test them and decide who to go to war with Jerubbaal. At the water as commanded by God, “the Lord said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.  Then the Lord said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place.” (Judges 7:5-7) Man will expect those who did not get down on their knees to be the ones going to war but God’s way is different and most times sound foolish to man. God reduced already thin numbers to a faint number of three hundred. Men of war were reduced from thirty two thousand to three hundred. Reduced number was the path to victory. Jerubbaal (Gideon) did exactly as was commanded.
Before Jesus turned water to wine, the mother already warned the disciples stating to them, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” (John 2:5) Disciples of Jesus did as was commanded and the wedding was preserved from lack and shame. Go and do just as He has spoken to you and you shall know no lack or shame.

Prayer for today: With a good heart and sincere intention to seek God for direction, deliverance or preservation you shall not encounter wrong messenger.