FAITH CAPSULE: Do not be reduced to serving God.

1 King 17

Are you aware of being reduced, not serving God for His glory?
With understanding, know how to serve God in His way.
This new season, ask to be repaired, restored, and regained.
ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU, TO REPAIR YOU: 
The Israelites were living as slaves, not able to serve God.
The mercy of God delivers.
God revives and repairs.
Ezra 9:9 records, “For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.”
Desire to be repaired, answering as a temple of God, occupied by the presence of God.
God could not look away, but He delivered them.
All are to be the temple of God and to be right before God, so that God will occupy all.
One revived is repaired to be occupied by the presence of God, the evidence one that becomes built for God as His temple. 
Pray that God will revive you to become repaired in every area of life, as His temple. 
ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU TO RESTORE: 
Samson became reduced when he wrongly revealed the secret of God-given power over his life to Delilah, his wife.
Samson walked in his way against the way of God.
Samson was reduced to become a vessel of mockery in the hands of his enemies.
Samson prayed for strength to be restored from being reduced.Judges 16:28 records, “Then Samson called to the Lord, saying, “O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!” 
Samson provoked God to restore him.
Samson was revived, restored, the miracle of God, not mocked by his enemies.
Pray that God will strengthen you to be restored in a position of increase to deny every mockery over your life.
ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU TO REGAIN:
To be revived will give life both physically and spiritually. 
God sent Elijah to the widow of Zarephath.
After the woman of Zarephath met and cared for the needs of Elijah, her son was sick with no breath left in him.
The woman returned to seek Elijah, for his intervention concerning her son.
Elijah cried out to God to revive the son.
The Bible records, “Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.” (1 Kings 17:22)
The Voice of calling to God is the same as crying out to God to be revived in response to a challenging situation.
Pray that God will give heed to your calling on Him at all times.
God is kind.

Prayer for today: With desire, pray to be revived and not be reduced before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Ask God to show you His way.

Exodus 33

One who knows the way of God will know how to serve God in His way so as not to live in vain.
The same God who is not partial shall answer to visit you for permanent deliverance. 
Remember and meditate that power belongs to God, and He will not fail to deliver you by His mercy.
Ask that in this new season you shall not be reduced from living for the glory of God, serving Him, walking in His way.
Ask God to show you His way; that is crucial to serving and knowing the way of God.
Moses, who served God greatly and with understanding, specifically asked God to show him His way.
Exodus 33:13 records the prayer of Moses, asking God for His way: “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.”
What stops one from asking God for His way?
Moses asked, and God answered him, saying, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God answered with the promise of His presence and His rest to accompany Moses.
From this moment, make it your way to ask God for His way that enables you to serve Him and not be reduced by any force of the wicked world.
How long one answers as a believer is not evidence of not living reduced, for the glory of God.
The title one answers to does not prevent one from being exposed to being reduced from living for God.
Do you know if you are living reduced in ways of life?
Watch and pray to come out of living a reduced life before God.
Serve God with understanding.
Knowing the way of God is the key to knowing how to serve God in His way.
Ask that in this new season you shall not be reduced from living for the glory of God, serving Him, walking in His way.
Ask God to show you His way; that is crucial to serving and knowing the way of God.
Moses, who served God greatly and with understanding, specifically asked God to show him His way.
Exodus 33:13 records the prayer of Moses, asking God for His way: “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.”
What stops one from asking God for His way?
Moses asked, and God answered him, saying, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God answered with the promise of His presence and His rest to accompany Moses.
From this moment, make it your way to ask God for His way that enables you to serve Him and not be reduced by any force of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask that in this new season you shall not be reduced.

FAITH CAPSULE: In this new season, live for God, walk in His way.

Jonah 1

God’s will is for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God calls for serving Him in His way.
No one can serve God in one’s own way and find Him.
To serve God in His own way will find Him.
Without understanding how to serve in His own way, one will not know Him.
To know God is not to live a life of waste.
A life of waste shall perish.
Hosea 6:4 informs us, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge…”
How are you serving God?
Are you serving God in His way or in your way?
Without excuse, no one fails to serve Him in His way; that will find Him.
A failure to serve Him results in a reduced position (prevented)
A reduced position is not to live a life for the glory of God.
All are to live life for the glory of God.
One serving God in one’s own way will be exposed to a way of pain that will reduce one.
Jonah 1:1-3 documents Jonah taking to his own way, outside of the way of God, stating,“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”
Jonah was reduced by going his own way, which made him unwilling to become a tenant in the belly of a fish.
In this new season, live for God, walk in His way.
Unwanted forces can reduce or prevent one from living for God.
The taskmaster placed on the Israelites was not what they wanted or ordered for their life.
Are you experiencing a taskmaster that is not of God over your life?
This new season, any representative of taskmasters with plans to inflict burdens in your life will be terminated permanently.
The Israelites became the target of Pharaoh, who set taskmasters over them because of their potential.
Exodus 1:11 records, “Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens.”
Unleash preventative prayer against whoever or whatever represents the taskmaster with a plan to inflict or replace the purpose of God over your life.
Pray they be frustrated, exposed, and powerless.
Pray before God that whatever represents taskmasters inflicting physical, spiritual, or emotional pain shall be shattered.
God delivered the Israelites from taskmasters. 
The same God who is not partial shall answer to visit you for permanent deliverance. 
Remember and meditate that power belongs to God, and He will not fail to deliver you by His mercy.

Prayer for today: Ask that in this new season you shall not be reduced from living for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you listening to understand and to see in the Word of God? 

Ezekiel 4

The Word of God is hidden direction.
The Word of God is a prescription for healing, deliverance, and preservation.
One who gives self to the Word of God lives by the Word of God, to exploit, to the glory of God.
Do you have the understanding to see your direction in the Word of God?
One with understanding who hears the Word of God will see the Word as direction.
The Word of God directs, as Proverbs 6:22 testifies: “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Is listening to the Word of God your way of life?
With listening comes the understanding to know right in the journey of life.
Always listen to God to hear.
To Ezekiel, God spoke direction: “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.” (Ezekiel 4:15) Ezekiel also listened with understanding to see and received the direction by the Word of God.
Every act of listening to the Word of God is to see and gain from the Word
Are you listening to understand the Word of God?
Joshua, Jeremiah, and many others in the pages of the Bible could not miss God.
Understanding is to see unfailing direction in the Word of God, just like Ezekiel and others in the pages of the Bible.
The Word of God is the manual for all. 
Live a life of understanding to see and receive from the Word of God.
Jesus is the Word of God. (John 1:1)
John 10:10 records the purpose of the coming Jesus: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” 
Listen to the Word of God to see God in Him (the Word of God) and live life more abundantly.
John 14:25-27 records the gift of His peace:“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Every recording of the Word of Jesus that sounds in your direction is the source of your peace.
Are you listening to understand and to see in the Word of God? 
In all your listening to the Word of God, understand to see, to receive, and what you see will become of you.
God is good!

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live life with the ability to listen. 

FAITH CAPSULE: The journey of life demands understanding of God.

Psalm 106

Understanding will prompt one to know God.
To lack understanding is to lack knowledge.
lllHosea 4:6 admonishes all,“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
It is important to have understanding and knowledge, not to live a life of waste.
Understanding makes giving regard to God a way of life.
When there is no understanding to give regard to God, such people take a position with painful consequences.
Psalm 28:5 records, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.”
Without understanding, one does not remember God for His doings.
One with no understanding is a candidate for failure.
One who does not remember God is bound to become rebellious to the word of God.
Psalm 106:7 records the testimony of the lack of understanding of the wonders of God by the Israelites: “Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies but rebelled by the sea-the Red Sea.”  
Do you lack understanding of God’s wonders?
The Israelites demonstrated a lack of understanding with an act of rebellion.
They complained repeatedly before God.
Numbers 14:1-4 records the complaint of the Israelites,“… And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “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…?”
Every complaint before God is a sin that will provoke consequences.
God responds to the complaint of the Israelites in Numbers 14:28-29, “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…”  
Understanding is not of the mouth but of the heart. 
Understanding the wonders of God will always cause one to remember and not to become rebellious. 
Proverbs 16:22 testifies that “Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it…”  
Wellspring is a source of abundant supply.
With understanding, one is bound to live life with an abundance of life that Jesus brought for all. Jesus declares, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) 
Have a desire for God’s understanding.
The Israelites lacked understanding of God and became lost in the wilderness.
Psalm 106:13-14 refers to the Israelites,“They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.”
To forget the works of God is a lack of understanding of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not live a wasted life.