FAITH CAPSULE: Offering delivered without hesitation is the evidence of a cheerful giving to God.

Genesis 22

The God that called Abraham is the same God who calls you. He did not fail Abraham because Abraham did not fail to hear Him. Adam and Eve failed to hear Him and they failed themselves from remaining in the garden. Being encased in His calling is the grace to do what He calls for whenever the ability to hear Him is in place.
God called Abraham to deliver a sacrificial offering, “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:1-2) Abraham heard clearly and without hesitation, he delivered his offering to God. Abraham’s obedience allowed Abraham to have an open door of communication from above.

Offering delivered without hesitation is the evidence of a cheerful giving to God. The same word in the pages of the Bible introduced testimonies of God from the time of creation to man also declared, “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.” (Malachi 3:8-10) How you respond to the command of God will define your journey to the expected end in life. In all your giving, give back to God cheerfully.

Is it true that you only give what you can afford to get rid and what is costly to you? Think of it, can a door be open with a finger? When you are giving an offering to God with one finger instead of a whole hand (whole heart) the chances to an open door are limited. Giving with a finger is like giving without the whole heart. God is the giver of all and He alone can take all away. It is more than worthy to always give back to God with all our heart. Man must understand and know to always give to God in His name and not in any man’s name.  Are you with Him in mouth or in the heart? The answer to this question will no doubt determine the believer’s journey on earth. Abraham’s gave to God with his whole heart which is the evidence of his love for God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of giving cheerfully in all of your giving.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is true to perform and He performs to perfection.

Psalm 3

There is none like God. He is the only God that makes a way where there is no way. He alone reverses the irreversible. He alone shares His name with no any other God. He is the King of kings; the Lord of lords. King David testified, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10)

Jehoiachin had been in captivity for thirty-seven years when God raised his head and brought him out of captivity. “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.” (Jeremiah 52:31) God used Evil-Merodach, the king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift up the head of Jehoiachin. God will use anyone to lift you from every challenge that is keeping your head down. God alone is more than capable to cause you to begin to preside over your persecutors. Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. When God remembers, He also rescues. Having used Evil-Merodach to rescue Jehoiachin, God also made him to change the garment of Jehoiachin from that of a prisoner to that of one who eats regularly before the king all the days of his life. God is true to perform and He performs to perfection.
There is nothing which God is incapable of doing and His capability has no measure. It is the same God that visited Daniel in the den of hungry lions. He caused the lions not to have appetite for fresh meat even though the lions were starving to have meat. Are you waiting on Him in prayer concerning a challenge that seems unmovable? Continue to trust and hope in God by waiting on Him. Concerning your challenge it is not time to stop waiting in prayer but to top up your waiting in prayer. God is a prayer-answering God. Know it and make it a note in your heart, get the understanding that the one that was capable of bringing out the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years is more than able to convert your challenge to a glorious change. God alone is Jehovah Sharma and He will live to answer His Name.

Stand in faith so that our faithful God will show on your behalf. With faith God is pleased, without faith God is not pleased. Proverbs 16:7 buttressed, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Have faith that God is more than capable to see you through.

Prayer for today: Ask God to send forth His help and lift up your head from every challenge.

FAITH CAPSULE: To prepare and not pretend is what needs to be done.

Genesis 6, 7

The wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah, days of Noah took a while because God gave many years waiting for change. God is truly true to long suffering and patiently waiting. Ecclesiastes 8:11 stated, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”  The evil days are now. Jesus warned, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.” (Luke 17:26) The truth is that Jesus came to die for our sins so that we may inherit eternity.  Jesus emphasized that the coming time of judgment is a time that no one knows but only God. It is written, Mark 13:32-33, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”  Jesus is the truth and the truth is threatening and only few want to turn around and give their lives to God. Have you given your life to Christ by living and abiding in the commands of God? The time today is very crucial. To prepare and not pretend is what we need to do.

In December 2004, a massive earthquake created a TSUNAMI causing devastation around the rim of the Indian Ocean. The death toll was in hundreds of thousands. Does that sound like tale telling? The fact is the rain that flooded in the time of Noah rained forty days and forty nights, but the TSUNAMI executed for perhaps a couple of minutes in duration. In that period of time, it touched down in many regions on the face of earth. Jesus’ coming will be in a twinkling of an eye. Judgment is coming and it will be at God’s time. Take your time to build your ark.

Today is the day of salvation. Salvation is not to experience Sodom and Gomorrah like Lot. Salvation is to escape Days of Noah part 2. Today give your life and become a candidate for the Kingdom of God. Jesus affirmed by stating, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Sounds foolish like saying build ark in the desert against flood. In John 3:15-16 Jesus identifies what it means to be born again, “whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” It is never going to be too late to give your life to Christ. If you are thinking you have wasted too much of your life it becomes an evidence that He is waiting to raise you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to live your life in Christ.

FAITH CAPSULE: Concerning your life, man is powerless but God is powerful.

Genesis 31

The psalmist testified, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”(Psalm 121:1-4) God is the helper of man and truly he does not sleep nor slumber. When God says go no man or challenge can stop or deny you from going. When He calls you to move mountain shall be removed for your passage. Above all, when God returns you from nowhere to the center of your divine assignment He will permit no man to hurt you.
Jacob made the choice not to inform nor bid farewell to Laban the Syrian when God called him to return. It is written, “Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”” (Genesis 31:3) Evidently, God called for Jacob’s return but then, the relationship between both Jacob and Laban was no longer favorable. After Jacob had left, Laban went after him with bad intentions because Rachel stole Laban’s household idol. With all his bad intentions, God appeared to him in a dream and cautioned him to be careful in his dealing with Jacob. As a result, when he caught up with Jacob, he stated, “It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’”(Genesis 31:29)

Whenever God calls for you to go or return there will be no other power under heaven that can stand against you. All power belongs unto God and there is no other that is capable of hurting you in the journey which the Lord has called you for turnaround into His divine purpose over your life. It was God that called Jacob to return and Laban was not in position nor possess any power that was capable to deny God. Laban was not in God’s position as a result he was powerless. Concerning your life, man is powerless but God is powerful. Have you been called out by God? Is your move in response to the calling of God? Do not move on your own understanding. In every calling of God, let your move be based on trust in the Lord with all your heart; avoid leaning on your own understanding; be conscious of His presence; let no wrong assumption take charge of your ways and know it that God will permit no man to hurt you as you engage His calling. God is not a man that He should falter; He is faithfully capable to accomplish His word.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of strength to be fully manifested in your life as you return to the center of God’s divine agenda for your life.

Faith Capsule: To falter in the Word that orders your step is to fall down into disorder.

Genesis 19

It is written, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1-2) A man’s walk will determine what man stands for and what a man stands for testifies among those man can be found sitting. It is only the word of God that makes the difference as regard to man’s walk.

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.” (Psalm37:23) God is good and it is good to obey the Word of God. To whom the Word orders his step and to whom is able to obey, it is good. However, to who is ordered by the Word of God and does not obey, it is bad. Also, obedience to the order in the Word of God is not a guarantee not to fall because the Word states “Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.” However, there is a difference in falling. Anyone who falls and does not get up will fail and be counted out while the one who falls and gets up shall not be utterly cast down. Have you faltered in response to the Word that orders your step? To falter in the Word that orders your step is to fall down into disorder. Disorder is not a way of life, but rather is a way of death.

Lot’s wife received order about how to preserve her life on her route of escape from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is written, “So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, ‘Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.’”(Genesis 19:17) The steps of Lot and his wife were ordered by the angel that brought them out of the destruction to escape and have life. Lot’s wife could not line up with the order and she entered into disorder that evidently took her life away. Lot’s wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) God had a good plan for her escape when He brought them out of Sodom and Gomorrah, but she resulted to disobedience by looking back and not obey the word of the Good God. Take steps of a good man and delight the good God.

Prayer for today: Teach me in Your way O Lord and lead me in a smooth path. Let me not be a failure.