FAITH CAPSULE: Allow God to enter you and be retained in you.

Jude

This new season, know how to gain and retain the presence of God.
The presence of God is in the word of God.
In the Word of God is His direction.
In the word of God is His promise.
In the Word of God is His healing.
God sent His word to heal and deliver.
Psalm 107:20 informs, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Why not gain and retain the presence of God?
The word of God is God.
All with the desire to gain and retain the presence of God should give regard to the word of God as a way of life.
Psalm 138:2 records that, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
Gain and retain the word of God.
Hearing the word of God constantly to gain and retain His word shall live life for the glory of God.
Obedience to the word of God is a sacrifice.
Sacrifice is to live by the word of God with commitment, not when or how convenient or not.
Sacrificially, it is not convenient but a must to give to the word of God.
Sacrifice before God entails waiting on God to gain acceptance from God.
God is not a slave master to force on anyone, but a saving master for deliverance and preservation.
Disobedience to the word of God will expose one to the forces of the enemy.
Wait on God to gain and retain His presence.
Know that God is waiting on all with desire for the entrance of Him to one who knows how to wait for the entrance of God.
Revelations 3:20 “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.”
Do you have ears to hear the knocking of God to gain entrance into your life?
One who waits for God will recognize His knocking to open the entrance for God.
Knowing God is not the same as knowing about God.
The majority, particularly acclaimed believers of God, ones that live life in the building in the name of the church, only know about God but do not know God.
Many are conversant in quoting the word of God, yet far from God that is near to all, at all times.
The majority only know about God but do not know God.
Without a doubt, one cannot love God and not know God.
How can a man know God and not love God?
Knowing God starts by listening to His word.
Listening to the word of God is the ability to gain and retain His presence.
Listening to the word of God will gain understanding and become a building for God.

Prayer for Today: Pray that God will enable you to gain and retain His presence in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: To exist for God is to live life for the glory of God.

Romans 3

The will of God is for all to exist for Him.
Revelation 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Existing for God is giving Him glory and honour.
To give Him glory and honour is seeking Him with all the heart and soul.
One who seeks God with heart and soul is characterized by waiting on God.
One who waits on God knows God, not just knows about God.
One who seeks God to wait on His word does not despise His word but will take a position to see God in His word and not despise Him.
Despising the word will set one up for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) In life, despising God will plunge one into sin.
With sin, such is not seeking God diligently to find God.
One who waits on God abstains from telling lies.
It is not possible to claim to seek God diligently while telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating others.
God despises lies, deception, and manipulation, but what do you embrace?
Telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating man is a sin before God.
Before God, there is no reasonable excuse for telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating, claiming to be for God.
In all areas of life, nothing is hidden from God because He hears and sees all.
Seek God diligently, waiting on God to come out of sin, abhor iniquity. Claiming to wait on God while doing wrong does have consequences before God.
Matthew 7:21-23 records, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”
Sin is not seeking God but getting exposed to the devil.
No one waits on God to give acceptable glory to God with lies hidden as truth, which is not of God.
Word of Paul speaks about sin as deception of truth: “For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.” (Romans 3:7-8)
Live for God, exist for His glory, be truthful with no deception, come out of sin, and seek God diligently.
Are you aware of your sin that is stumbling you to seek God, to wait on God?
If there is any, repent for your redemption before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for forgiveness of conscious sin or unconscious sin in your life.

Faith Capsule: In all seasons, wait continually on God.

Psalm 91

In this new season, keep on keeping on every moment.
In the new season, prepare for the future by waiting on God.
It is not determination, but desire that will drive one waiting on God to become deeper spiritually.
One who waits on God will seek God.
Matthew 6:33-34 states, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Seeking God first will eliminate worrying and elevate man into worshipping God.
Wait on God to gain an understanding of what it takes to be blessed.
In the new season, wait on God to gain protection, not to become a victim of the one and only enemy of man.
The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
There is nothing good about the enemy of all.
A believer should never underestimate the power of the wicked, one whose agenda is seeking to devour.
To wait on God is to continually dwell in the secret place of the Most High God.
Psalmist confirms, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust. Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.” (Psalm 91:1-6)
What is it taking away from waiting on God?
Waiting on God is giving to the word of God.
The word of God is a place of deliverance and preservation.
God sent His word for the wise to be waiting on Him.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
The word of God is not for decoration but for declaration against the moves of the wicked one.
The word of God is the authority of God.
It is wise to wait on God for His word.
In the new season, count on God for what He has done, is doing, and will do.
With the character of waiting on God by rejoicing, doing right before God, and not failing to remind God.
With such a character, God will act for those who wait on Him.
Declare God by giving thanks to Him, calling upon His name, singing psalms to Him; talking of His wondrous work and seeking the Lord and His strength (joyfully).

Prayer for today: Ask that you will know how to live by waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE Without a doubt, waiting on God leads to finding God

1 Samuel 13

This year, seek God to find God.
One who does not seek God by His way will not find God.
Deuteronomy 4:29 admonishes all, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seek God with all heart and soul, meaning not just to seek Him but to seek Him diligently.
One who impresses the world with the mouth to seek God cannot find God.
From this year, seek God living for God by waiting on Him.
Isaiah 40:31 encourages, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
What is it denying you not to wait on God?
Without doubt, one who waits on God will gain strength from God.
Waiting on God is to gain the strength from God.
Psalm 27:14 confirms to gain strength from God, when waiting on Him, stating, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!”
Psalm 59:9 records, “I will wait for You, O You his Strength; For God is my defense.”
There is boldness and character in anyone who waits on God.
Boldness and character are a winning combination.
With boldness and character, one will stand in the word of God with confidence to stand against the wickedness of the world.
King David had his heart for God.
With his heart on God, he was bold to walk and not run.
Psalm 23:4 records the testimony of David, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
Proverbs 4:12, ” When you walk, your steps will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble.”
Waiting on God to gain what it takes to remain stable in the instability of the world.
Make it a way of living for God is the character of waiting on God.
Wait on God in living obediently to God.
God told Adam not to eat a particular fruit, but he could not wait and was disobedient.
Saul failed to wait for the sacrifice in an attempt to fight with enemies, but he could not wait.
A simple disobedience to God is an avenue to self-destruction.
In your new season, to arrive at divine assignment demands waiting on God.
Without a doubt, waiting on God leads to finding God for one who waits on Him.
Why not strive to wait on God?
Give regard to the word of God, regardless of the challenges that may distract living for God.
Make it a way of life, waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Pray to be enabled to wait on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is His promise.

Psalm 27

The word of God does not return to Him void, but it accomplishes its purpose.
To wait on God is a condition that demands gaining His promise.
His promise that is encouraging in Isaiah 40:31 records, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
From this moment, this season, make it a way of life to be waiting on God.
Prayerfully ask for the grace of God that will enable waiting on God.
In the promise of God:
One who waits indeed shall renew strength.
Such shall mount up with wings like eagles.
One who waits shall run and not be weary.
Also, one who waits shall not walk and not faint.
There is strength to gain from God when one waits on God.
One that gains strength is bound to mount up with wings like eagles and not live a life of waste.
For example:
Eagles stay silent, but their strength takes it far.
Eagles waste no time but move quietly in pursuit of a goal.
It faces alone storms and never gives up.
Life will throw challenges, such as judgment, and will attempt to hold one back in the journey of life.
In times of challenges, eagles do not waste time proving but stay wrong.
Just as one waiting on God, do not waste time proving oneself with words.
Like an eagle, stay strong, keep moving, let your actions speak louder, even when it is hard, hurts, rise above as evidence of strength.
When the cloud is dark, eagles do not stop.
Also, with strong winds, eagles do not quit because eagles are born for that.
Consider that you are of God.
Be fearless, be focused, be unstoppable, be the eagle.
Let it sink and establish in you, waiting on God is bound to fly like eagles.
What causes a believer not to wait on God?
In giving oneself to the word of God, one shall become exposed to the promise of the blessing waiting on God.
Again, what is it to gain in waiting on God?
Psalm 25:3, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…”
Psalmist testifies, “Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.” (Psalm 33:20)
Above and in all things, know to wait on God to gain the presence of God.
Isaiah 64:4 identifies the reason to wait on God without any doubt, “For since the beginning of the world, Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
God acts for the one who waits for Him.
Whatever denies one from waiting on God is on the agenda to devour such to live a life of waste.
From this moment, this year, strive to live by waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Pray to live life for God by waiting on Him.