FAITH CAPSULE: The way of God is the word of God and it is also the presence of God.

Exodus 33:12-23, Numbers 20
 
It is written, “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 isYour people.”And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”” (Exodus 33:12-14) In the above communication between Moses and God, it is clear that the way of God is the word of God and it is also the presence of God.
In His ways, there is direction and there is also living grace to live to the fulfillment of divine schedule. In His acts, there is power confirmation; there is deliverance and there is total victory. Psalm 103:7, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” It is absolutely impossible to follow the ways of the Lord and not arrive at a final destination. Likewise, one cannot see His acts and not tremble at the awesomeness of His power. Moses knew the way because he was riding on a plan laid-out and directed by the Lord. The children of Israel were privileged to see His actions; they saw the move of God’s power so many times during the days in the wilderness. They saw the Red Sea open up to them to provide dry land as a passage. They saw how the firstborn of all the Egyptian masters died while their firstborns were safe. Despite all that they witnessed, those Israelites who left Egypt and whose age was twenty and above never arrived at their expected end. Caleb and Joshua were the only ones that did not fail to keep their faith in His acts which gave them direction. Moses, a giant in the hand of the Lord, violated the Word of God when he struck the rock twice where He was commanded to speak to the rock. (Numbers 20: 10-12) Moses could not get to the expected end because walking in His ways requires total obedience in all areas of life. Moses saw the Land of Promise, but could not set foot on the land. Are you paying attention to the Word of God? It has never changed and it will remain the same. The Word of God is the “unchanging changer”. His ways and His acts are all that we need to get to where we are going in life. Will you commit your way to His ways and trust in Him? Psalm 37:5,” Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass.” He is faithful.
 
Prayer for today:Ask Him for the grace to keep you going in His ways. Ask Him to keep you meditating and focusing on the actions of His hand.

FAITH CAPSULE:For the blind of this world, the word that heals might sound ridiculous but it will always cause ridiculing to cease.

John 9:1-23
 
A man who was blind from his mother’s womb was at a position of begging, stagnation, deprivation and mockery when the passing by of Jesus brought him out of his blindness. Many are experiencing Jesus’ passing by but cannot receive their deliverance because of situation that has kept them in bondage for so many years. Are you in the right location to receive deliverance but yet nothing is happening?Any inability to receive is not because Jesus has ceased to pass by, but because you have failed to enter into His commandment. Most times, His commandment sounds foolish but the word makes us to realize that, “…the foolishnessofGod is wiser than men, and the weakness ofGod is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:25) Behaving the word most times makes one to look stupid, but the bottom line is that, there are direction, deliverance and breakthrough in obeying the commands of God when we behave His word.When Jesus saw the man that was blind from birth, He approached him. He spat on the ground and mixing His saliva with the dirt, made clay and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay (John 9:6). After this, Jesus committed the blind man unto doing his own part when gave command that was to fully deliver the blind man from long time blindness. Jesus commanded the blind man, “…Go, wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.”(John 9:7) This blind man was unlike the Syrian army commander, Naaman, whom Elisha sent to wash at the Jordan. Naaman was reluctant and furious for having to go to such a low standard river. He delayed his going and his miracle was delayed. The blind man, however, did not question Jesus. He went and washed and he gained sight. The blind man, because of his obedience to the word of God gained motion and stagnation ceased in his life. The blind saw where he had not seen since birth. Above all, his neighbors questioned his healing. The blind man responded stating, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.” (John 9:11)For the blind of this world, direction to healing might sound ridiculous but it will always cause ridiculing tocease and direction to become clear. The secret of the blind man’s miracle was submission to Jesus’ command by obeying His command. Regardless of how His command sounds in your direction remember that the foolishness of His God is wiser than men.
 
Prayer for today:Ask the Lord for the grace of obedience that is needed to receive sight for breakthrough.

FAITH CAPSULE: Daniel made Himself fully available to be used by rejecting the world.

Daniel 2:24-49
 
God’s willingness to use man for His attainment is stronger than man’s desire to be used by God. Man is too busy for the Lord while the Lord is busy searching for man. Are you available to serve God? It is written, , “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) Hanani was letting King Asa know how God operated when he relayed the above message to him. Indeed nothing can stop the eyes of the Lord from running throughout the whole earth without ceasing. The same God then is still the same God today and forever. It is a testimony to how God is willing to use us. Daniel made Himself fully available to be used by rejecting the world. Daniel 1:8, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” Daniel gave his all to God. The Lord God, whose eyes run to and fro, spotted Daniel and showed Himself strong on his behalf. Daniel, a slave, came to a position where his captors began to fall prostrate before him. Daniel 2:46, “Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him.” Daniel’s availability for God is an example of Jesus’s demand that 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.” (Matthew 6:33-34) Seeking God is working the works of God. Working the works of God is the evidence of believing God for His word that never fails. Seek God; work His works and He shall visit you with salvation and remember you with favor. Ignore your challenges and remain focus on God with all your heart; God will see your heart, and your challenges will fall at your feet. What a wonderful and awesome God we serve? For King Nebuchadnezzar to have eventually fell on his face and prostrated to Daniel testifies to what can become of any force that militates against those who makes themselves available to God.
 
Prayer for today: Ask God that your challenges will fall prostrate in Jesus’ name.

FAITH CAPSULE: Allow God to rise on your behalf.

Exodus 14:10-31, Psalm 68
 
Are you attempting to fight your battle by yourself or you have engaged your battle by yourself? The more you take away your battle from God, the more you give way to defeat. Will you allow God to rise on your behalf? David, by virtue of his experience in life battles stated, “Let God arise,let His enemies be scattered;let those also who hate Him flee before Him.” (Psalm 68:1) Have you not known that what touches every committed child of God touches God? Every enemy of God’s child also takes a place as God’s enemy.
We know that we have never seen or heard of God losing a battle on behalf of His children. We also know assuredly that any battle that is lost is the result of our not letting God arises on our behalf. When trouble comes to one’s way and one begins to lose one’s rest, it is an indication that one is taking one’s battle away from God. When you lose your rest, you will fail from being able to stand still. When you are no longer standing still, you are not far from falling down. Many have fallen; many are falling as regard to confronting battles such as finances, health, and marriage because they have not let God fight the fight. The Israelites experienced what God can do when He fights on behalf of His children, but in the face of challenges they could let God arise at the crossing of the Red Sea stating to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12) “…do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The LORD will fight your battle and you shall hold your peace.’”(Exodus 14:13-14) Does it sound like this verse is addressing you? It is time to step out of fear; stand in faith and allow God to rise on your behalf. At every time we take our stand by allowing God to rise on our behalf, we shall be able to see and receive the accomplished victory. The words of the Israelites are not that of ones that allow God to rise on their behalf. Moses responded in faith,
 
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to let God arise on your behalf so that enemies become permanently and eternally terminated by being scattered.

FAITH CAPSULE: Choose to go the right way in life and not just the way that seems right.

John 10:1-18   
 
The word of God conspicuously warns, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21) Without any doubt, confessing positive in the face of negative is operating the power of the tongue. The Bible makes us to realize that faith only comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. (Romans 10:17) To become one that consciously engage confessing positive in the face of negative one’s antenna of faith must constantly be active. Without faith in place, confessing positive which is speaking life and not death becomes a man’s challenge. Have you been saying life is difficult, or have you ever consider life to be difficult? Life is not difficult and it cannot be difficult; you are the one that has been living life in a difficult way. Life can be challenging, but you can always overcome the challenges of life if you choose to go in the right way and not engage the way that seems right to one.
There is a way to live life and to live it abundantly; there is a way to live life and to live it with challenges that will not overtake you. That way is for one to enter life by taking the right steps in deed and in truth. In your entrance, you will not be a pretender and you will stay away from religion but engaged Jesus reality. Jesus said in John 10:9, “I am the door, if anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” If you have entered that door at any time in your life, and you are misrepresenting challenges as difficulties, ask Him to open your understanding. Also, it could be that you have allowed the thief a place in your life. Jesus warned in John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy, I have come that they may have it more abundantly.” Does He answer your question? What He has said, He meant. He has never lied, and He will not lie. Take a moment and begin to re-trace your steps to see if you have entered through the wrong door. If you have entered through the right door, you will be prepared to overcome any challenges because He is fighting your battles. Lift your eyes up unto Him today and ask Him for help. He is a compassionate God and He will have compassion on you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.