FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking God by His word will not fail to locate God.

Exodus 19, Psalm 47

Sanctification before the sacrifice is the evidence of understanding and knowledge to locate God without failure. 
When God sent Samuel to go and anoint, to separate David as a living sacrifice, He sent him with a message for Jesse, “…I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.’ Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.” (1 Samuel 16:5) In this message, it is clear that sanctification (consecration, dedication) comes before sacrifice. 
Also, once, the children of Israel were to present themselves before God, “So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.’” (Exodus 19:14-15), Throughout the Bible, sanctification always has come before sacrifice.
Samuel and Moses called for sanctification before the sacrifice of God.
With understanding and knowledge, let sanctification be in place before sacrifice to assess or provoke the hand of God in your favor. 
Are you with a devotion mind to surrender before God?
That is, are you with sanctification with the mind of sacrifice before God?
Seek God with dedication (sanctification), expecting your sacrifice (surrender) to become acceptable.
For example, sacrificial praise is rooted in sanctification for one to gain the presence of God.
How is your praise before God when you come before him?
Psalm 47:7 admonishes all about praising God, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” 
Understanding sacrificial praise rooted in devotion (sanctification) before God will gain the presence of God. 
Praising God should not necessarily be in noise-making; praising God should not be an entertaining man; praising God does not have to be in self-pride but lifting the name of God. 
If believers confess with sincere and genuine hearts (the act of dedication before God) then praising is a sacrifice to locate the presence of God. 
God inhabits the praises of His people. 
When God is in your sacrificial praises, your enemies will become ambushed, and victory will become your portion. 
Who should praise God? 
Without any exemption, all should praise God while having a life.
The Psalmist said so, “I will sing praises to the Lord while I have my being.” (Psalm 146:2) 
In several pages of the Bible, those who fear Him should praise Him. Praise Him with the voice of joy, harp, and melody; praise Him among the people or in your secret closet. Psalm 34:1 states, “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Praising Him all the time will raise you to Him. 
Live life by the word of God to gain His presence in all your ways.

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding of God to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the order of God as a way of life.

Numbers 20

Walking in disorder will prevent one from getting to the promise of God.
In life, no man is above giving to be giving oneself to the order of God.
Once, Moses received an order from God but delivered with his disorder.
Numbers 20:8 records the order of God for Moses, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”  
Moses gave himself to disorder by striking instead of speaking to the rock.
Moses called the people rebels. 
To be out of the order of God is to be out of direction to the promise of God.
Moses was to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land but could not step into the Promised Land.
In the word of God, get yourself in order of God.
The word of God is in order, and the word of God is consistently constant to bring orderliness to life of obedience to His word.
Are you approaching life by keeping the order of God without failure?
In the word of God, there is no compromise to displace order with the disorder. 
From January till today, placing disorder in the place of the order will deliver a negative result. 
Nothing that is not good is bound to bring out no good. 
As an acclaimed believer of the word of God, there should not be an excuse to give self to disorder. 
If you have started any journey in order, there is a need to maintain orderliness to experience a positive result. 
Did you start the year in order? 
Have you switched to disorder this year?
One in disorder is bound to set outside of the purpose of God.
With God in place as the leader, there should be order. 
Will you allow God to take the leadership of your life?
Psalm 32:8 encourages the promise in the word of God that says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
Psalm 32:8 encourages the promise in the word of God that says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
God waits to lead in the life of all who will give themselves to His leadership without force but by choice.
God is God, and He is God who acts for those who wait for Him.
Today, in your journey, know that the order of God is direction, like the password that will access one to a breakthrough.
Challenges such as opposition, hindrance, and confusion are inevitable, but giving oneself to the order of God will lead to the right way.
Before God, no excuse counts for disobedience.
Walking in disorder is outside of the order of God.
Today, place yourself in order in the word of God to reach the calling of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you in place of order.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know that nothing is too difficult for God to do.

Mark 10: 46-52

Are you too quiet to ask?
The word of God states, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Mathew 7:7-8)
Do you know to quit and not be able to persist?
Challenges or situations demand crying out to God for His intervention.
Bible times, a roadside beggar decided to cry out to Jesus for his deliverance and come out of his dust location.
The Bible records one blind Bartimaeus Timaeus sitting on the dusty roadside.
Lameness kept him grounded.
To be grounded on the roadside is to be decorated with dust and be denied living a meaningful life.
Are you living life in a dusty roadside situation?
Do you know for sure that the God of yesterday is the same today?
Know that nothing is too difficult for God to do.
The Bible records that the lame man refused to be quiet by calling out to Jesus, “When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”(Mark 10:47) Despite his condition, all he needed to do to have his circumstances turned around was to listen, hear and see that his deliverance was at hand.
He cried out and did not remain quiet.
Are you one who hears but cannot see past your hearing?
The day that the blind man heard that Jesus was near, he saw deliverance from his ground of stagnation, “And throwing his garment, he rose and came to Jesus.” (Mark 10:50)
When the blind man threw his garment of dust, shame departed from him.
Do you hear and not see that the Lord is nearer to you than you know?
Bartimaeus Timaeus cried out to Jesus and received his sight.
It was mentioned that he immediately followed Jesus on the road.
It is impossible to follow Jesus with good sight and open eyes and not see the goodness of God.
The story of the blind man changed for the better because he regained his sight to follow Jesus.
Do not let Him pass by you without crying out to Him.
Cry out for His help until He gives heed to your crying.
Ignore the reaction of the multitude in an attempt to shut your crying out.
Bartimaeus Timaeus, the roadside beggar, became the roadside miracle man when he refused to be quiet but loud.
The “road duster” became the “roadmaster” when he cried out loud at the God Master.
God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
God is not a partial God not to answer to calling Him.
Call out to God alone.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to miss your day of deliverance.

FAITH CAPSULE: It will be the timing of God to expose the wicked one. 

Psalm 37

Are you afraid of evildoers or envious of the workers of iniquity?
The Psalmist warns, “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.” (Psalm 37:1)  
The evidence of being fretful of the evildoers is in not resting in the promises of God, not knowing that the wickedness is not beyond God.
One that does not trust in God troubles much and no longer rests in the Lord. 
Also, those who are envious of the workers of iniquity demonstrate that they are no longer resting in the Lord but rusting away. 
Indeed, the wicked are here to stay until the time of God to take them away.
The same Psalm 37 gave the prescription of what it takes to ignore the wicked ones by stating, “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” (Psalm 37:3) 
Let the Lord take care of His business concerning the wicked. 
Nothing gets past the Lord that is beyond intervention from God. 
The Lord God sees and knows all things that exist. 
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 admonishes, “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. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” 
Fear God for your own and not fret because of the evil doers. 
God alone knows when to execute His punishment over the wicked with the choice not to repent before God.
Jeremiah questioned, “…Why does the way of the wicked prosper? 
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
God does not sleep or slumber and the evidence is for all to concentrate on pleasing God working God’s works rather than questioning His response to the wicked. 
The honest question is, are you a wicked one? 
Is the word of God near in your mouth but far from your mind? 
No wickedness is excusable before God. 
God will judge all the wicked ones.
Psalm 37:2 states, “…They shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”  
One will experience deception, and the world can experience lies, but God cannot look over the wickedness on earth.

Prayer for today: Ask God to touch your heart and bring you out of every way of wickedness.

FAITH CAPSULE: A believer who cannot stand in prayer will fall in pain.

Luke 11:1-8, Mark 11:20-26

Are you experiencing a hindrance to prayer when you take a stand? The Word stated, “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him that your Father in heaven may also forgive your trespasses.”
Are you holding one unforgiving?
Among the roots of being unable to forgive is pride.
Pride can be described as a personal ride to self-destruction.
Pride does not have a place before God but sets one with pride away from the presence of God.
Unforgiving one another is one of the reasons for pride.
Are you giving yourself pride?
One with pride hardly realizes the spirit of repentance before God.
Pride is the character that takes a position to fail before God.
Pride will not allow prayer to pass beyond the house roof.
Disciples of Jesus approached Him, asking to be taught how to pray.
Jesus states, “And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us” (Luke 11:4). This makes it clear that before God can forgive a debt of sin, one must have been able to forgive others.
Unforgiveness is a prayer-hindering spirit.
An unforgiving Christian has taken the position of an unfulfilling mission.
Christians are on a mission of fulfillment driven by answered prayer.
How long do you think you can go without self-hindered prayer?
Believers should constantly assess themselves before God; otherwise, one on a mission journey will be prematurely terminated.
It cannot be emphasized enough when Jesus states in Mark 11:25, “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him that your Father in heaven may also forgive your trespasses.”
A believer who cannot stand in prayer will fall in pain and not gain the presence of God.
God wants all to be constant and consistent in forgiving those who are indebted.
In life, one who knows the importance of forgiving knows to stand in place for prayer breakthroughs.
Today, if you will forgive others, you have an open door to a miracle of getting an answer over a long-awaited breakthrough.
Allow God to work on your behalf by flushing out unforgiving spirits.
Allow God to work on your behalf by flushing out unforgiving spirits.
Praying with a forgiving spirit is a mountain-moving prayer.
God cannot be deceived, and He sees the heart of all.
Word buttressed, “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.” (Proverbs 20:27)
None can go to God with a claim of forgiveness, while the layer of unforgiving exists in the inner depth of the heart.
It is important to know, “…if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” (Mark 11:26)
One living with pride is not with God.
God is Holy. With sin, no one can see Him.

Prayer for today: Ask to be delivered from the spirit of not forgiving.