FAITH CAPSULE: Understand and know to wait on God.

Isaiah 40

When expectation is not in place, discouragement takes over.
Delays can be discouraging when there is a lack of manifestation of expectations. 
As a believer who knows God, delay is not a denial by God. 
Wait on God with all the heart, not with the mouth.
Waiting on God cannot be wasted. 
Isaiah 64:4 encourages, “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.” 
Delay, Denial, and doubt can be persistent in life, prompting discouragement, but God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Pray to be encouraged, and God will not fail you. Wait on Him!
It is understanding and knowledge to wait and gain from God.
Wait on God, walk by His word.
Disobedient to God is walking against the word of God as iniquity.
With iniquity, there is no place to hide before God. 
Is the iniquity of you before God?
Job makes all realize there is no hiding place before God. 
Job 34:22 records, “There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” 
Hiding your iniquity from all cannot possibly hide from God.
Jonah was called but snubbed God and could not hide but walked against the word of God.
Jonah was called to Nineveh but fled to Tarshish to become exposed to pain.
Are you like Jonah? 
In your waiting do not walk against the word of God.
In your waiting let your thought be right before God.
What thinking or asking before God shall provoke the move of God?
What are you looking for?
What you are thinking is what you are asking, and what you are asking is what you are thinking. 
Ephesians 3:20 confirms, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” 
The word of God in you is the power to provoke an answer.
Always think or ask positively for yourself or others to experience positive transformation. 
In your waiting on God know that
God alone is worthy.
In the delay of your expectation to become manifested, turning away from God shall not have a place in such.
Why not pray that God enables you to turn to Him in all your expectations, keeping your eyes on Him?
Whatever one looks up to, turning eyes beside God, is identified as worthless.
The Psalmist prayed against looking at worthlessness. 
Psalm 119:37 records, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way.”
God reverses the irreversible.
He shall revive you.

Prayer for today: Ask that the goodness and mercy of God begin to answer over your life, not to look at worthless things, but to keep eyes on Him as a way of life.

FAITH MAIL: Are you whining in the place of waiting on God?

Isaiah 64

Whining before God does not have to be in the place of waiting.
Be encouraged by waiting on God.
What is your expectation that is yet to manifest?
Are you waiting on God or whining before God?
Know that it is not how long but how far God has brought you.
Waiting on God to find God is undeniable.
To live by the word of God is to find Him.
The word of God is His presence.
The word of God is God (John 1:1)
The word of God does not return Him void. (Isaiah 55:11)
God sent His word to heal and to deliver from destruction. (Psalm 107:20)
The word of God is His promise to be engaged in trust and hope.
Without a doubt, trust and hope in God shall provoke His blessing.
Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.”
With an understanding of the promises of God, in His word, wait on God to find God unfailingly.
One who trusts without having hope is not giving to gaining the blessing of God.
Waiting on God (the word of God) is a channel to gain the presence of God.
In waiting on God, one cannot find God by looking up to God with one eye while looking down at the world with the other eye in an attempt to find God.  
With patience, look up to God alone when waiting for Him to find Him.
God is a good God, a prayer answering God.
God answers prayer with YES, NO, or WAIT.
God is a God who waits to act for those who wait on Him.
It is a blessing to trust and have hope waiting for God.
In waiting and praying, one who does not pray a miss is bound not to miss God in prayer.
Praying amiss will not gain the presence of God.
James 4:3 admonishes all, “You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” 
God is a caring God, evident in the word of Isaiah 64:4, the character of God saying, “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.
The word of God does not return to Him void.
When God waits for those who wait on Him, things will be in place to respond to those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:5 identifies such: You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways.
In waiting on God with understanding:
God will meet one who rejoices.
He will meet those who do righteousness.
God will meet one who remembers Him in His ways.
There is always a condition to get Him to act when waiting on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable me to be waiting on God at all times.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do right, let understanding occupy your waiting on God

1 Samuel 13

Wait on God, deny worrying to gain from God.
Waiting on God is seeking God. 
Waiting on God demands patience. 
Waiting on God is an avenue of resting on God for the manifestation of expectation at the appointed time of God.
God, in His goodness, extends assurance of waiting for those who wait for Him. 
Isaiah 30:18 states, “Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice.” 
God does not lie. 
God, in His goodness and mercy, will not fail when waiting for Him. 
The assurance of waiting on God to gain His presence states, “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.” (Isaiah 64:4) 
God is the God who acts for the ones who wait for Him. 
Are you waiting on God for direction and deliverance? 
In this wickedness, understanding and knowledge demand waiting on God. 
What is it that will deny you from not waiting on God? Lamentation 3:25 assures the goodness of God in waiting for those who wait on Him, “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seek Him.” 
There are many benefits to gain from waiting on God. 
Isaiah 40:31 testifies, “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.” (Isaiah 40:31) 
Journeying in this world demands strength that is obtainable in waiting on God. 
Waiting on God to gain strength will get one to the expected end. 
For one that waits on God, such will walk in the place to run. 
Also, it will be impossible to run where the journey demands walking. Have you been walking in the place to run?
A failure to meditate on the word of God is an avenue to forget His works and not wait on Him.
The Israelites failed to meditate and could not wait on God as they wasted away in the wilderness. Psalm 106:13-14, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.”
King Saul could not wait but failed to get to the expected end of the journey of life. 
Samuel commanded King Saul to wait for a burnt offering. 
King Saul could not wait but wrongly engaged in sacrificial offerings. Samuel responded to the failure of King Saul, not waiting on God, “…but now your kingdom shall not continue…” (1 Samuel 13:14)
King Saul could not wait but failed in the journey of the expected end.
From this beginning, wait on God as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the understanding and knowledge to be waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Begin to look forward to the coming days, weeks, and months.

Numbers 21: 4-9, Matthew 6:25-34

Is there any reason for discouragement and worry in your life?
The word of God is more than enough to encourage all not to dwell in discouragement.
Philippians 4:6-7 buttresses, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” 
Discouragement is not of God.
Discouragement is a maneuver of the enemy and is rooted in worrying. 
It is discouragement that will expose one and set one up for destruction. Matthew 6:25-27 records the warning of Jesus against worrying, “Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” 
Is there any reason for worrying in your life? 
Established discouragement is rooted in worrying.
The children of Israel saw the deliverance of God when He brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred. 
God gave the promise for the Israelites to take the Promised Land.
The spirit of worrying overwhelms to provoke a lack of faith to wait on the promise of the Promised Land.
Discouragent became a cloud over the Israelites.
The Bible records the cause and consequence of the discouragement of the Israelites, “Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many of the people of Israel died.”
The case of the deadly bite was due to discouragement that was rooted in worrying and complaint. 
The Israelites complained about the quality of bread provided by God.
The provision of God was not satisfactory enough for the Israelites. 
Does that sound like your case? 
The Israelites also complained about the lack of water and called the provision of God as worthless. 
Indeed, a worthless complaint caused them untimely death.
By knowing and understanding the awesomeness of God, be encouraged. Do not be discouraged; engage in worshipping God but not worry; above all, be still and know that God alone is God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled against discouragement and not to become a victim of worrying.