FAITH CAPSULE: What one asks for is rooted in what one thinks 

Numbers 14: I-38

Matthew 7:7 informs all to be asking, seeking, and knocking.
What one is asking is rooted in thinking.
In your asking, plead before Him to separate whatever is not of Him that added to you (consciously or unconsciously) become separate from you permanently.
Jabez knew the need to ask from God, to call on God.
1 Chronicles 4:9-10 records, “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.”
Do you know what is clouding your destiny, reducing you consciously or unconsciously?
Jabez knew to call for his name change, but do you know what needs to be changed for you to live life for the glory of God?
Jabez asked for change from God, SO GOD GRANTED HIM WHAT HE REQUESTED.
PRAYER
Ask for the hand of God to answer for you, to separate you permanently from forces reducing you, not to live at your divine assignment.
ASK:
Jabez asks for the hand of God to be with him. Ask that the hand of God that is not short shall continually be with you in all the days He has given you.
ASK:
Jabez asked for change from God, SO GOD GRANTED HIM WHAT HE REQUESTED.
Romans 2:11 states, “For there is no partiality with God.” 
Ask God, not partial, to grant you your request. 
Ask Him to enable you to increase, to enlarge you in all He has called you, for His glory.
ASKING AND THINKING
What are you thinking or asking consciously or unconsciously?
In life, what one asks is what one thinks.
God is God that hears what one asks at all times.
Ephesians 3:20 calls the attention of one who believes not to be ignorant. 
Ignorance makes destitute of a believer.
The Bible states, “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.” (Ephesians 3:20) 
The Israelites think and ask against God, and God hears them respond, sending Moses to them in Numbers 14:28, ” Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.”
All negative confessions of the Israelites followed them to deny twenty years above to arrive at the promise of God.
All negative confessions of the Israelites followed them to deny twenty years above to arrive at the promise of God.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to make meditating on His word and communicating with Him day and night become your way of life. (Meditating/communicating will deny thinking or asking wrong before God.) 
ASK:
God reverses irreversible. Ask Him whatever you are thinking or asking that is not of God to become reversed so that you will not be a victim of what you think or ask. 

FAITH CAPSULE: The name of God is a strong tower.

Daniel 6

Earn a place in the strong tower through constant and persistent prayer 
The Bible declared, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” (Proverb 18:10) 
The name of God is a strong tower to run to.
What a mighty God we serve! 
In His name, there is power to preserve and deliver anyone who runs to His name.
One of the most powerful ways to run to his name is to seek Him in prayer. 
Prayerfully, the psalmist ran to the strong tower asking, “Save me O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your strength. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. (Psalm 54:1-2) 
Know to run to the strong tower by asking, seeking, and knocking for deliverance and preservation.
David testifies his running to the strong tower, “As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.” (Psalm 55:16-17) Again, David is also saying that prayer is what it means to run to the strong tower. 
He stated his prayer schedule as morning, noon, and evening times. Praying only during Sunday service will not serve one as praying constantly and consistently. 
It is worth making prayer as a way of life the character of one that knows the strong tower.
How are you responding to seeking deliverance and preservation in this challenging life?
The word testifies to the response of Daniel to the signing of King Darius’s decree that called for banning prayer in his kingdom. 
Daniel 6:10 states, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”  
Daniel had no reason to call around for a prayer partner at his challenge times because he was conversant, knowing to run to the strong tower.
Daniel adopted a lifestyle calling on the name of God, morning, noon, and evening time. 
As a result, Daniel could not be violated even in a den of hungry lions.
The name of God is a strong tower, and David could not be quiet from calling on His name in the face of his enemies. 
He stated, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:24) 
Work the word of God; have a place in the strong tower by constant and persistent prayer; engage in non-stop praising. 
How is your way of life?
God is a caring God. 
Let it be a way of life running to the strong tower.

Prayer for today: Ask that running to the strong tower shall be a way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: A choice to live out of God will be a mark of such.

John 8

In your confession, is He confirmed in you?
Jesus, in His journeying, arrived at a place He entered into the temple early in the morning. 
While He was in the temple, all the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them. 
While Jesus was in the temple, scribes and Pharisees were also present, and Jesus taught them.
In His teaching, they tested Him so that they might have something to accuse Him. 
In response to the people in the temple, He stated, “…I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12) 
The Pharisees responded to the statement of Jesus, “The Pharisees therefore said to Him, “You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true.” (John 8:13) 
The Bible also identifies it that in the same temple, there were also people who believed.
In the documentation of the temple, what is your response to Jesus? 
Whose side are you in the temple?  
Are you on the side of the scribes, the Pharisees, or those who believe? 
Jesus, having engaged all, responded to all, “Then they took stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” (John 8:59) 
Is your response in alignment with the Jews?

Are you in an attempt to stone Jesus?
Have you unknowingly been throwing stones at Jesus? 
The Jews at that time picked up stones to throw at Him, but He hid himself and slipped away from the temple grounds. 
If you have confessed Christ and your confession does not demonstrate the way of your life, then you are on the side of stoning-throw at Jesus. Do you know if you are throwing stones at Him? 
Jesus left the temple to move forward, and the Bible records, “Now Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.” (John 9:1) 
Jesus could not look away from meeting the blind man and healed him. Which side are you on? 
Are you on the stone-throwing side (destructive end) like the persecutors or the healing side (receiving end) like that of the blind man? 
Ask God to help you to no longer live a deceptive life. 
Have you confessed to Jesus, but Jesus is not confirmed in your life? 
A choice to live out of God, deception will be a mark of such.
Jesus made a way to pass by stone-throwing ones. 
He came to give sight to those that cannot see. 
His coming was not for destruction but to deliver. 
He came to give hope to those who have lost hope. 
Be on the receiving end, and He will not pass by you.
Do not be a stone-throwing one, but become one seeking Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His grace to deliver you to the receiving end. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Be awake and know that you are to gain the presence of God.

Luke 22:1-46

After the institution of the Lord’s Supper, the disciples contend about Greatness (attempting to know which of them should be considered the greatest).
Jesus predicted the denial of Him by Peter.
The disciples followed Jesus to the Mount of Olives. 
Luke 22:40 records, “When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”  
By the disciples’ experiences with Jesus, one would have expected a vigorous prayer from the disciples, but they fell asleep instead of praying. 
Luke 22:45 records, “When He rose up from prayer and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.”  
In the face of the wickedness of this world, a believer that replaces prayer time for sleeping is sleeping for sorrow. 
Does that sound like you?
To be locked up is not the time for sleeping but for praying.
Paul the apostle and Silas did not go to sleep but were praying at the time of being locked up.
Paul and Silas could not be quiet while awake but prayed and sang hymns to God. 
They did not sleep from sorrow, and heaven attended to them for their deliverance. 
As a believer, when praying becomes the custom, sleeping from sorrow sleep shall have no place. 
Peter had a sorrowful sleep.
Having a death sentence carried out by the enemy is not the time for sleeping. 
Peter slumbered and slept when he was supposed to be praying. 
Thank God he had people praying for Peter.
Peter could not afford to sleep,
It is not good to be sleeping while you are still in battle. 
How long have you been sleeping? 
Now that you are awake before the trumpet sounds, do you know where you are going or how to move? 
There is a need to be awake, not sleeping in the wicked world.
Acts 12:11 records, “And when Peter had come to himself, he said, ‘now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectations of the Jewish people.’ So, when he had considered this, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying.” 
Life is not a place of sleeping off from God but awake spiritually.
Be awake and know that you are to gain the presence of God.
Peter knew where to go after his sorrowful sleep. 
He went to a house of prayer before he could think of any other place to go. 
It is after sleep for you. 
Do not go back to the sleeping ground again. 
After sleeping, Peter went to a place of prayer to retain and gain an escape route.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live by staying awake and not to miss the place of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not allow failure to have its way. 

Acts 9:1-22

The Bible records how Saul (before he became Apostle Paul) was breathing threats and murder attempts against the disciples of the Lord Jesus before he encountered his calling.
Saul was to go for his destructive act against the disciples at the synagogues of Damascus, with permission from the high priest (Acts 9:1-2). 
Acts 9:3-6 records, “As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”  
Paul the apostle received his calling trembling and astonished. 
Jesus gave him direction for his calling, which changed his story forever.
When God calls you, He will back you up. 
God called Saul.
God is always looking for someone whose heart is ready to receive His calling. 
Are you looking forward to the calling of God over your life? 
Wait on the Lord. 
God will call you at His appointed time.
In the calling, there is a preparation by Him for His process time. 
Every growing process is the time of training for where His calling will send you. 
When God calls, and there is the answer, He will establish you. 
Before He establishes you, stay focused and be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. 
In your training, give Him all the attention; do not force anything that He did not deposit in you. 
Do not fake it, and do not fight a war that is not yours. 
You have been doing the work of the Lord for quite a while, and He will establish you. 
Remain focused on the Lord, and His hand to establish you shall not fail.
The focus of Samuel enabled him not to miss the calling of God. 
1 Samuel 3:20 states, “And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.” 
The establishment of Samuel was the process time of God, a divine schedule, not his world that announced him. 
Anyone that God established does not have to campaign. Introduction by having a business card or advertisement shall not be relevant. 
Be patient in the Lord, and let Him see you through with preparation that answers to the process time.
So many could not wait and fell before they went very far in where they were going. 
Do not allow failure to have its way.

Prayer for today: Over your life, ask that your faith to answer will not fail.