FAITH CAPSULE: God knows all those who trust Him. 

2 Kings 6:8-23

Trusting God is not an act of the mouth but belongs to the act of the heart. 
Trusting God is relying on God. 
Trusting God is relying on God. 
Without the fear of God, there is no seeking God. 
One can only seek God when there is trust in God. 
In times of challenges, one who fears God is with character trusting and loving God. 
God testifies about Job as one who fears Him when He spoke to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” (Job 1:8) 
Despite the overwhelming challenges in the life of Job, he could not be silent nor allowed his trust and love for God to become shaken when he stated, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him…” (Job 13:15) 
Job feared God and placed his trust in God.
To fear God indeed and in truth is what it takes to trust in the name of God. 
The Bible makes us realize that the name of God is trustworthy.
His name is a place of refuge and a strong tower for safety. 
Do you know His name or your name about His name? 
Psalm 9:10 states, “Those who know your name will put their trust in You; for You have not forsaken those who seek You.” 
Giving regard to the works of God and the operation of His hand is the way to know to fear God and be able to trust His name. 
Fear God, His works, the operation of His hands that make a way where there is no way. 
Once, the King of Syria was making war against Israel. 
His horses and chariots surrounded the city, and when the servant of Elisha saw the army of Syria, he reacted as one with no trust, but Elisha responded, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw.” (2 Kings 6:16-17) 
What you fear will find you. 
Whenever your fear finds you, you will lose trust in God. 
Know His name; gain trust in God, gain spiritual sight, and begin to see a way where there is no way. 
The servant of Elisha gained sight and trusted God for making a way where there was no way, getting victory in place of defeat. 
God does not sleep nor slumber.
God knows all those who trust Him. He is good to those who trust Him. 
Nahum 1:7 testifies, “The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.” 
Do you truly trust in God, or only talk about your trust in God? 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to be constantly steadfast in trusting Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: What matters does not matter, and will not deny the doing of God.

John 6:1-14

The combination of obeying the word of God and giving thanks to God delivers abundance and phases out lack in any area of life. 
It does not matter where you are or who you are, and it does not matter how lack is causing pain; it does not matter what the challenge is about having a place, but obedience and thanksgiving are engaged shall experience the promise of God.
There was a need for Jesus to feed the multitudes that followed Him. 
The number on the ground for Him to feed was five thousand. 
No provision from any store at the hour of meeting the needs of five thousand could have been abundantly enough.
At the feeding of five thousand, Jesus took the place of provider, one that delivers, that makes a way where there is no way.
Jesus was in place to do the miracle that cancels lack. 
At a place of lack, Jesus commanded His disciples not to let the people go away with empty stomachs. 
It was a deserted area, a place that could never produce enough supply for the demand that was at hand. 
John 6:5 records, “Jesus asked Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?” 
The disciples informed Him that a lad had five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many? 
Are you wondering how lacks shall be met?
What you have on hand can never make up for what you need without Jesus. 
You have found yourself on a challenge posed as a represented deserted ground for you, not having what to meet your needs.
With Jesus, there is a way because nothing is impossible for the maker of all things. 
Jesus turned lack into abundance. 
John 6:10-11 records, “Then Jesus said, make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.” 
The people were obedient, and there was a thanksgiving offering unto the Lord for the little (five barley loaves and two small fish) that became much. 
Are you with the character of giving thanks and being obedient to God to experience abundance in the place of lack?
John 6:12 states, “So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” 
Engage in genuine thanksgiving and obedience according to His direction. 
On the life journey, nothing can substitute for obedience and giving thanks to God. 
God that answers prayer sees all obedience to Him and sacrifice of thanksgiving. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from any spirit that hinders man from obeying and giving thanks to God.   

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to be waiting on God.

1 Samuel 1

Praying is a way of life.
God answers prayer with yes, no, or wait.
One thing God cannot do: God cannot fail!
Are you praying or sleeping before God?
Luke 22:46 records, “…why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”  
Is your prayer at the back seat while temptation drives you into sin to become far from God? 
Jesus, in His Parable of Persistent Widow, pointed out praying before God and not losing heart.
Praying to God with persistence despite experiencing the manifestation is waiting on God. 
The barrenness challenge of Hannah did not stop her from going to Shiloh yearly to worship and sacrifice to God. 
Hannah was persistent until God opened her womb. 
Waiting on God can usually entail staying for either a short or long period. God answers individuals in different ways at His times. 
God will not answer prayer outside of His appointed time.
The Psalmist identified some different lengths of time for waiting: 
Psalm 25:5: “…On you, I will wait all day.” 
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God…” 
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” 
Hosea 12:6, “…wait on your God continually.” 
Philippians 3:20, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” 
The time to wait on God has to be patiently, continually, silently, and eagerly. 
Waiting on God can take longer than expected, but God will always manifest Himself when we patiently wait for Him.
IN TIME OF WAITING
In your waiting, acknowledge God, remind Him, and always make your request known to Him.
Acknowledge God: He is a jealous God, and the antidote to jealousy is attention. 
God enjoys our attention. Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” 
Get to know God in your waiting to be encouraged.
Psalm 25:8 encourages, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He teaches sinners in the way.” (Psalm 25:8) 
Waiting without acknowledging the Lord is waiting in anguish.
Reminding God: Reminding God is not because God has forgotten you. The word of God encourages, “…and concerning the works of my hands, you command me.” (Isaiah 45:11) 
Anyone who remembers the works of His hands will know how to command Him as stated in His word. 
The Psalmist reminded Him in Psalm 25:6, “Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your loving kindnesses…” God is a good and great God. 
Request from God: He wants all to ask. 
Jesus encourages us in Luke 11:9, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”  
Psalm 25:16 encourages all to ask, “Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.” 
He is the God of salvation and not a slave master, and He responds to requests to demonstrate His love for all. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to be waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is a good and caring God.

John 3

Maintain what His word says to attain His promises.
In the word of Moses to the children of Israel, there is a testimony of the loving care for His children.
The loving care for His children states, “The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.” (Deuteronomy 1:30-33) 
God, the unchanging changer, remains consistent with His love for His creation. 
The same way God cares in the Bible days is still the same today. 
The book of John 3:16 also testifies to His love, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 
Indeed, there is nothing a father needs to do for the salvation of his children that God has yet to do. 
God is a good and caring God.
When was the last time you acknowledged the consistent love of God for you? 
Are you serving and walking in the word of God inconsistently? 
Despite the inconsistency before God, God continues to be consistent in His mercy. 
If you will take a moment, ask for His forgiveness; thank Him for His unswerving patience in listening and forgiving all your shortcomings and wicked ways. 
God is worthy of all honor and adoration. 
Seeking God at a convenient time is not seeking Him consistently. 
Ask God for intervention in every area of your life that does not glorify His name. 
It is never too late to turn to God for forgiveness. 
God will not overlook sin, and the word also confirms in Romans 6:1, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” 
Take to the word of God with commitment because He will bring His word to perform it. The Bible recorded in Acts13:18, “Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness” 
Despite His putting up with the Israelites, the Israelites could not maintain the word of God but repeatedly failed. 
God faithfully endures inconsistency of all. 
It is up to one to give to the word of God and not be a victim of the wicked world. 
Maintain what His word says to attain His promises. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God not to miss out on His promise for your life.