FAITH CAPSULE: A miracle is only from God, not magic.

Acts 3

In every expectation to receive from God, giving attention is a key to manifestation.
When Peter and John went to the temple at the hour of prayer, they encountered one man who was lame from the womb of his mother.
The lame man, in his poor situation, was only asking for alms. 
On that faithful day, getting alms was replaced with the answer, which was reasonable in his direction.
Acts 3:4-5 records, “Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.”  
With attention, are you looking for the right source for your breakthrough? 
In every expectation to receive from God, giving attention is a key to manifestation. 
The lame man was called for his attention by Peter.
In looking for divine intervention, there must be an expectation fixed on God to experience manifestation.
Peter commanded the lame man to look up for expectation before he gave his attention to manifestation. 
In every area of your expectation, looking up to God with devoted attention is the only way to receive. 
No one should be calling on God and start looking for a godfather with expectations from God.
Looking for a godfather after praying to God is a diluted faith and is not evidence of looking up to Father God for expectation. 
Understanding to begin to look up and hear from God alone is also a way of directing attention to receive from God.
Another lame man heard from Paul and gained a position to receive his healing breakthrough from stagnation into motion. 
Acts 14:8-10 records, “In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed, and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.”  
In life, whatever man listens to is bound to have a direct effect on militating challenges. 
The man experienced the miracle of motion in the place of stagnation when he heard the word of Paul.
All his crippled life must have escaped hearing positive words of healing. The word only serves healing for those who can listen and hear. 
Faith to heal is in hearing and hearing the word of God. 
The man heard the word through Paul, and not only did he stand on his feet as Paul spoke to him, but he leaped! 
Are you experiencing being grounded physically or spiritually for too long? Listen; give attention to the word of positivity of God in your direction. You will end up dancing for the Lord. 
Your stagnation will turn to motion in the name of Jesus. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace that your ears be open to word of deliverance and preservation when it sounds in your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is to be seriously engaged.

Genesis 18, 19

Those who know to take the word seriously are the ones God knows to talk to.
Are you hearing from God for your deliverance and preservation?
Have you been engaging the word of God with seriousness or with a joke? Knowing to do what the word says and not doing it is disobedience to the word of God. 
Disobeying the word of God is an indirect way of taking the word of God for a joke. 
A joke is something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement.; a matter that need not be very serious or does not present the expected challenge. 
The word of God is not to be taken as a joke.
God spoke to Abraham, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” (Genesis 18:20-21) 
When God was to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of sin, He spoke to Abraham, and Abraham took the word of God seriously. 
Abraham took the word of God seriously and repeatedly interceded on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah, but there was nothing in place for God not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. 
God revealed His word to Abraham for the deliverance of Lot from destruction set for Sodom and Gomorrah.
The angels sent to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah approached Lot and said, “…Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place! For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” (Genesis 19:12-13) 
How much one knows God (not knowing about Him) will also determine how seriously one takes His word. 
Lot knew God enough not to take His word for a joke. 
Lot, not wanting his people not to be consumed by destruction, responded to the messengers of God, “So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.” (Genesis 19:14) 
God is not a comedian. 
God is not in prank.
Every single word of God should not be a joke. 
If you do not obey the word of God, you have taken it for a joke. 
There was no further indication that the sons-in-law followed Lot to the ground to escape from destruction. 
You can avoid destruction by taking to the word of God. 
The word of God is for deliverance and preservation from destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask that the hand of God for deliverance and preservation will rest upon you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Inquiring from God is going after the heart of God.

1 Samuel 30

Inquiring from God is the character of one going after the heart of God.
David was going after the heart of God.
King David, a man of war, had a relationship with God. 
God identified David as a man after His heart. 
He brought down Goliath, a giant who stood between the Israelites and peace. 
On numerous occasions, he unsettled the arch-enemy (Philistines) of the Israelites. 
David was bound to become King before he became the King. 
Despite his knowing, he did not upset the plan of God for his life by trying to get to the throne before the appointed time. 
How often have you caused a diversion for yourself in an attempt to make the plans of God happen before the appointed time of God? 
David did not take the life of King Saul to become King before the timing of God for himself. 
David could have killed Saul and become the King before the time of God. He had good reason to kill Saul but chose to run and hide from cave to cave, wilderness to wilderness, and from one priest to another. 
It is worthy of note that, among the characteristics of David that must have identified him as a man after the heart of God was his constant inquiring from God. 
At a time when King Saul was after his life, David wanted to keep his father and mother safe. 
1 Samuel 22:3 records, “Then David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the King of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.” So he brought them before the King of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.”  
The same David refused to take the situation into His hands by taking it to the hands of God before going after the Amalekites who burned the city and took captive wives, sons, and daughters of his men. 
1 Samuel 30:8 records, “David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”  David disallowed his past glory from replacing his reliance on God for direction. 
As directed by God after his inquiring, “…David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all.” (1 Samuel 30:17-19) 
Inquiring from God is going after the heart of God, demonstrating faith, and taking a position to attain great exploit.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of constant and complete reliance on God.  

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the word of God.

Psalm 107

The word of God is power.
Power belongs to God.
Psalm 138:2 informs all, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
The word of God has the power to heal and to deliver. 
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”  
His word is here for any who will engage His word for deliverance and preservation. 
Are you still waiting for the word of God to bring forth your deliverance and preservation? 
Hebrews 4:12 states, “For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
The word of God, by its power, demands our time. 
Are you giving time to study the word of God or skimming through the pages of His word?
All that is needed most in this world is His word. 
The word of God is for our learning. 
Romans 15:4 admonishes, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” 
Are you spending time studying the word of God or the world? 
For those who are spending time on the word of God, the word of God will no doubt work for those in this world of wickedness. 
Anyone spending time for the world more than word needs readjustment of time. 
Are you expecting the word of God to answer on your behalf when you have not been giving yourself to the word of God? 
The word of God cannot fail and will not fail. 
The book of Isaiah 55:11 declares, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” 
The word of God demands obedience. 
Obedience to the word of God manifests the evidence of God.
Take it to mind and know that man can make all the noise quoting the word of God, but a failure not to allow the word of God to become a garment will cause one to become naked and exposed to the wickedness of this world. 
Romans 10:17 states, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Are you in a position to be hearing the word? 
Is the word sinking into you? 
When the word is not sinking into one, it becomes impossible for faith to rise. 
Give yourself to the word; allow faith to rise and become one who pleases God. 
Remember, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
Let the word of God grow your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will take its place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have you considered which way you are walking before God?

Psalm 139

There is a way of everlasting, and there is a way of eternal damnation. Both ways do not complement each other.
No one can avoid the consequences of the choice of the two to walk.
Which of the two ways you are walking?
The way everlasting is to God, just as the way to eternal damnation is to the devil. 
Psalm 90:2 testifies, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”  
Psalm 145:13 states, “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.”  
Daniel 4:3 states, “How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.”  
John 3:16 states, “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.” 
The above scriptural verses testify to where God is and where he will be. Where God is will also be a place for all His obedient children. 
Have you considered engaging the way everlasting? 
Consciously or unconsciously, the wicked ones take to the way of eternal damnation. 
Is wickedness your way of life?
Which way of life are you engaging before God, who sees all?
Wickedness operates from the heart. 
Jeremiah testifies, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) 
Deceiving, lying, and manipulating life is wicked, making way for eternal damnation.
Are you keeping your heart to avoid missing everlasting by ending up in eternal damnation? 
The word of God points out a way of avoiding eternal damnation by stating, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Eternal damnation must be a “no-go” place. 
The Psalmist wanted to make sure that the way of eternal damnation is not portion when he spoke, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
By you inquiring, know it today that you have not engaged the way of the wicked, the way to eternal damnation. 
The ones whose word of God is near in their mouth but far from their heart are the wicked ones. 
Evidently, across the pages of the Bible, it is clear that wicked ones head into the way of eternal damnation. 
Make the right choice and trust God for the help of enablement to engage the way to everlasting and not eternal damnation.
Determination will not be enough to deliver anyone, but with desire, living the life of prayer before God is the way, not to be a candidate of eternal damnation. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to keep you away from the way of eternal damnation.