FAITH CAPSULE: Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.

Psalm 104

Adopt the habit of giving thanks to God for His visitation.
Thanking God should be continuous.
Waiting to be convenient before thanking God is not enough.
Make it a way of like thanking God at all times for all things.
Thanking for all things is what makes all things work together for the glory of God.
Thank God continuously, not on a particular day of the year.
Thanking God should be a way of life for all created by God.
God creates all.
Thanking God is praising God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
The word of God that calls for praising God at breath also demands thanking God at breath.
To praise at breath is to thank God at every moment.
Thanking God, praising God, the way of seeking God.
Psalm 47:7, recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising God is with understanding, giving thanks to God should be with understanding.
Give Him thanks with understanding.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With the understanding of thanking God, Jesus thanks God for raising Lazarus from the dead after four days in the grave.
John 11:41-42 records, “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me…”
A meaningful, heartfelt thanksgiving to God, with understanding, will provoke the presence of God.
The word of God does not lie; only the world is full of lies.
To be alive is a privilege of God; it is not a right; to be alive is of mercy, and it is not of merit.
Think of it, to be alive, able to see the light of a new day, eyes functioning, legs not stagnant, mind in the right condition, all the above demands thanking God every moment.
To be alive is not the right of anyone but a privilege of God.
Think, whatever keeps you from opening your mouth wide to thank God has to cease.
From today, make it a pattern of life to thank God with understanding.  
Seek God, appreciating Him for the grace of being alive.
Do not plan for the season outside God; it is an error that will reduce one before God.
God alone is more than worthy of all praise and adoration.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you with strength and understanding, and keep thanking God unceasingly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Having fear and no faith in God is the fuel of instability.

Psalm 34

A raging storm, expected or not, is always the center of every challenge that persists or resists and does not cease.
Having fear and no faith in God is the fuel of instability that offsets a victim of challenges.
In the face of challenges, give in trust and hope in God, which enables faith to rise for fear to sink.
Let the word of God, which never fails, uphold you always.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Answering as living by the word of God (righteous) is not an exemption from experiencing challenges, but God shall deliver.
Fear is the orchestration of the devil.
Fear the work of the devil is to sink anyone who looks not in the word of God, which is the source of faith.
Job, a great man of God, testified, “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.” (Job 3:25)
Job faced his challenge by looking outside of God, which would have upheld him against fear.
Imagine Job, a man terrified by God and yet looked out of God, to become a victim of fear that is not in God.
Job 1:8 records, “…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?”
Without doubt, fear will always come with challenge, but having faith should be in place, knowing that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19)
Imagine Job, a man of great stature in the hand of God, with challenges of fear, attempting to reduce him?
Are you with challenging fears?
Know to have trust and hope in the word of God for deliverance.
Psalm 107:20 encourages, stating, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Without any doubt, the devil orchestrates or fuels challenges.
Imagine Peter sank in fear?
Peter walked with Jesus to observe miracles, yet allowed fear to overtake his life.
In the middle of the storm, Peter had fear.
When Jesus walked on the storm towards Peter and his disciples, Peter could not keep his focus on increasing his faith to walk with Jesus in the storm.
The Bible records, “…And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:29-30)
In the word of God, there is faith for deliverance, but looking into the face of fear, there is a way to sink.
What is your storm?
In your challenging fear is your storm.
Ignore the storm to embrace strength.
David encouraged himself in the word of God, and he stepped into his storm.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the spirit of fear.

FAITH CAPSULE: Worrying is seeking after want in the place of need.

Matthew 6

Worrying in the place of waiting on God is the testimony of error.
When one proposes to build outside of God, worrying will take charge and lead to destruction.
Knowing to embrace the provision of need by God instead of want, worrying shall not have a place.
Philippians 4:19 records the promise of God, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
One who sees it in the word of God will know how to receive and become of the word of God.
With a delay in manifestation of need, it should not be evidence running outside of God.
Why are you worrying when Jesus said, “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?” (Matthew 6:25-27)
Why do you have to worry when our creator says to His creation not to worry?
Worrying is a device of the enemy to deny one from serving God with a whole heart.
When God says do not, the enemy is around to say do.
God spoke to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
The word of God to Jeremiah speaks to all without exception.
Evidently, God knows the end from the beginning.
By virtue of this, it is true that whatever God proposes, no man can dispose.
What God disposes, no man can propose it.
Most times, when man proposes to build outside of God, worry will take charge and lead to destruction.
Genesis 11:4 documents the character of wanting, outside of God, as stated, “And they said, ‘Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The proposed building was not the problem, but the motive behind the proposal conflicted with the Almighty God of creation.
The people were not Godly-minded; they were planning outside of God, which prompted challenging worry.
What is it that you want that is not in the plan of God?
The proposal that does not center on God is an indirect withdrawal from the only One who can make or unmake the fulfillment of any proposal. Avoid unexpected worrying by taking your proposal to the Almighty God, who has seen the future from the past.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to seek after God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God Hater and those who accompany shall answer to God.

John 4:1-45

Hatred is not of God.
Harboring hatred is not hidden from God, who sees the affairs of all.
One can trump hate, but God will deny trumpeted hatred at the appointed time.
Harboring hatred hinders progress.
Harboring hatred is a track that leads to failure in every area of life.
Occupying a position is not an excuse for hatred.
One who identifies a hater but supports such is a harbinger of hate.
Answering as a believer or an unbeliever does not allow harboring hatred.
Proverbs 10:18 testified about hatred as a liar, “Whoever hides hatred has lying lips…”
By the word, lying lips hide hatred.
Seek to know who you are.
Jesus, the Truth, could not hide hatred through His ministry.
As a result of His truthfulness, He decided to go through Samaria on His way from Judea to Galilee.
Going through Samaria is often forbidden by the Jews because of hatred for the Samaritans.
Jesus could have avoided Samaria because of the hatred of Jews towards Samaria, but He came in love through Samaria.
Are you a believer with hatred, directly or indirectly?
It was on the hate-polluted route that Jesus was able to plant one of the most effective testimonies of salvation.
Jesus bypassed hatred to allow the revelation of living water to come to life and become more distinct.
At the route of Samaria, the love of Jesus enabled Him to encounter a Samaritan woman to whom He asked for water.
Jesus, the living water, purposely requested water that initiated His evangelism, introducing living water to the Samaritan woman.
Going through hated Samaria, with love, Jesus made it known to the Samaria woman, “…Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14)
The woman received the message of Jesus with joy as she left her water pot and went to testify to the love of Jesus.
The well of salvation is deep, and everyone has to draw for the living water.
The Samaritan woman, through her encounter with Jesus, gained salvation, strength, and a song of salvation.
By virtue of her gain, the Bible records, “The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ‘Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” Then they went out of the city and came to Him.” (John 4:28-30)
Hatred is never going to win.
Temporarily, hatred might prevail, but it will never establish itself as the winner.
One can trump hate along with those who accompany, but God will deny trumpeted hate at His appointed time for the progress of His agenda under heaven.
Are you in a position for hatred in any ramification?

Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance from every spirit of hatred.

FAITH CAPSULE: The Word of God is a manual; it is the presence of God.

Acts 13

Keeping to the way of God is to live by the way of God.
In the Word of God is life.
The Word of God is His direction, not to live a life of waste when living by His Word.
There is no excuse not to live by the way of God.
The Word of God is a manual; it is the presence of God.
Gain understanding and know how to keep the Word of God.
God creates all by His Word; nothing is made without the Word of God.
John 1:1-3 documents the importance of the Word of God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Above all, God magnified His Word above all His name.
Psalm 138:2 states, “…For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
The Word of God is a proven living word.
Without doubt, what is it that the Word of God cannot do?
Hebrews 4:12 points out, “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.”
Gain understanding and know how to keep the Word of God.
In the pages of the bible, God is repeatedly called a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29)
God also testified by sending His Word.
His Word is in place for all purposes to answer for all who believe in His Word.
God described His Word in Jeremiah 23:29, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
A believing believer is not an unbelieving believer, will gain understanding to know and engage the Word of God, which is a consuming fire that devours all that does not represent God in the journey of a believer.
Do not take God for granted, as a joker or talkative in His Word.
In this wicked world, not believing the Word of God leads to a position of self-destruction.
Proverbs 13:13 warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”
Doubt is a way of despising the Word of God.
Word of God warned against such as lying, deception, and manipulation, but the wicked despise the Word of God.
Taking to the Word of God in truth makes a believer in God.
A believer who is not an unbelieving believer will not live the life of wickedness.
Why not commit to the Word of God and build for His glory?

Prayer for today: Ask that the goodness of God enable you to live by the Word of God.