FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is His command.

1 Kings 19

Living life by the command of God is following God.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FOLLOW GOD?
Given self in submission to the word of God will follow God and will not miss the kingdom of God.
In the life journey, there is no exception for rich or poor not to walk with God and make it to the kingdom of God.
In the life journey, whatever anyone holds to, against the command of God, will not walk with God to make it to the kingdom of God. 
What are you holding on to and not giving yourself to the command of God?
Abraham is an example of a rich one who followed the command of God to sacrifice the life of his son in his journey of life. 
He followed the command of God as he attempted to sacrifice his only son when God spoke to him. Genesis 22:12 records, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” 
Abraham fears God to follow the command of God. 
God testifies the fear of Abraham for His name as Abraham lived life to follow God.
Whatever holds you back from giving yourself to the word of God will keep you from following God to miss the kingdom of God. 
Are you with desires to make it to the kingdom of God, a life of eternity?
Live life by following the command of God. 
Elisha is another example of a rich one who left all to follow the calling of God over his life. 
When God called Elisha through Elijah, he responded, “…Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you…” (1 Kings 19:20) 
Elisha was holding against following God when he was not ready to follow God but later gave up all to follow God as the Bible records, “So Elisha turned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” (1 Kings 19:21)
In your life journey, what is it that is holding you back from following God?
Is it your property or family that is holding you from following God? 
Jesus identifies what it takes to follow Him when he says, “…you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” (Matthew 19:28-30)
From today, live life for God by following His command to make the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God that is not a fiction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life to gain the presence of God.

Why is it so challenging for the majority not to know to give self to the word of God, the presence of God?
One that gives to the word of God to live by the word of God is in the presence of God.
Joseph is among those who live the word of God to gain the presence of God.
Genesis 39:2 records, “The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. “
The Lord was with Joseph.
Evil plans against Joseph failed, and he was successful.
One living the word of God will gain the presence of God and cannot be presentable as a victim of evil plans.
One wonders what Joseph did to gain and retain the presence of God( God was with Joseph) all through the challenges of his life.
Joseph lived life and could not CONDONE wrongdoing before God, and he gained the attention of God to be with him.
Genesis 37:1-2 records the doing of Joseph, which he could not condone the bad doing around him. 
Genesis 37:1-2 records, “Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 2 This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.”
God pays attention to draw one towards Him.
Reporting a bad taking the place of doing right is the character of integrity.
What is it that you are doing to gain the attention of God?
What is it that you are doing to gain the attention of God?
Gaining the attention of God is to gain and retain the presence of God.
It was the presence of God over the life of Daniel that delivered him not to be the victim of hungry lions in the den of the lions.
Daniel 6:10 records the doing of Daniel, which gained the presence of God over his life, “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 down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
Daniel had a CUSTOM approach, seeking God diligently.
Daniel could not fall for the evil against his life because he was in the presence of God.
Know the word of God, strive to live by the word of God, carrying the presence of God.  

Prayer for today: Pray that you will be able to live by the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: There are places to watch and pray.

Psalm 14, 47

The expectation for manifestation is the identity of one with an understanding of God. 
The evidence of living life to the glory of God is your spiritual empowerment, which is the place of watching and praying.
What is the place of watching and praying to rule your world?
The place of watching and praying is to:
Pray with understanding.
Pray continually.
Pray with understanding:
Praying with understanding is seeking God to find Him.
The word of God admonishes, “For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.” (Psalm 47:7)
Just as praising God demands understanding, so is praying or thanking.
Jesus, at the time of His parables, wanted to know if there is understanding, “…Are you also still without understanding?” (Matthew 15:16)
The importance of having an understanding is the reason that “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.” (Psalm 14:2)
Are you praying with understanding, knowing that your prayer time is a waiting time on God, who waits to act for those who wait on Him?
Pray with understanding, not wasting time.
Pray continually:
With contiunity pray before God.
Psalm 72:15 records, “…Prayer also will be made for Him continually, and daily He shall be praised.” The word of God speaks to all. He is God to praise continually.
Praying to God is a sacrifice that demands giving self to God without excuse for not praying continually. Acts 6:4 states, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Are you engaging in prayer continually with your mind to find God?
Are you watching and praying with expectation for manifestation?
Having expectations for manifestation is evidence of having faith.
In your watching and praying, let expectation and manifestation be for you to provoke the move of God in your favor.
Expect for manifestation: 
Jesus, in His word, did not command all to pray but repeatedly commanded all to watch and pray. 
The Bible records:
Matthew 26:41, “Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.” 
Luke 21:36, Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  
Ephesians 6:18, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.” 
1 Peter 4:7, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.” 
Watching and praying is the evidence of expecting manifestation.
Watch and pray, as commanded in the word of God, for all man.

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding of seeking God in all ways of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Focus on giving positive testimonies.

Numbers 14

POSITIVE TESTIMONY
The testimonies of King David prompted a great and mighty deliverance when he overcame Goliath. 
In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraged when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) 
David refused to be discouraged but gave an account of what he was able to do as he responded to King Saul, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) 
The threat of Goliath could not intimidate David.
Instead, David dwelt on what God enabled him to do in his past.
1 Samuel 17:37 records, “The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” 
David, by the word of his testimony, was able to overcome the giant challenge of Goliath.  
NEGATIVE TESTIMONY
The children of Israel experienced a great miracle when they came out of their bondage of over four hundred years and passed through the Red Sea on dry land, yet their testimonies denied them from the Promised Land. 
The Israelites responded to the report the spy submitted when they investigated the Promised Land.
Numbers 14: 2-4 records a negative confession, “…If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? 4 So they said to one another, ‘Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.’”  
God heard the testimony of the Israelites to send Moses to the Israelites, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.’” (Numbers 14:28) 
In truth, numbers from twenty years old and up, except Caleb and Joshua, were exempted by God, while others failed to reach the Promised Land because of their testimony.
What are your testimonies? 
Which words are being produced in you, being released by your tongue as testimony? 
Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” 
David saw challenges, and his testimonies powered his victory over the Goliath.
The children of Israel saw challenges, confessed negatively, and could not arrive at the Promised Land. 
In facing challenges, give positive testimonies, meditate, confess, and be established for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will be giving positive testimonies to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not look away from His calling.

Genesis 19:1-26

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. 
Revelation 4:11 buttresses, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
He alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days. 
1 Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” 
God alone is above and beyond all.
Psalmist said it right, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God will make and un-make, and He alone is the unchanging changer, the only one that reverses the irreversible. 
No one creates self. 
The journey of life is the calling of God. 
The calling of God is a divine assignment that will come as a process for His purpose over the life of the called one. 
With the calling of God, one that is not connected to God continually with concentration is building for failure for the calling of God. 
In the calling of God, dwell and abide in His direction, the evidence of concentrating on His calling.
God has a calling for all, with a different assignment. 
God created all for His purpose, for His glory. 
The word of God confirms that our Lord God is worthy to receive glory, honor, and power. 
He created all things to exist for His glory. (Revelations 4:11) 
Whatever God calls you for, or when He calls you for His purpose, to send you will mark you as a candidate for His blessing. 
The calling of God will break the called one, but without doubt, the blessing of God will answer for the obedient.
His breaking comes along with His blessing. (Jesus broke and blessed the bread of life) 
In the time of His calling, He will never leave you broken if you answer to His calling faithfully.
The called one should not look away from His help. 
When God called Lot and his family for salvation, the wife of Lot looked outside of the direction of God for her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God does not come without challenges (challenges that are enough to crumble the called are not with exception for all the called ones)
Regardless of challenges, there is the promise of God to see one through in His calling. 
The word of God promised in 1 Thessalonian 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 
What or when God calls you, do not invite the agent of doubt with the capacity to erect a roadblock for your miracle. 
God is a caring and saving God who is not a slave master. 
Allow His calling to take over your life.
Deny doubt!

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to answer fully to His calling.