FAITH CAPSULE: In the word of God, there is always an answer confronting the challenge.

2Kings 6:1-23

Under heaven, no man is immune from experiencing challenges. 
To know God is taking a position to experience deliverance. 
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out them all.” 
Get to know God, and when challenge/affliction strikes, you shall not fail to experience the deliverance of God.
The word of God is an assurance of deliverance in all afflictions. 
In the world, there is none with a title or not that is with an exemption for encountering affliction, but the hand of God is not short to deliver all that live life by the word of God.
The children of Israel were not exempt from affliction, but God’s outstretched hand of God delivered the Israelites. 
Just as challenges exist and persist in the life of unbelievers, so it is in the life of believers. 
Believers are not immune to experiencing challenges but can be unmovable in the face of challenges.
Are you quoting the word of God as a believer, not living life by what you are quoting of God?
Knowing to be quoting the word of God is not enough to bring deliverance in the face of affliction. 
However, understanding the word of God is enough to deliver. 
Proverbs 11:9 admonishes, “…but through knowledge, the righteous will be delivered.” 
If you are one with the knowledge of the word of God, affliction will not keep you down but be delivered. 
God will not fail to perform and perfect. 
As a believer, are you spending time to engage the word of God that is knowledge to deliver? 
Are you thinking of what you should do in response to all the confrontations before you? 
There is always an answer to address what is in place of challenges. 
As a believer, it is not wrong to ask, “What should I do?” 
However, it is caution in your asking because there is no room for complaint against God. 
Know to ask right before God.
The servant of Elisha had seen miracles done by the hand of Elisha, his master, a giant in the Lord. 
Despite all testimonies through Elisha, when confronting challenge came, the servant asked, “What shall we do.” 
2 Kings 6:15 records, “And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ‘Alas, my master! What shall we do?’” 
In the word of God, there is always an answer confronting the challenge. Elisha answered his servant, “…Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” (2 Kings 6:16) 
If you are living by the word of God, there will be challenges/afflictions, but the Lord will deliver you out of them all.

Prayer for today: Ask that your eyes see the deliverance of God in place for you.

FAITH CAPSULE: A lack of commitment to the word of God will lead to confusion in the life journey.

Genesis 19

The word of God is a direction not to live a life of waste.
God does not fail, but a man walks away from God to experience failure.
Life is a journey.
The journey demands walking with God.
God gives every moment to be alive to walk with God, walking before Him.
Commitment to the word of God is giving to walk before God without ceasing.
A commitment to the living word of God is the unfailing route in the life journey.
A believer without commitment to the word of God is a religion with no relationship with God. 
Does that sound like you?
Are you truthful to yourself, living by the word of God, walking with God?
Are you deceiving with a demonstration of walking with God but walking away from God?
One with a commitment to the word of God is with an understanding of seeking God with all the heart and soul. 
One that seeks God diligently walks, sits, and stands in the word of God, the evidence of commitment to God and to become blessed by God. 
Psalm 1:1-2 confirms: “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law, he meditates day and night.” 
As an acclaimed believer of God, let your commitment be rooted in God, not seeking the counsel of the ungodly.
Failure can be the lack of commitment to God in His word. 
Giving self to self-convince in the place of commitment to God will not arrive at the promise of God.
Commitment is not convenient, but it is self-sacrifice before God.
One that compromises the word of God is with no commitment.
Discipline works with commitment, but doubting will deny not to be committed. 
With doubt, fear will relegate faith. 
One with a lack of commitment to the word of God is not mindful of God.
A lack of commitment to the word of God will lead to confusion in the life journey.
A lack of commitment to God is looking away from God.
The word of God directed Lot and his wife for deliverance from destruction, “…Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
Lot was committed to the word of God, but his wife could not commit to the word of God for her deliverance from destruction. 
Lot was committed to the word of God, but his wife could not commit to the word of God for her deliverance from destruction. 
The Bible records the consequence for the wife of Lot, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) 
Are you sincerely committed to the word of God? 
In the life journey, be committed to God and remain connected to the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge of the life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God demands faith and no doubt.

Matthew 14:22-36

What is holding one down not to experience the hand of God?
Doubt is not of God but an attempt to deny the hand of God in the doubtful life.
Do you believe or doubt that the Gift of God is here, not that He is coming?
Jesus, the gift of God, testifies, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” 
Jesus is here to give life abundantly where doubt should not have a place.
It is the doubtful one that will be denied not to experience the Gift of God.
Jesus said, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? (Luke 24:38) 
With doubt, faith will drown.
Jesus encourages all, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. (John 14:1)
Faith is what pleases God. 
Faith is a key to ask, to receive from God. 
Are you a believer in faith? 
When believers operate faith like a floating balloon, doubt can deflate the balloon to become grounded. 
The word of God demands faith and no doubt. 
James 1:6 bolstered against doubt, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”
Once, the disciples of Jesus were on a journey on the water ahead of Jesus. 
While the disciples were in the middle of the journey on the sea, the boat experienced waves. 
Jesus could not abandon His disciples when He walked on the waves of the water. 
When Peter saw Jesus, he asked to walk like Jesus on the water. 
Jesus called Peter to walk, and the story of Peter changed because of faith. 
The Bible records, “So He said, “Come.” 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) 
Jesus was not a stranger to miracles, but Peter became an estranged disciple of Jesus to miracles of Jesus. 
With belief, there should be no room for doubt.
No one should believe in God and give self to doubt.
Peter should not give himself to doubt in the place for faith. 
Just as Peter was sinking instead of walking on his troubled water, Jesus reacted, “And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.” (Matthew 14:31-32)
The doubt of Peter caused his faith to sink into the troubled water.
Are you experiencing or seeing troubled water ahead of your journey? 
For deliverance, see that the hand of God is not short to extend deliverance miracle.

Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance from the spirit of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer is a way to stay away from temptation. 

Luke 22 

Every engagement with Satan is temptation enablement. 
It happened that the day the serpent was able to engage Eve, the temptation to eat the fruit of the tree amid the garden became a manifestation in her life. 
Eve ate against the command of God to become disobedient to God.
Disobedience to God is like a flight from God, to become distanced from the presence of God.
With sin, no one can reach God.
Judas Iscariot engaged Satan. 
Luke 22:3-6 records, “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So, he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. And they were glad and agreed to give him money. So, he promised and sought the opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude.”  The temptation will come with disobedience. 
Disobedience to God is the evidence of betraying God. 
Temptation is the key that opens the door to all kinds of sin. 
Jesus emphasized that prayer is a way to stay away from temptation. 
The Bible states, “Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” (Luke 22:39-40) 
Sleeping in the place of praying will be an avenue of temptation. 
When Jesus was praying, the disciples were sleeping. 
Jesus was praying earnestly, but the disciples were sleeping with sorrow. 
At the time the disciples were sleeping, Jesus approached them and said, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray lest you enter into temptation.” (Luke 22:46) 
Jesus must have seen what was about to happen when He came to speak to the disciples about their sleeping in the place of being awake. 
Luke 22:47-48 records, “And while He was still speaking, behold, a multitude; and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” 
Judas, the one Satan had gained entrance, sold out his Lord and Savior cheaply. 
Is there any way you have been selling Jesus out consciously or unconsciously? 
When Jesus woke them up from sleeping, they entered a situation that caused them to scatter in an attempt to save their life. 
When Jesus woke them up from sleeping, not praying, Peter wanted to strike instead of him to allow Jesus to speak to the situation.  
Peter struck to cut the ear of the servant of the high priest.
Jesus responded by speaking to the situation. 
With temptation in the place of prayer, one will deny and sell Jesus. Engage unceasing prayer to disallow temptation.

Prayer for today: Ask to be strengthened on the prayer altar.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know that God is near at all times. 

Genesis 3

The creation of God is the word of God.
The word of God is God.
The word of God is not far, the evidence that God is near to all.
Psalm 75:1-2 declares, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!
For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
Calling God by His name is evidence that God is near.
Are you near to God?
Do you know if you are near to God or far from God?
The majority of reason to be far from God is rooted in not giving regard to God.
Knowing that God is near all times, the majority takes the position of distance from God the evidence of disobedience to the word of God.
Disobedience to God is evidence of sin before God.
One with sin consciously or unconsciously cannot hide from God to see but keeps a distance from God.
Living in sin will not accommodate the glory of God.
Romans 3:23 buttressed, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
With sin, all will be short of the presence of God, not being in His presence that is always near.
Consciously or unconsciously, are you living in sin that keeps you far and not near to God?
One in disobedient will hid from the presence of God.
The sin of Adam and Eve made them far from the near of God. 
Genesis 3:6-10 documents Adam and Eve for the distance from God, “So, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
God creates all with His care to keep all near Him, but the sin rooted in not knowing God keeps all far from God.
Sin kept Adam and Eve far from God, not never far from them.
Are you living obediently or disobediently before God?
Obediently, give self to the word of God, walking in His presence and not far from Him. 
God is near, always. 
Get to know God, not to live a life far from God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life for God, to gain and retain His presence.