FAITH CAPSULE: Know to avoid being distracted.

Judges 16

Grace and mercy have brought you this far.
Know that the grace of God will see you through the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Pray that being distracted will not have a place in you to deny and derail you from arriving at divine assignment shall not answer over your life.
What is distracting is not of God but of the devil.
Seven things that come with distraction are:
Distraction can terminate the calling of God in the life of one.
Distraction will not announce itself to derail one with purposed agenda.
Distraction will derail or deny one with the loss of focus on God.
Distraction will assault to prevent one from getting to the divine assignment.
Distraction can be a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, to answer the calling of God.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will deny a man from having faith to please God.
Distraction can build up discouragement.
Samson was to be a deliverer of his people by the hand of God. 
Before the birth of Samson, God sent an angel that said to his mother, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now, therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” (Judges 13:3-5)
Samson was to deliver his people when distraction led to his disobedience before God. 
Samson was wrong to reveal the secret of the power of God over his life to his wife (Delilah) and made him become a victim at the hand of his enemy.
Deny distraction not to derail you.
A delay this far with no manifestation of expectation is not a denial of one.
Do you have Jesus in your house with a distraction denying you not to gain and retain His presence? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house but was distracted.
Luke 10:40 records, “But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’”  
Also, know that Your heart is your house.
Deny distraction from having a place in your heart.
Distractions will build up to experience a delay.
Delay will not deny you disallow distraction in your heart.
Pray against the spirit of distraction not to have a place in your life.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest ones.
Are you avoiding devices of distraction before you?
Continually give attention to deny distraction of all forms.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from any form of distraction.

FAITH CAPSULE: A failure not to ignore delay can turn one out of the way of God. 

Exodus 32:1-14

Delays can be discouraging as the process of a hindrance. 
In life, a delay in the process can terminate a positive expectation.
As a believer, there should be an understanding that delay is not a denial. 
Are you experiencing a delay in any area of life? 
It is important to note that whenever there is a failure to ignore any delay, there will be doubt in place. 
With doubt comes every reason to despise the faithfulness of God that is rooted in the word of God.
Exodus 32:1 records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
The delay of Moses on the mountain prompted the doubt of the Israelites. 
The Israelites should have known quite well that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave themselves unnecessary worry. 
The Israelites demonstrated unfaithfulness because of the delay of Moses on the mountain.
The Israelites could not wait on God when they looked for another god. 
The truth is that waiting on God can never become waste. 
In life, some delays are what measure faithfulness before God. 
When the delay of Moses became glaring in the sight of the children of Israel, they began to seek a god to take over from God.
Put in mind that God is not substitutable.
One that substitutes God in times of waiting on Him is snubbing God, which never fails to answer to believing believers.
A failure not to ignore delay will derail one on the track to experience the visitation of God.
Are you experiencing a delay? 
Your delay will turn into deliverance if you trust and wait in the name of Jesus. 
The Bible declares in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” 
Unexpected delays will generate concern, and there will be every reason to be anxious. 
The word encourages by stating the antidote for anxiousness: Take all to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and the peace of God will take over you. 
Instead of seeing a delay, be encouraged by seeing in the word of God. God alone is the One that delivers, and He controls all. 
Deny delay; declare all His goodness and His mercy that never expire. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait patiently on his hand.

FAITH CAPSULE: The conclusion in the way of life is to fear God.

Psalm 34

The book of Ecclesiastes 12:13 documents how to live life, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandment, for this is man’s all.” 
The conclusion for living is for all to live by the fear of God.
The understanding needed to live for God is the ability to listen to the commandment of God (word of God). 
Knowing the word of God is going after the heat of God. 
For example, God identified King David as one after the heart of God.
The fear of David for God kept him and saw him through his life terminating challenges. 
King Saul chased the life of David while David gained the position to kill Saul. 
David was so fearful of God not to kill King Saul when he said, “…But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.” (1 Samuel 24:10) 
Is the fear of God your way of living life? 
David did not allow foolishness in his heart, and he did not demonstrate a lack of fear of God by killing King Saul. 
David was a man after the heart of God. 
The life experience of David qualifies to teach all the fear of God. 
In Psalm 34, David spoke out, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” (Proverbs 34:11)
Are you a true believer that listens to hear and is one with an understanding of the fear of God?
Are you aware that the fear of God is a way to provoke the blessings of God? 
Through listening to the word of God, know God by keeping your heart diligently.
David Psalm 34 pointed out four points for all to learn and know God’s fear: Keep your tongue from evil, keep your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (Psalm 34:13-14) 
Digesting the four points into life will mark one as a God-fearing one. 
It is the grace of God that is giving life year after year. 
However, not knowing the fear of God is not a way to live before God.
To fear God is for self-good because it keeps such not departing from God. When one can obey fully by fearing God, He will preserve such fully.
Whatever is in line with the word of God and one with a desire for God shall be established by God.
One with a desire for God shall not live a life of waste.
David said:
Keep your tongue from evil.
Keep your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil, and do good.
Seek peace and pursue it.

Prayer for today: Ask God to redeem your heart to fear Him.

  FAITH CAPSULE: Your change will only come at the appointed time of God.

Exodus 2

Change is the act of transformation or substituting of one situation for another. 
All should always look for a better condition in the life of journey.
When the Israelites began to feel pain in the hands of Pharaoh and his people, the need for change began to press on the Israelites. 
Exodus 2:23-25 records, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledge them.” 
The Israelites needed a change when they cried to God, and their cries reached God. 
Crying to God is not evidence of weakness but an expression of expectation. 
God heard the crying of the Israelites and remembered them, but the change did not answer immediately. 
Are you waiting on God prayerfully for a change?
Know that change will only come at the appointed time of God.
You have indeed been waiting for quite some time but have nothing to show for your waiting. 
Delay is all you are experiencing in the place of expectation for change, and know that delay is not a denial. 
Delay is possibly the device of the enemy to frustrate your expectation when waiting on God. 
Ignore delay but lay your request for a change at the feet of the Master. In the life journey, experiencing being delayed in expectation will prompt discouragement.
Discouragement provokes complaints. 
The complaint is an act of rebellion. 
In your case, disallowing discouragement and complaint will not have a place in you. 
Without complaint in you, rebellion will have to relocate itself outside of you. 
Worrying is like a parasite that will eat into one quietly when change seems to be slow in coming forth. 
Deal with worry by engaging in worshiping God. 
Worship God by praising and giving Him thanks to God regardless of manifestation or not.
Give thanks to God for all things, and all things will work for good.
As you wait for a change, be conscious that your thoughts deliver by your action. 
Do not doubt in your heart as regards your expectation for change. Having doubts will prompt you to have a backup plan for your expectation. 
However, in faith, there is no backup plan. 
The backup plan is a lack of faith, and God is not pleased when there is no faith. (Hebrews 11:6) 
Live life to please God while you are waiting on Him for your expected change. 
Your change shall come.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be patient and become persistent in waiting on Gom.