FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart, the character of trust and hope. 

Joshua 14, Psalm 23

Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
Trusting God is confidence in the certainty of His deliverance and preservation power.
Are you doubting and not trusting in God?
Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
King David was so sure to trust in God when he said, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1)
What is better than knowing that with God is deliverance and preservation? 
God is a shield where there is no reason for fear in all areas of life.
King David was so sure to trust in God and not entertain fear. 
David walked and did not run through the valley of the shadow of death. He testifies, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4) 
Knowing how to trust God is not the same as knowing about trusting God. 
One who knows about trusting God does not have hope to trust God in the heart. 
Have faith to trust in God and be filled by God. 
In the valley of the shadow of death, walk confidently in the certainty of the deliverance of God.  
In life, through the wilderness, the only way out to the expected end is to trust God with hope. 
God is always at every juncture to make a way where there is no way and no sign of survival. 
Caleb and Joshua survived among thousands of the children of Israel who left Egypt for the Promised Land.
Caleb and Joshua survived because they saw hope where there was no hope. 
Caleb and Joshua trusted God enough and took an odd stand among their brethren who failed to trust in the promise of God. 
Caleb trusted God and testified, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.” (Joshua 14:7) Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart the character of trust and hope. 
Unlike Caleb and Joshua, the people who went to spy on the land failed to trust in the heart. 
Caleb testified, “Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.” (Joshua 14:8) 
Caleb trusted in God to prompt the keeping of God to testify, “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.” (Joshua 14:10) 
God is trustworthy!

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled by trusting God.

Faith Capsule: The secret of God is in the word of God.

Hebrews 11:8-19

By the word of God, obey, dwell, and wait before God.
Psalm 91:1 informs all, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
When the word of God sounds in your direction, it is worth obeying and dwelling on the word of God. 
Abraham is the testimony to obey, dwell, and wait on the word of God.
The Bible records Abraham, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
Obedience of Abraham: 
When God called Abraham out from his country, his father, and his family to an unknown land, he obeyed fully by launching out as commanded by God. 
Obedience to the word of God shall excel for the glory of God.
Obeying to obtain from God.
The dwelling of Abraham: 
Abraham lives by the word of God, and that is dwelling in the secret place of God.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Know to dwell in the word of God.
Abraham did not look back to where he was coming from, but went forward to the calling of God. 
He dwelt under the shadow of the word of God to move him forward. 
With faith in the word of God, he moved to a foreign country, and his faith caused him to obtain good testimonies.
The word of God is a story that is not a secret for one who is limited in understanding.
Like Abraham, engage the word of God, the secret to obeying for the glory of God.
The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered, not to become a victim of a wicked world.
Abraham dwelt in the word of God. 
Waiting for God by Abraham: 
Abraham obeyed God; he dwelt and waited on God for the deliverance and preservation of the word of God. 
Those who know how to dwell in God know how to wait patiently on God. 
Hebrews 11:10 records the waiting of Abraham for God, “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Indeed, Abraham lived by waiting for the future that was not yet in sight. 
Waiting on the word of God can be painful, but it is gainful for obedient ones.
The understanding of Abraham, his knowledge of the word of God, prompted him to obey and obtain the testimony of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with open ears and eyes of the heart to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The move of God calls for every moment.

Genesis 11

God wants His creation to move forward in life.
The grace to see a new moment is not a time of stagnation.
God is not a God of stagnation.Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know? 
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long at the junction of life?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his life journey. 
The word records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32) 
The father of Abraham, Terah, was set for Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he stayed to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
The stopping of Terah at Haran was evidence of stagnation, not moving forward.
The move of Terah from the Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place. 
God, calling you out to a particular area is His plan, not your plan.
God is a good God. 
Live life for God, move forward, not become a victim of stagnation.
Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the Israelites concerning the stagnation of the Israelites from the bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” 
Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in His plan forward? 
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” 
God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. 
Faith demands that the Israelites move their comfort to where God demands commitment. 
Faith demands not to make a dwelling place at a stopover. 
Faith also demands to see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see and live life by the word of God.

ATTENTION GAINS ATTENTION

FAITH CAPSULE: The salvation plan for all is to answer the calling of God. 

Jeremiah 3

Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God. 
Do not turn away from God!.
Turning from God is an avenue to sinning before God.
Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God.
God calls all with no exception. 
The salvation plan for all is to answer the calling of God.
The Bible records the calling of God for all. 
2 Timothy 1:9 states, “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” 
Answering the calling of God is to turn to God. 
Indeed, God has given a holy calling through Jesus, but today, the majority has turned away from God. 
Lack of understanding will turn away from God.
Without understanding, there will be a lack of knowledge. 
The Lord declares in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. “
The word of God is the source of understanding God. 
With understanding, there will be a fear of turning to God. 
The truth today is that an acclaimed believer inside or outside of the church has turned away from God.
Turning away from God is a sin before God. 
Are you turning from God?
Romans 3:10-18 records, “There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God; they have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues, they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 
The word of Romans 3:10-18 speaks of the wickedness of this world and rebelliousness before
God.
Joshua 22:29 also speaks to all now, not just then, “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day…” 
Turning away from God is rebellion.
Turning to God is answering fully to God, the only God that calls right.
God expects the turning of all to Him with a whole heart. 
Jeremiah 3:10 testifies, “And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.” 
God is a God that none can deceive, and there shall be no deception in turning to Him. 
Turning to God shall be nonstop giving attention to gain the attention of a jealous God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to turn to God with all your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you one who wants to claim the promise of God in His word?

Exodus 3

One who can listen to the word of God will understand and see the word of God.
One who can see in the word of God will receive the promise of God to become such.
The promise of God is undeniable for all who listen, see, and receive the word of God.
His promise belongs to those who see in His word. 
Faith is to focus on the promise of God. 
God was and is not talkative.
God will not become a garrulous God from eternity to eternity. 
Awesome, gracious God is a loving and long-suffering God.
God acts for His children who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 buttresses, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
God promised to deliver the Israelites from the bondage of over four hundred, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8)
The promise of God for the Israelites was a process with the demand of faith that demonstrates seeing by looking up to God, regardless of the challenges of the enemies. 
The promise of God is in the word of God that does not return void but shall accomplish what pleases God and shall prosper in the thing which God sent. (Isaiah 55:11) 
Unfortunately, one hears promises but ignores paying attention to the challenges in the process of the promise of God.
Are you one who wants to claim the promise of God in His word but ignores the challenges in the process of the promise of God? 
The challenge will come with the process, but one should rest in God by beholding Him. 
The Israelites paid attention to the enemy instead of beholding God, as Exodus 14:9-10 records, “So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid…” 
Beholding the enemy is an avenue to fear and encases self-destruction. 
The promise of God always remains unchanging, while facing challenges will lead one out of the promise of God.
All the Israelites that left Egypt, from twenty years old and above, did not get to the promise of God by beholding challenges. 
Beholding enemies will lead to rebellion and complaints that are evil before God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will see and know the rest in the promises of God.