FAITH CAPSULE: Have you been exposed to any delay attempting to keep you quiet at where to cry out?  

Mark 10:46-52

The multitude is the agent of discouragement, denial, and delay.
The challenges that are keeping one down want to keep one quiet. 
One that remains quiet where there is a need to cry out for help, stagnation will become the identity of such. 
Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was an example of not being quiet where there is a need to call out loud. 
Blind Bartimaeus was at the right location to receive his sight when the multitude attempted to keep him quiet. 
Bartimaeus was at the juncture where Jesus went by, but a great multitude was also in place. 
The multitude is the agent of discouragement, denial, and delay. Bartimaeus refused to be quiet, “When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.” (Mark 10:47)
The crying out of Blind Bartimaeus was an example of what persistence can do against every agent of the wicked, which destroys and deny breakthrough. 
The more he cried out, the more the forces were to keep quiet, not to experience healing visitation.
In life, there are times of need that calls for being quiet in waiting for God to move. 
Also, sometimes call for crying out loud to God. 
When a believer remains quiet at the time of a need to cry out, the multitude will take such a believer for a ride and deny a breakthrough. Bartimaeus must have been very loud. 
The noise of Bartimaeus made Jesus stand still and commanded him to be called up by Jesus (Mark 11:39). 
The multitude that was out to keep Bartimaeus quiet was the same multitude that eventually called him out for Jesus. 
The multitude did not just call on him; they recognized what was about to take place by calling him and saying, “…be of good cheer. Rise He is calling you.” (Mark: 10:49)
Have you been exposed to any agent of delay attempting to keep you quiet at where to cry out? 
What one can do is ignore the multitude and keep on crying out to Jesus. Crying out to Jesus will gain the attention of His visitation. 
Just like Bartimaeus, calling unto Jesus will cause the caller to rise above every blind challenge and every force that is in place to keep one grounded. 
Bartimaeus could not be quiet from gaining his healing deliverance by the multitude but cried to gain a new garment to replace the garment of blindness. Bartimaeus rose and went to Jesus.
It is never too late to cry out and have the garment of shame, the mark of stagnation, give up in life. 
When Jesus hears your cry, you will rise and move out of shame and stagnation.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be shut out of healing visitation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Looking up outside of the intervention of God is committing to the world.

Psalm 121, Isaiah 45:14-25

Revelation promotes expectation, and with the expectation, there will be a manifestation. 
In the testimonies of the Psalmist, there is always enough revelation for every believer. 
The Psalmist testifies in Psalm 121:1-2, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD Who made heaven and earth.” 
Where do you look up to in times of any need for help? 
Are you looking up because others lookup? 
Looking up outside of the intervention of God is committing to the world.
John 2:24 encourages Aall not to commit to no one stating, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men,”
Do you consciously lift your eyes to the hills, or are you looking up accidentally looking up with no expectation for manifestation? 
The deliberate and conscious act is a demonstration of understanding. Understanding what is activated is what produces results. 
Do you know what to get when you look to the high place, the enthroned of God?
In looking up, there should be an expectation to contact the face of God. The Psalmist is the one that also said in Psalm 34:5, “They looked up unto Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.” 
An encounter with the face of God will bring all that one needs to travel along the path of life without any agent of the wicked terminating such journey to the expected end. 
John 3:31 records, “He who comes from above is above all…” 
Why look away from above? 
There is only one God, and He is the One that is above all. 
The Word of God encourages, “Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” 
Looking up to God is a meaningful and power-packed approach that is not with consciousness among most believers is a waste. 
Jacob was with consciousness with expectation for manifestation.
Jacob, while on his way after moving from Laban, wrestled with an angel, and he gave the testimony of his encounter in Genesis 32:30, “So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 
Jacob had an encounter face-to-face with God, the testimony to their experience preservation. 
The face of God is what all need to encounter in the life journey. 
An encounter with the face of God will carry one through, and such will pass over every force in life. 
Paul the Apostle prayed in 2 Timothy 4:18, “And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen! 
Every journey demands not to take off eyes from looking up to God that is above.  

Prayer for today: O Lord my God, I ask for strength that enables one not to look anywhere else but only at you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Is your move in response to the calling of God? 

Genesis 31

Whenever God calls one for His assignment, no curse can deny one. When God moves the called one, no man can remove such. 
When God delivers, no man can deny you. 
Regardless of any situation, when God says go, no challenge under heaven can stop the called one.
After Jacob cheated Esau with his blessing, Isaac sent him away because of the threat of Esau. “So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.” (Genesis 28:5) 
At Laban, Jacob married two of the daughter of Laban. 
Despite having two daughters (Rachel and Leah) as his wives and having made all his wealth from working for Laban, Jacob did not inform nor bid farewell to Laban the Syrian at the time of his move. 
The excuse of Jacob for such a move was the truth that he heard from God that he should return to the land of his family. 
Genesis 31:3 records, “Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.” 
God called for the return of Jacob then the relationship between Jacob and Laban was no longer favorable. 
After Jacob had left, Laban went after him with bad intentions because Rachel stole the household idol. 
With the intentions of Laban, God appeared to him in a dream and cautioned him to be careful in his dealing with Jacob. 
As a result, when he caught up with Jacob, he stated, “It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’”(Genesis 31:29) 
Whenever God commands your going or your return, there will be no power under heaven to deny answering the calling of God.
Also, there will be no power capable of hurting one in the journey the Lord has placed in the life of such. It was God that called Jacob to return, and Laban is not in a position to operate against the command of God. 
One not in the position, such will be powerless in operation.
Concerning Jacob, Laban was powerless. 
Did God call you out?
Is your move in response to the calling of God? 
Do not move on to your understanding. 
However, pay attention to the words of God.
Proverbs 3:4-6 encourages, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” 
God is not a man that He should falter in His word. 
What God says He will do is a done deal. 

Prayer for today: Ask God in your going and coming that no agent of the wicked shall prevail against you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to dwell and abide in God.

Psalm 91

God is not a slave master but a SAVING MASTER.
Psalm 91 admonishes all, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
The word of God is the secret of God, open to one that search, study, and stand in His word.
Reading or quoting the word of God and not spending time to study the word of God is like dwelling but not abiding by the word of God.
It is the same as hearing but not living life by the word of God by running in and running out of the secret of God is not staying (dwelling) in God.
The word of God is the secret of God that does not hide for one that will seek God in His word. (Isaiah 45:19)
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The word of God is the presence of God.
Give yourself to the word of God, the presence of God that is the secret of God.
In this wicked world, gain the presence of God. 
Retain His presence, to live life as an overcomer to the glory of God.
PRAYER
Ask that God enable you to gain and understand His word, His secret, dwelling and abiding in His presence.
Ask that the rest and peace of God shall become your portion continually.
Ask that the presence of God shall answer to you as His shield and buckler.
Ask that His presence shall take over your life, not to become a victim of the terror of the night. 
Ask that arrows that fly in the day shall not locate you. 
The pestilence of the darkness shall not come your way, the pestilence that walks in the noonday shall not come near you in going, and in your coming in life in the name of Jesus.
Dwelling and abiding in the presence of God shall know the way of God to become exposed to the peace of God.
Moses asked God to show him His way. In Exodus 33:14, God responds to Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
The rest of God is the peace of God.
It is what you ask for that God will give as He speaks to all in Isaiah 45:11, “Thus says the Lord, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.”
You, as the work of His hands, are qualified to command Him (to ask Him) for the peace of God.
Isaiah 26:3 records the promise of God for ones seeking Him with understanding, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You Because he trusts in You.”
To gain the PERFECT peace of God is to have MIND STAYED ON GOD OR TRUSTS IN GOD.

 PRAYER
Ask that God enable you to have a mind that stays on Him.