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

Exodus 3

One that can listen to the word of God will understand and see the word of God.
One that can see in the word of God will receive the promise of God to become of such.
The promise of God is undeniable for all that listen, see, and receive the word of God.
His promise belongs to any that sees 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 longsuffering God.
God acts for His children that 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 challenges in the process of the promise of God.
Are you one that 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 beholding 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 is evil before God.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: See God in His word, and He will see you through. 

Genesis 28

The escape of Jacob from his brother (Esau) from Beersheba toward Haran brought him to a place to sleep. 
In his sleep, he had a dream, “And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. 14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 28:13-14) 
In the dream was the promise of God for Jacob that called for his attention to God. 
God said, “Behold”. 
Behold means to observe, to look at. 
God called the attention of Jacob to observe, to look at, and to see the dream. 
Are you sincerely beholding Him?
The dream was loaded with great promise for Jacob as he encountered his life journey. 
Just as a dream sounds promising, the word promises in the ear.
However, with a dream or word of God, is all observing, looking, or seeing in the word of God that sounds in the direction of one? 
God purposely called attention to Jacob before delivering His promise to Jacob by saying, “Behold”.
With the promising dream for Jacob, God also assured Jacob with the promise of manifestation by calling his attention as stated, “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” (Genesis 28:15) 
God used the word “Behold” to call attention to the promise; He also used the word “Behold” for His assurance to manifest the promise for Jacob. 
In the word or dream of God, He has promised you and assured you through the pages of the Bible, but you are not beholding Him. 
Are you looking or seeing what He has said? 
A failure to behold (look or see) the word of God is self-denial from possessing the assured promise of God.
Pay attention to His promise; He shall see you through for manifestation. 
The promise of God always goes through a process before manifestation. 
In all processes, the challenge cannot be exempt. 
Beholding God for His promise is looking up to God, which is evidence of faith in God. 
In all the words or dreams of God, have faith by meditating on His promise for manifestation. 
Jacob repeatedly disallowed discouragements and could not be denied gaining the promise of God in life. 
He beheld God through his journey. 
Do not become self-denial of the promise of God for your life. 
Deny discouragement in your life but be steadfast in beholding God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the strength of steadfastness in looking up to God shall be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: In life, seek God in a route that avoids agents of denials.

Luke 7:36-39, 8:41-48

Bible identified a prominent sinner woman in the city. 
Luke 7:37-38 records, “And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.” 
The prominent woman, a sinner, knew what to do to get what she desired of the Lord. 
The woman sinner of the city approached Jesus at His feet from His behind. 
The woman sinner took the back route to avoid the multitude, not to deny her desire to gain the attention of Jesus. 
If the woman, a sinner, had attempted to step in the front, she probably would have been denied by the multitude that was before Jesus. 
Coming out of the worst way might demand avoiding the multitude. 
What is the challenging need for your life that demands to avoid hindrances of life? 
Multitude could have been a hindrance for the sinner woman in the city. 
The woman sinner wanted to reach out to Jesus to be touched.
She expected manifestation. 
The woman wanted to move forward in her life. 
Taking a move that is not common is a way to receive an uncommon testimony.
Remain focused on God and will deny the multitude. 
A sinner woman went from behind, at the feet of Jesus.
Just like the woman with the alabaster oil (the sinner woman of the city), the woman with the issue of blood also made an uncommon route to receive her miracle from Jesus. 
The Bible records, “Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.” (Luke 8:43-44) 
The disease of twelve years also took a back route to approach Jesus. The woman with the issue of blood reached Jesus from behind. 
The woman with the issue of blood, the woman (sinner woman of the city) with the alabaster oil, took a route not to be denied but to reach Jesus. 
They both came from behind to approach Jesus, a route where there was no means for the multitude to distract to gain the attention of Jesus. 
Taking a route not to be a victim of distraction is a move purposeful to achieve the purpose and be fulfilled. 
Engaging a route that will deny distraction, to approach shall provoke testimony to the glory of God. 
In every area of need, seek God in a route that avoids multitude and not live a life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge of your ways.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting God without hope to wait on Him is not complete to deliver. 

Numbers 14

Engaging in the complaint is not acceptable before God. 
The Israelites made themselves a victim of complaining before God as they suffered the consequences of complaining. 
The Israelites were coming out of the bondage of Egypt by the hand of God but repeatedly complained before God. 
The Israelites trusted the hand of God as they engaged in the journey but could not hope for God to deliver through as they repeatedly complained.  
Jerimiah 17:7 buttresses the need to trust and hope, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is the Lord.”
Do you enter a place of worshiping God and come out of worshiping God with a negative confession? 
Trusting God without hope to wait on Him is not complete to deliver. 
The Israelites entered a journey of deliverance but failed to have hope in God, giving themselves to complaining.
The children of Israel complained directly and indirectly against God. 
Complaining in a journey shall experience stagnation to become terminated when trust and hope are not in place.
God responds to the complaint of the Israelites, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.” (Numbers 14:27-28)
The complaint of the Israelites was rooted in negative confession.
God heard the complaints of the Israelites. 
The Israelites confessed death when there was a need to be conscious of the choice of words to avoid negative confession.
The word of God in the Bible warns against what tongues confess, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”(Proverb 18:21)
Are you careful with the word that comes out of your mouth?
In life, allow trust and hope as your constraining means of not complaining against God. 
God is the only perfect creator. 
He is God-worthy to be praised.
How long will you doubt and not truly trust and hope in God to make it through while waiting on God?
As a result of a lack of trust and hope, the Israelites suffered the consequences of death in the wilderness. 
Also, the journey of eleven days lasted for forty years.
The Israelites knew God through miracles that brought them out of bondage but failed the testimony to see them through the journey to the Promised Land. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy to answer over you not to become a victim of complaining.

FAITH CAPSULE: With desire, seek God to experience the open hand of God.

Luke 5:12-26

God is so good and always in position for all that will ask to receive, to seek Him, and knock to receive from His opening. 
With desire, consistently ask, seek, and knock to experience the move of God.
With desire, meditating day and night to experience the open hand of God is undeniable. 
If there is any desire from God, it should be His hand. 
It is knowledge to desire more of the hand of God.
Power belongs to God.
With knowledge, the Psalmist buttresses, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16)
Are you a true believer with the expectation to experience the hand of God?  
King David buttresses the identities of God that answer, “The Lord is righteous in all His ways, gracious in all His works. The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him, He also will hear their cry and save them. The Lord preserved all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.” (Psalm 145:17-20)
Are you a true believer? 
Are you a doer of the word of God and not just a hearer, deceiving yourselves? (James 1:22) 
With desire, take a position of asking, seeking, and knocking for the open hand of God. 
The power of God answers to satisfy those with desire.
What is it about the hand of God?
Deliverance from the enemy and prevail in the journey of life are power in the open hand of God. 
The Israelites gained deliverance by the hand of God from the bondage of over four hundred years (Deuteronomy 5:15). 
Mockery converted to a miracle is in the hand of God. 
The Bible records in Luke 5:12-13, “And it happened when He was in a certain city, that beholds, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; to be cleansed.” Immediately leprosy left him.” 
The hand of Jesus brought leprosy from mockery to a miracle.
Leprosy, without any doubt, is an agent of mockery. 
Is there any need to gain healing from sickness?
Sickness adds mockery.
With desire, ask, seek, and knock before God to experience a miracle that terminates mockery.
Meditate for His hand in this wicked world. Isaiah 59:1 testifies about the hand of God, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save…” 
The hand of God is not short but delivers and preserves.
Are you with a desire to experience the open hand of God?

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek God with meditation to experience the hand of God.