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.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who prepares to find God will find Him.

Psalm 27

Preparing to find God is seeking Him diligently.
Seeking God is giving oneself to the word of God.
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
Seek God diligently to find Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
To find God is a privilege, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Be prepared, seek God diligently, and find God.
One without preparation will not find God and miss the presence of God.
Among the characteristics of finding God are:
HAVING A DESIRE FOR GOD
David testifies in Psalm 27:4, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.”
It is encouraging to hear from David, a man identified as seeking the heart of God, to have a desire, not just by determination.
Determination without desire is bound not to find God.
Determination failed Peter when he denied Jesus.
The prayer of Jesus delivered Peter not to miss the presence of Jesus established in His life, the character of one who finds God.
Jesus prayed for Peter, stating, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:32)
Ask God to pray for you, not to deny Him but to live life and find Him.
Desire is from the heart.
A desire from the heart will provoke God to deposit in one as desired, for God.
HAVING A MIND THAT STAYS ON GOD
Anyone mindful of God is one whose mind stays on God, the identity of one who fears God.
Isaiah 26:3 says, “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
One who finds God is at perfect peace.
In addition to finding God, trust in God.
To trust God is not complete without hope.
The word of God identifies with trust and hope in God to gain blessings.
Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
The blessing of God is for those who find God.
Do not let yourself down by trusting and not hoping in God.
To trust and not hope is evidence of religion, not of living for God by His word.
Trust and hope in God to find God.
The word of God encourages all to get wisdom and understanding, not to forget or turn away from His word, the way to find Him. (Proverbs 4:5)
God is a good God. He has given His word for all to find Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to find God, not to live a life of waste.

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

Genesis 28

When Jacob escaped from Esau from Beersheba toward Haran, he arrived at 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 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 is in the ear.
However, with a dream or word of God, it 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 the promise of God in life. 
He beheld God through his journey. 
Do not become self-denying 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: Nehemiah feared God and was not self-centered.

Nehemiah 1

Indeed, life should not be only about self but considerate of the people around oneself.

God testified concerning David: “I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.” (Acts 13:22)

One with the character after the heart of God is not with self-motives, that is, not self-centered, but rooted in the Fear of God.

One who keeps God before self is bound not to be self-centered.

Nehemiah demonstrated what it means not to be selfish and experience the lift of God over His life.

Nehemiah was an ordinary cupbearer to the king in the Persian palace. 

He got to where he was because he was a captive. 

One thing was clear about Nehemiah: he was concerned for the welfare of Jerusalem and its inhabitants at heart. 

Nehemiah was a cupbearer who desired a better life for his brethren. 

Nehemiah was not self-centered. Who are you? As a cupbearer, he wanted a change for others but not to be a liar or manipulator in the name of God. God saw the heart of Nehemiah, and He acknowledged him. God invested in the life of Nehemiah as a vessel to reconstruct the broken wall of Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3-4 was the report that burdened Nehemiah, “And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” 

Nehemiah poured out his heart in prayer on behalf of his people and his homeland. 

He asked for nothing for himself, but petitioned for his people to have a better life.

Nehemiah feared God.

The heart of Nehemiah was in line with what God looks for. 

Who are you in the eyes of God, who is traveling over the earth, searching for a heart that lines up with His glory? 

Jeremiah 17:9 confirms: “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” 

God alone knows every heart, and He will not overlook both the good and evil of the heart.

All should not be of selfish motives.

All should center their hearts on all that will glorify God, and God will not limit such to excel for His glory. 

Nehemiah was not self-centered but set himself for his people, and God deposited in him what it takes to bring glory to the name of God. Nehemiah, as a cupbearer, turned the issue of his nation around. 

Life is not to be about self, but to the glory of God in all life endeavors.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled not to live life as a selfish one.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear can deny walking in the way of God.

Psalm 23

Fear is a derailleur, and fear does not respect anyone it visits.
Do you fear God?
How possible is it to fear God when one does not know Him?
Knowing to fear is in the Word of God.
Know the word of God to know His way.
Keeping to the ways of God is keeping to His word.
A failure to keep His word is rooted in fear.
Deuteronomy 8:6 states, “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.” 
One whose way is relevant to the world, the word of God becomes irrelevant to such.
Anyone whose way is the same as the world, such shall be away from God.
Are your ways relevant to the world? 
PRAYER
Ask that God enable you to walk in His way all the days He has given you.
Pray that the fear of derailment shall not have a place in your life.
One relevant to the world can be evidence of the lack of fear of God.
Fear God in the heart, not in the mouth.
Ask God to enable you to live in His fear, rooted in the heart.
Psalm 128:1 admonishes, “Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.”
Ask that the fear of God become your garment.
2 Samuel 22:22 states, “For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not wickedly departed from my God.”
Ask that you will fear God to depart from every wicked way of life.
God is a good God.
God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Fear no other but God, to be waiting on Him.
Waiting on God is the way of God.
Ask that waiting on God to be our way shall be established over you.
Isaiah 40:31 states, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
David testifies, not running in the place of walking, because he waits on God.
Psalm 23:4 records testimony of David, “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.”
Ask that you will know to wait on God, not walk where you need to run, and not run where you need to walk as a way of life.
Ask that you will gain boldness, not fear of evil, in every decision before you. 
Psalm 27:14 states, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!”
Ask that in your waiting on God, the courage of God to be strengthened and not be weakened shall answer for you continually.