FAITH CAPSULE: God creates all to serve Him.

Exodus 10

God alone is God. 
God is a rewarder, not a slave master.
God created all to serve Him for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 states, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
Day after day; week after week; month after month; year after year, God alone exists forever. 
God has been before the creation, and He will forever be. 
God is a purpose, God. 
He created all with the expectation for all to serve Him.
The Israelites were in bondage for over four hundred years. 
Serving outside of God took over their life, building for Pharao out of their desire.
Exodus 1:13-14 records, “So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.” 
The Israelites could not serve God, living in bitterness while hard bondage took over them. 
Regardless of any situation, God deserves the service of His creation.
For the Israelites in bondage, God demands their service through Moses. God requests, “So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.” (Exodus 4:23) 
God repeatedly sends Moses to Pharaoh, “And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness” (Exodus 7:16) 
The emphasis of God for the service of the Israelites in bondage is not different from calling for all to serve Him today.
How is your service to God? 
One that does not love God cannot serve Him. 
Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” 
Do you love God? 
Are you serving God? 
Serving God is working the works of God. 
Working the works of God is to believe in Him. 
Jesus said, “This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (John 6:29)
God rewards those who serve Him, evidence of one that fears God.
Working the works of God, take a position to experience the reward of God.
God is a rewarder of the worker as Hebrews 11:6 states, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
Give your God-given days to serve God. 
God is a jealous God. 
God is not a slave master but a saving master.

Prayer for the day: Ask that you will live life to serve God for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Come out of religion into the reality of celebrating Christ. 

Zechariah 9

The majority answers as Christians with no meaning of what Christianity means, the evidence of those celebrating Jesus without knowing Him.
Do you know Him, or do you know about Him?
Acts 11:26 records, “The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
Celebrating the season is the character of coming out of religion into the reality of knowing Christ.
The majority celebrate days and seasons in the name of God but do not live life by the word of God and will not count before God because it is empty religion.
Among the challenges for empty religion is rooted in not KNOWING GOD.
Knowing God is not the same as KNOWING ABOUT GOD.
The majority KNOW ABOUT GOD but do not KNOW God.
Do you KNOW or KNOW ABOUT God?
One that does not KNOW God is not with the TRUTH of God, not free to live life for the glory of God.
Jesus warned, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:2)
One who does not know the truth of the word of God will be full of the world with lies to deceive and manipulate.
Are you celebrating the season with not know the truth to live life for the glory of God?
One celebrating the season in the name of God and not knowing God is with the character of twisting the word of God.
Are you twisting the truth of God? 
Believers or unbelievers twist the truth, the word of God, to deceive and celebrates God empty.
Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God is telling lies.
Twisting the truth is evil that needs to be avoided, not to be part of the way of life.
By the title among believers, your action, and your word, are you responsible for twisting the truth of God?
By telling lies, God is not found and is the reason to give self to the word of God to attain perfection in Christ Jesus, celebrating Him. 
Celebrating God while twisting the truth of God does not listen to the truth of God, giving attention to lying that does not access the power of God. 
Give yourself to the truth of God as a way of living life knowing to celebrate the glory of God.
Twisting the truth of God belongs to the evil one. Deuteronomy 19:19 buttresses, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.” 
Know the TRUTH and not be twisting the truth by way of life.
Celebrating God is living by the word of God, not of the world.
It is the character of many to live by the word of the tongue, not by the word of God.
1 John 3:18-19 admonishes, “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.”
Celebrate with the understanding that counts before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you to know and live by the truth.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority. 

1 Kings 19

In times of challenging situations, direction from God will deliver one in a challenge.
Regardless of title or position inside or outside the church, waiting on God is the key to an overcomer. 
Elijah was a prophet in the hand of God but could not wait on God when the challenging situation became his portion. 
With the execution of the prophets of Baal by Elijah at Brook Kishon, Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel, was to execute Elijah. 
Elijah, a prophet of God, could not wait on God for direction to approach the challenge by Jezebel. 
Elijah, a prophet of God, could not wait on God for direction to approach the challenge by Jezebel. 
Elijah reacted to the threat against his life, “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4) Elijah desired to die when he failed to wait and seek God for direction. Elijah had no peace but was in fear by asking for his death before God. Elijah resolved to run away from his challenging situation. 
Are you allowing the challenging situation to take over your direction? 
Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority for children of God. 
In times of challenging situations, the direction of God for deliverance does not fail. Isaiah 40:31 buttresses, “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.” 
Is your challenging situation causing you to run in the place of walking? Are you responding by walking but not running? 
One with weariness or fainting in a challenging situation is not evidence of waiting on God. 
The testimony of David is evidence of one that waits on God in the face of a challenging situation. 
In the testimony of David, it is clear that waiting on God made David walk and not run in the valley; David did not ask for death but went further regardless of his challenging situation. 
Elijah, a prophet, could not walk but ran and asked for his death before God.
Without a doubt, trusting God is waiting on God.
Fear is a weapon of the devil to dis-stabilize one to arrive on the journey of life. 
In a challenging situation, God is not a God that will rush out of His salvation plan. 
God is not a sleeping God that will not attend to His children that wait on Him. 
The title or position inside or outside of the church demands waiting on God as a priority. 
Understand and know waiting on God cannot fail. 
Failure is inevitable in the life of not waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask for enablement to wait on God for direction, not to become a vessel of failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God alone should be the way of life.  

Esther 8

In this wicked world, stop looking to man but wait on God alone.
Waiting on God should never cease in the life of those who know the hand of God. 
Waiting on God is evidence of having faith in God. 
Faith in God that catapult (propels) waiting on God is the word of God.
Make it a way of life to hear the word of God, the source of faith. (Romans 10:17) 
Are you counting outside of God?
Waiting on God alone should be the way of life.  
Waiting on God is not a waste and never leads to failure. 
Waiting on God is like holding the key that opens the door of prayer. Waiting demands patience that will make one pray and not lose heart. 
An example of waiting with expectation is in the Parable of the Persistent Widow by Jesus. 
Luke 18:2-5 records, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”  
In the parable of Jesus, the widow could not cease because she waited through and received her expectation.
Are you waiting with the expectation of manifestation by trusting in the word of God?
The word of God has never failed, and it shall not return void to God.
Word of God encourages against our wicked ones stating, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.” (Psalm 37:7) 
“For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.” (Psalm 37:9)
Do you have the faith to wait by resting in the Lord God, knowing that the schemes of the wicked shall pass and the evildoers shall fail? 
The wicked schemes of Haman to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus could not stand in the face of waiting on God Mordecai and Esther. (Esther 8)
God is a caring God.
God waits to act for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 30:18 buttresses, “Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.” 
In this world of wickedness, stop looking to no one but keep looking to God by waiting for God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of waiting only on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting God is personal, not transferable.

1 Samuel 23

In your challenging situation, expect change by trusting and hoping for the intervention of God. 
The peace that surpasses all understanding is the evidence of trusting in God. Isaiah 26:3-4 buttress, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.” 
Studying the word of God and meditating on the word of God shall cause one to know the trusting of God. 
Who do you trust? 
Trust in the name of God is more than enough to deliver in all challenging situations. 
The word states, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” (Psalm 20:7)
David, with his small band of warriors, trusted God to deliver the inhabitants of Keilah from the hands of the Philistines. 
1 Samuel 23:2 records, “Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines, and save Keilah.” 
David trusted God to inquire about his move. 
The men of David responded, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah, how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?” (1 Samuel 23:3) 
The men of David could not trust God because they were afraid of where they were coming from. 
The trust of David was not enough for his men to trust God.
Trusting God is personal, not transferable.
Trusting God belongs to one that knows God for His testimonies. 
David trusted God to dispel his fear of not being like his men.
In your challenging situation, it is trust in God to experience the visitation of God for victory.
In times of challenges, seek God for confirmation; He is a God with deliverance in His confirmation. 
David trusted God to confirm from God when “…inquired of the LORD once again. And the LORD answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.” (1 Samuel 23:4) Trust in God will quell fear and eliminate doubt. 
David trusted God and disallowed the doubt and fear of his small band of warriors not to deny his agenda. 
One that hears from God with an answer for challenging situations. 
With your trust in the Lord for your agenda, let the world around you say no; but you will say yes. 
With trust in God, there was deliverance for David and his men over the armies of the Philistines.
Victory belongs to having trust in God. 
In a challenging situation, trust God and know the word of God that states: “The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.” (Proverbs 34:22) 
“Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.” (Psalm 62:8)
Trust in God always.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to activate trust in you, not to have fear for the enemy.