FAITH CAPSULE: Pay attention to denying crowd/ multitude in your life journey.

Mark 2:1-12

Crowd/multitude should not be a partner where there is a need to arrive at the expected end of the journey. 
A crowd/multitude will delay, deny or discourage one from arriving at the expected end of the journey. 
A paralytic man expected healing from the visitation of Jesus at Capernaum.
When Jesus arrived at the house, immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door.” (Mark 2:1-2)
Mark 2:4 records the act of the paralytic and his helper when they could not gain access: “And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.” 
Identify your crowd/multitude and not be denied from getting to an expected end.
Crowd/multitude which the Israelites could not disengage denied and derailed the Israelites from getting to the Promised Land. 
Exodus 12:37-38 documents, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them…” 
A mixed multitude became the baggage for the Israelites.
A mixed-up multitude is an unholy mix-up to deny and derail anyone from arriving at an expected end. 
When the Israelites departed to the Promised Land, the dangers of carrying a crowd/multitude were not glaring. 
The Israelites’ mixed multitude among them was the source of the effect of negatively.
Numbers 11:4-6 documents, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”
A crowd/multitude is an agent of evil to deny and derail the journey.
Are you the one having crowd/multitude as baggage in your life journey?
The mixed multitude was baggage for the Israelites, provoking complaints against God.
God responded 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. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30)
It is never too late to avoid crowd/multitude as a partner.
Pay attention, deny those in the distance and closed crowd and multitude.

Prayer for today: Ask to understand, know, and deny the crowd/multitude in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is waiting to act for one who waits for Him.

Isaiah 54

RIGHTEOUSNESS
Righteousness before God is among the conditions to claim the blessing of God that acts for one that waits for Him.
Righteousness is doing all that is right and good before God. 
Peter preached righteousness, “But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him” (Acts 10:35) 
Indeed, without the fear of God, it is not possible to work righteously before God. 
Without the works of righteousness, no one accesses the blessing of God that acts for one that waits for Him.
Righteousness before God is an undeniable avenue to get the attention of God waiting to act for one. 
Isaiah 54:14-15 highlight the blessings of walking the ways of righteousness before God: “In righteousness, you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Indeed, they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.”
Our righteousness before God is through faith in Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:30 buttressed, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” 
Be established in righteousness, and God is in place to act for such. 
God also promised in Isaiah 54:17, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me.” 
The blessing of God is His word.
Are you working the works of God? 
Are you walking righteously before God? 
Working or walking right is waiting on God. 
Wait on God to act on your behalf for His glory. 
Be righteous before God to activate the promise of God.
REMEMBERING GOD’S WAYS
The ways of God are the testimonies of deliverance and preservation. 
For one waiting on God by remembering testimonies of the ways of God shall provoke God to act for one as He promised in His word for all. 
Psalm 119:2-3 testified to the importance of remembering God’s ways by stating, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.” 
God is true. 
Keeping His testimonies to seek Him with heart by walking in His way is essentially waiting on God. It is a blessing to live by the condition of God, provoking God to act for one who waits for Him.
God is the same yesterday and forever. 
He is God with unconditional love, but His blessing comes with conditions. God will act for one who waits for Him. 
Wait on God by rejoicing, working, or walking in righteousness and continually remembering the ways of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled continually to give yourself to the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is waiting to act for one who waits for Him.

Isaiah 64

God has been faithful to all His promises in His word.
God is mindful of all, not to be a victim of failure in all walks of life. From Genesis to Revelation, His promises come with the condition for all to claim. 
Give yourself to the condition of God to claim His promise.
Isaiah 64:4 records the promise of God, “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.”
1Corinthians 2:9 confirms the promise of God, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
The above verses testify to the blessings of God waiting to act for one who waits for Him. 
The condition to claim the promise of God is for those who love Him. 
By living life, do you love God, that is, do you obey His word? 
Those who love God will know to wait on God.
God acts for the ones who wait on Him.
Waiting for God is a failure impossibility; it is the assurance blessing not to be a failure in all walks of life. 
To wait on God is with unfailing conditions. Isaiah 64:5 records, “You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways…”
Identified conditions to experience the act of God are:
REJOICING IN GOD, DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS, REMEMBERING THE WAYS OF GOD.
REJOICE BEFORE GOD
Rejoice is one of the three identified conditions.
Some Bible verses identify the importance of rejoicing as the condition of claiming the promise of God.
Psalm 9:2, “I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to your name, O most High.” 
Psalm 16:11, “In Your presence is fullness of joy…” 
From the word of God, learn to be having joy.
Proverbs 8:30 states, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” 
One with joy is accessible to God that acts for ones who wait on Him. 
The Apostle Paul admonishes the importance of joy, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4) 
Psalmist also testified, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.” (Psalm 33:21)
Rejoice when seeking God to provoke God to act on behalf of one. 
Psalm 70:4 states, “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You…” 
In truth, by His word, without rejoicing to gain the promise of God is not enough to experience the act of God.
Be joyful in the word of God according to the word of God. 
Believe in the living word of God, and wait on God to experience the act of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be obedient to engage condition and be able to claim His promises.

FAITH CAPSULE: God has brought you this far, not the word of the world.

2 Chronicles 18: 28-34

Doubt is evidence of failure not to count on God in His word but on the world.
Think, thank God that brought you this far.
The past is in the past.
With the privilege of God is to look forward to the coming days, weeks, or months.
God has brought you this far, not the word of the world.
Disallow doubt, and do not fail before God.
Do not become a vessel that claims to be a believer in God but count on persuasive and empty words of the world. 
Also, counting on the world is engaging an inevitable route for doubt which builds up to disappointment and fear. 
Doubt, disappointment, or fear will lead to self-destruction.
Ahab, the King of Israel, invited the King of Judah (Jehoshaphat) to join forces against Ramoth Gilead for war. 
King Ahab refused the warning of Prophet Micaiah of God for his going to war against Ramoth Gilead.
Ahab counted on his chosen four hundred prophets for him to go to war. 
Ahab doubted the word of God through Prophet Micaiah. 
Jehoshaphat was reluctant about going to war by the word of four hundred prophets. 
Ahab insists on going to war, “…I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you put on your robes.” So, the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.” (2 Chronicles 18:29) 
The doubt about Ahab causes his self-deception. 
Doubt of Ahab prompted him to disguise himself by counting on the word of the world prophet, not of God.
The word of God one locates directly or indirectly does not open such for self-destruction. 
King Ahab went to war against the word of God. 
Without a doubt, King Jehoshaphat did not disguise himself but depended on God. 
At war, Jehoshaphat ended in the surrounding of the enemies. 
2 Chronicles 18:31 records, “…when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore, they surrounded him to attack, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God diverted them from him.” 
Jehoshaphat did not doubt God and did not disguise himself. Jehoshaphat depended on the word of God to be delivered from death in the war.
Ahab chose to disguise himself to war because he counted on the word of the world.
Ahab was a victim of himself when he experienced destruction at the hand of his enemy. 
There is no way for deliverance when doubt and deception are a way of life. 
The goodness and mercy of God have brought you this far this year, not the word of the world.
It is a great privilege to see the day count on God to see you through the coming month.
Give glory and honor, existing for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to look up to God in His word for deliverance and preservation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Asking God for your well-being is not a sin.

Exodus 11, 12:1-42

With praying before God, know and expect that the stretched-out hand of God shall deliver you from the bondage of all kinds.
Asking God for your well-being is not a sin.
With God, do not ask for less but ask more with the expectation of the deliverance of God. 
God is a good God that answers when we ask, seek, and knock. 
The Israelites cried out for deliverance from bondage in the hand of Pharaoh and Egyptians.
When it was time for God to bring the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, He spoke to Moses, “But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go. (Exodus 3:19-20)
God knew that Pharaoh was going to deny the let go of the Israelites by a mighty hand but by His stretched-out hand. 
Pharaoh saw the mighty hand of God through nine painful plagues, and he repeatedly disallowed the salvation of the Israelites. 
When it was time for the stretch-out hand of God to manifest for the salvation of the Israelites, it was through the uncommon wonder that brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
With the stretch-out hand of God, no evil one like Pharaoh will survive or stand against the doing of God.
God sent Moses, “And the Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here altogether.” (Exodus 11:1) 
The stretch-out hand of God inflicted a final blow on behalf of the Israelites for deliverance from Pharaoh.
Ask against whatever is representing Pharaoh in your life to experience the stretch-out hand of God in the name of Jesus.
This day, call on God for one more of His stretch-out hand against the silent activities of the representative of Pharaoh in your lot.
One more plague was the tenth plague which took place at midnight hour and made Pharaoh and whole Egyptians experience the loss of the firstborn. 
Exodus 12:31-32 documents, “So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the Lord as you have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.” 
Ask God for your deliverance and experience His manifestation.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His stretch-out for your total deliverance from bondage.