FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting without having hope is not complete.

Exodus 32:1-14

Trusting and hoping the word of God is a way to get the way.
Trusting without having hope is not complete to gain the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 admonishes, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Prompt yourself to trust and hope in the move of God.
As a believer of God, in your area of challenges of this world, are you experiencing affliction? 
Is it delay that is waging challenges to deny expectation?
Are your challenges taking longer than you do not perceive?
Are you beginning to lose sight of God for His divine intervention? 
As a believer, see your delay as deliverance on the way.
The word of God encourages all not to become a victim of discouragement waiting on God. Psalm 34:19 states, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
Trusting and hoping the word of God is to know that a delay in the manifestation of expectation is not a denial. 
It is clear that delay or another kind of challenge is imminent, but God is faithful.
His promise of deliverance for the one that trusts and hopes of His word is intact. 
Ignoring delay in any area of life will block out doubt.
Ignore delay!
Knowing whom you believe with a consistent meditation on His testimonies is encouraging to know there is a way where there is none. 
The Israelites experienced a delay that resulted in complaints and worries. 
The Bible records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” (Exodus 32:1) 
The children of Israel knew quite well by their exposure to different miracles through Moses that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave into an unnecessary worry that did not have a basis. 
Lack of trust and hope leads to worrying before God.
With the delay of Moses coming down from the mountain, an unholy gathering took over from where there was supposed to be a holy gathering.
The Israelites saw a delay that turned them to seek another god. 
Some delays are necessary when God is at the beginning of such a journey. 
Also, there are places one has started, but the delay has made it look like wasting out. 
Today, waiting on God can never be wasted. 
Some delays are not of failure, but to make a way to get to the expected end. 
Take note that without faith, the delay will turn quickly out of the way of the word of God that delivers. 
Allow God by taking all your delay to God in prayer. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the miracle of deliverance to answer in your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing God is having a relationship with God. 

Psalm 142, Daniel 6

Distraction is an attempt to deny relations with God.
Distraction is not announced to its victim when it strikes from the closet or distance.
It displaces one not to arrive at the calling of God.
The wife said to Job, “…Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Job rebuked the statement of his wife. (Job 2:10) 
Who is your distraction? 
Ignore to deny distraction, but focus on God alone. 
Do not become a victim of distraction to experience evil occurrences over your life. 
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device to derail one from arrival at the assignment of God. There is no one with an exception from distraction. 
The character of one who knows God is living in the fear of God.
Do you know God, or do you know about God?
One that does not know God becomes short of benefits encased in knowing God.
Fear God, commit to God, give regard to God, to build a relationship with God. 
David had a relationship with God, a testimony of giving regard to God. 
How David communicates with God testifies to his relationship with God.
Psalm 142:1-2 records David: “I cry out to the Lord with my voice; With my voice, to the Lord, I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.
David knows God, and His communication testifies.
Personalizing God builds up a relationship with God. Relationship with God is evidence of how much one knows God. 
David knows God, and He testifies that David is a man with a heart after Him.
Just like David, Daniel knew God. 
The Bible testifies that Daniel knows God and did exploit to the glory of God. (Daniel 11:32) 
Daniel constantly regarded God and did not complain, but he purposed for God not to defile himself before God. (Daniel 1:8) 
Daniel, a man of God, gave regard with his custom prayer approach to God. (Daniel 6:10)
David and Daniel were examples of giving regard to God and knowing God.
One with the heart not to know God becomes short of the benefit encased in knowing good gracious God. 
To lack knowledge of God makes a man a vessel that perishes. 
The word of God states it clearly, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Hosea 4:6)
The lack of knowledge is evidence of one that does not give regard to God.
The Bible cautions, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. (Psalm 28:5)
Give God regard.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to have a relationship with Him by knowing Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: The Easter season is worth engaging the prayerful not to live a life of waste. Jesus came for all to live abundantly.

Matthew 21

LET US THANK GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS AND MERCY
It is important to thank God for His goodness and mercy for the blood of Jesus, His sacrifice to give all life abundantly.
John 10:10 records the word of God, “I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
PRAYER:
Ask: Let us thank God for the life He brought, for all to live abundantly.
Ask that you will not live a life to miss the abundant life Jesus paid for all on the Calvary.
WHAT IS TIED DOWN TO DENY OUR ARRIVAL AT DIVINE ASSIGNMENT?
For Jesus to arrive at the junction to sacrifice, the center of His divine assignment, what is in position for Him to ride was tied down.
What is it that ties down your advance to arrive at the calling of God over your life?
Is it your distraction?
Is your company (your surroundings or family)holding you down?
What is holding you from settling at your center of divine assignment?
God did not create you for anyone but for Himself. Revelation 4:11 admonishes, “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.”
All are the will of God for His glory.
For Jesus to arrive at the center of His divine, he needed to untie the donkey.
Jesus sent His word to gain His ride, stating, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me.” (Matthew 21:2)
The spoken word of Jesus gained the ride as the donkey was untied.
Matthew 21:6-7 records, “So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt…”
PRAYER
Ask against the force set to deny your encounter to the center of divine assignment to be permanently terminated in the name of Jesus.
Pray against distraction working against your arrival to the calling of God over your life.
Pray that every stagnation holding you outside of your call shall begin to experience the miracle of God.
AS HE HAS RIDDEN ON A DONKEY, SO IT SO TO RIDE ON BELIEVERS TO GAIN IN HIS GLORY
Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem, His arrival at the center of His divine assignment.
What Jesus rides is bound to carry the honor and glory of God.
This celebration of death and the rise of Jesus is to ask for the presence of God to ride one.
PRAYER
Ask God to ride you in every area of life. (From this moment, ask God to ride you in all areas of your life)
Ask that Jesus shall enable you to live as a vessel for His presence.
Ask that God shall continually occupy you.

FAITH CAPSULE: See in the truth of the resurrection of Jesus.

Luke 24

The documentation of the life of Jesus is not a story but a secret that is not to be heard, to see and engaged, not to live a life of waste.
See in the word of God to receive, to become one that hears and sees.
The character of one who sees is to observe and be able to live by the word of God.
Jesus said, “The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” (Luke 24:7)
Jesus repeated His story to those who will hear and begin to live by His word, but hardly anyone demonstrated having seen to receive what he said.
Does your way of life reflect the word God?
Are you living with boldness and character that Jesus will die and live for you to live life abundantly?
Celebrating the life of Jesus with no meaning or purpose is a waste of life for one with no understanding.
Celebrating death and rising should be every day.
Life should be every Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday and Sunday.
Live for God, a life Jesus purchased on the Calvary, is not to live life outside of God.
The character of living outside of life Jesus paid on the Calvary such will live in the fear that is not of God.
To fear the unknown instead of to fear God is the character of not being able to see in the word that Jesus has come so that all shall have life and have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
To give life, He had to die and rise.
Fear denied to see in the truth of the resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus repeatedly told disciples about His resurrection, but after He died and rose, fear locked them. (John 20:19)
On the third day, those who sought Jesus at the tomb were overwhelmed with fear as a voice located them saying, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5)
Seek God diligently. Jesus is alive!
Prayerfully, make it a prayer life, asking God for His fear to become your way of life.
God said to ask it shall be.
God that says ask also said, “Then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.”
Live to fear God will enable you to gain His promise.
To fear God is the root of wisdom.
One that fears God cannot be far from God that is near to all that embraces His word.
See in the word of God to live and claim His promises.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will see in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is alive, and He lives and reigns forever.

John 20

John 20:1-2 records, “Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 
Mary Magdalene was the first to announce the disappearance of the body of Jesus from the grave. 
The same Mary whom Jesus healed from the possession of evil spirits was the first one at the grave that could not hold.
The crucifixion of Jesus meant a great deal to her. 
After the resurrection of Jesus, Mary was in place to recognize Jesus but could not recognize Jesus. 
She mistook Him for a gardener. 
Have you mistaken Jesus for you by the way you are living outside of His word?
The Bible records, “She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” (John 20:15) 
How can one who saw Jesus in the physical and was not able to recognize Jesus after the resurrection? 
Believe and receive that Jesus is alive and will live and reign forever.
Mary Magdalene was with sorrow. 
Mary Magdalene was so sure of Jesus but did not have what it takes to recognize Him. 
Does that sound like you in a time of grave challenge? 
Luke 21:13-16 records, “Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.” 
One who knows Jesus in His physical is not evidence to know Him in the spirit.
Disciples walked with Him, but they had lost sight of their Savior. 
Is that you?
They knew Jesus well, but they did not know Him well enough to identify with Him at the point of visitation after he had resurrected from where the devil could not hold Him captive. 
Frustration occupied the two disciples, thinking their hope was gone. 
Are you experiencing frustration in any area of your life? 
Remind yourself that Jesus is not dead; He is a living God. 
When the two regained sight, it was time for Jesus to depart the presence of the two disciples. 
Luke 24:31, “Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.” 
Your story does not have to be like the two disciples of Emmaus. 
Emmanuel was with them, yet they were far from Him. 
He has risen! 
Set your focus on Jesus to allow Him to have a place in your heart.
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the agent that blinds the minds of many.