FAITH CAPSULE: Do not be quiet to be victorious but shout rejoicing before God.

Job 1 

Regardless of your challenge, approach God with thanks and joy.
Before God, give thanks rooted in the heart, not just in the tongue.
One that knows to give thanks to God should approach God with joy. Ephesians 5:20 states, “Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 
Do you know to give thanks for access to the presence of God?
The Bible records the reason to be thankful and joyful before God:
“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4)  
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…” 
Proverbs 8:30, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing, always before Him.” 
The scriptural verses testify that with joy, God is accessible. 
Apostle Paul states, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4) 
Apostle Paul expressed rejoicing with a shout!
Do not be quiet to be victorious know to shout rejoicing before God.
Rejoicing before God is celebrating with joy, the evidence of a thankful heart.
Let it be clear that the evil one never shies away from where there is a joy with wickedness to convert one from rejoicing to sadness. 
Regardless of the challenge, know to maintain your joy before God.
In the life of Job, Satan was at work to turn around joy into the sadness of Job.
Job 1:6-7 records, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So, Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” (Job 1:6-7) 
Every interruption of Satan is always with bad intentions. 
Satan is empowered to go to and fro looking for one to devour when he initiated pain for Job while he presents himself at the gathering of the sons of God in His presence. 
God granted the request of Satan when he asked of Job:
“But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So, Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.” (Job 1:11-12) 
Imagine how the wicked one delivered every form of affliction over the life of Job. 
In between and through it all, Job did not complain before God and did not condemn God. 
Job cried to God, and he eventually received more blessings after his time of testing times than when he first started to enjoy all that God bestowed upon him.

Prayer for today: Ask with joy, and give a heartful thanks to God for all things.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is stopping you from taking your concern to God today?

Mark 5

The Bible records, “Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.” (Mark 5:25-27)
For twelve years, a woman experienced un-wanting pain. 
Whenever concern remains persistent, it becomes a burden, and the carrier labors silently or loudly in pain. 
The woman could not receive healing in the hand of any physician. 
On top of her pain, she spent all to get healed but did not get healing.
Physically, spiritually or emotionally, are you experiencing a silent pain from the issue of life?
Pain can be a combination of labor and discouragement in the life of the journey.
The healing Healer is encouraging enough to look up to for healing and deliverance.
Matthew 11:28 record the encouraging healing word of God, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and you will find rest for your souls.” The healing Healer is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Give self to the word of God for healing like the woman with the issue of blood. 
If she had not come to Jesus, the issue of blood would have remained over her life. 
Jesus was not telling jokes, nor was He sharing fables when He declared in Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and you will find rest for your souls.”
What is stopping you from taking your concern to Him today?
Is your past discouragement in the place to discourage you from getting your healing?
A woman of the blood of twelve years did not resist going for her healing. 
Leviticus 15:19 stated, “If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.” 
The law in Leviticus 15:19 could not resist her from going after Jesus, but she went further to receive her healing.
At the approach of Jesus by the woman of the issue of blood, every available route to reach Jesus was crowded but not enough to discourage her.
The woman with the issue of blood came behind Jesus, and the crowd could not deny her from touching His garment.
Any discouragement to give up from seeking from the Healing One is a force of evil.
Location or your distance to the Healer is not enough to be a hindrance to your healing. 
With the extent of pain, Jesus can heal and give rest.
The woman with the issue of blood sought the Healer diligently, and she received her healing.
Today, seek God the Healer diligently, and you shall receive your healing.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give heed to your prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.

Numbers 14

Complaints of the Israelites set them on a painful journey that denied the promise of God over their life.
Numbers 14:1-4 records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”  
In all their complaint, the negative confession when they reacted to discouraging reports of the spies on the Promised Land caused them not to arrive at the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining about negative confession?
Any complaint will rebel before God.
Complaints and rebellion became the character of the Israelites before God.
As a believer, avoiding complaining before God is rooted in trusting and hoping in God. 
One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 informs, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is evidence of having hope in God.
Do you have faith to wait on God without complaint and not become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoid complaints before God is the discipline to wait for God that acts for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 encourages all, “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.”
A failure to wait on God will complain and become rebellious.
Pharaoh and his chariot could not stop Israelites from coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
The Red Sea failed to deny them to the Promised Land, while the Jericho wall could stop the advance journey to the Promised Land, but the negative complaint and confession stopped the Israelites from getting to the Promised Land.
Numbers 14:28 records the response of God to the complaint of the Israelites: “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.” 
Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.
God hears all at all times. 
Stop complaining!

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not be a vessel of complaining before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Is your building in agreement or disagreement?

Acts 12:1-19

The agreement is an act of agreeing; it is a state of being in accord. 
It is accord, compromise, compatibility, consistency, complying, and reconciliation. 
Where the agreement exists, disagreement, dissent, disharmony, discord, disunity, dissimilarity, and divorce do not exist. 
Are you in the fellowship of two, three, or many with the character of agreement or disagreement? 
The roots of disagreement are lying, deception or manipulation. 
The Christian body is not with exemption from having agreement or disagreement. 
Is your fellowship in agreement with the word of God?
Is your fellowship rooted in the direction of God?
Is your fellowship building up like a Tower of Babel? 
When the people began to build the Tower of Babel, there was no agreement rooted in God. 
Building outside the command of the Creator of all is uncompromising, a disagreement with the only Creator. 
At the onset of building the Tower of Babel, the people state, “…Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) 
The people disagree with the word of God by building babel, not agreeing with their Creator. 
God responds to the construction by the people, “…Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” (Genesis 11:6)
What is driving your fellowship to build up before God?
Is your building in agreement or disagreement?
Not counting on God in your fellowship is either engagement or disagreement to build or bring down a gathering fellowship.
Know that there is power in agreement when God is the center of your fellowship.
Jesus testifies to the power of fellowshipping, “…if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19-20) 
The power of agreement is in coming together for the glory of God, not for self-glorification. 
In the name of Jesus, coming together in agreement is the manifestation of power. 
Once, Peter was facing death when the agreement of the fellowship answered for his deliverance.
There was no way out for Peter to escape the hand of Herod. 
The Bible records, “And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.”(Acts 12:6)  
He had deliverance when “…prayer was offered to God for him by the church.” (Acts 12:5) 
The coming together of the church in agreement delivered Peter from an untimely death in the hand of King Herod. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from religion and place you into the reality of Christ.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire, not just determination, to seek God.

Matthew 6

One with the desire to seek God diligently will gain and retain the presence of God.
Let prayer, not just determination but desire that will back one to seek God diligently.
In this wicked world, come out of religion, and give yourself to a commitment to God. 
Commitment to God is seeking God diligently.
How are you seeking God?
What is the purpose of your need to seek God? 
Seek God diligently seeking God is to seek Him first. 
Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Seeking God is the testimony of those who love God.
Proverbs 8:17 confirms, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”
Seek God diligently to be rewarded by God.
Hebrews 11:6 records, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is seeking God diligently to find God as Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “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.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God. 
Living life for God will follow the word of God right.
Seeking God being righteous as Isaiah 51:1 states, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” 
Today, give yourself to the word of God, listen consistently, and gain the wisdom and knowledge not to become a victim.  
Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.” 
Seek God diligently, serving God. 
Serving God is following God with no hidden agenda because God knows all. 
The word of God demands and declares what it means to follow God in John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” 
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. 
Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently, to find Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. 
Above all, one that follows God cannot fall into darkness as declared by the word of God that is true. 
John 8:12 confirms, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him.
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of the servant of the Lord.
Serve God by living life for God to gain His promises and not be a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to establish you in serving Him diligently.