FAITH CAPSULE: Know in your waiting time.

1 Samuel 1

The Parable of Persistent Widow points out to always pray and not lose heart. 
To pray with persistence without stopping is the character of waiting on God.
The barrenness of Hannah praying without stopping from going to Shiloh yearly to worship and sacrifice to God was waiting before God without doubt. 
Hannah was persistent until God opened her womb. 
Waiting on God can usually entail staying for either a short or long period. God answers individuals in different ways at different times. 
God is the perfect creator.
Time belongs to God, and no one can rush Him out of His plan, His appointed time of manifestation. 
The Psalmist identified different lengths of time for waiting: 
Psalm 25:5:“…On you, I will wait all day.” 
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God…” 
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” 
Hosea 12:6, “…wait on your God continually.” 
Philippians 3:20, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” 
The key to waiting on God has to be patiently, continually, silently, and eagerly. 
Waiting on God can take longer than expected, but God will always manifest Himself when being patient in Him is demonstrated.
IN TIME OF WAITING
In your waiting, acknowledge God, remind Him of what He has done, what He is doing, and what He is undeniable. 
Always make your request known to Him.
Acknowledge God: 
He is a jealous God, and the antidote to jealousy is attention. 
God enjoys gaining attention. 
Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” 
What do you know to do before God to experience activation breakthrough? 
The Psalmist’s statement acknowledges Him, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He teaches sinners in the way.” (Psalm 25:8) 
Waiting without acknowledging the Lord is waiting in anguish.
Reminding God: 
Reminding God is not because God has forgotten you. 
God encourages all in Isaiah 45:11, “…and concerning the works of my hands, you command me.” 
One who knows to remember the works of the hands of God will be in a position holding the to God as stated in His word. 
The Psalmist reminded Him in Psalm 25:6, “Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your loving kindnesses…” 
Remind God of His word. 
He is a good and great God. 
Request from God: 
He wants all to ask so the one that asks will receive. Jesus encourages us, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9) Psalm 25:16 states, “Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.”  
He is the God of salvation and not a slave master.
God will respond to the request of one who asks, demonstrating His caring love for all. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to persist before Him in a time of need.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is keeping His ways

Matthew 6

King David, a man after the heart of God, shared his experience in Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land…” 
Undoubtedly, waiting on God is keeping His way. 
The way of God is His word. 
Jesus, the living Word of God, stated, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) To keep the way of God is the character of living for God by praying, fasting and spending time in His word, watching for the manifestation of expectation. 
Waiting in Prayer: Jesus taught about prayer in Matthew 6:5-8, “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” Who can instruct or teach waiting in prayer more ideally than Jesus?
Waiting in Fasting: Just as Jesus mentioned waiting in prayer, He mentioned waiting in fasting. 
Matthew 6:16-18, “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”  
To wait on God by fasting will not end in wasting. 
Praying and fasting is a must be done.
Jesus did not suggest praying and fasting but specifically instructed: “When you pray and fast,” indicating fasting and praying as a must be done by His disciples.
Wait by watching: Micah testified to spending time waiting and watching. “Therefore, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.” (Micah 7:7) 
Looking up to God is watching and waiting to hear from Him.
One will receive when one can see in the spoken word of God. 
Looking up to God, spend time in the living word of God.
He is a faithful God.
He will speak His word that never fails. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to keep His way in your waiting.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is not a waste of time. 

Isaiah 40

Without absolute trust in waiting on God, absolute emerging from waiting is not possible. 
God does not waste a word. 
Have you received and believed in Christ as Lord and Savior through the word documented in the pages of the Bible? Why not take every word with passion? 
God promised in His word, “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.” (Isaiah 40:31) 
God is not a man that He should tell lies and whatever He says He will do is a done deal. 
Remember, the word of God does not return to God void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:1)
Are you lacking in the area of the rest of God?
Avenue to rest of God is in waiting on Him. 
Not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
Going astray is rooted in the heart. 
Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss His way. 
God is a good God, and to end outside of a good way is not of God. 
Indeed, what is not good is not of God. 
God is a God of time and process. 
His time is not like the time of man; likewise, His process is not the process of man. 
The timing of God is perfect. 
His process is preparation for where He has time for everyone to be.
Waiting on God can be defined as time to remain unmoving or inactive until the manifestation of expectation.
Waiting can be a state of repose until something one expects happens.
Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. 
Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and a definite purpose; that is, for something expected. 
Without absolute trust in waiting on God, there will be no absolute result emerging from waiting on God. 
The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) 
Trusting and hoping in God is what energizes waiting on Him. 
Trusting in God does have blessings, and not trusting in Him will also generate curses. 
God spoke in Jeremiah 17:5, “…Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.” 
Regarding blessing, the same Word of God states in Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord”. How can you wait on whom you do not trust and hope? 
Having trust in place will enable waiting on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that the spirit of waiting on God to become your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: One with the wisdom of God is bound to have the heart to fear God.

1 Samuel 23:1-5, Proverbs 4

Engaging wisdom in every area of life brings forth good results. 
There are different kinds of wisdom, but the only wisdom that is certain to deliver good results is the wisdom of God. 
However, the wisdom of this age and the rulers of this age are the ones that will come to nothing.
Apostle Paul was speaking in 1 Corinthians 2:6-8, “…we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” 
In your world, which wisdom are you operating? 
In a world of lying, deception, and manipulation, the wisdom of God is what it takes to prevail.
Proverbs 4: 7 states, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom…” 
No one is born with wisdom.
Wisdom is a priority for all, as the Bible states, “…therefore get wisdom.” 
Give attention to the word of God, a sure and undeniable source of wisdom. 
One who gains from the wisdom of God is bound to have the heart to fear God. 
Proverbs 9:10 encourages, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” 
The understanding of God by King David must have been in his wisdom. 
God also testified of him as a man after His own heart. (1 Samuel 13:14) The Bible repeatedly mentions how David went out wherever Saul sent him and behaved wisely. 
With the wisdom of the heart, King David consistently escaped the sudden death before him.
Once, David was at war against the Philistines, and the Bible 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.” (1 Samuel 23:2) 
Right after getting a go-ahead response from God, his men reacted by saying, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more than if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?” (1 Samuel 23:3) 
Without wisdom, it would have been easier for David to listen to the shallow mind and set him against the direction of God.
However, he went back once again to the Lord, 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) 
Wisdom is profitable for all things and every decision-making. 
Live life for God, and have Christ as the avenue not to lack wisdom. 
1 Corinthians 1:30, buttress, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”
Live life for God, and engage wisdom! 

Prayer for today: Ask for the wisdom of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing about the word God is not knowing God, to live life for God. 

Exodus 14

Having the peace of God comes with a condition.
The condition to have the peace of God is to seek and find Him.
To have the peace of God is to live life for God.
Knowing about the word God is not knowing God, to live life for God.
One who does not live life for His creation is as a captive. 
Many are carried away captive and are very religious but not Christ-like. 
God was speaking to the children of Israel who were carried away as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon “For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity…” (Jeremiah 29:10-14) 
A captive is a captive (captured or detained) in prison.
The message of God identifies peace as the only source of having a future and hope. 
Ones with the peace of God live life for God.
One with the peace of God knows God, not knows about God.
One with the peace of God dwells in the secret of God and shall abide under the shadow of God.
Psalm 91:1-2 states, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
The secret of God is in the word of God and not hidden for those who study the word of God.
Isaiah 45:19 testifies, “I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in vain’; I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.” 
To do right is not to hide away from those who seek God diligently.
One with the peace of God, who lives life for God, engages in prayer as a way of life.
Embrace praying and giving yourself to the word of God.
Prayer is making a petition to God. 
Faith is belief with trust and hope in God. 
Prayer and faith compromise each other. 
Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer as the constant engagement and communication with God.
Faith is what pleases God.
Hebrews 11:6 confirms, “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.”
How is your prayer life? 
Prayer is not a waste of time before God but to gain from God.
God answers prayer with yes, no, or wait. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant and consistent prayer.