FAITH CAPSULE: Going through the wilderness journey of life comes with challenges.

Exodus 13:17-22, Matthew 4:1-17

In the journey of life, nothing works but faith to sink fear
No one can avoid the challenges experienced in the wilderness journey to arrive at the promise of God.
The time of the wilderness journey of life comes with the spiritual, emotional, or physical challenge that is never beyond the intervention of God.
The calling for Jesus, on His journey of life, answering to the calling of God came with a temptation challenge.
The Bible records, “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) 
Jesus passed through the wilderness before arriving at the center of His divine assignment.
If Jesus could not escape the experience of the wilderness journey of life to arrive at the center of the divine assignment, no one shall escape the challenges of the wilderness journey of life.
Are you answering to the calling of God?
Anyone answering to the calling of God will not be excused from encountering challenges.
In life, how wild a wilderness journey is will determine how challenging one will engage for the glory of God. 
The deliverance of Israelites from the bondage of over four hundred years to the Promised Land could navigate the wilderness journey. 
Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Then it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” The wilderness journey of life comes with challenges.
Navigating the wilderness journey goes through the process and becomes positioned in the promise of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey that one plans for but is a journey that puts one in the plan of God.
The wilderness is not a journey of the comfort of choice or interest. 
The wilderness journey is a journey for everyone in the hand of God to pass through to learn obedience. 
In the calling of God, are you seeking a back road or shortcut to avoid the wilderness journey?
The wilderness journey is a journey of trial and temptation that can be an unencouraging route with pain.
Obedience to the direction of God will lead to claiming the promises of God without failure. 
Any attempt to avoid the wilderness journey will make a believer become a wanderer without arriving at the promised plan of God.
Engage your wilderness journey by knowing that God shall see you through.
The wilderness journey is a wild journey where nothing works but faith. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall not become a victim of termination in the wilderness journey of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The time of challenge is not the time to give up but to give it all to God.

Psalm 3

Challenge varies.
Experiencing challenges is not fun.
Challenges have no respect for whom they lock up.
Are you in any way experiencing a challenge?
What kind of challenge are you experiencing?
Are you on the side of God?
Are you experiencing challenges?
The word of God is a promise to hold against the challenge of the wicked world.
Psalm 34:19 states, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Affliction is a challenge. A challenge is an affliction.
One answering as a believer is not an excuse not to experience challenges.
When trouble increases, it becomes challenging trouble. 
Challenging trouble is a growing trouble that persists but with no sign for it to cease. 
Challenging trouble often graduates to permanent when it does not cease.
Challenging trouble is intending to terminate the troubled ones. 
Are you worrying instead of worshipping God?
David had increasing trouble when he said, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” (Psalm 3:1-2)
David, a man after the heart of God, experienced trouble.
One of the testimonies of how David dealt with increasing trouble in his life states, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3)  
Acknowledging the awesomeness of God in the place of troubling challenge overtakes the pain of challenge.
Be thanking God in the time of challenge, and God shall acknowledge.
Thanking God shall provoke the hand of God for His intervention.
Acknowledging God for what He can do, as David states, “One who lifts up my head…”
In the time of challenge, testify the knowledge of God. 2 Samuel 2:3 testifies, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him, actions are weighed.” 
Give more to God in times of challenge. Let God acknowledge you with more of His attention.
Another testimony of how David dealt with his troubling challenge records, “I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.” (Psalm 3:4) 
Crying is not a sign of weakness. 
David had challenges that demanded crying out. 
David cried out with his voice; it was not just a cry in his heart but a cry that went out loud to God at His holy hill. 
It is worthy to cry out loud to God, unlike being quiet not to become victorious. 
David was not quiet before God but testified that the Lord heard him from His holy hill. 
In your challenging trouble, cry out to God, not to any man.
Challenges exist.
The time of challenge is not the time to give up but to give it all to God.
Regardless of how long your challenge persists, resist and insist on God for His divine intervention.
Prayer for today: Ask God to lead and keep you from becoming a victim of troubling challenges.

FAITH CAPSULE: The zeal of Jesus was to the glory of God.

John 2

Having the boldness and character to live for the glory of God is rooted in having zeal for God.
To have the zeal for God is not of determination alone but also having a desire for God.
The zeal of Jesus was to the glory of God.
To have the zeal for God is to live life, seeking God diligently.
The zeal of Jesus is the documentation for all to learn, to know what it means to live life for the glory of God.
Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character that identifies one as a winner.
Without the zeal for God, there will be no boldness and character for the acclaimed believer of the word of God to flush out activities of the world in the temple. 
Are you zealous for God?
One with zeal for God will always stand against the world of disobedience by looking into the word of God with action. 
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple but drove all wicked world activities outside of the temple of God.
Are you an acclaimed temple of God, full of activities that are not of God?  One with the zeal of God will identify merchandise that is not of God that calls for turning it out.One with the zeal of God will not compromise the word of God in the temple of God.
As a temple of God, what is your character outside of God?
John 2:13-17  documents the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
The boldness and character of Jesus are rooted in His zeal for God.
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is the character that lives for God, meditating on the word of God.
One that meditates is seeing in the word of God.
The word identifies that meditate on the word of God day and night, to see and be able to observe and do according to the word of God. (Joshua 1:8)
Why not desire to become one with the zeal of God?
It is wise to engage in prayer, not a determination to become one with the zeal for God.
Manifestly, until the zeal of God eats up a believer, the possibility of having a clean temple will not be possible. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal of God to eat you up.

FAITH CAPSULE: Choose to be with God always.

2 Kings 2

The word of God upgrades one with the choice to upgrade in the word of God.
Does the word of God speak to you in this wicked world?
In the wicked world, get upgraded; be built up in the word of God. Apostle Paul identifies the need to be built up in Acts 20:32, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
It is worthy to commit oneself to the word of God and be upgraded with continual prayer and to the ministry of the word of God. 
The life of many in the bible testifies to getting an upgrade in standing for God against false religious leaders and kings.
Elijah did not align himself with wicked kings and leaders. 
Elijah lived right before God to keep him upgraded in the wicked world. Elijah did not die but went up to heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2:11) 
Walking and standing in fellowship with obedience to God in this wicked world is not impossible but possible for one with a purposed heart for God. 
Elijah stood for God, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” (James 5:17) 
Today, it is possible to upgrade as Elijah was in his life journey. 
Matthew 6:19-21 identifies what it takes to remain upgraded, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” 
The character of one upgraded is standing in the word of God.
The wicked world of today demands constant and consistent upgrading by seeking God. 
Seeking God is pleasing to God. 
Pleasing God is to be living by the word of God. 
In a wicked world, Enoch upgraded himself by walking with God.
He demonstrated a life of fellowship with obedience to God. 
Hebrews 11:5-6 records, “By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 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.” 
In this wicked world, to keep self-upgrading is to live a life of fellowship with obedience to God. 
Line with God.
Live by His word.
Walk with God, walk before to become focused on Him.
See in the word of God, believe to receive and become of you.

Prayer for today: Ask that you walk with or before God.

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.