FAITH CAPSULE: Are you called by self, by the world, not by God?

Psalm 8, 49

To answer the calling of God is to live life by the word of God. 
The calling of God is a blessing of God in the life of one that answers.
In life, no one is the caller of God but God that calls all.
Jesus called His disciples. 
Matthew 10:1 records the calling of disciples of Jesus, “And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.” (Matthew 10:1)
Today, unlike the disciples of Jesus, many self-acclaimed calls themselves with the word of God in the head, not in the heart.
Romans 8:28-29 testifies, to the called, “… to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” 
Are you called by self, by the world, not by God?
The called one by God moves obediently to the direction of God.
Matthew 10:9-10 record the direction to the disciple on the journey for Jesus, “Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.” 
As a called one, does the direction of Jesus sound familiar to you?
The called one that obeys the direction of God will be connected to God not to become trapped but to arrive at the center of divine assignment in life.
However, answering the calling of God will mount with challenges, but obedience to God will deliver in it all. 
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
In the journey of answering the calling of God, mockery will mount against such to become discouraged, but the miracle of victory will answer.
Also, stagnation will delay the journey of answering to the calling of God, but with obedience to God, the motion to arrive at the divine assignment is certain.
Answering the calling of God is the identity of love for God. 
God calls out of His goodness and lovingkindness. 
God is mindful of all to crown all with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:4-5) Unfortunately, by the lack of knowledge, man does not know the blessing of the calling of God. Psalm 49:20 buttresses, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.” 
The calling of God is for a glorious destiny to arrive at the center of the divine assignment. 
The journey of glorious destiny is a departure from iniquity.
Glorious destiny has its foundation in righteousness. 
In righteousness, there is the blessing of God with favor as a shield of God. (Psalm 5:12)  
Do you know what it takes to engage the delivery of glorious destiny?
Walking in righteousness is all that it takes to engage the delivery of glorious destiny.
Answer the calling of God not to live a life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your answering to His calling.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is also a navigator not to fail. 

Proverbs 4

There is a need to hear the word of God regularly.
To become one hearing and hearing by the word of God is not to fail to observe and do according to the word of God.
One that observes will see to receive and become what one sees in the word.
Deuteronomy 12:28 records, “Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.” 
Hear to observe and obey the word of God. 
God also points it out to Joshua, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8) 
All should be meditating on the word of God day and night, observing and doing (obeying) the word of God to experience the manifestation of the promise of God.
Psalm 33:4 admonishes, “For the word of the LORD is right, and all His work is done in truth.”  
The word of God is right.
Without any doubt, no weapon forms against one that observes and obeys the truth in the word of God diligently.
What one hears to observe and obey in the word of God is what will carry one through daily life. 
The word of God is direction, deliverance, protection, and preservation. There is a need to hear the word of God regularly.
The Psalmist testifies in Psalm 143:8,” Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning. For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk for I lift up my soul to You.” The Psalmist demonstrates that hearing, observing, and obeying God in the morning is what makes the difference in the day. 
It is discipline to make provision for hearing from the word of God first in the morning, trusting with hope in God, will be activated for daily endeavors. 
Also, what man hears in the morning will be like a compass to navigate daily challenges. 
The word of God heard in the morning will be accompanying your journey. 
The word of God will show the way through the day, and it will also be in place to deliver one in the face of the enemy.
No one walks in the way of God to become a victim of the enemy. 
Those who walk in His way shall not fail the expected end. 
Give self to hearing, observing to obey, and be set in the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to be occupied by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to receive and believe the Word of God.

2 Kings 5

The Word of God is the power to heal.
There is the direction to receive and believe the power of the Word of God.   
Naaman, a commander of the army of the king of Syria, had leprosy and could not receive and believe the Word of God as directed to experience healing. 
Elisha, the Prophet of God, told Naaman to go and wash in the Jordan seven times for the cleansing of his leprosy, but he refused and could not accept the direction for his healing instead, “Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’” (2 Kings 5:11) Naaman refused to do as directed.
Learn not to deny your timely deliverance by not receiving to believe the Word of God. 
Psalm 107:20 records the activity of the Word of God, “He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions.” 
What is denying you or discouraging you from giving yourself to the Word of God?
The Word of God is the same and has not changed from the beginning of time. John 1:1-3 records the description of the Word of God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”  
The Word of God will terminate a challenge in the life of one that receives and believes in the Word of God.
Know to receive and believe the Word of God!
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him for healing on behalf of his servant that was lying sick and paralyzed.
Jesus responded with His plan to go to the house of the centurion. 
The centurion answered Jesus, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.” (Matthew 8:8) 
Eventually, the centurion received and believed the Word of God for the healing of his servant. 
The Word of God is to terminate a challenge for anyone that can receive, to believe in healing and deliverance. 
Naaman delayed with disobedience but eventually responded to the healing direction in the Word of God. 2 Kings 5:14 records, “So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”
Are you delaying your healing deliverance? 
Do not delay by denying the entrance of the Word of God to work for you.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you will know to receive and believe the Word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is possible to run but not hide from the calling of God.

Exodus 13

God is the creator of all, and none belong to self but belongs to God Almighty.
God created all as Revelation 4:11 mentions, “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.” To be alive is not by right but by the privilege of God. 
The privilege of God to be alive is with the purpose of God.
The purpose of God defines His calling assignment over your life.
Have you received the calling of God?
Are you running away from the calling of God?
One can indeed run from the calling of God, but hiding from God is impossible.
The calling assignment of God for all is different from one another.
Do you know the calling of God over your life?
1 Thessalonians 5:24 admonishes the calling of God, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Answering the calling of God according to His assignment should not be a failure.
The calling of God will relocate one from comfort to commitment to the glory of God.
In the calling of God, the provision of God that is in place for the obedient one shall not derail to arrive at the center of the assignment of God.
Also, answering the calling of God will not escape challenges, but deliverance from challenges shall come to be.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Affliction is a challenge, but know that the promise of God answers for deliverance.
In your answering to the calling of God, activate to become endured as Hebrews 10:36 encourages all, “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” 
It is the will of God for all to arrive at His calling. 
Are you with the desire to live life by the will of God?
One with a desire for God shall experience the doing of God and not fail before God. 
The documentation of Abraham coming out of his country is the will of God. Abraham answered the calling of God.
The will of God for Abraham was for Abraham to be a great nation, a great name, and a blessing. (Genesis 12: 1-2) 
The will of God for Abraham is for him not to fail as he obeyed.
Take note that where there is a will for a child of God, there will always be a way to get through when one answers obediently. 
Give yourself to answer the calling of God with endurance and not to fail, and God will back you up.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your ears and eyes to His calling for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: From henceforth, begin to do good for the glory of God.

2 Kings 4:8-17

One doing good is investing for the self to be in the position to experience the visitation of God. 
Always know to do good when the situation demands doing good.
James 4:17 encourages the reason to do know to do good, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” 
One that knows to do good but not to do good gives self to sin.
Doing good is among the fruit of the spirit. Galatians 5:22 states, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.” Romans 12:9, “…Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:15, “See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.” 2 Thessalonians 3:13, “But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.” Hebrews 13:16, “But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
Give yourself to investing good at all times to reap from the visitation of God.
From henceforth, begin to do good for the glory of God.
Doing good from the depth of heart will provoke caring with a glaring action.
It is worth doing good by acting with care to gain the attention of God.
A Shunammite invested going good to the prophet God to gain the visitation of God.
2 Kings 4:9-10 records the doing of the Shunammite woman, “And she said to her husband, ‘Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God who passes by us regularly. Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.’” 
The Shunammite woman made life comfortable for the man of God.
The man of God did not look away but acknowledged the Shunamite woman by sending his servant, “…Say now to her, ‘“Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?”’ (2 Kings 4:13) 
Elisha later realized the bareness of the Shunamite woman and eventually prayed over her life in 2 Kings 3:16, “About this time next year, you shall embrace a son.”
The Shunammite woman invested in doing good in the name of God and was able to reap to receive the blessing of the womb. 
The Shunamite woman became a mother in the old age of her husband.
Truly one that knows to do good will reap from the blessing of God.
Know to be doing good to experience the move of God over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to be doing good all the days of your life.