FAITH CAPSULE: God alone is perfect and makes foolish wisdom. 

Judges 6:11-40, 7

When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you.
God is perfect to perform, and He is the perfect creator.
God oversees the affairs of all.
God is wisdom.
None is wiser than God.
1 Corinthians 1:20-25 recorded, “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:20-25) 
God alone is perfect and makes foolish wisdom. 
He alone will turn weak to strength.
The story of Gideon is a testimony that God is not limited to calling whoever He chooses to use.
The father of Gideon is a Baal worshiper, but God called on Gideon to go and fight for the deliverance of His people.
When God moves to deliver, He will choose the least expected, the least qualified, or the least among the least to use for His deliverance assignment. 
When God is at work in the life of the called one, nothing is possible to derail the work of God.
God called Gideon for the assignment of deliverance unto salvation, but he responded to God, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” 16 And the LORD said to him, ‘Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.’ 17 Then he said to Him, ‘If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.’” (Judges 6:15-17) 
Gideon wanted confirmation that God had called him for the assignment. Gideon repeatedly asked God in various ways to confirm the calling over his life.
God indeed assigned Gideon, a son of a Baal worshiper, to go and deliver His people from bondage. 
Has the Lord been calling you?
What is holding you from answering His calling?
Your history is not enough to deny your calling. 
God called Gideon, and He backed Him up with power. 
When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you. 
Gideon, with great fear, attempted not to answer the call, but God positioned him on the ground where he received every plan to go forward and be victorious to the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for boldness and power to move in the calling over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living a life of sin is not of God.

Genesis 3 

God creates all to exist for His glory, but the devil is in place to deny all not to live for the glory of God.
Sin is a weapon in the hand of the devil to separate all from God.
Anyone with sin can not see or reach God, meaning there is no way to find God.
Sin is sin before God.
Anyone with sin as a way of life is set for self-destruction.
Sin does not warn before occupying its victim.
A decorated name for sin is PRIDE. 
Pride is propagating a personal ride to self-destruction.
Living a life of sin is at a distance from God.
Romans 3:23 points out that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 
There is no minor sin before God.
Sin is a sin with no license for anyone to live a life of sin.
Have the desire to live life for the glory of God, to find Him to occupy you and keep you from the path of sin.
Pray to be delivered and not to live a life of sin or sinning.
With sin is to be displaced from the presence of God.
Gain and retain the presence of God by staying away from sins that lead to shame.
Shame, disgrace, or embarrassment is not a place for a child of God. 
With sin, shame will displace one, not show before the presence of God on God-given ground. 
God gave Adam and Eve every good to make life answer as liveable in peace and not become exposed to wickedness. 
God gave the command to Adam as a way not to enter into shame.  Genesis 2:16-17 states, “…Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  
However, Adam and Eve violated the command of God that was in place to retain God-given ground. 
Adam and Eve fell into sin.
Adam and Eve were the orchestration of sin and sinning before God.
Adam and Eve are like the father and mother of sin.
They disobeyed the word of God.
Adam and Eve gave to temptation by eating from forbidden God commanded them not to eat. 
The Lord has given all a place of fame, not of shame. 
Are you maintaining the word of God to retain the God-given place and ground of God?
The devil approached Adam and Eve to engage them in interaction for wrong before God.
The temptation of the devil was the interaction of the violation of God by Adam and Eve. (Genesis 3:1-5) 
The violation of the command of God led Adam and Eve to sin and become misplaced to become reduced from their God-given position for their life.
Do not open your inn for the entrance of the enemy of your soul.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God not to be a victim of sin.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart, the character of trust and hope. 

Joshua 14, Psalm 23

Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
Trusting God is confidence in the certainty of His deliverance and preservation power.
Are you doubting and not trusting in God?
Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
King David was so sure to trust in God when he said, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1)
What is better than knowing that with God is deliverance and preservation? 
God is a shield where there is no reason for fear in all areas of life.
King David was so sure to trust in God and not entertain fear. 
David walked and did not run through the valley of the shadow of death. He testifies, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4) 
Knowing how to trust God is not the same as knowing about trusting God. 
One who knows about trusting God does not have hope to trust God in the heart. 
Have faith to trust in God and be filled by God. 
In the valley of the shadow of death, walk confidently in the certainty of the deliverance of God.  
In life, through the wilderness, the only way out to the expected end is to trust God with hope. 
God is always at every juncture to make a way where there is no way and no sign of survival. 
Caleb and Joshua survived among thousands of the children of Israel who left Egypt for the Promised Land.
Caleb and Joshua survived because they saw hope where there was no hope. 
Caleb and Joshua trusted God enough and took an odd stand among their brethren who failed to trust in the promise of God. 
Caleb trusted God and testified, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.” (Joshua 14:7) Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart the character of trust and hope. 
Unlike Caleb and Joshua, the people who went to spy on the land failed to trust in the heart. 
Caleb testified, “Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.” (Joshua 14:8) 
Caleb trusted in God to prompt the keeping of God to testify, “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.” (Joshua 14:10) 
God is trustworthy!

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled by trusting God.

Faith Capsule: The secret of God is in the word of God.

Hebrews 11:8-19

By the word of God, obey, dwell, and wait before God.
Psalm 91:1 informs all, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
When the word of God sounds in your direction, it is worth obeying and dwelling on the word of God. 
Abraham is the testimony to obey, dwell, and wait on the word of God.
The Bible records Abraham, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
Obedience of Abraham: 
When God called Abraham out from his country, his father, and his family to an unknown land, he obeyed fully by launching out as commanded by God. 
Obedience to the word of God shall excel for the glory of God.
Obeying to obtain from God.
The dwelling of Abraham: 
Abraham lives by the word of God, and that is dwelling in the secret place of God.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Know to dwell in the word of God.
Abraham did not look back to where he was coming from, but went forward to the calling of God. 
He dwelt under the shadow of the word of God to move him forward. 
With faith in the word of God, he moved to a foreign country, and his faith caused him to obtain good testimonies.
The word of God is a story that is not a secret for one who is limited in understanding.
Like Abraham, engage the word of God, the secret to obeying for the glory of God.
The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered, not to become a victim of a wicked world.
Abraham dwelt in the word of God. 
Waiting for God by Abraham: 
Abraham obeyed God; he dwelt and waited on God for the deliverance and preservation of the word of God. 
Those who know how to dwell in God know how to wait patiently on God. 
Hebrews 11:10 records the waiting of Abraham for God, “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Indeed, Abraham lived by waiting for the future that was not yet in sight. 
Waiting on the word of God can be painful, but it is gainful for obedient ones.
The understanding of Abraham, his knowledge of the word of God, prompted him to obey and obtain the testimony of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with open ears and eyes of the heart to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The move of God calls for every moment.

Genesis 11

God wants His creation to move forward in life.
The grace to see a new moment is not a time of stagnation.
God is not a God of stagnation.Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know? 
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long at the junction of life?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his life journey. 
The word records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32) 
The father of Abraham, Terah, was set for Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he stayed to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
The stopping of Terah at Haran was evidence of stagnation, not moving forward.
The move of Terah from the Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place. 
God, calling you out to a particular area is His plan, not your plan.
God is a good God. 
Live life for God, move forward, not become a victim of stagnation.
Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the Israelites concerning the stagnation of the Israelites from the bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” 
Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in His plan forward? 
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” 
God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. 
Faith demands that the Israelites move their comfort to where God demands commitment. 
Faith demands not to make a dwelling place at a stopover. 
Faith also demands to see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see and live life by the word of God.