FAITH CAPSULE: One that is not awake is not watching and praying.

Acts 12

Sleeping in the spirit is as dangerous as fasting from the word of God.
One sleeping is not watching and praying.
Praying and not watching is not complete to prevail in the world of wickedness. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 admonishes, “Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
The devourer of all, the father of all lies, is the number one enemy for all and no exception.
The weapon of the number one enemy of your life is your inability to please God.
The inability to please God can be rooted in sleeping in the place of watching and praying to live life for God, denying the enemy from having a place in one.
Sleeping at the wrong time opens the door for the enemy.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares testifies that sleeping opens up for the enemy to scatter where it is supposed to be gathered.
Matthew 13:25, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.” 
One that sows and falls asleep makes self the enemy of self, not pleasing God.
One that is not awake is not watching and praying.
Watching and praying before God is connecting with God for direction.
Are you awake or asleep in your prayer before God? 
Luke 21:36 warns against not watching and praying, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” 
Watching and Praying before God is having communion all day with God, not sleeping spiritually.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares said, “but while men slept, his enemy came…” (Matthew 13:25) 
Stop sleeping wrongly to seal up to deny the enemy from taking over.
Watching and praying before God in this wicked world is the will of God for all.
Are you sleeping, not knowing that you are slipping off for the enemy to gain into your life?
The summation of the consequence of sleeping is captured in the parable,  “So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this…” (Matthew 13:27-28)
Stop deceiving yourself to know if you are sleeping and not awake before God. 
Learn from it that, in the parable, sleeping allowed the enemy to do evil with no remedy against the enemy until the day of harvest when God will separate good and evil.
Wake up from sleeping, stop slipping off the presence of God for deliverance and preservation over your God-given life.
Prayer for today: Ask before God, “Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death.” (Psalm 13:3)

FAITH CAPSULE: The grace and mercy of God is the evidence of His goodness.

Isaiah 26, Revelation 22

With an acronym, is the description of the GRACE of God: G is for God; R is for Riches; A is for At; C is for Christ; E is for Expense. 
Indeed, and in truth, God Riches is At Christ Expense. 
The Grace of God is an unmerited favor in place for all. 
The grace of God is the gift, the love for all by God.
The Grace of God for all is divine assistance of God for restoration (rebirth) or sanctification.
Dictionary describes the theological meaning of the grace of God as: “The unmerited love and favor of God toward human beings; divine influence acting in a person to make the person pure, morally strong; the condition of a person brought to God’s favor through this influence; a special virtue, gift, or help given to a person by God.”
The description of the grace of God and the mercy of God is often mixed up only because of similar expressions of favor and love of God.
However, grace and mercy possess a clear distinction. 
The grace of God: When a man experiences the grace of God, such shall receive favor which man does not deserve. 
The mercy of God: When a man experiences the mercy of God, such shall not get the punishment that man does not deserve. 
For example, Lot experienced mercy that excused him from the punishment of destruction. 
Genesis 19:19 records, “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life…” 
Grace is what God has shown to all to obtain.
Isaiah 26:10 buttresses, “Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.” 
Jesus, the grace of God, is shown to all to obtain, but all hardly behold the grace of God. 
Ezra 9:8 also states, “And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.” 
Jesus is the gift of God, the grace of God for all to see and receive Him.
Do you believe Him to receive Him?
Jesus is the GRACE of God!
Is He (Grace of God) with you?
Regardless of this wicked world, the grace of God is in place for all to seek and find Him.
Noah is an example of one that found grace from God.
Genesis 6:7-8 records, “So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
You can become the Noah of your time.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall live life for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you waiting on God to act on your behalf?

Exodus 33, Psalm 33

LIVING RIGHT IS WAITING ON GOD TO EXPERIENCE THE ACT OF GOD
Righteousness is living right, doing according to the word of God. 
Are you doing right before God?
One that is doing right according to the word of God shall experience the act of God.
One living right before God is the evidence of having the fear for God. 
Acts 10:35 confirms, “But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him”
To fear God is living righteously before God.
Are you waiting on God to act on your behalf?
Waiting on God is with having fear for God.
God will act for those who fear Him evidence of living right to experience the act of God.
It is right doing to fear God. Psalm 33:18-22 testifies, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You.” 
Do the verses above speak to you?
The blessing and condition to gain from God are in the word of God. 
Be righteous before God to experience the act of God.
REMEMBERING THE WAYS OF GOD SHALL EXPERIENCE THE ACT OF GOD
The testimonies of Moses, by his journey of life, are the evidence for why he waits on God to experience acts of God.
Documentation of Moses in his journey points out that Moses knows God to wait for direction not to be a failure. Exodus 33:12-14 records: “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 
The way of God is His Word, and His word is His presence.
Remember the ways in the word of God, gives self to God to experience the act of God.
Moses was with the character of waiting on God to experience the act of God. 
Psalm 103:7 testifies for all to know the need of knowing God for waiting on Him, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” 
Remembering the way of God is the direction to arrive at the assignment. 
Wait before God by rejoicing, doing right, and remembering His ways for Him to act.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled seek God to find Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Who do you wait on besides waiting on God?

Isaiah 64

Do you know waiting on God gets a response from God?
The word of God encourages waiting on God, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)
Isaiah 40:10 points out, “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.”
God will act for those who wait on Him.
Are you waiting on God or with the desire to be waiting on God?
Isaiah 64:4 testifies to the act of God: “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.” 
How are you waiting on God?
Expecting God to act for those who wait on Him comes with conditions.
Isaiah 64:5 Identifies conditions, “You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways…” 
Rejoicing is among the reason to experience the act of God.
REJOICING IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT
Rejoicing to gain the attention of God is not just by smiling or feeling Good but knowing to trust and hope in God for His acts while waiting on God.
Rejoicing to provoke the act of God while waiting on God is identified through scriptural verses such as: 
Psalm 9:2 records, “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 the fullness of joy…”  
Proverbs 8:30, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” The above verses testify to the truth that with joy, one shall experience the acts of God.
The Apostle Paul articulates the need for rejoicing in Philippians 4:4. “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” 
The Apostle Paul emphasizes rejoicing with a shout will experience the act of God.
Trusting God for His attention demands joy as Psalm 33:21 testifies, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him because we have trusted in His holy name.”
Understanding about rejoicing while waiting and seeking God to experience the act of God is buttressed in Psalm 70:4 “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You…” 
Are you with the expectation to experience the act of God in your area of expectation?
In your waiting, consciously rejoice continually before God until you gain the experience act of God that never fails.
Gain the faith and know that God is constantly consistent to act according to His word.

Prayer for today: Ask God that you shall always rejoice not to be without joy, waiting on His manifestation in your expectation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you turning back to God?

Numbers 32

Turning back to God is a lack of commitment to God.
Commitment to the word of God is not just a religion but living life to the glory of God.
A commitment to the living word of God is engaging a route not to fail in the life journey.
Are you truthful to yourself living by the word of God?
Anyone with a commitment to the word of God is with an understanding of seeking God diligently. 
In the journey of life, a failure not to give self to the promise of God is turning back to God, the lack of commitment to the word of God.
In the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, the Israelites constantly disobeyed God, turning back to God, the evidence of a lack of commitment to the word of God.
The children of Gad and Reuben wanted to settle for the East side of the Jordan not to cross the Jordan with others.
The choice by the children of Gad and children of Reuben was disobedience, evidence of self-convenience over-commitment to God.
Numbers 32:1-7 documents the disobedient of the children of Gad the children of Reuben, “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, 
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” Therefore, they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.” And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? Now, why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?” 
God promised the land that flows with milk and honey, but the children of Gad and the children of Reuben wanted to settle for land with only milk. The multitude of livestock of the Gad must have prompted not wanting to go further in the word of God.
In life, replacing commitment to God with self-convince will not arrive at the promise of God.
Commitment is not convenient, but it is self-sacrifice before God.
One that compromises the word of God is not committed to God.
Are you sincerely committed to the word of God? 
In life, be committed to God and remain connected to the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with a commitment to God.