FAITH CAPSULE: Praying and not watching is the same as a prayerless believer.

Acts 12

Praying without watching is the same as praying without understanding.
Prayer time is not a playing time.
Prayer time is not a gathering for fans as a spectator.
The follower of Christ takes a stand at prayer time.
Prayer is not limited to seeking God but to seeking God diligently.
Seeking God diligently in prayer is to seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29)
Are you approaching God in prayer not knowing that you give heart and soul, with the expectation to experience manifestation?
Seeking God diligently in prayer is also to ask, seek and knock to gain the attention of God. (Matthew 7:7)  
How is your prayer life?
A prayerless life is a prevail less one.
Elijah engaged in prayer diligently to prevail on a prayer ground.
James 5:17 record the diligence of Elijah on a prayer ground, “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.”
Elijah watched and prayed.
When Elijah waited on God with prayer, he watched seven times for an answer for the rainfall. (1 Kings 18:41-46) 
Engaging prayer diligently is watching and praying.
Pray not to be a prayerless one and know to watch and pray, the character to seek God in prayer diligently.
Do you know what is going to happen without praying?
The word of God repeatedly demands watching and praying, not just to pray.
Nehemiah 4:9 confirms the need to watch and pray, “Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.”
Mark 13:33 warns, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
Mark 14:38 points to the avoidance of the danger when watching and praying, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
1 Peter 4:7 mentions the seriousness of the need for watching and praying, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Are you watching and praying to prevail?
Are you praying to seek God diligently to find God?
As a church or the temple of God, are you awake in prayer?
Once Jesus awoke the disciples from sleeping, not watching, in the ground of praying.
Matthew 26:40 records, “Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”
As a church member or you as a temple of God, watch and pray, not sleep shall prevail.
Herod killed James, and when set to kill Peter, the church woke from sleep. 
Acts 12:4, “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.”
Are you a church/temple not watching and praying?
A church that prays less does not prevail.

Prayer for today: Ask against prayerless life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Situation holding one in stagnation shall gain motion.

Acts 3

What is your situation holding you in stagnation?
Are you being denied for motion?
One that is stagnant, being denied motion cannot walk but bound to crawl, not able to run, the evidence of lameness.
In life, one with physical, spiritual, or emotional lameness is a victim to become limited, susceptible not to rise in this wicked world.
Lameness is rooted in stagnation. 
Any life journey where stagnation persists, delay, and denial will disrupt arrival at the expected end. 
Lameness in life can be a position or a condition where no man desires to be.
Lameness will prompt stagnation in life.
Search yourself not living as lame, experiencing stagnation.
Lameness rooted in stagnation can be your giving attention to worthless things of this world.
Attention to the worthlessness of this wicked world cannot move forward but stagnate.
Psalm 119:37 prays, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.”  
Without any doubt, looking away from the way of God is set to be stagnated as lame.
God is not a deceive-able by no one. 
All should have a desire for God, seeking Him to take charge of the life.
Without a doubt, it is not acceptable to be in a position of lameness in life. 
Peter and John operated as agents that delivered a lameness man with stagnation. Acts 3:1-2 records, “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.” 
Are you experiencing physical, spiritual, or emotional lameness?
Imagine a lame man stagnated at the beautiful temple while the inside was a ground for healing to gain motion. 
The man was lame from the womb of his mother since birth.
He was in a reduced way of what was not his desire. 
Are you having a “lame” experience in any area of your life?
Are you at the right location at the right time to receive your deliverance from lameness, the source of stagnation in life?
If you can identify your location, then your situation is half-solved. 
The lame stagnates to remain at the gate of the beautiful temple at the hour of prayer. 
When the lame man saw Peter and John, he asked for alms, not his healing possibility.
The lame man settles for less in the place of asking for more.
What are you asking from God to gain your breakthrough?
In the name of Jesus, Peter and John had more to offer the lame man.
Acts 3:4-5 records, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So, he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.”  
With expectation, always give attention to gaining healing, deliverance, and preservation in life.

Prayer for today: Ask that every representative of lameness in your life begin to gain motion.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is always a foolish thing to disobey the word of God.

1 Samuel 13 

King Saul received instruction from Samuel to wait for lawful sacrifice before going to war against the Philistines.
King Saul disobeyed the instruction.
As Philistines gathered together to fight the Israelites, King Saul could not wait for seven days as instructed by Samuel.
1 Samuel 13:9 records, “So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering.” 
King Saul tragically disobeyed both the Law of Moses and the instructions of the Prophet of God. (Leviticus 1) 
King Saul could not wait as instructed.
Getting to know the truth, waiting in obedience to instruction rooted in the word of God, shall always culminate in favor expectations. 
After the disobedience of Saul, Samuel arrived to ask, “What have you done?” 
Saul answered, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore, I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12)
It is always a foolish thing to disobey the word of God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God. 
Psalmist admonished, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3)
A believer in God must understand that to wait on God endures a period of waiting without knowing how long to get an answer from God. 
Waiting on God can be a delay but never a waste of time. 
In a time of waiting, among what to exercise as a believer must engage are:
Be of good courage; rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him; do not fret; keep His way; let your soul wait silently.
The above truth about waiting is identifiable in the scriptural verses listed below:
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.”
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:5, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”
Hosea 12:6, “… wait on your God continually.”
Challenging situations demand to wait on God. 
God is true to answer when He is waited on patiently by abiding in His word obediently. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with the strength to be waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that you are confessing?

Numbers 14

What is it?
What is it that you are calling out as a challenge?
The challenges of today should not be your reason to be confessing negatively.
The challenge of your surrounding should not call to be confessing negatively.
Trust and have hope that the surrounding challenge is not your portion.
Psalm 91:7 is encouraging not to be confessing negatively, as it records, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.” 
What is it?
The Bible warns in Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
What are you thinking in your heart that follows you?
Proverbs 4:23 informs all, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”
There are enough warnings against negative confession. 
Matthew 12:34 also warns, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
What is it that you are thinking in the face of a challenge?
What you are thinking or asking will happen, and that is the reason Ephesians 3:20 speaks to all, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us”
The challenge of today should not be your confession.
When God brought the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt going to the Promised Land, challenges provoked complaints before God.
Numbers 14:2-4 record the Israelites, “And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So, they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” 
God heard the complaint of the Israelites to respond in Numbers 14:28, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.”
What is your negative confession before God?
Confessing a negative will provoke a negative experience.
Confessing a positive shall provoke positive from God.
What is it that you have confessed demands calling for the mercy of God that will reverse irreversible for one to experience the goodness of God?

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God in negative confession engaged.

FAITH CAPSULE: A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, Knocking before God.

Luke 18:1-30

To be seeking God with prayer demands praying in the word of God.
Prayer calls for faith to gain from God.
The word of apostle speaks to all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
What is it that you are asking God to change in your life yet with no manifestation? 
To seek God with prayer demands giving self to continual prayer, a persistent prayer before God. 
A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, Knocking before God until the answer is delivered.
It is the character of God not to ignore the calling on Him.
God always answers yes, no, or wait when calls on Him with persistent prayer.
The parable of Jesus in Luke 18:1-8 records for all to know that God is a caring God that will not ignore persistent just as a judge could not.
A widow needed justice for an adversary. 
The persistence of the widow prompts the response of the judge.
Luke 18:4-5 documents, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ”
Jesus speaks in response to the judge, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
For your expectation that seems with no manifestation at sight, there is reason to engage persistent prayer by asking, seeking, and knocking that is the evidence of FAITH.
In the time of expectation for manifestation, it is worth knowing that:
FAITH should not be a mouth noise.
FAITH is not a fanfare (a display or elaboration) but to engage God to experience manifestation for expectation.
FAITH is not an effort to impress anyone but press on to experience God.
With faith, be one with persistent prayer by asking, seeking, and knocking the way of God, give heart to God.
With heart given to God, eyes will observe His ways as Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Ask that you begin to see in His ways, to live a life for God, not of waste life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enables you to know His way in all the days He has given you.