FAITH CAPSULE: Think and wait on God that waits to act for those who wait on Him.

1 Kings 19

God alone is the Only perfect God. 
Time is in the hand of God to control, and none dictates to God determining how time goes.
God is is in a position to call anyone to His attention without being avoided by anyone.
Jonah attempted to avoid the calling assignment of God, but he could not hide but only run. 
Jonah 1:1-3 records, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”
Under heaven, no one can avoid the calling of God. 
The effort of Jonah to run away from answering to the calling of God placed him in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
Are you avoiding by running away from the hand of God, the calling of God? 
God does have unfailing means to get attention from any of His creations.
When it was time for God to call Moses, there was no way out for Moses to avoid the calling of God. 
Exodus 3:1-3 states, “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” 
Ignorance is not possible for turning aside from God. 
Ignorance will hold one from answering to the calling of God.
God called Elisha through Elijah.
God said to Elijah, “And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.” (1 Kings 19:16)
Elisha delayed his answering to the calling of God when he responded first to Elijah, “And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” (1 King 19;19)
Elisha eventually put all aside to follow Elijah, answering to the calling of God. 1 Kings 19:21 records, “…Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.”
What is holding you from answering to the calling of God over your life?
Think and wait on God that waits to act for those who wait on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you in His righteousness.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be responsible is a price for greatness.

1Timothy 4

To be asking from God in every direction, meditating the word of God, and committing the word of God are among the ways to live life responsibly to become great.
ASKING FOR DIRECTION FROM GOD
In the journey of life, it is a responsibility to always ask for the direction of God that never fails but leads to greatness.
One should be responsible by seeking the way of God to arrive at the expected of the journey in life.
Responsibly, the venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines is why David inquired direction from God in 1 Samuel 23:2, “Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”. 
The Lord said to David, “…Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” The warrior Men with David were not encouraged to go with him against the Philistines, but his responsibility to inquire from God was the assurance for victory against Philistines.
Responsibility is to ask for the direction that is certain to arrive at the expected end of the journey. 
MEDITATING THE WORD OF GOD
One meditating on the word of God will know God by observing the word of God to live a life of responsibility before God.
After the death of Moses, God called Joshua to the importance of meditating His word, “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) 
Meditating the word of God day and night is continual communication with God to know, to do according to the word of God.
1Timothy 4:1 records the importance of meditating on the word of God, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”  
Psalm 119:15 also records, “I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.” 
Be responsible by meditating on the word of God to experience failure impossible in life. 
Get to Know God by studying the word of God, not skimming through the word of God.
COMMITMENT TO THE WORD OF GOD
Responsibility is a life of commitment to the word of God.
One with a commitment to the word of God will have the word of God in the heart, not just in the mouth.
Are you a believer by mouth? 
Giving to commitment to God will consign self to seeking God with all heart, with all soul, with all strength. 
Deuteronomy 4:29 records the consequence of being responsible for seeking God, “…you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
One responsible with the responsibility of commitment to the word of God will not be discouraged by the surrounding world not to seek God diligently but find God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of responsibility to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you looking up to God or looking outside of God?

Exodus 14

The Psalmist knows to be looking up to God. 
Psalm 119:132 records, “Look upon me and be merciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.”
One that looks up to God will know to call for God to look upon self.
Looking up to God is waiting on God.
God acts to wait for those that wait on Him. 
Are you looking up to God or looking outside of God for His intervention?
One that does not wait on God will be living life in worrying.
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is the evidence of not worshiping God.
One that looks at confronting challenges shall misplace focus on God for His divine intervention. 
The Israelites looked away from God in the confronting challenge.
Exodus 14:10-12 records: “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Do the verses above speak to you? 
The miracle of God brought the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt but fear of the enemy took over the Israelites.
The Israelites were worried and troubled to confess negatively.
Solution for challenges demands to focus on God. 
Are you focusing on God?
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. 
John 20:19 records, “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 
While the disciples were locked in fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace.
Faith in Jesus will give peace in the place of trouble for those who keep the focus on Him. 
Jesus had spoken peace, “…He showed them His hands and His side. then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.” (John 20:20) Seeing the mark opened up the disciples to come out of fear. 
To believe is to see crucifixion the marks were registered on Jesus for all to have life abundantly.
Ignore the fear that is going on around the world.
Get to know that looking up to God is enough for deliverance and preservation of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a victim of the fear of the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to acknowledge God for His intervention.

Psalm 3 

Worshiping God instead of giving self to worrying is acknowledging God that reverses the irreversible in challenging trouble of times.
With increased trouble is challenging trouble. 
When challenging trouble persists to become hardly resolved, permanent pain shall exist.
One that tolerates challenging trouble without expectation for self-deliverance is giving self to pain.
Are you experiencing challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble demands deliverance for one with attention to address the root of the challenge trouble that persists.
Challenging trouble in life can be rooted in decisions made on behalf of one with pian of challenge by loved ones. 
Also, the root cause of challenging trouble might have been out of the good intention to help with not becoming of pain.
What is the root of your challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble can be of affliction passed down from family in the life of the journey.
Psalm 34:19 records to encourage against challenging trouble, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Be conversant with the word of God as a manual of life that is with answers to reverse challenging trouble, to cease permanently.
In life, there is no one with an exception not to experience challenging trouble.
For example, King David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, repeatedly experienced challenging trouble but overcame it all. 
Psalm 3:1-2 testifies the evidence to the challenge of David, “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.”
The Bible identifies how David came out of challenging trouble for learning: 
DAVID ACKNOWLEDGES GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David gave himself to worship God was not distracted by the worry of troubling challenges.
David gave himself to worship God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble when he acknowledged God for what God has done and what God was doing in his life, the evidence of what God will do in his life.
Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God, provoking the intervention hand of God.
The disobedience of Jonah to the word of God positioned him in challenging trouble. 
Jonah, like David, also acknowledges God when he looks up to God to remind God about how God has brought him far in life. 
Jonah acknowledges God as he promised to sacrifice before God with the voice of thanksgiving.
Acknowledging God is a self-deliverance to overcome challenging trouble.
Acknowledging God is reminding God for His work as Isaiah 43:26 records, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
Acknowledge God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He can do. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be activated by the word of God, knowing to acknowledge God for His intervention in a challenging time.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God and know not to look away but wait on God.

Isaiah 54

Having fear in the place of waiting on God is evidence of not counting on God.
God waits to act for ones that know to wait on Him, evidence of having fear for God. 
Fearing out of God is the weapon of the enemy.
The promise of God for all man to be victorious over shame is to stand and not fall for fear of the enemy.
Isaiah 54:4 records, “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.”
If a man truly waits on God by not looking outside of God without any iota doubt, shame shall not have a place in the life of such.
Psalm 25:3 buttresses, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.”  
Waiting on God leads to the right direction where expectation yields to manifestation. 
The Bible makes us realize that waiting extends to looking up to God for intervention against wicked ones.
Are you one that is constantly questioning how the wicked ones are excelling? 
Psalm 37:7 encourages all, “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.” 
Waiting on God is keeping His word and not fretting in the face of any wickedness. 
Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as a Great Defender. 
Does it seem like your waiting is taking forever without an answer? 
God has never failed.
Waiting is not a sign of weakness, but keep waiting on God silently and patiently.
David testifies, “I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth- praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.” (Psalm 40: 1-2)
Waiting on God will gain grace to walk firmly on any ground, sing a new song and not fall.
David testifies, “He makes my feet like the feet of the deer and sets me on my high places.”(2 Samuel 22:34) 
Waiting on God took David to his high places. 
Waiting is the avenue to move from low ground to high places, a place that is above and beyond every painful situation.
Ignore fear not to have a place in your life.
Give yourself to waiting on God that is faithful, not to look away from those who look up to Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the strength of waiting on Him with no fear.