FAITH CAPSULE: Worshipping God is separation from all to God.

Genesis 12

The calling of Abraham by God separated him from all in his life to God.
God called Abraham out of his family to a land unknown to him. (Genesis 12:1-2) 
Every separation to God counts before God and will count such for an uncommon assignment that is special. 
The separation of Abraham to the word of God was accounted to him for righteousness because it was evidence that he believed in God. 
Romans 4:3 records, “For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted, to him for righteousness.”
When man conspicuously responds to the word of God by denying engagement to the love of the world, it becomes separated from self to God. 
It is worshipping God when separated from all to God.
Give self to worshipping God. 
Separation to God is the avenue that leads to assessing and possessing all that God has in place for any that shall obediently answer to God in all His commandments. 
God is not a slave master, He does not force one to worship Him, but the choice to answer belongs to one called.
Abraham could not substitute anything for answering to worship God when he separated himself from his world to God. 
As an acclaimed believer, are you separating from the word for the calling of God? 
What are the things of the world at the center of your life? 
What is it that is denying you to worship God?
Until one is empty of things of the world, there will be no space for God to occupy in the life of such.
Worshipping God is living godly. 
Godliness counts before God.
Is your love centered on the world than to live by the word of God?
The will of God for man is to serve God by worshiping God. 
Worshipping God is to be separated from the world to God by His word. The love of things of the world is a way not to worship God. However, he who does the will of God abides forever. 
The book of 1 John 2:15-17 records, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 
Worshipping God is separation from all to God.
To be separated unto God is a way to find God. 
Seeing God is not possible for one with the filth of this wicked world. 
Seeing God is seeking God diligently, and such shall experience the reward from God. (Hebrews 11:6)

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live life to worship God for His glory over your life.

FAITHCAPSULE: The calling of God is not a ticket to escape but entices challenges.

2 Timothy 2

In the life of answering to the calling of God, challenges, hardship, or afflictions can be a life experience. 
Challenges, afflictions, and hardship are always birds of the same feather, and they flock together in the name of trouble. 
Challenges, hardship, and affliction are often found in association or accompany the calling of every called one by God. 
The bible makes us realize in 2 Timothy 2:3-4, “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
Are you one answering to the calling of God experiencing challenges or hardship?
Is affliction knocking on your path?
Can you consider yourself a good soldier of Jesus Christ?
If yes, be assuredly confident that God never forsakes His called ones, the ones walking in the line of His word that is standing as the soldier for God.
If you are living for God, keep in mind that, regardless of challenges, hardship, or affliction shall not be excused, from you but God shall keep you. 
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.”  God never forsakes His children.
Imagine Jeremiah, in the calling of his life God warns him, “They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you”, says the LORD, “to deliver you.” (Jeremiah 1:19) 
Do you wonder why God allowed Jeremiah to face any challenge while answering the calling? 
The great thing is that God is God, and He will always have His way. 
God delivers; God is the same God yesterday, today, and forever.          
Challenges will not stop knocking at the life of a believer. 
As a soldier of God, hardship might raise its weapon; affliction will possibly try to take over in the calling of God, but the Lord God shall deliver His own out of them all.
Being an acclaimed believer that is a soldier of Jesus, remain focused on God but not on the challenges of this world. 
As an acclaimed believer, stand as a soldier of Jesus by knowing that God is able. 
A true believer, a soldier of Jesus, must be encouraged that whatever your challenge is today, God alone that is above all shall deliver in all. Answering the calling of God is not enough but fully completing the assignment of God is what counts. 
It is wisdom to know that answering to the calling of God is not a ticket not to experience challenges. Challenges will answer where there is the calling of God, but God shall deliver in all.

Prayer for today: Ask for the enablement of God to endure challenges in His calling over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is no substitute for prayer.

Luke 3

God is the Lord God that reigns forever. 
With prayer, one possesses the key that opens heaven.
Prayer is a key, while faith is the ignition.
Faith is crucial because, without faith, God is not pleased. 
Hebrews 11:6 confirms, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Are you praying with expectation for an answer? 
Does your prayer have faith?
Word points out that without faith, God is not pleased. 
When with faith, God is pleased to reward one praying before Him.
Jesus demonstrates to all that with prayer, heaven opens. 
Luke 3:21 records, “When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.”
Jesus prayed with faith for an answer from heaven, and the answer came from the open heaven. The bible records, “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ’You are My beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.’”(Luke 3:22)
The prayer by Jesus is a testimony to the fact that when a prayer finds a door to heaven, the Holy Spirit, which represents the presence of God, will come down and descend on the one praying. 
With the Holy Spirit descending, the voice of God will then sound in the direction of the one praying. 
The voice of God shall speak direction if the one praying has the ear to hear the voice of God. 
There is a need to have the grace of God to hear the voice of God when it sounds in one praying before God.
When heaven opened for Jesus, He heard the voice from heaven saying to Him, “You are my beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.” 
Remember, it takes faith for one praying to please God.
God is a prayer-answering God.
All should know and understand taking the time to call unto God.
How is your prayer life?
The word pointed out what it takes with prayer. 
Psalm 109:4 of David states, “…But I give myself to prayer.”
Just as stated by David in Psalm 109:4, the book Acts 6:4 says, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 
Are you a believer with a prayer life or an unbelieving believer with no prayer life?
As a believer, how is your prayer life? 
A prayer-less believer is like a vehicle with headlights, driving in the dark without the headlights turned on. 
With such, it will only take a moment before a disaster happens by driving in the dark without light (prayer).
In these days of spiritual wickedness, there should be no substitute for prayer.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and strength to increase prayer time before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The three friends of Daniel experienced decoration of the presence of God.

Daniel 3

In this new season or your new beginning in life journey, with desire, make it a priority to become a decorated vessel of God.
One that trusts and hopes in God rest in God.
Trusting and hoping in God prompts one to declare the works of God. 
Knowing to declare the works of God is in positions for one to become decorated with the presence of God.
To declare the works of God is to be obedient to God and disobey the gods of this world. 
The three friends of Daniel (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) demonstrated what it means to declare the works of God and be decorated by the presence of God. 
The three friends of Daniel disobeyed King Nebuchadnezzar by not worshiping a gold image. 
With King Nebuchadnezzar, a failure not to worship the gold image shall die in the burning fiery furnace. 
Attempts to get them to worship the gold image did not work, and the king questioned: Who will deliver the three friends from his hands?
The three friends of Daniel, in the face of untimely death, declare the wonder-working God stating, “…O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18) 
It is impossible to declare the wonder-working God in the face of a life and death challenge.
The three friends declared for God and experienced decoration with the presence of God.
God uncommonly decorated the three friends in the history of creation. 
God showed up for the three friends by sending an angel for deliverance.
The king saw and testified God whom he did not know before, he was astonished, and states, “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”(Daniel 3:25)
The three friends encountered decoration of God, and the king could not resist announcing the awesomeness of God.
The three friends of Daniel could not become a victim of the wicked as they remained close to God. 
The three friends of Daniel trusted in God, and their hope could not become hopeless.
The three friends worshiped God by their testimony to deny worrying in the face of sudden death.
Are you with trust and hope in the awesomeness of God that delivers?
Ignore the wicked; focus and hold onto God in these days of rising challenges, and you shall be standing for the glory of God without a doubt before the enemy. 

Prayer for today: Ask to know God with trust and hope to become decorated by God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Pray the word of God continually.

Acts 12

Acts 6:4 speaks to all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Know to pray the word of God because the word of God does not return void but will provoke an undenied answer from God.
PRAY AGAINST TASKMASTER IN YOUR LIFE
The Israelites in Egypt became a target by the enemy because of their potential to grow.
Exodus 1:11 records, “Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens.”
The Pharaoh set up taskmaster to inflict, to replace the purpose of God over their life.
Prayerfully, the taskmaster in place to inflict, to replace the purpose for your life by God shall be frustrated and become powerless over the life given to you by God.
A situation in your life that represents a taskmaster shall become terminated.
PRAYER
Ask that every force representing the taskmaster over your life inflicting pain physically, spiritually, or emotionally be cease this hour in the name of Jesus.
Ask against every attempt of the taskmaster to replace the purpose of God in your life shall be a failure. The taskmaster against your life shall become exposed with shame in the name of Jesus.
PRAY THE WORD AGAINST WHAT HOLDS MAN DOWN
What is it that is holding you down physically, spiritually, or emotionally to deny your rising to live life for the glory of God?
Whatever hold down one is with a plan to kill and destroy.
The disciples of Jesus, James, the brother of John and Peter, faced sudden death and untimely death.
King Herod was holding them down for the time to kill them.
Acts 12:1-5 documents, “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. 2 Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread. 4 So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover. 5 Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.”
Evidently, before the death of James, the church must have been having Sleeping in the place of praying(Casual prayer) instead of having constant prayer (commitment prayer). After the death of James, constant prayer took charge to replace the sleeping type of prayer (Casual prayer), by the church to deliver Peter from sudden, untimely death.
Isaiah 45:11 encourages where God said, “concerning the work of My hands You command Me…”
PRAYER
Ask that whatever force, challenges, spiritual force, physical or emotional issue that is HOLDING you down be shattered, that you shall not be a victim of the wicked world.
Ask to be strengthened on your prayer altar before God.
Ask that every iota of the spirit of prayer laziness be flushed out for prayer consistently to become your way of life.