FAITH CAPSULE: Obedient to the word of God commits to God.

Genesis 19

Day after day, week after weeks, month after month, and year after year is a journey.
The journey demands walking with God.
God gives every moment to be alive to walk with God, walking before Him.
Commitment to the word of God is giving self to walk before God without ceasing.
A commitment to the living word of God is the unfailing route in the journey of life.
A believer without commitment to the word of God is a religion with no relationship with God. 
Does that sound like you?
Are you truthful to yourself, living by the word of God, walking with God?
Are you deceiving with demonstration walking with God but walking away from God?
One with a commitment to the word of God is with an understanding of seeking God diligently, walking with God. 
One that seeks God diligently walks, sits, and stands in the word of God, the evidence of commitment to God and to become blessed by God. 
Psalm 1:1-2 confirms: “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law, he meditates day and night.” 
As an acclaimed believer of God, let your commitment be rooted in God, not seeking the counsel of the ungodly.
Failure can be the lack of commitment to God in His word. 
Giving self to self-convince in the place of commitment to God 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 with no commitment.
Discipline works with commitment but doubting will deny not to be committed. 
With doubt, fear will relegate faith. 
One with a lack of commitment to the word of God is not mindful of God.
Lack of commitment to the word of God will lead to confusion in the journey of life.
Lack of commitment to God is looking away from God.
The word of God directed Lot and his wife for deliverance from destruction, “…Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
Lot was committed to the word of God, but his wife could not commit to the word of God for her deliverance from destruction. 
The Bible records the consequence for the wife of Lot, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) 
Are you sincerely committed to the word of God? 
In the journey of life, be committed to God and remain connected to the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge of the life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The thanks offering before God provokes the deliverance of God.

John 11

Daniel 6:10 records, “10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
Daniel went into the den of lions but could not be touched.
The thanks offering before God provoked the deliverance of God for Daniel not to become a victim of sudden and untimely death.
King Darius reluctantly signed for Daniel into the Den of Lions came to check David in the morning, calling him out: “20 And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” (Daniel 6:20)
Daniel responds, “Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” (Daniel 6:21-22)
Daniel experienced deliverance from the sudden and untimely death in the den of lions.
Ask that giving understanding thanks before God shall be your custom, your way of life.
Ask that you shall be giving God thanks that will provoke His hand to be upon you, not to become a victim of sudden death and untimely death.
Lazarus was dead.
In his death, there was no hope to rise again.
Jesus identified the hindrances for Lazarus not to rise are:
STONE and THE LACK BELIEVE OF THE PEOPLE OF LAZARUS
John 11:39 records, “Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 
The stone is a hindrance needed has to be taken off for Jesus to do a miracle.
The people of Lazarus had given up on hope for him to rise.
Jesus reacted, “40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” (John 11:40-44)
With thanks, Jesus brought Lazarus out of death.
Ask, declare that you are coming out of every physical or spiritual trap that is denying you to live life for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Declaration of testimonies is the evidence decoration of one.

John 10:1-30

Jesus declared, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (John 10:9-11) 
In His word, there is positive to meditate as a testimony. 
Jesus encourages all to go in and out and find pasture.
In Jesus, there is life to have life abundantly.
He is the good shepherd that gives for the sheep. 
It is clear that if the word of God that is deliverance and preservation should have a place in the heart, by meditation day and night, that such shall have a mouth of confession.
What man confesses is a declaration. 
Making a declaration can sound like testimony. 
Do you have the word that you diligently meditate in your heart?
What are your testimonies in the face of the wicked world?
David is one testimony of the doing of God in His life to experience a great and mighty deliverance. 
With declaration as a testimony of David, he overcame Goliath.
In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) 
David refused to be discouraged but gave an account of his experience of God over his life as he responded to King Saul. 
David said, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) 
God is a good God. 
God distinctively pays and hears the words of mouth with the testimony of His doing.
King Saul could not delay or deny David with his discouraging word for David not to fight Goliath.
David is with the testimonies of God for his victory experiences of his past.
Do you have any testimony of God over your life as decoration for your declaration against challenging force in life?
Declaring, testifying, God to honor His name gives glory to His name.
Glorifying will provoke the attention of God.
As a believer, allow good treasure of the heart to bring forth good by confessing, declaring testimonies of the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you constantly meditate and confess to the good of God to experience a positive result.

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.