FAITH CAPSULE: With faith with patience, claim the promise of God.

Romance 4

Life is a journey.
Engaging in the journey of life demands unfailing faith and patience.
Faith with patience is like the key to the ignition vehicle of the journey.
The Bible describes faith as: “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). 
ABOUT FAITH AND PATIENCE
FAITH
Faith does have a source.
The Bible emphasizes the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17).
Take to mind that the word of God which comes can also cease from coming when there is disengagement from hearing the word of God. 
The journey of life demands constant engagement to the word of God. 
To be having faith and patience shall make one as the just one.
Habakkuk 2:4 buttresses, “…the just shall live by his faith.”
All that pertains to living life is living by the word of God (living by faith). 
2 Corinthians 5:7 encourages walk by faith, not by sight.
1 Corinthians 16:13 records, we watch, stand by faith. 
Acts 15:9 points out that faith purifies the heart.
Ephesians 2:8 records, we are saved by faith through grace. 
Without a doubt, patience is crucial for anyone journeying through life to have faith in God. 
PATIENCE
Patience is the ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay. 
Faith plus patience will be full of faith, to answer as faithful. 
Many have faith, but the majority are not faithful. 
As an acclaimed believer, do you have faith with patience to claim the blessings of God as one that is pleasing God? 
Abraham is an example of one that engaged in the journey of life, having faith with patience to obtain the promises of God.
The Bible records the promise of God for Abraham in his journey of life: “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.” (Genesis 17:1-4) 
Abraham had faith and patience that enabled him not to doubt the promise of God to make him a father, despite having passed the age of bearing a child.
Romans 4:20-22 records the journey of faith and the patience of Abraham:
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 
Are you with faith and patience to claim the promise of God?
James 1:4 encourages, “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” 
God shall not fail you if you have and know to hold on faith with patience.

Prayer for today: Pray that faith and patience shall be your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Which way are you engaging?

John 14

Which way are you taking in your journey from life to the afterlife?
After the withdrawal of the breath of life given to you by the One and only creator, where will you land to spend eternal life?
In your life, are you moving by the assumption of the way you engage with yourself?
Proverbs 14:12 warns against the assumption, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
Today, stop going by assumption the truth twister is with deception to deny your arrival in the presence of God.
Ask not to be a victim of the twister of the truth.
The twister of the truth can be constantly consistent with the effort to load one with confusion.
Often it operates giving attention to an opportune time to seize one to be captured with twisted truth.
Devil itself demonstrated what it means to seize with twisted truth.
When he approached Jesus with repeated temptations that failed, not able to seize Jesus, he promised to attempt at the opportune time.
Luke 4:13 records the response of the Devil before Jesus after he fails to tempt Jesus, “Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.”
The twister of the truth is exceedingly deceptive and will disguise to execute destruction.
Be warned, know that the twister of the truth operates with no exempt of who to approach to destroy.
The twister of the truth can be in your near or distance, looking for one to devour.
The twister of the truth operates with darkness to deny, derail one in the journey not to arrive at the presence of God.
Which way are you engaging?
The journey to arrive at the presence of God is in the way that is true and is with life. 
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life not to miss out on the presence of God.
John 14:6 records the word of Jesus, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 
Today, come out of assumption, give yourself the way, the truth, and the life.
In the way, the truth and the life is an unfailing way not to fail to arrive at the presence of God.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and demands all to know the truth.
John 8:32 testifies, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Many acclaimed believers are taking to the way they assume in the place of the way, the truth that leads to eternal life.
Many claims to know the truth, but not free.
Which way are you engaging in your journey while on earth not to miss the life in heaven?
The word of God is not a story but demands diligence to be engaged, knowing the truth to be free. 
Stop assuming the way Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

Prayer for today: Ask to know the way, the true, and the life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Time belongs to God alone, not to any man. 

Isaiah 40

Time belongs to God, but the clock belongs to man to turn forward or backward.
The appointed time of God is the fullness of His time.
Galatians 4:4 points out, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman…”
God has made everything beautiful in its time, not by the clock of man. Ecclesiastes 3:11 records, “He has made everything beautiful in its time…”
Time belongs to God is the reason for all to trust and hope in Him as Psalm 62:8 admonishes all, “Trust in Him at all times…” 
Are you counting on God to wait on His time or waiting on man for a clock?
It does not matter how long you monitor your clock, but it matters not to make your move until it is the timing of God for you.
Mind you to know that time belongs to God. 
God is not a slave master but a saving master. He alone is the perfect creator that knows time before time. God will not force you to focus on Him, but you focus on his face to reflect on you.
Time of God demands waiting on Him.
Waiting for the fullness of His time demands to have trust and hope.
In a time of expectation from God, do not assume to move outside of the timing of God.
With patient is to wait for the time of God as Psalm 40:1 testifies: I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.
James 5:7 encourages by adding persevering to the patient when waiting on the timing of God: Therefore, be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.
The timing of God does not delay or disappoint to fail for one that waits patiently on Him. 
In your waiting on the timing of God, do not compare your waiting time with others but remain patient not to move outside of the timing of God.
Waiting on the timing of God and not move by comparing to others, give self to the word of Isaiah 40:31, 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.
In your waiting for the time of God, do not run where you are to walk, do not walk where you are to run.
Keep the focus on the timing of God to discover that delay is not a denial to arrive at the destination.

Prayer for today: Ask that patient to be waiting on the time of God shall be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life this long is the mercy of God.

Psalm 150

This time of the year is the time of expressing appreciation to God!
Living life this long should not only be about what you expect from the merciful God.  
Expressing appreciation to God for the grace of life should be considered to be engaged constantly with consistency.
It is not your knowledge of living life that has brought you this far.
Psalm 150:6 said it all, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!” 
By grace, the hand of the Lord God has been keeping you thus far. 
The hand of God upon you is not because of merit but His mercy. 
Living life is not a right but a privilege bestowed upon you by God. 
In this time of the year, appreciate God with heartful appreciation, stop from thinking thanks but be giving Him thanks with understanding. 
Word of God admonishes to be praising Him with understanding. (Psalm 47:7)
Are you consciously aware that God expects appreciation? 
Lack of expressing appreciation to God is evidence of foolishness. Foolishness is not only in verbal communication but can be in any other way of communication, Proverbs 14:1 records, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” 
With the year running out, is your appreciation to God enough? 
Do not be foolish but give thanks to God in the place of thinking thanks to God.
To be alive in the twelfth month is not your strength as the source of your present location in life.
Do not deceive self, by thinking that your strength has kept you thus far. 
This twelfth month of the year, turn to be praising God, with the shout of hallelujah to God.
Just as God inhabits praise, the enemy evil one inhabits the complaint.
Pray that praising God shall be your portion continually. 
Give yourself to praising God for keeping you this far.
Praise Him with understanding.
Psalm 47:7 records, For God, is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. 
Praise God with understanding.
By praising God is to gain a knowing edge, to claim in His word of promise, to gain and retain His presence.
Praise God with understanding!
Psalm 22:3 records: But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
Isaiah 42:10 states: Sing to the Lord a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
Ask that in this twelfth month, singing songs to the glory of God shall be your way of life.
Ask that praise of victory will not cease in your life this twelfth month and coming months.
Keep to praising and thanking God continually.
Also, engage the shout of hallelujah as a key assessing open door for the goodness of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the twelfth month of the year shall unfold the goodness of God for you.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Persistently, wait on the appointed time of God.

1 Samuel 1:1-28 

Every year Elkanah, Hannah, Peninnah, and all the children of Peninnah go to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts. 
Hannah had no child, but Peninnah had children.
Every year they went, nothing changed in the story of Hannah, but she was committed with no complaint to be going to worship at Shiloh. 
On every trip to Shiloh, 1 Samuel 1:4-7 records how Elkanah did not reduce Hannah in his giving to her despite not having a child. The Bible states, “And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb. And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.” 
Trips of Hannah to Shiloh must have been emotionally challenging, but there was no record of any forcing from her against none.
Hannah was the neediest and probably the quietest. 
Hannah was barren, yet she had trust and hope for intervention, and she could not stop going to serve God.
Hannah maintained her focus on serving God to provoke the visitation of God over her life.
In your life challenges, what is it that represents barrenness?
Do not stop serving God.
Waiting on God demands persistence, but God will act, and you will experience the visitation of God.
Be persistent, call on God without a doubt. 
Persistency is a demonstration of faith to please God. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “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.” 
The situation with Hannah was: God closed her womb, and God opened her womb. 
The persistency of Hannah provoked the hand of God to open her womb. God responded to Hannah with blessings beyond her expectation. 
Know today that God is God. 
Seek no man, not to seal up the closed door that is already upon you. 
Seek God persistently, and God shall open your closed door.
God alone is God!
Hannah was persistent, and God at His appointed time, remembered her. 1 Samuel 1:20 records: So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked for him from the Lord.
If your expectation from God is experiencing delay, know that delay will fail to deny the manifestation of God over your life.
Hannah waits persistently before God to experience the visitation of God over her life.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to focus on God for His appointed time.