FAITH CAPSULE: knowing to be waiting on God is not a waste of time.

1 Samuel 13 

Knowing to ask, seek and knock is waiting on God, not rushing to go ahead of God.
To be waiting on God is walking and not running in the place for walking.
To be waiting on God is walking with God.
Isaiah 40:31 records, “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 waiting on God, are you counting to wait on the clock or counting, waiting on the time of God?
It is the man that creates the clock, but time belongs to God.
Looking into the clock is not waiting on God but an avenue to self-destruction.
Looking into the timing of God is waiting on God, the evidence of obedience to God.
A believer in God must understand to wait and endure a period of waiting on God.
Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.
Saul could not wait for the command of the Prophet of God (Samuel) to the Israelites at the time of war against the Philistines. King Saul could not wait for seven days, the time of God.
God testified about David when Saul failed to wait on God. 
God spoke through Samuel for the disobedience of Saul, “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David knows the heart of God to understand what it means as he consistently obeyed by waiting on God before making moves. 
At the time of waiting, continually meditate on the word of God that does not return to Him void. Without a doubt, meditate to activate your faith and not become a victim as a wasted one. 
With meditation, you shall gain the strength of God and good courage as some scriptural verses point out:
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 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.”
The word of God is strong and is enough to terminate struggle in the life it gains entrance.
Word of God is not foolish, but the foolishness of man not to wait is to become wasted in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand upon you to stand in waiting on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Faith also answers with force to gain expectation. 

Hebrews 11

FAITH IS TO REMAIN PERSISTENT IN PRAYER 
In the time of challenge, to be persistent in prayer before God for the manifestation of expectation is the evidence of faith. 
For all, with persistent prayer is not to lose heart before God.
Jesus gave the parable of a widow with persistent prayer, seeking justice from a Judge that does not fear God nor regard any man, but the judge answered. If a judge with no fear for God can answer persistent prayer, God shall not ignore the persistency prayer.
Luke 18:3-8 records, “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.’” Then the Lord said, “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…”
Be encouraged to pray with persistence before God.
FAITH IS CONFESSING POSITIVE, NOT NEGATIVE
Demonstrating the evidence of being faithful is confessing positive instead of confessing negative.
The word of God is the source of faith that cautions the importance of confessing positive but not confessing negative as Proverbs 18:21 records, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” An acclaimed believer with knowledge and understanding of the word of God should know and be speaking positively in the place of negative.
FAITH IS A TEARING FORCE
Faith is a force that will gain access where there is no way.
Once a paralytic man was not accessible to a healing ground when he resolved to a faith tearing force.
It happened that Jesus was in Capernaum touching the life of different sick for healing.
At the arrival of the paralytical man, there was no access to reach Jesus for his healing.
As a result of no more way to reach Jesus in the room, four men that carried the paralytic man resolute to faith means and not be discouraged to return home. The bible records, “And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So, when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.” (Mark 2:4)
It was a roof tearing faith for the paralytic man. Jesus attention could not be withdrawn but responded to the roof tearing faith stating, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” (Mark 2:4) 
Hindrance is not enough to deny a miracle that is rooted in faith.
Gain a roof tearing faith like to deny hindrance in the journey of life.
Living life demands faith!

Prayer for today: Ask God for the strength of faith to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have a place for God in your heart?

Romans 10

Regardless of going to church or attending any place gathering in the name of worshipping God all day and night, there is no evidence of having a heart for the word of God.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
Are you with understanding where the word of God belongs to as the host of the word of God?
The word of God is God, His word is His command, the word of God is His law, and the testimony of God is also His word.
The place for the word of God is in the heart of man, but the majority have no room in the heart to open up for the word of God.
Do you have a place for God in your heart?
Pages of the Bible testifies that the place for the word of God is in the heart of man.
Deuteronomy 6:6 records, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.” 
Deuteronomy 11:18, “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart.” 
Job 22:22, “Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.” 
Psalm 119:11, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” 
Proverbs 4:4, “He also taught me and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands and live.” 
Ezekiel 3:10, “…Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.” 
Without a doubt, the word of God belongs to the heart of one that will open the heart for the word of God to gain entrance. 
Jesus appeals for an opening heart for the word of God.
Revelation 3:20 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
Do you have a place for God in your heart?
A heart that is not full of the word of God in the heart is with no space for the word of God. 
Why not make your heart available for God? 
Do you have a place in your heart for the word of God?
Today, the heart of the majority is full of the world with no space for the word of God.
A heart with no place for the word of God is not faithful before God.
Have the desire to have a place in your heart for the word of God. 
The destination of the word of God is to the heart.
The word of God is magnified, above all the names of God. (Psalm 138:2) 
Why not make your heart available for God? 
Mark it, and know that any heart that is closed to the word of God is the heart occupied by the world.

Prayer for today: Ask that your heart be open to receive the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Have the choice not to give to worry rooted in fear.

John 10:10

Are you looking up to God or looking up to the creation of God?
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is the evidence of not looking up to God that is abundantly able to do and undo.
Any time one keeps eyes on confronting challenges, such is to misplace focus on God. Are you beholding your challenge?
Exodus 14:10-12 documents the issue of fear by the Israelites, “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.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The Israelites, knowing fully well that God shall deliver but they gave into fear. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled instead of worshipping God to have the peace of God. 
To be worrying in the place of worshipping is always the root of negative confession.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. “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.” (John 20:19) While they were locked up in a state of fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
Looking up to Jesus as Lord and Savior shall experience that He is always around to uphold.    
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign. 
After Jesus had spoken peace into the life of His disciples, their eyes of the mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion that He carries. John 20:20 records, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  
The disciples looked up to Jesus when they heard His word to become open to come out of fear. 
Do you know that Jesus carries a mark on your behalf?
The devil is the author of fear. John 10:10 records the encouraging word of Jesus, for all not to worry, not to give to fear, “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. “
It is a choice not to give to worry rooted in fear.

Prayer for today: Ask for the boldness and character that is in Jesus. 

FAITH CAPSULE: A pledge in the heart lives life for God.

Jeremiah 30

The word of God is not to convince but to be committed to by all. 
Also, the word of God is not for decoration but declaration. 
The word of God is for deliverance, healing, and preservation.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
The evidence of one that gives self to the word shall live by the word of God.
Answering as a believer God with no evidence of declaring the word of does not live life by the word of God but as a religious one.
Come out of RELIGION of the mouth, but give self to the word of God. 
A failure to give earnest heed to the word of God will lead to distance from God but closer to self-destruction.
Living by the word of God is rooted in giving more earnest heed to the things heard in the word. 
Living by the word of God works for those who work the works of God. 
What is your work with the word of God?
In the book of John 6:28, Jesus was asked, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus responded, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” One that gives earnest heed to Jesus live life by the word of God.
Jesus is the word of God. Give the more earnest heed to His word.
The word of God is POWER with no substitute that is in place for one that lives life for the glory of God.
The word of God is the way for salvation.
The power in the word of God is for deliverance and preservation.
What is holding you from giving earnest heed to the word of God?
The word of God is power.
By the word, Jesus brought Lazarus from the grave of four days. Bible records: “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 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.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” (John 11:42-43)
Importantly, give earnest heed to the word of God to dwell and abide in the presence of God.
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God is the evidence with a pledge to be approaching God.
Those that pledge to approach God are the ones that make up the mind for God that is mindful of man. Jeremiah 30:21-22 buttressed, “…For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?’ says the Lord. You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’”
How is your way of life demonstrating the pledge of your heart to God?
Give more earnest heed to the word of God!

Prayer for today: Ask for your ears to hear and receive the word of God into your heart