FAITH CAPSULE: Are you avoiding devices of distraction so as not to follow God?

1 Samuel 13

The disobedience of King Saul was a distraction.
1 Samuel 13:5-7 documents the distraction of the Israelites, causing them to become scattered in the face of their enemies.
The Bible records, “Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, [c]thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. 7 And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.” 
The Israelites do not have any reasonable excuse to look at the military might of the Philistines set against them.
Also, King Saul does not have to look at the fear that caused the stress of the Israelites.
King Saul did not follow the instructions of God through the Prophet Samuel.
King Saul was to wait for seven days, but he failed to wait for Prophet Samuel.
King Saul should have focused on the direction to follow through.
Are you following the word of God?
Following the word of God is engaging direction, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Distraction can be a weapon of the enemy to deny arrival at the assignment of God.
Many with the calling to follow God have become victims of distraction.
Distraction does not announce itself to derail King Saul from the proposed agenda of God for His calling over his life.
Distraction will derail or deny one with no focus on God.
Distraction is the agent that prevents one from getting to the divine assignment.
Distraction is an agent of derailment from walking in the Lord, to answer fully, just like Caleb and Joshua.
The character of anyone who follows the word of God shall become built up to the glory of God.
Apostle Paul admonishes all in Acts 20:32, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
Distraction can build up discouragement.
Follow the word of God and be built up for the glory of God.
Pray that being distracted will not have a place in you to deny and derail you from arriving at your divine assignment.
What is distracting is not of God but of the devil.
Seven things that come with distraction are:
Deny distraction from having a place in your heart.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest ones.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from any form of distraction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know God to follow Him?

Genesis 22

What kind of a believer are you?
Consciously, who do you follow?
Are you following God by the mouth or by your way of life?
Do you know God to follow Him?
God creates all to live for His glory.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God is to follow Him.
Following God fully is seeking Him diligently.
It is not too much, nor is it too little, to follow Him more.
Why not follow God?
One with a desire to follow God is such that God shall deposit what one has desired.
Have the desire to follow God as your way of life.
To follow Him or attempt to follow Him must deny distraction.
The stage in life or profession will not be an excuse for not following God.
Jesus, who called the fishermen to follow Him.
Just as He called the fishermen, so it is that His call is for all to follow Him.
Matthew 4:18-20 documents the calling by Jesus: “And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
Are you following God, the world, or man?
It is worth it for all to search themselves and know if they are following God or not.
Many assume they are following God, but are far from God.
Answering in the name of religion is not evidence of following God.
For example, answering as a member of the church is not evidence of following God.
Answering to a title is not the meaning of following God.
What is it that one is holding to that will prevent one from following God?
Abram obediently followed the command of God.
God asked for the only son of Abram for sacrifice, and he obeyed God.
In Genesis 22:12, God responded to the obedience of Abram, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham did not withhold because he had the fear of God.
Abram answered to obey God.
Anyone who does not hold against the command of God is following God.
Following God will lead to living for God, not a life of waste, and arriving at a divine assignment.
All should live life for the glory of God because He creates all to exist for Him.
Follow God, so as not to be a victim of the wicked world.
Through the pages of the Bible, none followed God and failed.

Prayer for today: Pray that whatever you hold on to, not to follow God in His word (command), be separated from your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The month is running out for a new month to run in.

Luke 17:14

Are you prepared for the coming new month?
In preparation is to give thanks to God that have brought you this far.
Thanking is appreciation.
Give thanks to God always.
God expects a character of appreciating His doing.
The documentation of one leper among ten lepers healed by Jesus demonstrated giving thanks to God for the past.
When lepers saw Jesus, they cried out to Him for healing, and He reacted.
Luke 17:14 records, “So when He saw them, He said to them, ‘Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.”
All ten lepers experienced healing in response to Jesus.
However, one of the lepers responded to healing.
Luke 17:15-16 records, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, 16 and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks.”
One leper demonstrated the importance of going back to the past.
Are you one who looks back to God for what He has done?
Always look back to give thanks.
Jesus responded to one looking back to give thanks.
Luke 17:17-19 records, “So Jesus answered and said, ‘Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
Are you going back to give thanks to God for all the days He bestows on you?
Jesus questioned the location of nine lepers who did not turn back to give thanks.Jesus awaits thanks in return for what He has done and is doing for all.
Be conscious of what God has been doing and is doing for you so far.
Day after day, week after week, to this day, it is a great privilege of God.
One month is running out for the incoming of a new month.
Settle down, think of all God has done, give Him thanks, and be the evidence of trusting Him for the coming month.
Praying before God for the coming month is preparation to have God in all going and coming.
God performs in prayer, perfects in giving Him thanks
God is a living God, a jealous God.
The antidote for His jealousy is giving Him attention.
Thanking God for what He has done and what He is about to do will gain His attention.
Take note that God waits to act for those who wait for Him.
Wait on God by thanking Him to gain His attention.
God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Thank God, the month is about to expire.
Prepare for the coming month by thanking God, who will perfect for you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait patiently on his hand by thanking Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to praying the word of God continually.

Luke 5:

Just a word of God is enough to terminate the struggle for one who will listen and adhere to the word.
A word from Jesus put an end to the struggle of His disciples.
Professional fishermen had finished all night with nothing to show.
When the fishermen finished and set out to walk away empty-handed, Jesus showed up to them to give a word to the fishermen, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)
The disciples followed the word to experience the end of their struggle.
The fishermen caught and had to drop their fishing to follow Jesus.
The struggle of the disciples to meet the needs of the training ceased.
What is your struggle?
A word is enough to terminate the struggle.
Lack of meeting needs will lead to a struggle to reduce one.
What reduces your life?
Whatever that is reducing you physically, spiritually, or emotionally will be permanently terminated in the name of Jesus.
Whatever one wants to reduce, another will cut off such from having life.
Be encouraged not to become cut off and reduced.
Job 14:7 states, “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.”
If a tree that is not a human being survives, you shall begin to rise where you are experiencing to become cut off, where you want to remain.
PRAYER
Ask that God, in His mercy, uphold you so that you do not become a reduced vessel but exist to be lifting the name of God for His glory.
Pray for failure for every attack set against your life.
THINK OR ASK FOR YOUR STEP TO BE IN GOD.
The only way in life is to watch and pray over life.
Life is a great privilege of God to be alive.
Many began the year, but are now gone.
Think about it, what is it that qualifies you to be alive?
It is not knowing how to live life that is the reason you are alive.
PRAYER
Pray that the grace and mercy that brought you this shall not expire, but see you further for the glory of God.
Ephesians 3:20 encourages all to think or ask, for it is what will become of such.
Think or ask (is your prayer) that your step be in God.
In life, how one takes a step determines where one lands
to settle.
What kind of steps are you taking before God?
What one gives into life is what one gets back from life.
At the attempt of King Saul to kill David, Jonathan resolved to help David escape from King Saul. David realized the attempt of King Saul to terminate his life, telling Jonathan, “there is but a step between me and death.” (1 Samuel 20:3)
David watched and prayed over his step not to experience sudden death in the name of Jesus..
PRAYER
Ask that your step from this hour shall not experience evil occurrence to reduce you.
Ask that you shall not fall, fail, or falter in every step you take physically, spiritually. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Share and keep all about His doing. 

Psalm 119:1-64

The testimony of God is His doing.
The doing of God should not be quiet but be the song of provoking His blessing. 
Keeping what God has done in your life and keeping what one shared with you is keeping the testimony of God to provoke the blessing of God.
God is not a liar to fail to deliver His promise.
What God said He will do is a done deal.
Glory be to God!
Glory be to God!
The word of God does not return void to Him.
Isaiah 55:11, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
What God said He will do is a done deal.
What God cannot do, He cannot fail.
Sharing with others about what God has done or done in the life of one is also keeping the testimonies of God.
Share and keep what God has done and is doing, to provoke the blessing of God.
Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies…”
Make it a way of life, keeping what the Lord God has done.
Testimony is a way of not keeping quiet but speaking out loud to the glory of God.
Testimony is also a way of celebrating God by speaking out loudly.
Consider being loud about lifting a jealous God for what He has done or is doing.
Testifying to the goodness of God is giving Him attention.
One that testifies to the doing of God, promotes His goodness, and takes a position for promotion.
The psalmist understands to rest in the testimony, testifying, “The wicked wait for me to destroy me, but I will consider Your testimonies.” (Psalm 119:95) 
The testimonies of God are the evidence of His work. 
Testifying about God is gaining access to the power of God that is mighty to deliver. 
Testifying of God is counting on God.
Above all, when one reminds God of the work of His hand, He will react concerning the war that confronts one. 
Once, Goliath stood against the children of Israel with verbal insults and harassment of Israel, and none of the Israelites could consider the testimonies of God, that is powerful enough to deliver.
David drew boldness and courage from the testimonies of God to bring down Goliath. 
David testified, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” (1 King 17:37) 
The first offensive weapon David used against Goliath was reminding all forces of opposition about what God had done in his life. 
In the face of challenges, those who trust God enough to remember what He has done will always gain His support.

Prayer for today: Ask that the testimonies shall continually be your portion.