Faith Capsule: The secret of God is in the word of God.

Hebrews 11:8-19

By the word of God, obey, dwell, and wait before God.
Psalm 91:1 informs all, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
When the word of God sounds in your direction, it is worth obeying and dwelling on the word of God. 
Abraham is the testimony to obey, dwell, and wait on the word of God.
The Bible records Abraham, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
Obedience of Abraham: 
When God called Abraham out from his country, his father, and his family to an unknown land, he obeyed fully by launching out as commanded by God. 
Obedience to the word of God shall excel for the glory of God.
Obeying to obtain from God.
The dwelling of Abraham: 
Abraham lives by the word of God, and that is dwelling in the secret place of God.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Know to dwell in the word of God.
Abraham did not look back to where he was coming from, but went forward to the calling of God. 
He dwelt under the shadow of the word of God to move him forward. 
With faith in the word of God, he moved to a foreign country, and his faith caused him to obtain good testimonies.
The word of God is a story that is not a secret for one who is limited in understanding.
Like Abraham, engage the word of God, the secret to obeying for the glory of God.
The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered, not to become a victim of a wicked world.
Abraham dwelt in the word of God. 
Waiting for God by Abraham: 
Abraham obeyed God; he dwelt and waited on God for the deliverance and preservation of the word of God. 
Those who know how to dwell in God know how to wait patiently on God. 
Hebrews 11:10 records the waiting of Abraham for God, “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Indeed, Abraham lived by waiting for the future that was not yet in sight. 
Waiting on the word of God can be painful, but it is gainful for obedient ones.
The understanding of Abraham, his knowledge of the word of God, prompted him to obey and obtain the testimony of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with open ears and eyes of the heart to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The move of God calls for every moment.

Genesis 11

God wants His creation to move forward in life.
The grace to see a new moment is not a time of stagnation.
God is not a God of stagnation.Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know? 
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long at the junction of life?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his life journey. 
The word records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32) 
The father of Abraham, Terah, was set for Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he stayed to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
The stopping of Terah at Haran was evidence of stagnation, not moving forward.
The move of Terah from the Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place. 
God, calling you out to a particular area is His plan, not your plan.
God is a good God. 
Live life for God, move forward, not become a victim of stagnation.
Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the Israelites concerning the stagnation of the Israelites from the bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” 
Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in His plan forward? 
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” 
God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. 
Faith demands that the Israelites move their comfort to where God demands commitment. 
Faith demands not to make a dwelling place at a stopover. 
Faith also demands to see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see and live life by the word of God.

ATTENTION GAINS ATTENTION

FAITH CAPSULE: The salvation plan for all is to answer the calling of God. 

Jeremiah 3

Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God. 
Do not turn away from God!.
Turning from God is an avenue to sinning before God.
Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God.
God calls all with no exception. 
The salvation plan for all is to answer the calling of God.
The Bible records the calling of God for all. 
2 Timothy 1:9 states, “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” 
Answering the calling of God is to turn to God. 
Indeed, God has given a holy calling through Jesus, but today, the majority has turned away from God. 
Lack of understanding will turn away from God.
Without understanding, there will be a lack of knowledge. 
The Lord declares in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. “
The word of God is the source of understanding God. 
With understanding, there will be a fear of turning to God. 
The truth today is that an acclaimed believer inside or outside of the church has turned away from God.
Turning away from God is a sin before God. 
Are you turning from God?
Romans 3:10-18 records, “There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God; they have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues, they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 
The word of Romans 3:10-18 speaks of the wickedness of this world and rebelliousness before
God.
Joshua 22:29 also speaks to all now, not just then, “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day…” 
Turning away from God is rebellion.
Turning to God is answering fully to God, the only God that calls right.
God expects the turning of all to Him with a whole heart. 
Jeremiah 3:10 testifies, “And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.” 
God is a God that none can deceive, and there shall be no deception in turning to Him. 
Turning to God shall be nonstop giving attention to gain the attention of a jealous God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to turn to God with all your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you one who wants to claim the promise of God in His word?

Exodus 3

One who can listen to the word of God will understand and see the word of God.
One who can see in the word of God will receive the promise of God to become such.
The promise of God is undeniable for all who listen, see, and receive the word of God.
His promise belongs to those who see in His word. 
Faith is to focus on the promise of God. 
God was and is not talkative.
God will not become a garrulous God from eternity to eternity. 
Awesome, gracious God is a loving and long-suffering God.
God acts for His children who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 buttresses, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
God promised to deliver the Israelites from the bondage of over four hundred, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8)
The promise of God for the Israelites was a process with the demand of faith that demonstrates seeing by looking up to God, regardless of the challenges of the enemies. 
The promise of God is in the word of God that does not return void but shall accomplish what pleases God and shall prosper in the thing which God sent. (Isaiah 55:11) 
Unfortunately, one hears promises but ignores paying attention to the challenges in the process of the promise of God.
Are you one who wants to claim the promise of God in His word but ignores the challenges in the process of the promise of God? 
The challenge will come with the process, but one should rest in God by beholding Him. 
The Israelites paid attention to the enemy instead of beholding God, as Exodus 14:9-10 records, “So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid…” 
Beholding the enemy is an avenue to fear and encases self-destruction. 
The promise of God always remains unchanging, while facing challenges will lead one out of the promise of God.
All the Israelites that left Egypt, from twenty years old and above, did not get to the promise of God by beholding challenges. 
Beholding enemies will lead to rebellion and complaints that are evil before God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will see and know the rest in the promises of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who prepares to find God will find Him.

Psalm 27

Preparing to find God is seeking Him diligently.
Seeking God is giving oneself to the word of God.
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
Seek God diligently to find Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
To find God is a privilege, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Be prepared, seek God diligently, and find God.
One without preparation will not find God and miss the presence of God.
Among the characteristics of finding God are:
HAVING A DESIRE FOR GOD
David testifies in Psalm 27:4, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.”
It is encouraging to hear from David, a man identified as seeking the heart of God, to have a desire, not just by determination.
Determination without desire is bound not to find God.
Determination failed Peter when he denied Jesus.
The prayer of Jesus delivered Peter not to miss the presence of Jesus established in His life, the character of one who finds God.
Jesus prayed for Peter, stating, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:32)
Ask God to pray for you, not to deny Him but to live life and find Him.
Desire is from the heart.
A desire from the heart will provoke God to deposit in one as desired, for God.
HAVING A MIND THAT STAYS ON GOD
Anyone mindful of God is one whose mind stays on God, the identity of one who fears God.
Isaiah 26:3 says, “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
One who finds God is at perfect peace.
In addition to finding God, trust in God.
To trust God is not complete without hope.
The word of God identifies with trust and hope in God to gain blessings.
Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
The blessing of God is for those who find God.
Do not let yourself down by trusting and not hoping in God.
To trust and not hope is evidence of religion, not of living for God by His word.
Trust and hope in God to find God.
The word of God encourages all to get wisdom and understanding, not to forget or turn away from His word, the way to find Him. (Proverbs 4:5)
God is a good God. He has given His word for all to find Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to find God, not to live a life of waste.