FAITH CAPSULE: Having fear for God abstains from sin and iniquity.

Genesis 19:1-29

To fear God makes one to live life for God.
One with no fear of God is not able to live for God.
The fear of God is the character of one who lives by the word of God, not just talks by the word of God.
Proverbs 1:7 states, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Prayerfully ask that the fear of God shall overtake your life.
The ones that do not fear Him have it rooted in their heart, and the Psalmist states, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” They are corrupt, they have done more abominable work, There is none who does good.” (Psalm 14:1) 
The foolishness of one is in the heart, while demonstration testifies to a lack of no fear of God. 
The wife of Lot was foolish in the heart.
The wife of Lot lacks fear of God and acts foolishly by not being obedient to God.
In her escape from sudden death, she foolishly disobeyed God
God told her and Lot, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:16-17)
The wife of Lot looked back against the word of deliverance, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
The word of God is truth and never fails.
One who does not live life for God does not have fear for God in the heart. 
The word of God is accurate to say, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction: he will not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19:23) 
The foolishness of the wife of Lot was evidence of a lack of fear of God.
The foolishness of the wife of Lot terminated her life while Lot escaped from sudden death.
Why not live for God to experience the goodness of God?
Fearing God should not be only of the mouth but with evidence, living life for God. 
Know to confess the fear of God by living by the word of God.
It is a responsibility to fear God, the creator of all.
Integrity counts before God, while noise-making does not count for living life before God. 
One cannot fear God and have evil intentions for a neighbor.
The race of life is to fear God and be righteous before God through the blood of Jesus. 
A lack of fear of God shelters sins, and God does not overlook sin.
In your life, let the fear of God become conspicuous and be free from evil visitation.
With desire, make it a way of life to fear God.

Prayer for today: Ask for one heart and one way to fear God, living life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Keep praying before God as a way of life.

JOHN 5:1-15

At the time of coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years, there was a deliverance and preservation plan of God to go before them and come behind them.
Exodus 13:21-22 records, “And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.”
There is an understanding that God is not a partial God.
Romans 2:11 states, “For there is no partiality with God.”
As God has brought you thus in life, you shall ask for His deliverance and preservation as He answered for the Israelites.
PRAYER
Ask God who brought you to see today shall lead you by day in a pillar of cloud.
Ask God to lead by night in a pillar of fire.
Ask God not to take away the pillar of cloud by day or fire by night.
As you advance in your life journey, ask for the stability of God to answer for you and your loved ones.
Isaiah 33:6 states, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
PRAYER
Ask God to fill you with His wisdom and knowledge to answer for your deliverance from the instability of this world.
Pray that you will not live a life of instability and not be a victim of the wickedness of this heart.
The word said that the fear of God is His treasures.
PRAYER
Ask that the fear of God become your garment, that the fear of God reigns over your life, and be enabled to live life for God.
Pray that you will not be a victim of being trapped on the track in place for deliverance and preservation.
At that Pool of Bethesda, whoever stepped in first was made well of whatever disease he had.  
A man had an infirmity of thirty-eight years.
The man remains trapped on the track of deliverance.
Jesus showed up for him to question why he was trapped.
The sick man gave excuses for being trapped.
Eventually, Jesus commanded him in John 5:8, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
The word of God is enough to terminate struggle regardless of how long the challenge persists and resists deliverance.
The word of God sounded in the direction of the sick man and healed thirty-eight years of sickness and disease.
PRAYER
Ask that every good track of breakthrough you are experiencing, trapped or not, shall answer for the word of God that gives a breakthrough in the name of Jesus.
Ask just as the sick man rose from sickness that this year, you shall rise above and beyond to the glory of God.
Ask that every stagnation in your life gains a motion for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Communicating is also praying before God.

Ephesians 3

How are you relating to God, your father, the perfect creator who cares?
Do you communicate with God non-stop, or do you only engage God partially or not communicate at all?
This new season, make it a way of life to be praying before God.
Meditating or praying do not fail to communicate with God.
Meditate is communicating with God day and night.
Prayer is seeking God.
Seeking God is not seeking Him in any way but by His way. Know to seek God diligently.
Acts 6:4 states, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
God always has an answer of YES, WAIT, or NO.
Continually, we are to watch and pray.
God is God the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
Let prayer be your way of life before God.
Patiently wait on God in prayer.
James 5:16 reveals, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
What avails much for a righteous is understanding in the word of God.
The understanding comes when there is listening, as Jesus points out in John 8:43.
Know to pray the word of God, which does not return void to God.
Be prayerful:
Ask that the wisdom of understanding to gain and retain communication with God shall be your portion.
Pray that the strength and understanding of praying before God continually becomes your way of life.
Pray that you become enabled with patience to watch and pray before God.
BY THE GRACE OF GOD, PRAY BY THE WORD OF GOD THAT DOES NOT FAIL.
Ask for God to occupy you this year.
In your prayer, ask God to draw you near Him and be occupied consistently by His presence.
Psalm 73:28, “But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, That I may declare all Your works.”
Ask that the grace to trust God become activated in your life.
One occupied by the presence of God lives life for God.
Ask that from this moment, you be enabled to live for God.
The Psalmist prayed to God:
Psalm 106:4, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.”
The word of God encourages all, “What you think is what you ask” (Ephesians 3:20)
Without a doubt, it is what you desire God will deposit in you.
Pray that your desire is for the year answers as a year of the visitation of God in all your endeavors.
It demands you ask for God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
PRAYER
Ask God to look down on you and remember you with favor.
Ask God for His favor to visit you with His salvation.
Ask that the year answers with the visitation of God in all your going and coming and in all your endeavors for the glory of God over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Call for the attention of God this year.

Mark 10:46-52

Crying out to God will gain the attention of God.
Do not shy to cry out for the attention of God.
Know that crying out to God is not evidence of weakness but communication with God.
The Israelites cried out to God, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.” (Exodus 2:23)
After the bondage of over four hundred years, the cry of the children of Israel provoked the attention of heaven for their deliverance.
God is a prayer answering God, and it could be that the children of Israel did not realize that they were in bondage until the King of Egypt died. Nevertheless, their cry out to God brought them out of bondage.
Jonah needed to cry out to God due to his self-created challenge rooted in disobedience.
Jonah 2:1-2 records, “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me.  “Out of the belly of Sheol, I cried, and You heard my voice.”
Jonah, a prophet of God, put himself into affliction when he disobeyed the command of God.
God called on Jonah, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD…” (Jonah 1:2-3)
Is there any disobedience in your path of life that can cause pain?
God listened and heard Jonah despite his disobedience. Will you cry by opening your mouth wide for the mercy of God due to your disobedience of God’s calling?
Crying to God is a way to gain His attention.
David, a man after God, cried out to God for His attention in the face of his challenge.
David testified, “In my distress, I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.” (Psalm 18:6)
Cry out to God in times of distress.
God was not a partial God to deny the crying of blind Bartimaeus.
Mark 10:47-48 records Bartimaeus crying out, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
The blind man Bartimaeus cried out to Jesus.
At his crying, there was no one in place to keep him quiet.Do not be quiet to be denied from gaining the attention of God for your deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God not to be a victim and not to gain the attention of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Your running away from God is over.

Exodus 4

At the calling of God over the life of Moses, for the deliverance of the Israelites, Moses could not block his ears to avoid answering to the calling of God.
Moses had no way but repeatedly refused God with different excuses, claiming incompetent in answering the calling of God.
Eventually, Moses answered a series of the callings of God, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.” (Exodus 4:1)
God answered each of the questions of Moses with an answer to encourage Moses.
Moses responded to the encouragement of God:
Moses said he was not eloquent, slow in speech and tongue. (Exodus 4:10)
Moses attempted to avoid answering the call of God over his life.
Are you avoiding the calling of God just like Moses?
With God, there was no way to block or hide from His calling.
God responded to his speech, slow in the tongue of excuse: “So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.  Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.” (Exodus 4:14-15)
Moses demonstrated one running from God but could not hide from the assignment of God.
Are you still avoiding the calling of God?
Do you have a place to hide that is not within the reach of the calling of God?
When God called Jeremiah, God did not consider any place of escape for Jeremiah not to answer His direction.
However, at the calling of Jeremiah, Jeremiah considered himself a youth, but God responded, “…Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you…” (Jeremiah 1:7-8)
The calling for Moses was with the direction of God.
Also, Jeremiah was to be well established by the direction of God.
There is no ground to hide to avoid answering to God when He calls.
The same God called Moses with speech and slow tongue, also called young Jeremiah.
He has an appointment for you, and ask Him where you are to go and what you are to do.
From where you are, it is not too late to ask God for His mercy to get you on track living for His glory.

Prayer for today: Pray not to be a victim of not answering the calling of God.