FAITH CAPSULE: The zeal of Jesus was to the glory of God.

John 2

Having the boldness and character to live for the glory of God is rooted in having zeal for God.
To have the zeal for God is not of determination alone but also having a desire for God.
The zeal of Jesus was to the glory of God.
To have the zeal for God is to live life, seeking God diligently.
The zeal of Jesus is the documentation for all to learn, to know what it means to live life for the glory of God.
Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character that identifies one as a winner.
Without the zeal for God, there will be no boldness and character for the acclaimed believer of the word of God to flush out activities of the world in the temple. 
Are you zealous for God?
One with zeal for God will always stand against the world of disobedience by looking into the word of God with action. 
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple but drove all wicked world activities outside of the temple of God.
Are you an acclaimed temple of God, full of activities that are not of God?  One with the zeal of God will identify merchandise that is not of God that calls for turning it out.One with the zeal of God will not compromise the word of God in the temple of God.
As a temple of God, what is your character outside of God?
John 2:13-17  documents the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
The boldness and character of Jesus are rooted in His zeal for God.
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is the character that lives for God, meditating on the word of God.
One that meditates is seeing in the word of God.
The word identifies that meditate on the word of God day and night, to see and be able to observe and do according to the word of God. (Joshua 1:8)
Why not desire to become one with the zeal of God?
It is wise to engage in prayer, not a determination to become one with the zeal for God.
Manifestly, until the zeal of God eats up a believer, the possibility of having a clean temple will not be possible. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal of God to eat you up.

FAITH CAPSULE: Choose to be with God always.

2 Kings 2

The word of God upgrades one with the choice to upgrade in the word of God.
Does the word of God speak to you in this wicked world?
In the wicked world, get upgraded; be built up in the word of God. Apostle Paul identifies the need to be built up 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.” 
It is worthy to commit oneself to the word of God and be upgraded with continual prayer and to the ministry of the word of God. 
The life of many in the bible testifies to getting an upgrade in standing for God against false religious leaders and kings.
Elijah did not align himself with wicked kings and leaders. 
Elijah lived right before God to keep him upgraded in the wicked world. Elijah did not die but went up to heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2:11) 
Walking and standing in fellowship with obedience to God in this wicked world is not impossible but possible for one with a purposed heart for God. 
Elijah stood for God, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” (James 5:17) 
Today, it is possible to upgrade as Elijah was in his life journey. 
Matthew 6:19-21 identifies what it takes to remain upgraded, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” 
The character of one upgraded is standing in the word of God.
The wicked world of today demands constant and consistent upgrading by seeking God. 
Seeking God is pleasing to God. 
Pleasing God is to be living by the word of God. 
In a wicked world, Enoch upgraded himself by walking with God.
He demonstrated a life of fellowship with obedience to God. 
Hebrews 11:5-6 records, “By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 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.” 
In this wicked world, to keep self-upgrading is to live a life of fellowship with obedience to God. 
Line with God.
Live by His word.
Walk with God, walk before to become focused on Him.
See in the word of God, believe to receive and become of you.

Prayer for today: Ask that you walk with or before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting without having hope is not complete.

Exodus 32:1-14

Trusting and hoping the word of God is a way to get the way.
Trusting without having hope is not complete to gain the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 admonishes, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Prompt yourself to trust and hope in the move of God.
As a believer of God, in your area of challenges of this world, are you experiencing affliction? 
Is it delay that is waging challenges to deny expectation?
Are your challenges taking longer than you do not perceive?
Are you beginning to lose sight of God for His divine intervention? 
As a believer, see your delay as deliverance on the way.
The word of God encourages all not to become a victim of discouragement waiting on God. Psalm 34:19 states, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
Trusting and hoping the word of God is to know that a delay in the manifestation of expectation is not a denial. 
It is clear that delay or another kind of challenge is imminent, but God is faithful.
His promise of deliverance for the one that trusts and hopes of His word is intact. 
Ignoring delay in any area of life will block out doubt.
Ignore delay!
Knowing whom you believe with a consistent meditation on His testimonies is encouraging to know there is a way where there is none. 
The Israelites experienced a delay that resulted in complaints and worries. 
The Bible records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” (Exodus 32:1) 
The children of Israel knew quite well by their exposure to different miracles through Moses that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave into an unnecessary worry that did not have a basis. 
Lack of trust and hope leads to worrying before God.
With the delay of Moses coming down from the mountain, an unholy gathering took over from where there was supposed to be a holy gathering.
The Israelites saw a delay that turned them to seek another god. 
Some delays are necessary when God is at the beginning of such a journey. 
Also, there are places one has started, but the delay has made it look like wasting out. 
Today, waiting on God can never be wasted. 
Some delays are not of failure, but to make a way to get to the expected end. 
Take note that without faith, the delay will turn quickly out of the way of the word of God that delivers. 
Allow God by taking all your delay to God in prayer. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the miracle of deliverance to answer in your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing God is having a relationship with God. 

Psalm 142, Daniel 6

Distraction is an attempt to deny relations with God.
Distraction is not announced to its victim when it strikes from the closet or distance.
It displaces one not to arrive at the calling of God.
The wife said to Job, “…Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Job rebuked the statement of his wife. (Job 2:10) 
Who is your distraction? 
Ignore to deny distraction, but focus on God alone. 
Do not become a victim of distraction to experience evil occurrences over your life. 
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device to derail one from arrival at the assignment of God. There is no one with an exception from distraction. 
The character of one who knows God is living in the fear of God.
Do you know God, or do you know about God?
One that does not know God becomes short of benefits encased in knowing God.
Fear God, commit to God, give regard to God, to build a relationship with God. 
David had a relationship with God, a testimony of giving regard to God. 
How David communicates with God testifies to his relationship with God.
Psalm 142:1-2 records David: “I cry out to the Lord with my voice; With my voice, to the Lord, I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.
David knows God, and His communication testifies.
Personalizing God builds up a relationship with God. Relationship with God is evidence of how much one knows God. 
David knows God, and He testifies that David is a man with a heart after Him.
Just like David, Daniel knew God. 
The Bible testifies that Daniel knows God and did exploit to the glory of God. (Daniel 11:32) 
Daniel constantly regarded God and did not complain, but he purposed for God not to defile himself before God. (Daniel 1:8) 
Daniel, a man of God, gave regard with his custom prayer approach to God. (Daniel 6:10)
David and Daniel were examples of giving regard to God and knowing God.
One with the heart not to know God becomes short of the benefit encased in knowing good gracious God. 
To lack knowledge of God makes a man a vessel that perishes. 
The word of God states it clearly, “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. (Hosea 4:6)
The lack of knowledge is evidence of one that does not give regard to God.
The Bible cautions, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. (Psalm 28:5)
Give God regard.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to have a relationship with Him by knowing Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: The Easter season is worth engaging the prayerful not to live a life of waste. Jesus came for all to live abundantly.

Matthew 21

LET US THANK GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS AND MERCY
It is important to thank God for His goodness and mercy for the blood of Jesus, His sacrifice to give all life abundantly.
John 10:10 records the word of God, “I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
PRAYER:
Ask: Let us thank God for the life He brought, for all to live abundantly.
Ask that you will not live a life to miss the abundant life Jesus paid for all on the Calvary.
WHAT IS TIED DOWN TO DENY OUR ARRIVAL AT DIVINE ASSIGNMENT?
For Jesus to arrive at the junction to sacrifice, the center of His divine assignment, what is in position for Him to ride was tied down.
What is it that ties down your advance to arrive at the calling of God over your life?
Is it your distraction?
Is your company (your surroundings or family)holding you down?
What is holding you from settling at your center of divine assignment?
God did not create you for anyone but for Himself. Revelation 4:11 admonishes, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive
glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
All are the will of God for His glory.
For Jesus to arrive at the center of His divine, he needed to untie the donkey.
Jesus sent His word to gain His ride, stating, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me.” (Matthew 21:2)
The spoken word of Jesus gained the ride as the donkey was untied.
Matthew 21:6-7 records, “So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt…”
PRAYER
Ask against the force set to deny your encounter to the center of divine assignment to be permanently terminated in the name of Jesus.
Pray against distraction working against your arrival to the calling of God over your life.
Pray that every stagnation holding you outside of your call shall begin to experience the miracle of God.
AS HE HAS RIDDEN ON A DONKEY, SO IT SO TO RIDE ON BELIEVERS TO GAIN IN HIS GLORY
Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem, His arrival at the center of His divine assignment.
What Jesus rides is bound to carry the honor and glory of God.
This celebration of death and the rise of Jesus is to ask for the presence of God to ride one.
PRAYER
Ask God to ride you in every area of life. (From this moment, ask God to ride you in all areas of your life)
Ask that Jesus shall enable you to live as a vessel for His presence.
Ask that God shall continually occupy you.