FAITH CAPSULE: Pray with understanding.

James 4

IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGE, HOW ARE YOU ASKING FROM GOD?
The Bible makes all realize that it is possible to ask and ask wrongly. 
James 4:3 states, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” 
What are you asking before God?
Is your asking centered on knowing God?
Understanding makes having a knowing count in all areas of life.
Why not ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His word and spiritual understanding?
PRAYER
Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His word and spiritual understanding.
Pray that asking amiss shall not be your way of life.
WHAT IS THAT CHALLENGE THAT PERSISTS OR RESISTS IN YOUR LIFE?
What have you been praying against that persists and resists in your prayer?
One thing God cannot do is: GOD CANNOT FAIL!
Challenges do not go away but change from one level to another.
Psalm 34:19 states, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
God has brought you this far, and He will see you further if you have trust and hope.
With trust and hope, cry out to the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
PRAYER
Ask against what persists against you physically, spiritually, and emotionally to cease permanently, in the name of Jesus.
Ask that the grace of God to insist with trust and hope against challenges be established to the glory of God.
Ask for trust and hope to wait for God to become activated in your life.
God does not run out of mercy.
CONTINUE PRAYING FOR THE HAND OF GOD OVER LIFE THIS MONTH
The ear and eye of God are the evidence of His hand upon one who knows to call for His hand.
God hears from those who call on Him. 
God hears, and He is God that sees. 
The Bible pointed out that He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) 
It is worth asking God for instruction and his teaching over your life. 
In these days of challenges and evil occurrences, ask His promises as Psalm 32:8 records, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye.” 
Do you have the desire for His eye to guide you? 
It is a blessing to be guided by the eye of God.
Psalmist buttress, “Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity…” (Psalm 94:12-13) 
With desire, strive to gain the instruction and teaching of God to lead you.
God instructs and teaches what will add rest for all. 
Daily, understand and know what is good to ask from God. 
PRAYER
Ask that you become open to gaining the instruction and teaching in the way to go and have the rest of God.
Ask for the eye of God in all your endeavors.

FAITH CAPSULE: Turn to God and ask to live life to the glory of God.

Psalm 32, 94 

To ask from God is not the evidence of being forgotten before God.
Daily, understand and know what is good to ask from God. 
What is stopping you from asking before God? 
A failure not to ask is evidence of a lack of faith.
The word of God states, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11) 
Asking and not receiving could be evidence of asking wrongly.
The Bible makes all realize that it is possible to ask and ask wrongly. 
James 4:3 states, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” 
What are you asking before God?
Is your asking centered on knowing God?
Why not ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His word and spiritual understanding?
Turn to God, and ask to live life to the glory of God.
To seek God is to be positioned before God to gain needs.
Asking from God is not evidence of being forgotten before God. 
God does not forget His children; He acts for the one who waits for Him. 
Ones that know to wait on God should know to ask, and God attends to them. 
God hears from those who call on Him. 
God hears, and He is God that sees. 
The Bible pointed out that He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) 
It is worth asking God for instruction and his teaching over your life. 
In these days of challenges and evil occurrences, ask His promises as Psalm 32:8 records, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye.” 
Do you have the desire for His eye to guide you? 
It is a blessing to be guided by the eye of God.
Psalmist buttress, “Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity…” (Psalm 94:12-13) 
With desire, strive to gain the instruction and teaching of God to lead you.
God instructs and teaches what will add rest for all. 
Daily, understand and know what is good to ask from God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you will hear and respond, walking in the way.

FAITH CAPSULE: Faltering has its roots in the spirit of doubt.

1 Kings 18

Do not waver to become faltered.
What happens in the place of waver? 
Isaiah 21:4 testified, “My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.” 
A wavering heart is evidence of a soul that gives to fear. 
Are you one with wavering rooted in having fear instead of boldness?
Romans 4:20 identifies learning from Abraham and not being a vessel of wavering, “He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.” 
Be a believer with faith, strengthening faith by giving glory to God.
Give attention to the word of God to know that wavering leads to faltering, falling, and not standing by the word of God.  
The acclaimed believer should not be patterned to falter. 
Are you claiming to follow the Lord, attending the fellowship of believers but prone, or actively faltering/wavering when the challenge persists?
Giving oneself to falter instead of having faith is evidence of not following God fully. 
At the victory of the Israelites over the prophets of Baal, on Mount Carmel, Elijah asked the children of Israel, “…How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.’ but the people answered him not a word.” (1 King 18:21) 
All failed to answer the question of Elijah because they were not faithful in following God fully. 
In your challenging situation, do you falter? 
God is not deceived, like a man.
1 Samuel 16:7 states, “For the Lord does not see as man see, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”  
Do you have enough relationship with the Lord not to doubt Him to become wavering?
Does your challenging situation question your trust and hope in God?
Faltering has its roots in the spirit of doubt, and doubt is a demonstration of a lack of faith. 
Hebrews 11:6 records, “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.”  
The faltered soul is not faithful, and God is not pleased with one that is not faithful. 
Those who diligently seek God follow Him fully to experience His reward. One that falters is not following God but serving two masters. 
To fear God is evidence of serving God to know God.
Psalm 33:18 states, “…the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.”  
Get to know God, set your mind on God, and be steadfast in Him. 
Hebrews 10:23 states, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” 
Give yourself to God, be faithful, and do not waver to become falter as a victim of this wicked world.  

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from a wavering spirit and not to become a faltering vessel.

FAITH CAPSULE: God sees all your good.

Esther 8

Doing the word of God is doing good.
Under heaven, doing good is not beyond God.
God sees all, and doing good will provoke the mercy of God.
The Bible records that the word of God is God as John 1:1 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The Bible also records that the word is the Spirit of God. 
John 6:63 records, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.”
The Bible also confirms, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) 
The Word of God is God, and His word is His Spirit.
Doing the word of God is doing good.
It is wise and should be a desire with one who wants to live life for God, to pray the word of Psalm 143:10, “Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.”
When God, His Spirit that is good, becomes established in the life of one, the testimony of God that is mercy and truth shall belong to such.
The mercy of God is attainable for one who is doing good before God.
Knowing to do good under heaven is not beyond the response of the mercy of God.
One, Haman devised evil against the Jews to provoke the guidance of Mordecai, which led Esther to receive privilege before the King to deny Haman with an evil device. Bible records, “Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.” (Esther 8:3) 
Esther devised good, and the mercy of God answered on behalf of all her people (Jews). 
The Word of God in Proverbs 14:22 confirms, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. 
One devising good will attain the mercy of God.
In life, one who sows good will reap good.
It is a wise saying that whatever a man sows is what a man will reap.
For example, as close as bananas and plantains look alike, it is impossible to sow bananas and reap plantains regardless of how look-alike they appear.
What are you sowing to reap?
Hosea 10:12 buttressed the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
Become one merciful to experience the mercy of God just as Matthew 5:7 speaks to all, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” 
Be merciful to attain the mercy of God over your life.
With understanding, know God to be doing good, not just know about God. 
Seek the mercy of God so that His mercy will reign and rule in your life.

Prayer for today: Ask to be a vessel of doing good to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have a prayer life?

Daniel 6

Prayer demands commitment with consistency.
One that does not give self to prayer cannot prevail.
How is your prayer life?
Prayer time is not a playing time.
Prayer time is not entertainment to impress anyone but to seek God diligently for His mercy. 
Prayer is a labor, not for one with the spirit of laziness. 
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that God will not ignore prayer before Him.
Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”  
Ask for engaging in laborious prayer as a way of life, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
A prayer-less is not possible to prevail in the wicked world.
Prayer should be a continual engagement.
Engaging in prayer time is not convenient but demands commitment.
Is your prayer consistent with commitment? 
Apostle Paul testifies about prayer.
Acts 6:4 states, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Are you one with delayed experience or not getting an answer as expected in the hour of prayer?
Know that God answers prayer with yes, no, or wait.
Praying is waiting to hear from God.
Without a doubt, God waits to act for those who wait for Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Prayer opens heaven.
The documented word of God is not for decoration but to be declared engaging the word, living by the word of God.
Jesus demonstrated what it means to give to prayer in every area of life.
At His baptism, he prayed. Luke 3:21-22 documents, “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Prayer is the key to opening!
God is not a partial God.
Watching and praying is a prayer of expectation with manifestation.
Jesus and His disciples called all to watch and pray.
Engaging in prayer makes the difference when committed.
Daniel is one with the testimony of engaging prayer with commitment.
Daniel had a heart for God and was continual in his prayer.
Daniel was experiencing promotion as he purposed his heart for God.
The promotion of Daniel positioned him for untimely termination.
Daniel 6:3 records the reaction of King Darius to Daniel, “Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.”
The promotion of Daniel experienced a challenge.
Daniel 6:4 records, “So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him.”
In all challenges, Daniel resolved to pray and was prevailed.
Daniel was a prayer vessel.

Prayer for today: Ask for engaging prayer as a way of life.