FAITH CAPSULE: Pray to know the way of God.

Exodus 33

As an acclaimed believer, do you know the way of God?
Knowing the way of God is to live life to the glory of God, not to live a life of waste.
There is no reasonable excuse not to live life by the way of God.
Revelation 4:11records, “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.”
God created all to live by His will, exist for His glory, living by His way.
Have you taken time to seek God for His way in your life?
In life, there is no excuse not to live a life of waste, the evidence of failure, and not answer to the calling of God.
A title answered to, in the name of God, is not the task but demands to know and ask from God for His way.
To answer the calling of God and go by His way demands not to assume but to engage the assurance way of God.
Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
Prayerfully, seek God for His way not to be a victim of untimely death resulting from wrong assumptions.
Life is a journey.
In all your journeys, have you asked God to show you His way for your life?
God called Moses for His assignment, but answering the calling of God was not an excuse for Moses not to ask for the way of God for him.
Exodus 33:12-13 documents the evidence to ask for the way of God over the called one, “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
God called Moses, not that Moses called or asked for the calling of God.
Moses answered the calling of God.
After Moses had engaged in the calling of God by leading the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt, he denied an excuse not to go back to ask for the way of God over his life.
In your life journey, have you asked for the way of God over your life?
Moses did not assume to know the way but asked from God.
Take note, know that prayer opens heaven.
Moses prayed before God to know which is the way of God for him, saying, “Now, therefore, I pray.”
God answered Moses when he asked for the way of God for his life.
Exodus 33:14, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
The answer of God to Moses speaks to all who diligently seek God for His way.

Prayer for today: Ask that you know the way of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The evidence of having faith is to trust and hope not just trust.

Numbers 13

The journey of the Israelites from bondage to the Promised Land started with trust but lacked hope to arrive at the Promised Land.
The Israelites were at the Wilderness of Paran, waiting to move into the Canaan when God spoke to Moses to send men to spy out the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent the spies as commanded by God.
The spies returned with a report: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, their report was with no hope because of the fear for the people of the land by testifying, “…We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:31-33)
The report testifies to trust but lacks hope in God.
The plans, the promises of God, will answer to one with faith.
The fear of the Israelites prompted fear to complain and confess negatively before God. 
Joshua and Caleb confess positively before God.
God responds to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”
The plans and promises of God are His words that do not return void to Him.
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises.
Give full attention to the word of God. 
Jeremiah 17:7 admonishes, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.” 
Deny fear, know to trust and hope in the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to fear in God alone, not fear the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have faith not to be doubtful?

Mathew 11

To be doubtful is rooted in faithlessness.
Without a doubt, a faithful one cannot be a victim of doubt.
What is causing you to have doubt instead of having faith in the Lord that will do the un-doable?
With doubt, fear will settle to make one unsettled. 
When fear rises, faith will sink. 
Live life by giving yourself to the word of God to have faith that does not sink. 
With more earnestness, give heed to the things heard in the word of God. Romans 10:17 identifies the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Any doubting in any area of your life?
Imagine John the Baptist with doubt of who Jesus is when he was in the prison of life.
The Bible records: “And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” (Matthew 11:2-3) 
The questioning of John the Baptist about Jesus testifies to his doubt.
Title or position in any area of life is not evidence not to be full of doubt.
Matthew 3:13 records that John baptized Jesus, “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him” 
The record of Matthew 3:13 is enough for John the Baptist not to doubt who Jesus is.
John 1:29-30 records, “…Behold The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.”’ 
The recording of John 1:29-30 is more than enough as a testimony that John the Baptist should not doubt about Jesus.
Just like John the Baptist, do you doubt who Jesus is?
Give earnest heed to what you have heard about Jesus, and there should be no doubt in your life.
Imagine, John also exalted Jesus, but his doubt denied him to remember what he said to Jesus as stated: “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.” (John 3:31) 
The challenge of John the Baptist demonstrates that he knew about Jesus but did not know Jesus because of his doubt.
Get to know Jesus and not be a vessel of doubt.
The response of Jesus to the doubt of John the Baptist speaks to all with doubts: “…Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Mathew 11:4-6) 
One with faith cannot be doubtful.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: To live for God is to give to the word of God.

1 Thessalonians 5

Faith comes when engaged in the word of God actively.
To effectively apply faith is a demonstration of what the word says.
Romans 10:17 states the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” 
Engage the word of God to allow faith to become your way of life.
Know that faith that comes by hearing and hearing the word of God will also depart when one does not continuously give to hearing the word of God.
The word of God is the answer to every pressing need in life. 
Do not consider this for a later adoption to your pending situation or pressing need. 
Now and not later, engage the word, gain, and live by faith, knowing God is still honoring His word. 
PRAYER
Ask to be enabled to give yourself to the word of God.
Ask that from this moment, the grace to live life by the word of God shall become your way of life.
Acts 20:32, Apostle Paul said, “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.” 
One to be built by the word of God will live for God, taking a position to claim the promise of God.
PRAYER
Ask that the spirit of God that enables one to be built by the word of God become established in your life. 
Are you living life for God?
With desire, God will deposit enablement in you to live life for His glory.
To live life for God is the character of one answering to the calling of God.
Have the desire to live for God. 
The challenges of being held down not to live for God will strive but the hand of God will answer for deliverance to live for God. 
Physically, Spiritually, or emotionally, what is holding you down?
Which hand is holding you down, not allowing you to go forward in the area of life that leads you to the center of the calling of God over your life?
What is holding you down that you know and the one that you do not know?
Whatever it is holding you down is an attempt to deny you.
However, one can delay, but such will not be able to deny if one cries out prayerfully before God for His calling over your life. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
PRAYER
Ask that any hand, with an attempt to deny or derail you from answering fully to the calling of God, become withered permanently.
Ask that, where hands are joined together, against your moving forward, be disagreed and be scattered, without reconciliation.
As 1 Thessalonians 5:24 states, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 
Ask that the calling of God become established in your life for His glory.