FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer calls for faith to be gained from God.

Luke 18: 1-30

A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and Knocking before God.
To be seeking God with prayer demands praying in the word of God.
Prayer calls for faith to gain from God.
The word of the apostle speaks to all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
What is it that you are asking God to change in your life?
To seek God with prayer demands giving self to continual prayer, a persistent prayer before God. 
A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and knocking before God until the answer is delivered.
It is the character of God not to ignore the calling on Him.
God always answers yes and no or waits when called on Him with persistent prayer.
The parable of Jesus in Luke 18:1-8 records for all to know that God is a caring God that will not ignore persistence just as a judge could not.
A widow needed justice for an adversary. 
The widow prompts the response of the action of the judge.
Luke 18:4-5 documents, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
Jesus speaks in response to the judge, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
The expectation with no manifestation in sight, there is reason to engage in persistence and knocking that is the evidence of FAITH.
In the time of expectation for manifestation, it is worth knowing that:
FAITH should not be a mouth noise.
FAITH is not a fanfare (a display or elaboration) but to engage God to experience manifestation for expectation.
FAITH is not an effort to impress anyone but to press on to experience God.
With faith, be one with persistent prayer by asking, seeking, and knocking as the word of God commands.
Give heart to God.
With heart given to God, eyes will observe His ways as Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Ask that you give heart to God, see in His ways, and live a life for God, not a waste of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enables you to know His way in all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Giving yourself to prayer with attention will gain the attention of God.

Isaiah 64

Prayer is not to intimidate God.
How is your prayer?
With understanding, pray to gain the presence of God.
In prayer is not to impress your world but to provoke the presence of God by praying His word.
Prayer is not a playing ground but a ground to prevail by continually giving oneself to prayer and the ministry of the word.
Engage prayer with expectation for manifestation.
Prayer is seeking God diligently to find God.
The only thing God cannot do is: God cannot fail but will answer with yes, no, or to wait.
Prayer is where God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
The Word of God testifies in Isaiah 64:4, “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.”
Paying attention to prayer BEFORE GOD will gain the attention of God, the evidence of praying with understanding. 
Psalm 47:7 points out that seeking God should be with understanding, For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
To give oneself to prayer before God is seeking God to gain His attention for manifestation.
With an understanding of the word of God, pray the following points: 
God spoke in Genesis 6:5, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
This hour, pray against evil occurrences in this wicked world not to locate you.
Ask that the Word of God have a place in your life in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Pray that the healing nature of the word of God answers in your life.
Pray that deliverance and preservation power in the word of God will have a place in your life.
Pray that the word of God becomes established in your life and that you live life for the glory of God.
Paul the Apostle admonishes all in Acts 6:4, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.”
One who engages the word of God will not experience failure.
Pray the word of God. 
Jeremiah 23:29 says, “Is my word not like fire? says the LORD. And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” 
Pray that the fire in the Word of God burns off all that does not represent God in your life journey physically, spiritually, or emotionally in the name of Jesus.
Pray by asking for the hammer nature of the Word of God to break down every rock of hindrance in your life.

Prayer for today:  Ask that God give ears to your prayer in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Sin is with no business but to bring down one.

Joshua 7

Covetousness is sin before God.
Keeping eyes on what the neighbors possess shall prompt an overwhelming spirit of covetousness.
Are you one with the sin of covetousness that is enough to deny your victory when victory should be answering for you?
The falling of the Israelites was the result of their sin of covetousness before God that prompted Joshua to go before God, as Joshua 7:7 records, “And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought these people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!”  
Joshua did not know that the sin of covetousness was the cause of their defeat at the hands of their enemy but was curious why their past situations were better than their present challenge.
Are you curious about why your past is better than your present? 
Is your past better than your present?
It could be that God has departed from you just as He departed from the Israelites due to their sin of covetousness.
On behalf of the Israelites, Joshua pleaded before God when God told him about the covetous sin of Achan. 
The sin of covetousness by Achan counted against all the Israelites.
Achan transgressed the command of God when he stole and engaged in deception. (Joshua 7:10-11) 
The sin of covetousness brought the Israelites down, not able to stand before their enemies but turned their backs on their enemies. 
The character of covetousness is greed to acquire with a strong desire for material possessions. 
Covetous implies an inordinate desire for another belonging to another.
Covetousness is rooted in the lack of contentment.
One with covetousness is in sin against the word of God, the evidence of the lack of fear for God.
The Bible records, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17) 
Is covetousness your way of life?
Covetousness is critical to complicate the journey of life.
Consciously or unconsciously, the sin of covetousness before God can be the reason for the delay or derailment in the life journey.  
Covetousness is a sin to deny one from obtaining promises in the word of God.
The obedience of the Israelites to the word of God was the reason for their victories over their enemies.
The disobedience of the Israelites to the word of God was the reason they lost against the people of Ai with the lesser might of the military.
The Israelites assumed victory against the people of Ai, not knowing that their sin of covetousness was before God, to deny them victory.
All should know to search for self and not live a life of sin consciously or unconsciously before God.
Before God, there is no excuse for violating His word but the consequence.

Prayer for today: Ask against sin not to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The gift of God is a permanent gift that is irrevocable.

John 4:1-45

Jesus is the gift of God in place not to miss eternal life.
One that receives and unwrapped the gift of God set for eternal life.
The gift of God for all is not seasonal but for all seasons. 
The gift of God is a permanent gift that is irrevocable.
Jesus introduced Himself to the woman of Samaria that does not know Him, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10) Jesus is the GIFT of God for all. Romans 6:23 buttresses, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Jesus is the gift of God.
He is to be received and unwrapped by all, living life for God, seeking God diligently. 
One who receives and unwraps the gift of God is the one who embraces the gift of eternal life.
How are you living life for God? 
Are you well-rooted in God, walking before God, standing for God like a tree with fruit ready to produce for God in all seasons? 
The gift of God to all is for all to receive and be in the position of giving back to God.
Jesus, the creator of the fig tree, expected fruit, but the fig tree had no fruit for its creator in all seasons. 
Bible records, “Now the next day when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response, Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again…” (Mark 11:12-14)
The fig tree was with leaves but could not declare fruit for its creator. 
Are you a decorated believer like a fig tree?
Seasonally available fruit before God is not what God wants for all.
Word of God warned against the seasonal believer as stated, “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” (2 Timothy 4:2)
Before God, a seasonal believer is not living life for God.
A seasonal believer has a lack of knowledge and does not know God.
Are you a seasonal believer who is decorated with the world but not decorated by the word of God?
Do not deceive yourself, but give yourself to God.
Live life for God, seek Him diligently, and fear God to obey Him according to His word.
Come out of a seasonal religion, not of Christ, and embrace the gift of God of all seasons.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life for Him in all seasons.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not be trapped on the right track.

John 5:1-23

To be trapped on the right track is not the will of God for His creation.
The Bible records a man who had an infirmity of thirty-eight years.
The man with infirmity was on the right track to gain healing but was trapped.
John 5:1-4 describes the track where healing was in place for the infirmity, “the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.  4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.”
The infirmity man of thirty-eight years trapped on the right track of where to gain healing.
By the mercy of God, Jesus saw him lying and knew that he had been in that condition for a long time.
He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” (John 5:6)
The mercy of God called the attention of the man with infirmity.
Mercy belongs to God.
Romans 9:15 testifies to God, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
The man with infirmity answered the calling of Jesus, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” (John 5:7)
The stagnation of the man with infirmity was rooted in looking outside God for help.
Who are you looking at for intervention to your challenge?
Watching and praying is a way to pray to God and engage the presence of God.
Jesus spoke to the infirmity man, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” (John 5:8)
John 5:9, “And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.”
The healing word of God sounded in the direction of the sick man, and he rose immediately.
Believe that every trap in your life that you know or do not know shall experience the visitation of God, that stagnation be converted motion to the glory of God.
By the mercy of God, Jesus saw him lying and knew that he had been in that condition for a long time.
Mercy belongs to God.
God will have mercy on who He chooses to have mercy on.
However, the mercy of God is attainable when one asks or pleads for His mercy.
Job is a blameless and upright man before God demonstrates the need to plead before God: “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
Prayer for today: Ask that God will have mercy over you.
Ask that every area of stagnation, physically, spiritually, and emotionally, become converted to motion, to the glory of God.