FAITH CAPSULE: The time of separation from every form of distraction and delay is a time of encounter with the move of God. 

Genesis 32, Acts 9:1-22

Having an encounter with God is to gain His presence.
Numbers of documentation in the Bible prove that separation of self from all will prompt the chance to have an encounter with God.
Regardless of the reason for separation, an encounter with God is a very high possibility during separation. 
When Jacob was about to come in the way of Esau after years of deceiving Esau, he attempted to avoid trouble for all his possessions by separating from all. 
The Bible records about Jacob, “And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had. Then Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.” (Genesis 32:22-24)
At the time of separation from all of his possessions, he was not planning for an encounter with God until encountering. 
For Jacob, it was a life-changing encounter. 
Jacob had his name changed from Jacob to Israel. 
His encounter was a demonstration of a new chapter in the course of his life journey. 
The time of separation from every form of distraction and delay is a time of encounter with the move of God. 
Do you consciously desire a life-changing encounter with God? 
An encounter that turns man into the center of divine assignment demands a complete separation from every distracting agent.
Among many other encounters in the Bible was that of Saul on his way to Damascus in his attempt to persecute disciples. 
Acts 9:3-5 documents, “As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.  Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” 
At the time Saul encountered with Jesus, he was not alone.
All the people around him were separated from them by the light of God. Saul alone had a light shone around him. 
Saul alone fell on the ground, and Jesus spoke with him. 
Saul received directions on where to go from the ground of his encounter. Saul’s encounter was the one that led to the change in name from Saul to Paul the Apostle. 
Just like Jacob, the encounter with Paul eventually placed him in the center of his divine assignment. 
Be separated unto God indeed and in truth to have an encounter with God. 
Also, if God is to use you, He will separate you for Himself because He alone is God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the visitation of God to separate you for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire to live for God. 

Psalm 27, Ecclesiastes 12

Is it your desire to live for God?
To fear God will live for God to excel for His glory.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 states, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”
Are you serving God in fear?
Is it a lack of understanding that denies you not to fear God? 
Understand and know to be serving God with fear. 
Psalm 2:11 admonishes, “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” 
The evidence of a believer that claims the promise of God lives life to fear God.
Why not allow the fear of God to become your priority? 
In your life journey, let the fear of God become your compass to arrive at the center of divine assignment.
Pray that the fear of God becomes established in your heart not to depart from God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you a believer not studying the word of God but only reading the Bible?
Are you one with quotes or claims to know the word but walks outside of the word of God?  
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you with a title but no task to gain and retain the presence of God?
Seek God, not man.
Those who seek God with all their heart and soul seek God diligently to find Him and to live for Him.
To find God will live for God. 
Deuteronomy 4:29 reports, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Always strive to be a believer that prevails.
Pray to live life by the word of God.
For you, know God to fear and obey God. 
The majority fear God by the mouth, not by the depth of the heart, and living by the way of the world.
One with the title in the name of God, quoting the word of God, or making the place of worshipping God their home is not evidence of the fear of God.
Ask God to enable you to fear Him. 
Jesus commanded all to ask, and God said, “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever.” (Jeremiah 32:39)
God is not partial.
God will give to those who ask.
To fear God is evidence of obedience to the word of God.
Joseph testifies the reason to fear God, “…Do this and live, for I fear God.” (Genesis 42:18) 
Pray for the desire to fear God.
King David, a man after the heart of God, states, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)

Prayer for Today: You have asked God to give you a desire. Now ask that desire for Him be established in you, to seek Him and live for Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be dwelling and abiding in Him. 

Psalm 15

Dwelling and abiding in Him demands more than quoting the word.
The word of God declares, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). Knowing this scriptural verse and quoting it is not evidence that one is dwelling in the secret place of God or abiding under His shadow. 
To be dwelling and abiding in Him demands more than quoting the word of God but to be constantly living the word of God.
Living the word of God is behaving His word. 
The word of God demands that all be holy 1 Peter 1:15 “…He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 
If living holy is not possible, the word of God would not have demand from all to live holy. 
Are you living the word of God or constantly quoting the word from the head, not from the heart? 
One that quotes from the heart, not by the mouth, shall live by the word of God.
One that quotes: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,” is not the same as dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abiding under His shadow. 
Do you live by the word, or do you live to quote the word? 
Many received the word as a story, not as a revealed secret that makes one dwell and abide in God.  
WHERE IS THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH? 
Psalm 25:14 – “The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.” 
The commands of God and all that it takes to fear God are across the pages of the Bible. 
However, the lifestyles of most people who claim to be readers of the word do not complement the commands and all that it takes to fear God. 
Isaiah 45:19 states, “God have not spoken in secret…” 
God has not spoken in secret, but most do not study to engage His secret and do not dwell in His secret by how they walk, stand, and sit. 
How one walks, stands, or sits testifies to dwelling and abiding in Him.
Psalm 15 identifies the character of those who may dwell in the secret place of the Lord.
He who walks uprightly; he who works righteousness; he who speaks the truth in the heart; he who does not backbite with his tongue; and he who hates what God hates.
Do you desire to dwell and abide in the secret place of God? 
Devote to your desire, and God will commit Himself by depositing in you your desire for Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask for His word to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire to live for God. 

Psalm 27, Ecclesiastes 12

From this moment, let it be for you that you will live life for God.
One who lives for God will gain and retain the presence of God.
To be able to live for God is not just word of mouth but praying with desire.
Often, words are easier said than done.
Determination to execute living life for God can fail.
The determination of Peter not to deny Jesus as he promised Jesus failed him by denying Jesus three times. 
A desire to live for God will provoke God to deposit what it takes not to fail before God.
Have the desire, not just determination, to live for God.
LIVE FOR God
Live for God, avoid the path of sin which destroys.
Follow the word of God to keep you off the path of sin. 
One who follows the word of God does not despise God but takes a position to see God in His doing over faithful one. 
Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one who despises the word of God will sink into sin. 
With sin, one is not seeking God and will not see God. 
Claiming seeking God but telling lies to deceive and manipulate is taking a position not to see God, to experience His visitation.
Does the word speak to you?
Pray not to live a life of sin.
Live for God more than ever before.
Seeking God in your chosen way is not living for God.
Attending a church building on your own time is not evidence of living for God.
Does that speak to you?
Day after day, being alive is the privilege of God, not your power.
Know that God alone is the giver of life, to live life for His glory. Revelations 4:11 confirms, “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.” 
Who or what are you living life for today?
Know that your existence is for God, the Creator.
Live for God and have no excuse not to live for the glory of God. 
Pray that God will enable you to live life for His glory.
See God in His word to become registered in you to live for God.
2 Timothy 2:15 speaks to all, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. “
Reading the word of God will KNOW ABOUT God.
Studying will know God.
The word of God is God. (John1:1)
In studying, there will be hearing of God, to see God in His word.
Job testifies, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5)
know God by His word, live obediently not to lose the rightful position in God, but to claim the promise for obedience.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength of studying the word of God.