FAITH CAPSULE: The calling of God is never short of His backing! 

Genesis 37

Did you receive the calling of God?
The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete picture.
The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete picture.
At the calling of Abraham, the command to go and the blessing for going did not come with details. 
At his calling, God did not identify the challenges of temptation and confrontation ahead of Abraham. 
God commanded Abraham, “…Get out of your country, from your family and your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3). 
The calling of God is never short of His backing! 
Has He called you and not backed you up? 
The challenges and temptations that come your way in answering the calling over your life are not evidence that He has withdrawn from seeing you through. 
When God calls, nothing counts but to fully answer with obedience. 
God will call regardless of the position or age of the one called. 
Abraham was seventy-five when he responded to the calling of God.
In His calling, neither old age nor young age can limit God from calling. The calling of God is like attempting to put thousands of pieces of a puzzle together for a complete picture to emerge. 
When putting the puzzle together with a missing puzzle, the complete picture will not emerge.
The dream of Joseph was a confirmation of the divine agenda of God for his life. 
There was no indication of how the dream would emerge.
Joseph had a dream twice and was discouraged because it was a puzzle to his family. 
When Joseph had the second dream, “…he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.” (Genesis 37:10-11) 
Joseph entered the journey he dreamt of at age seventeen and was not complete until he was thirty.
The journey was full of challenges and temptations. 
Indeed, it was a puzzle that could not have become a complete picture with only a piece missing.
It is only you who knows the dream that you have had or the calling that He has placed upon your life. 
Focus on God, He will see you through. 
Remember, the puzzle will not become a complete picture until all the pieces come together.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver and preserve you in His calling.

FAITH CAPSULE: God shall visit you with change like a dream.

Acts 12

With God, stagnation turns to motion, mockery into a miracle, frustration transforms into celebration, and failure gives up for victory to have its place. 
With God, no captivity shall remain not be delivered. 
The persistence of your captivity does not matter when God extends His outstretched hand of deliverance. The children of Israel were in the bondage of over four hundred years when God acknowledged them by sending His hand of deliverance. Be encouraged and know that God’s intervention does not have to be announced but will renounce every plan and purpose of the enemy. 
Peter, in his captivity, death was hanging on him, was shut up; chains held him down, and he probably had given up by sleeping instead of waiting on God. 
Peter was not aware of the deliverance plan of God for him.
The ones who kept Peter in prison had no idea of the deliverance power of God.
It was a challenge that called for trusting God. 
While deliverance was in place, Peter was not with himself. “And when Peter had come to himself, he said, ‘Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the Jewish people.’” (Acts 12:11) 
Delivering the power of God is the most definite and reliable because, by strength, no man can prevail except God. 
Are you looking for a way out of where you are looking up to?
Look to God, repent, and ask Him to move for you.
God is a faithful God and will never let His own down. 
God alone can deliver from captivity that is holding anyone down. 
It is like a dream as God brings one out of captivity. 
It is written, “When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’ The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.’” (Psalm 126) God will not only deliver you from captivity but will lay down every mark of destruction on every agent of your captivity. When Peter was led unto freedom by the hand of God, “… there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.”(Acts 12:18-19) 
God is capable by His capacity to deliver from captivity. 
Hold on to God.
Your story will soon change for good.
When you experience your change from being tied down to free, it shall be like a dream. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the outstretched hand of God for your deliverance.

FAITH CAPSULE: God will see you through the challenges of this world.

John 1:1-18

The word of God is wisdom. 
The Bible states, “For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense, but the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.” (Ecclesiastes 7:12) 
One with wisdom and money does have a defense.
However, the difference between wisdom and money as a defense is that wisdom gives life.
Also, the word of God is light. 
Psalm 119:130  states, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” 
The point here is that wisdom is the word of God, and the word of God is light. 
Going by the scriptural verses above, the word of God (wisdom) identified as a defense must have a place inside every believer of the word of God before it can work as a defense.
Without any doubt, the amount of light one carries to navigate in the wicked world clouded by darkness is the word of God as light.
However, attempting to navigate a world of darkness with dim or no light is equal to taking an avenue to fall. 
How bright is the light that you carry inside? 
The question is, how much of the word (wisdom) do you carry inside of you?
For every believer who desires to live to the fulfillment of the divine of God, the word of God (wisdom or light) that is in the life of one must be enough to terminate confronting darkness. 
Darkness is to become exposed because darkness is not supposed to rule over light. 
John 1:5 informs all, “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”  
How bright is the light in you? 
“Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.’” (John 8:12)
Jesus, the living Word of God, is the light needed to take a journey to the next level without any delay or fear of confrontation in this dark and wicked world.
The Word of God that was in the beginning with God (John 1:2) is the same Light of God. 
The Book of John 1:3-5 describes Him, “All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” 
The above verse testifies to the reason for carrying a reasonable light.
Wisdom (the Word of God) is the truth defense that gives light.
The light of God is the navigating force in the wicked world of darkness. 
Live life for God by engaging the word of God diligently to find God in all ways.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will have a place in you.

FAITH CAPSULE: God will see you through the challenges of this world.

Daniel 1

Distraction can come from a non-excepted route.
Adversity was with distraction for Job to walk out of God that is never far from all His creation.
Adverse adversity located Job when his wife attempted to lead him to discontinue his God by saying to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Job denied distraction and could not discontinue His God as suggested by the wife.
Job responded to his wife, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) 
Imagine the challenge before Job. 
Whatever represents distraction to prompt looking away from God is an agent of destruction.
Adversity challenges will lead to having faith or fear that often make or break one in the race of life not to miss heaven.
There is a need for the grace to continue trusting God in the place of adversity. 
Daniel and his three friends, at a young age, were held captive in a foreign land, yet there were no records of complaints or any attempt to despise their God. 
Instead of looking away from God, they did not give up but continued trusting God. 
The king wanted to build Babylon in them when he ordered the best of the best for them by setting them aside with his delicacies. 
Daniel refused to resume feeding on the delicacies of the king. 
Daniel 1:8-9 records, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.”   
Daniel did not stop looking up to God; he could not discontinue with his God. 
Daniel trusted his God and could not defile himself but live for the glory of God.
Job could not curse his God, as suggested by his wife.
The word of God promises all, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” (Psalm 33:18) 
Continue with a purposeful heart, and whatever it is that cannot touch God will not touch you.  
God will never forsake His children. 
None walks in line with God and falls outside of Him. 
Jesus paid the entire price that we may have life. 
He was persecuted, died on the cross, rose on the third day, and lived as king forever. 
With Christ, no one should have any reason to be discouraged or to discontinue walking with God in the face of challenge. 
Live by the word of God to get you through the challenges of this world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the boldness and character not to look away from God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know how to become secure under His shadow. 

Psalm 91

Fear God constantly and consistently to dwell in His secret place.
Psalm 91:1 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Interestingly, anyone who chooses to dwell in the secret place of the Most High?
One who gains a position in the secret place is supposed to become directed and preserved by God.
Know how to become secure under His shadow. 
However, the secret place of the Most High is not a physical place 
nor is it in a church building. 
The word of God identifies where the secret place of the Most High is situated when it states, 
“The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” (Psalm 25:14)
Without any doubt, one having the fear of God is rooted in the word of God.
Among the blessings of dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God is uncommon protection in the face of confronting challenges. 
The Jews that went back to rebuild Jerusalem after the captivity experienced adversaries that were attempting to deny them from rebuilding. 
All attempts to stop them failed, and they testified, “But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews so that they could not make them cease till a report could go to Darius.”(Ezra 5:5) 
The Bible states in Psalm 33:18, “The eye of the LORD is on those that fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” 
To be under the watchful eye of God that is not visible to the naked eye is to be in His secret place. 
Do you fear God indeed and in truth, or do you fear Him just at your mouth? 
What does it mean to fear God? 
To fear the Lord is to love the Lord.  
God wants us to love Him because He is love. 
Deuteronomy 30:6 buttresses, “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” 
To fear the Lord is to love Him.
To love Him is to live for the glory of God. 
Those who dwell in the fear of God are in His secret place. 
To have a place in the secret place calls for dwelling, not entering and departing regularly. 
One cannot fear God today and not fear Him tomorrow.
Fear God continually, expecting to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. 
Dwelling in a secret place demands living constantly and consistently in the fear of God. 
Without the fear of the Lord, there will be no abiding in the secret place of the Most High. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to put His fear in your heart so that you may abide under the shadow of the Most High.