FAITH CAPSULE: Responsibility is the price for greatness.

Joshua 1

Live responsibly, seeing in the Word of God.
Living a life of responsibility can be exceedingly costly and laborious, requiring strict discipline.
One that engages it as is described shall excel to the glory of God.
Indeed, responsibility is a price for greatness.
Responsibility is the price to excel for the glory of God.
It is a responsibility to see in the Word of God.
To see in the Word of God will gain unfailing direction.
Navigating in the world of wickness shall not have a place.
An acclaimed believer who does not see in the word of God will live as an unbelieving believer, that is, set to live a life of waste.
Seeing the word of God is rooted in listening to understand and having knowledge, living according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you responsible enough to be seeing in the Word of God?
It is responsible for mediating the word of God.
One who meditates on the word of God day and night is hearing and hearing the word of God to see what God says in His word.
Be responsible, engage in meditating with God, a way of communicating with God.
Joshua 1:8 states, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Responsibility is a choice, not to force on one with no desire to engage in the labour it demands.
Praying before God is a responsibility to locate God.
Responsibility demands watching in prayer.
The word of God repeatedly commands all to watch and pray.
One who is not watching and praying is not in a position to see God, who waits to act for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 records, “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.”
Elisha was responsible and waited on God in prayer on behalf of his servant to see the deliverance plan of God over his life, not to become a victim of evil.
2 Kings 6:17 states, “And Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”
It is ignorance of a believer not to hear, see, and do according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
As a believer, let it be a way of life, a responsibility to see God with His plan for deliverance and preservation over the life of such.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of responsibility to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.

Proverbs 19

Hearing and hearing are not the same as hearing.
Hearing and hearing are to hear and gain understanding.
Hearing and hearing will gain faith.
Romans 10:17 speaks to all, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Hearing and hearing the word of God is crucial to have faith in God.
One that hears repeatedly will gain understanding, which gives a knowing edge.
In John 8:43, Jesus rhetorically questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Hearing repeatedly is evidence of listening to hear and gain understanding.
Are you hearing Him?
Luke 9:35 records the condition to experience the blessing of God: “And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!” Make it a way of life to hear from God.
Hearing Him by listening is the way to be blessed. 
It is impossible to hear His word by listening and not doing His word. 
Jesus is the wisdom of God for all who will accept Him.
He is the instruction that will make the hearer of Him live life abundantly. Jesus confirms, “I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, instructed at the wedding of Canaan of Galilee with the lack of wine, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 
Hearing Him by listening is the source of fear of God.
Do you give yourself to hear God?
Are you allowing the fear of God to reign and rule your life? 
To fear God is to live life abundantly, the blessing Jesus brought to all. 
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil. 
In life, the fear of God will cause the hearer to abide in satisfaction. 
One with satisfaction will shut out the evil one.
Are you hearing Him enough to be satisfied?
To make hearing from God a way of life is the character of one who fears God, to live life abundantly.
Judas, a disciple of Jesus, was positioned to hear the word day and night, yet disqualified from his calling. 
Judas could not be satisfied but had a lust for money. 
Living life with the spirit of lust will cause anyone to become vulnerable to an evil agenda. 
John 12:4-6 records the lust of Judas: “But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.” (John 12:4-6) 
Judas loves money. 
Judas was not satisfied, demonstrating as one who had not heard enough from God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the fear of God to reign and rule your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is nothing like turning to God to find Him. 

Jeremiah 3

Answering fully to God is to turn to God.
Answering half or not answering God is not complete for God.
God has placed a calling upon all with no exception. 
The salvation plan for all is to answer to the calling of God.
Bible records the calling of God for all. 
2 Timothy 1:9states, “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” 
Answering the calling of God is to turn to God. 
Indeed, God has given a holy calling through Jesus, but today most have turned away from God. 
Without understanding, most turn away from God.
Without understanding, there will be a lack of knowledge. 
Lord declares in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. “
The word of God is the source of understanding God. 
With understanding, there will be fear of God, and not turning from Him.
The truth today is that acclaimed believers have turned away from God.
Turning away from God is a sin.
Are you turning from God?
Romans 3:10-18, all should search their heart to know if the word speaks to you.
“There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God; they have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues, they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 
Romans 3:10-18 records wickedness of this world and rebelliousness before God.
Joshua 22:29 also speaks to all now, not just then, “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day…” 
Turning away from God is rebellion.
Turning to God is answering fully to God, the only God that calls right.
God expects the turning of all to Him with a whole heart. 
Jeremiah 3:10 testifies, “And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.” 
God is a God that none can deceive, and there shall be no deception in turning to Him. 
Let there be nonstop turning to God in the journey of life, giving God His due attention.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to turn to God with all your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority. 

1 Kings 19

In times of challenging situations, direction from God will deliver one in a challenge.
Regardless of title or position before God, waiting on God is the key to an overcomer. 
Elijah was a prophet in the hand of God, but could not wait on God when the challenging situation became his portion. 
With the execution of the prophets of Baal by Elijah at Brook Kishon, Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel, wanted to kill Elijah. 
Elijah, a prophet of God, could not wait on God for direction to approach the challenge by Jezebel. 
Elijah reacted to the threat against his life: “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4) Elijah desired to die when he failed to wait and seek God for direction. Elijah had no peace but was in fear of asking for his death before God. Elijah resolved to run away from his challenging situation. 
Are you allowing the challenging situation to take over your direction? 
Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority for children of God. 
In times of challenging situations, the direction of God for deliverance does not fail. Isaiah 40:31 buttresses, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” 
Is your challenging situation causing you to run in the place of walking? Are you responding by walking but not running? 
One with weariness or fainting in a challenging situation is not evidence of waiting on God. 
The testimony of David is evidence of one who waits on God in the face of a challenging situation. 
In the testimony of David, it is clear that waiting on God made David walk and not run in the valley; David did not ask for death, but went further regardless of his challenging situation. 
Elijah, a prophet, could not walk but ran and asked for his death before God.
Without a doubt, trusting God is waiting on God.
Fear is a weapon of the devil to destabilize one to arrive on the journey of life. 
In a challenging situation, God is not a God who will rush out of His salvation plan. 
God is not a sleeping God who will not attend to His children who wait on Him. 
The title or position inside or outside of the church demands waiting on God as a priority. 
Understand and know that waiting on God cannot fail. 
Failure is inevitable in the life of not waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask for enablement to wait on God for direction, not to become a vessel of failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: Looking away from God is an avenue to fail.

1 Samuel 13

In times of challenge, looking away from God is not to behold the challenges at hand.
To look away from God is evidence of forgetting God, in all His testimonies.
The children of Israel came out of the bondage of over four hundred years by the hand of God.
As the Israelites progressed from bondage to the Promised Land, challenges of Egypt pursued the Israelites to the Red Sea.
With no way of escape for the Israelites, “…the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptian marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10)
Looking away from God is beholding an enemy, allowing fear to take over.
Looking away from God is forgetting and not remembering what God has done and is doing.
Beholding challenges instead of beholding God is taking the route outside of His promise.
Looking away from God is not giving attention to God.
King Saul looked away from the hand of God upon his life as he staggered into self-destruction.
In the face of challenging war against the Philistines, Saul failed to wait for Samuel, for the burnt offering.
The given excuse of Saul for violating the burnt offering was recorded in 1 Samuel 13:11, “…When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore, I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” Saul was appointed as King, but Saul forgot the mercy of God and rebelled against the word of God.
Saul looked away from God to people scattered from him.
What or who are you looking at?
Looking away from God is an assured route to failure.
Man will fail, but God is forever faithful to wait and act for those who wait on Him.
In life, all should know indeed that whatever one beholds, which generates fear, shall lock down from rising.
Three friends were sentenced to burn in the burning fire (Daniel 3:23)
By the intervention of the deliverance of God, the burning could not bury the three friends by the fire.
The three friends turned to God, and the hand of God answered for their deliverance.
The flame and the agent of generating flame were consumed by their flame.
The three friends of Daniel walked out of the burning fire without any stain or smell of the fire.
God is still in the business of undeniable miracles if we do not look away from God.
Today, set eyes on God and see the salvation of God, which will answer for you today.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God against all that represents Pharaoh in your life.