FAITH CAPSULE: One who knows God will know to ask from God.

Hebrews 3

Moses knows God, not just to know about God.
Search yourself to ask if you know God or if you only know about God.
Knowing God opens one asking Him for His direction as a way of life.
One who will seek God, whether to run in the place of walking or running in the place of walking, cannot be a victim of falling in the journey of life.
For example, Moses needed direction from God when he prayerfully called on God, “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.” (Exodus 33:13)
Are you asking God for direction?
Know God that He is a caring God who waits for His creation and who has the desire to gain from His direction.
God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Know that the presence of God is the word of God.
John 1:1 informs all, “The word of God is God.”
Do you know about the word of God, or do you know God?
The majority of believers claim to know about God, not engage in the presence of God.
Such have the word of God at the tips of mouth, but not in the heart, to carry the presence of God.
Know God by studying the word of God to be carrying Him in the heart.
God shall not become known by accident but be known by studying His word or by His mercy.
God is unquestionable.
He cannot be a subject of questioning about why or how He arrives at having mercy for some.
Romans 9:15 records, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Know to pray (plead) for His mercy to know Him.
The presence of God is His word.
Psalm 138:2 makes it known that “God magnified His word above all His name.” 
Engage the word of God.
Have a place for Him in the heart.
One with a heart occupied by the word of God is one with a heart occupied by the presence of God.
One who goes with the presence of God is bound not to be a victim of the world but to know the way of God and excel to the glory of God.
God answered Moses when he asked for the way, “God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
With the presence of God is to gain His rest.
Rest for all is in the promise of God, not in the wicked world.
The rest of God gained will deliver the stability of God in the times of instability of the wicked world.
It is worthy to seek God diligently to gain the rest of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not live outside of the presence of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The truth of God never fails to wait for those who wait on Him.

Matthew 7 

The assurance in God is knowing the truth.
The truth of God is to wait on God without regret.
The truth of God does not disappoint to gain freedom.
One with the truth of God is on the side of the word of God that does not fail.
Jesus is the truth of God that never fails. (John 14:6)
Jesus spoke the truth to those who believe (not just the Jews), “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Abiding is to dwell in the word of God to gain knowledge of the truth of God. 
Knowledge is the application of wisdom. 
Understanding is listening to wisdom, which is instruction.
Jesus wants all to know the truth that will make free possible.
The truth of God is waiting on God to find Him.
What is it about waiting on God?
Waiting is not fun when there is no knowledge of the truth about waiting.
Waiting is a pain when it takes a long time to get an answer.
Waiting demands the patient to experience the manifestation of expectation.
The word testified to the truth of God will answer to those who call on Him. Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
In life, understanding to ask, seek, and knock shall be backed not to wait wasted.
The understanding of the truth will always act for those who wait on Him. Gain an understanding of the truth of Isaiah 64:4-5 that testifies, “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. You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways…” 
Isaiah 64:5 identifies three ways of truth that will activate God for one that waits on Him:
God meets with those who rejoice.
God meets with one that does righteousness.
God meets with those who remember His ways.
Apostle Paul knows the truth of waiting.
Waiting on God because He can do all things.
The word of God encourages all to remind Him concerning the work of His hand. (Isaiah 43:26)
The word of God is not just a story but a secret that will deliver the answer to a believer. 
A believer with knowledge of the truth of the word of God will know to wait on God with expectation without frustration. 
Wait on God.
God acts for those who wait on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open up your understanding of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: In waiting is looking up to God alone.

Psalm 91

Waiting on God is asking, seeking, and knocking for intervention.
Power belongs to God to intervene in the life of one who seeks Him.
God is a good God who cares for His creation and does not look away from those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “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.”
It is understanding to know and wait before God.
With the understanding of asking and knocking to seek God is not a time to be quiet.
God is a caring God, and He waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Jesus buttressed, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
There should be no frustration waiting on God.
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time will lead to frustration.
With frustration, rebellion and disobedience reign.
Psalm 91:15 states, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” (Psalm 91:15)
Knowing to call on God is a way to provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is a caring God.
God honors His word.
Isaiah 58:9  confirms the faithfulness of God, “Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
One thing God cannot do He cannot fail.
King David demonstrated calling and gaining the attention of God.
1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.”
It is the heart that trusts to remember the calling of God and will gain the attention of God.
David could not go to war without waiting on God.
Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, he repeatedly went and inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines.
One crying out to God is waiting on God.
With the bondage of over four hundred years, the Israelites cried to God, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8)
God does not fail.
Look up and ask from Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall endow you with knowledge and understanding at the time of waiting on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Crying out to God is reaching out to unfailing God.

John 11:1-44

Unfailing to pray quietly or loudly is loud crying before God.
Crying out to God is possible, not shedding tears.
Crying out to God is not only screaming at the top of the voice.
Are you crying outside of God for help?
Seeking help in times of challenge is before God alone.
Let your crying be rooted in the understanding that you are crying to God, not to anyone.
To be crying out loud or crying inside quietly is not hidden before God. With understanding, know to cry to God alone.
A schedule of prayer without failure before God is like crying out loud to God alone.
Without a doubt, crying out will always get the attention of God.
The question in the word of Psalm 94:9 points out the truth that God hears as stated: “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”  
God reverses irreversible.
God is the unchanging changer.
God is a caring God.
God will not look away from crying before Him.
In your crying before God, be encouraged by the word in Psalm 18:6, “In my distress, I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”
The Psalmist testifies to the calling out to God to get His attention.
Psalmist pleaded in Psalm 39:12, “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.”
Is your crying consistent to get the attention of God?
Are you too quiet when there is no need to be?
Are you too quiet not to be victorious?
The word encourages all, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”  
Crying out loud is not evidence of weakness but a demonstration of trust and hope in the word of God.
The understanding about David is the character of crying to God, knowing to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 55:16-17 buttressed, “As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.”
The testimony of David is evidence of crying out to God to gain His attention.
Praying is calling out to God all day, that will get the attention of heaven. A custom of praying day and night is the character of unfailing prayer before God.
To cry out when the need calls will provoke an answer on behalf of those with understanding, crying out to God.
Do not be quiet in your seeking God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek Him more than ever before.

FAITH CAPSULE: With understanding is to gain knowledge.

Hosea 4

With knowledge, commands in the word of God are possible to do.
Hosea 4:6  recorded, “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.”
One lack is lack is one not full.
It is how full of knowledge that will determine how far such will go with God in the journey of life.
Walking for God, walking with God, or before God is a way not to live a life of waste.
One who is not walking in the knowledge of God is taking a route of self-destruction in the wicked world.
Understanding is to gain the knowledge of God.
One who listens to the word will gain an understanding.
Are you listening to the word of God constantly or casually?
To listen is not to hear.
Hearing, and hearing (hearing repeatedly) is listening.
Jesus identified listening disability as the reason for the lack of understanding.
Rhetorically, Jesus asked and answered why there is a listening disability: “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8: 43)
Having understanding is a need to be full and not lack knowledge.
One who gains understanding in the word of God is bound not to become a victim of lacking knowledge but to have a knowing edge in the challenges of the world.
In the word of Jesus, it is glaring that lack of understanding is the disability to listen.
Without understanding is the result of disability in listening.
One with a lack of understanding cannot be living by the word of God
In the Bible, Jesus repeatedly gave all do-able directions for self-deliverance.
Jesus said, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41)
“Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.” (Mark 13:33)
“Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36)
Just like Jesus said, Paul also called for the importance of prayer:
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saint.” (Ephesians 6:18)
The book of 1 Peter 4:7 also recorded, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.” 
How is your prayer life? Are you serious about prayer?
Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer life for all, and Paul admonished the need for prayer as stated in
Acts 6:4, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Listen to gain an understanding of the word of God, and know to watch and pray for deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with understanding in the knowledge of His word.