FAITH CAPSULE: The fear of God rooted in love for God seeks God diligently.

Deuteronomy 6

John 1:1-3 records, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”
The Word of God is the work of God. 
Without the Word of God, nothing is made.
The Word of God is His command.
Among the purpose of His command is stated in Deuteronomy 6:1-3, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” 
The command of God is to instill fear to obey God. 
TO FEAR GOD IS TO LOVE GOD. 
Fear God to obey Him.
One with the fear of God will gain the understanding of meditating on the Word of God to observe and do accordingly.
Failure to obey God is not to fear Him. 
God expects all to love Him. 
Deuteronomy 6:5 states, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”  
Sin and sinning are rooted in disobedience. 
Without a doubt, sin came to be through failure to eat one tree out of the trees in the Garden of Eden. 
Genesis 2:16-17 records, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  
Adam and Eve engaged in a blatant act of disobedience with no reasonable excuse but a consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin. 
God wants all to love Him with all heart, soul, and all strength. 
Abraham is an example of one who loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God. 
Obedience to the Word of God is the fear in God, the creator of all.
It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back. 
At age seventy-five, leaving behind a comfortable environment with no child is evidence of the fear of God and obedience to the command of God.
Word of God testified to the fear of Abraham in Genesis 22:12 “…Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12) 
How are you serving Him with all your love? 
True love for God is to have fear for God.
Moving forward from this moment, the fear of God rooted in love for God shall enable one to serve God diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask God so that your heart shall retain to obey the Word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is faithful, and He will honor His word. 

Numbers 14

The evidence of the doing of God is in His testimony.
One that gives to the doing of God takes the position of experiencing the blessing of God.
One who shares what the Lord God has done, He is doing, and one who listens to hear the doing of God are keeping the testimony of God.
Testimony is an open declaration or profession of faith.
The testimonies of God will transport a believer to a ground of transformation. 
All that the children of Israel needed for their transportation through their wilderness journey was the testimonies of God to keep them from complaining against God. 
Are you complaining or testifying about what God has done?
The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years.
Are you experiencing a time of wandering where you are to be a wonder to your world?
A failure to keep the testimony of God is evidence of not remembering God for what He has done.
For the Israelites, complaint replaced testimony.
The acts of complaints against God trapped them in the wilderness. 
The act of complaining is evidence of not keeping the testimony of God. 
Due to their never-ending complaining against what God was doing in their life, God responds in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
While the Israelites were in Egypt, God showed them mighty signs, but they could not meditate to keep His testimony.
Why not constantly meditate on His testimonies? 
The Psalmist identifies the blessing of God as keeping the testimonies of God.  Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!” 
Keeping His testimonies is setting oneself up to serve God and not rebel by complaining.
The testimonies of God are the things of God, the evidence of what God can do.
His testimonies are worthy of mediation. 
The testimony of God is what is needed to plead for the case before God. Isaiah 45:26 states, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
Do you have any testimony to remind God when presenting your case before God to gain His favor?  
In your challenge, state your case by referring to what God has done and what He can do.
Meditate on testimonies of God to provoke your faith in Him.  

Prayer for today: Ask that the help of God will enable keeping His testimony constant.

FAITH CAPSULE: Cry to God, not to man, for your desire for a change.

Exodus 2

Are you with a desire for a change in the area of life?
What exactly is the change you desire?
Do you know what change is?
Change is the act of transformation or substituting of one situation for another. 
Desire for the best by waiting for your change before God.
All should always look for a better condition in the life of journey.
When the Israelites began to feel pain in the hands of Pharaoh and his people, the need for change began to press on the Israelites. 
Exodus 2:23-25 records, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledge them.” 
The Israelites needed a change when they cried to God.
Cry to God, not to man, for your desire for a change.
Crying to God is not evidence of weakness but an expression of expectation. 
God heard the crying of the Israelites and remembered them, but the change did not answer immediately. 
Are you waiting on God prayerfully for a change?
Know that change will only come at the appointed time of God.
You have indeed been waiting for quite some time but have nothing to show for your waiting. 
Delay is all you are experiencing in the place of expectation for change, and know that delay is not a denial. 
Delay is possibly the device of the enemy to frustrate your expectations when waiting on God. 
Ignore delay, but lay your request for a change at the feet of the Master. In the life journey, experiencing being delayed in expectation will prompt discouragement.
Discouragement provokes complaints. 
The complaint is an act of rebellion. 
In waiting for your change, disallow discouragement and complaint before God.
Without complaint, rebellion will have no place in you.
Worrying is like a parasite that will eat into one quietly when change seems to be slow in coming forth. 
Deal with worry by engaging in worshiping God. 
Worship God by praising and giving Him thanks to God regardless of manifestation or not.
Give thanks to God for all things, and all things will work for good.
As you wait for a change, be conscious that your acts communicate before God.
Do not doubt regarding your expectation for change.
Doubt will prompt you to have a backup plan for your expectations. 
However, in faith, there is no backup plan. 
The backup plan is a lack of faith, and God is not pleased when there is no faith. (Hebrews 11:6) 
Live life to please God while you are waiting on Him for your expected change. 
Your change shall come.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be patient and persist in waiting on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One can run or attempt to avoid the calling of God, but no one can hide from the calling of God. 

2Kings 9:1-13

At the appointed time for your promotion, God will put someone in a position to activate your promotion.
For example, Jehu was only a commander in the army of Ahab at the time God called Jehu to become the King of Israel.
God calls it is for man to obey His calling.
God alone qualifies you for His calling.
God qualifies the calling of Jehu with no prior announcement or qualification for the calling of Jehu.
The calling over the life of Jehu was not by the way of the world but by the way of God.
In the calling of Jehu, there was no indication of what the calling 
was for Jehu. 
In the life journey, your elevation will come just like it went and located Jehu. 
One can run or attempt to avoid the calling of God but no one can hide from the calling of God.
Elisha sent one of the prophets to go and anoint Jehu with oil as the King of Israel. 
2 Kings 9:2 records, “Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room.” 
Jehu rose from among his associates to become the head among his associates. 
There is the calling of God in His appointment time.
Interestingly, Jehu did not pray to ask for the calling over his life because his calling was glaring.
Did God call you?
The calling of Jehu was not his idea.
Jehu did not struggle or take any stand of opposition before the anointing came unexpectedly to lift him above and beyond his associates. 
The call of Jehu was from God, and his associates could not resist nor reject him as the King. 
Have you received the calling of God unexpectedly when not expected to be called the King?
When God calls you with promotion, He will put people in a position to dress you and not reject you. 
God will be for you in His calling for your life.
2 Kings 9:13 records, “Then each man hastened to take his garment and put it under him on the top of the steps; and they blew trumpets, saying, “Jehu is king!” 
Jehu was dressed and received with the blast of trumpets and a loud announcement of his new position. 
God is a great God.
He is still in the business of extending favor, mercy, grace, and blessings. Let no situation or condition dictate to you or discourage you from what you can become or what you cannot become. 
God, the lifting lifter, will lift you above your associates in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to give attention to God by studying His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Your story will change for good to the glory of God. 

Judges 11

The story of Jephthah is evidence that challenging stories are changeable for good.
Jephthah is a Hebrew name that means “he opens” or “to be free”. It may also signify “Yahweh will open”.
Jephthah the Gileadite had a but in his life that reduced him before his world.
Before God.
Jephthah was a mighty man of valor but a son of a harlot. He was chased out of his father because he was born by another woman. 
The challenges of life can be out of the control of its owner.
The challenge before Jephthah was outside of his control.
What is your challenge?
Life is a journey, and it has ups and downs.
Life demands wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of God, not to live a life of waste.
The journey of life demands unfailing faith and patience.
Faith with patience is like the key to the ignition vehicle of the life journey.
Wait, watch, and see what the Lord will do to your case. 
Regarding Jephthah, after being chased out by his people, the children of Israel came back to him for help. 
When God intervenes, the situation will change for the glory of God.
During the confrontation with the enemies, the children of Israel needed a commander. 
The elders of Gilead had to go and seek Jephthah for help.
Can you imagine how your story will change for the glory of God? 
The book of Judges 11:6 records, “Then they said to Jephthah, ‘Come and be our commander, that we may fight against the people of Ammon.’” 
The world can condemn you, but God has His way of redeeming you.
Jephthah was a son of a harlot.
He was driven out by his brothers, now being sought to be a leader. Jephthah responds in Judges 11:7, “So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and expel me from my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” 
The same God set up a situation for Jephthah to become redeemed by getting a call from his people.
With his calling, he rose above and beyond where he was before being expelled.
God is in a position to turn the story for His glory.
The name of God should become glorified over His creation.
God can never be too late or too soon.
God will show up in your situation at His divine timing. 
Jephthah the Gileadite accepted the assignment to deliver victory for his people over the enemies.
The children of Israel were victorious by the leadership of the rejected one.
Jephthah did not just lead as a commander but became the head because of victory over the enemy by his hand. 
Jephthah the Gileadite had a but in his life that reduced him before his world, not before God. 
Your story will change for good to the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that your story will change for good to the glory of God.