FAITH CAPSULE: Seeing in the word of God is to receive from God.

Joshua 6

Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
God sent His word for a declaration to decorate one quoting and not live by the word.
Claiming the word of God for deliverance will open the entrance of the word of God to experience manifestation.
Psalm 119:130 states, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
When there is understanding for the one with the word of God, there will be a knowing edge in the face of challenges.
Without a doubt, just a word that enters one is enough to terminate a life struggle or make way for the receiver of the word of God.
God promised the Israelites to take them to the Promised Land, but the enemy stood against them at a point in the journey.
The enemy shut open passage. The Israelites needed to hear the word of God as direction to have open doors for passage to the Promised Land.
Joshua 6:1-2 records, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.  And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.”
Without a doubt or questioning, with faith, Joshua received the word of God that granted Israelites a passage.
Until one begins to see the word of God, it becomes impossible to receive the promise of God.
Receive the word of God with understanding to have a knowing edge over challenge.
God spoke to Jeremiah, and he needed to see in the spoken word of God to answer for God in his life.
Jeremiah 1:10-12 records the word of God to Jeremiah, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree. Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.” God wanted to perform in the life of Jeremiah for His glory, but Jeremiah must be able to see in the word of God.
Jeremiah saw and lived for the glory of God.
Faith will make one see in the word of God for deliverance and preservation.
Faith is the key to going further and not faltering, regardless of any challenging situation.
Seeing in the word of God is to receive the word becomes of such who see in the word.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to listen to gain understanding to see the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Lifting eyes to God is asking from God.

Genesis 22

Having faith prompts lifting eyes to God.
Lifting eyes to God is asking from God.
One faith will please God.
If faith is the way to please God, without faith displeases God.
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith it is impossible to please him…”
Psalmist asked God, “I will lift my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help?” (Psalm 121:1)
Where or to whom have you been lifting your eyes?
In this wicked time, there is every reason, every moment lifting eyes to God by asking for direction.
Getting direction from God is certain to arrive at the destination and not become a victim of the evil agenda of this wicked world.
Lifting eyes to God is to move in the direction of the divine assignment of God.
Abraham was asking God by lifting his eyes to God.
He lifted his eyes in the direction when there was a need for support from above.
Indeed, it is an act of faith to know that lifting to God will enable one not to miss the blessing of God.
For Abraham, he walked past the ram that was in place for the sacrifice.
Genesis 22:13, “Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”
Abraham walked past a ram available for his burnt offering instead of his son.
One lifting to God is the reason for not expecting help from another source.
Lifting eyes to God demonstrates the love and the fear of God.
In the life journey, who are you looking up to?
From the depth of your heart, allow God to be the only God to look up to.
The love of Abraham for God means his fear of God.
Abraham served God with all his heart, with all his soul.
God asked for the son of Abraham, his only son, and his love for burnt offerings.
Abraham could not withhold his son from the request of God.
As Abraham was about to use his son Isaac as a burnt offering to God, he heard from God stating, “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)
God discerns the heart; He knows all heart, and all the heart is in His hands.
In the journey of this wicked world, make it your way of life to be lifting eyes to God and ask for direction.
Abraham had uncommon testimonies because he walked with God for direction.
Give it all to God by looking up to Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that lifting your eyes to God for direction shall be your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus will arrest at His will. 

Acts 9

Celebrating the birth of Jesus without surrendering to the word of God is not complete but is living a wasted life.
Apostle Saul (Paul) was an illustrious murderer of followers of Christ.
On his journey, he surrendered to Christ, and his name changed to Paul, titled Apostle Paul.
He became a celebrated writer of the New Testament.
Apostle Paul was the writer of most of the New Testament.
Paul surrendered to Jesus despite his passion to go after followers of Christ to persecute them.
By your words or actions, are you surrendered to Christ, not a persecutor of the followers of Christ?
Are you an acclaimed believer of God but not surrendered to Him?
Your surrendering for Christ is coming.
Paul went after the followers of Christ to persecute them when the Spirit of God arrested him.
Acts 9:1-2 documented, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”
Saul (Paul) was full of threats and murder agenda against the disciples of the Lord.
He had permission from the high priest to the synagogues of Damascus to find the man or woman and bind them to Jerusalem.
Interestingly, he lost sight and became surrendered unto Jesus.
Saul (Paul) was a serious-minded persecutor of the followers of Christ as he went outside of his area looking for followers of Christ to persecute. Saul’s mission to Damascus encountered the power he surrendered to. From persecutor to a propagator of the kingdom of God’s business became the identity of Paul (Saul).
Without a doubt, no man under heaven is above God’s redirection.
God’s direction will reverse the irreversible.
The agenda of Saul brought him to Damascus when “…suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.” (Acts 9:3)
In the light shone, Saul (Paul) encountered, to become surrendered to Jesus.
Saul (Paul) trembled but requested from the Lord what to do for the Lord. 
The Bible records Saul’s surrender, “Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.” (Acts 9:8-9)
After Saul’s surrender to Christ, Saul (Paul) gained a new sight; he took steps to serve God; Saul answered to a new name (Paul). God will put you to surrender in His time.
Man can run and will not hide for the only Creator of man.
God will arrest man in His time and in His way. 
Surrender to Jesus to live a life of celebrating Him continually  

Prayer for today: Pray that you live life to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Asking will deliver answering as a solution to a question.

Daniel 3

The book of Matthew 7:7-8 informs, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”  
The word of Jesus informs all there is no unfailing answer.
The responses for answering, seeking, or knocking are YES, WAIT, or NO.
Are you waiting for an answer to your asking, seeking of knocking?
Do you know to wait for an answer without giving up not to gain expectations?
The key to waiting is to wait patiently.
David testifies to his waiting experience before God, stating, “I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.” (Psalmm 40:1)
In the New Testament, James gave an analogy of waiting patiently on waiting for expectation before God.
James 5:7 records, “Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.”
Know to be waiting patiently to get an answer from God.
What is stopping you from asking from God?
Can it be that you are asking from God in doubt?
One with boldness and character in the word of God will know to ask from God and not doubt but receive from God.
The three friends of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, had the knowledge of God in His word that built boldness and character to ask with expectation.
When three friends refused to serve or worship the gold image, marked with an untimely death by the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, the word of God answered for them as a garment of deliverance.
Daniel 3:16-18 records, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.  But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” The answer to the three friends prompted deliverance from death in the burning fiery fire.
In life, asking will deliver an answer.
How are you asking from God in your time of challenges?
Are you asking wrongly?
The Bible makes all realize the possibility of asking wrongly. James 4:3 states, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Three friends asked by seeking God for His glory in their deliverance.
Asking of three friends delivered them from untimely and sudden death in a burning fire as the unbeliever Nebuchadnezzar testified the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Pray to be praying from the depth of your heart, by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is a caring God and is worthy to wait on Him.

Matthew 7

In waiting, ask, seek, and knock persistently for God’s appointed time to experience the opening of God in your manifestation for expectation.
Waiting on God is not a waste of time, but believing in the word of God. The Word of God might sound foolish but do not fail in God.
It is the word of God to ask, seek and knock.
Asking, Seeking, and Knocking for an answer from God is evidence of having faith in God and looking up to Jesus. Hebrews 12:2 records, “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Jesus is the author of our faith, has given to all the way to receive by stating, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Waiting on God demands trusting and hoping by asking, seeking, and knocking before the manifestation of expectation. When there is no waiting on God, man always rushes away from God’s answer and turns to waste.
King Saul could not wait as instructed for him to receive his expectation.
To obey and wait is to trust and hope in God. Saul could not wait on God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God.
Psalmist admonishes, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3)
A believer in God must understand waiting before God.
Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.
God testifies about David when Saul fails to wait on God. God spoke to Saul’s disobedience through Samuel, “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14)
David knows the heart of God and understands what it means as he consistently obeys God by waiting on God before making his moves.
The Bible records about a prodigal son who could not wait for God’s timing, “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.” (Luke 15:11-13)
Younger son could not wait for the appointed time to receive the good that fell to him.
Indirectly, the prodigal son moves outside of the timing of God for his life.
Ask, seek, and knock persistently for God’s appointed time.

Prayer for today: Ask that the understanding and strength to wait on God shall be your portion.