FAITH CAPSULE: Joseph answered the calling of God without knowing.

Genesis 37

In the journey of life, there is a calling of God for all His creation.
Engaging in calling demands commitment.
Answering with the commitment is to commit to God alone.
In the word of God is wisdom not to commit unto no one.
John 2:24 records, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.”  
In answer to the calling of God, it is possible to work with one but commit to no one as Jesus did.
God is the Creator of all and sees before or beyond all that answering called in journey.
In the calling, there is a plan of God to set the call up to arrive at the center of divine assignment, focusing and being faithful.
When God calls, there will be no prior arrangement or announcement before the calling.
When God calls, there will be no baggage to hinder or slow one down. Calling will break before the blessing.
As you journey, do you know where you are?
Joseph traveled an unexpected journey with an unknown and painful route to becoming gainful in the hand of God. 
The calling of God broke Joseph before the manifestation of the blessing over his life.
Joseph answered the calling of God without knowing it was the calling of God.  
At age 17, Joseph answering the errand of Jacob (his father) was the path to the center of the calling of God over his life.
Jacob said, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14)
When Joseph answered Jacob, he entered into his divine assignment without preparation for the calling.
Psalm 105:17-22 records Joseph as the answer to the calling by God, “He sent a man before them Joseph who was sold as a slave.” They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. “Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.”  
Since the age of 17, Joseph (Genesis 37:2)could not see his beloved father until he was 30 years of age. (Genesis 41:46)
When God calls to send you, self-control shall be out of your control.
When He called Joseph, he became a slave; he could no longer move at his own will or self-control.
Joseph came under the authority which he could not control.
Joseph, in his journey, remained focused on God and graduated from price slave to become a prime minister.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to be established over your life to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The calling of God can be painful at the initial stage.

Revelation 4:11

God creates all for His calling.
The calling of God goes through a process for His purpose.
God alone created all for His glory and His honor. Revelation 4:11 buttressed, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.”
What is it that you do not understand about God?
He alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days.
1 Timothy 6:15 describes God, “which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” God alone is above and beyond all as Psalmist said it right, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10)
God will make and un-make.
God is the unchanging changer.
God alone will reverse the irreversible.
No one creates self.
In the journey of life is the calling of God to exist for His glory.
To exist for His glory is the task to engage, to arrive at the divine assignment.
In life, the journey is a process for His purpose.
When God calls you, and you are not connected to God, to continually concentrate on the calling of God is the track to become far from God.
In the calling of God, dwelling in His call and abiding in His direction is the evidence to be connected with God continually answering the calling of God.
God has a calling for all with different assignments.
God created all for His purpose, for His glory.
God is worthy to receive glory, honor, and power.
He created all things to exist. (Revelations 4:11)
Whatever God calls you for, or when He calls you for His purpose, to send you will mark you as a candidate for His blessing.
The calling of God can be painful at the initial stage.
However, the blessing is in place.
Be obedient. Do not miss the blessing of God.
The breaking of God at the calling will make one to be blessed.
His breaking comes along with His blessing.
The breaking of Jesus is a blessing for the believers who live for Him.
In the time of His calling, the one that answered will never leave broken.
When God called Lot and his family for salvation, the wife of Lot looked outside of the direction of God, for her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God does not come without challenges.
Regardless of challenges, there is the promise of God to see one through in His calling. The word of God promised in 1 Thessalonian 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Deny doubt!
Doubt will discourage one from arriving at the calling of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for your faith in answering Him not to be a failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: What God cannot do is to fail.

Psalm 47

In seeking God, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding shall provoke the hand of God to experience the goodness of God.
What one does to seek God with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding shall be back with power to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 47:7 states, “Praise God with understanding.”
As the word of God asks for understanding in praising God, so there is a need for understanding in every way of seeking God.
In praying before God, there is a need for understanding.
In life, the level of understanding one possesses shall determine how far one goes with God.
Growing in understanding of God is a way to grow, knowing God.
Prayer demands understanding.
Pray with understanding, not to pray amiss.James 4:3 admonishes all, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Prayer is seeking God diligently to find God.
Prayer time is not a parade time to impress man but to provoke the hand of God for His favor of goodness. 
Prayer is a labor that is not for one with the spirit of laziness. 
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that God will not ignore prayer before Him.
Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”  
Prayer should be a continual engagement.
With prayer, God answers yes or no and waits.
Apostle Paul testifies about prayer.
Acts 6:4 records, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Repeatedly, Jesus requests praying and watching.
From the Old Testament to the New Testament, watching and praying repeatedly emphasize our learning as the Bible said in Romans 15:4, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
For example:
1. Nehemiah 4:9 records, “Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them, we set a watch against them day and night.”
2. Matthew 26:41 states, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”
3. Mark 13:33 states, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
4. Luke 21:6, “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.”
5. Ephesians 6:8, “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—”
6. 1 Peter 4:7, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
At every ground of praying is to seek God prayerfully and be backed with expectation for manifestation.
One thing God cannot do He cannot fail.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give heed to your prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Wait for God to prevail is inevitable.

Matthew 6

Prevailing to gain from God, to excel by the grace of God, inhabits waiting on God.
Are you waiting on God?
Do you know about waiting on God at the tip of lips?
Do you know to wait on God unfailing to gain the attention of God?
Without any doubt, God is a caring God.
God waits to act for anyone who waits for Him. (Acts 64:4)
Wait on God to gain His healing word of direction, not to become wasted in a challenging world.
Know that to be alive today is not by right but by the privilege of God. 
Day after day, week after week, month after month is a privilege of God.
Not knowing God is worrying instead of living by the word of God. Matthew 6:25-27 speaks to all, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?  
Give to the word of God, pay attention to the warning against worrying, and be patient waiting on God. 
God will not deny sincere attention to His word but always attend to such waiting on Him. 
Be encouraged by waiting on the promise of God. 
Isaiah 30:18 states, “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for Him.”  
God is waiting for those who wait on Him. 
Without any doubt, there is no record of any who waits on God and becomes wasted. 
The bondage of over four hundred years of the Israelites in the land of Egypt could not deny the visitation of salvation by God over the Israelites. 
Wait for God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
Know to prevail by waiting on God for His open hand in your direction.
The Bible testifies to the open hand of God. 
Psalm 104:28 points out, “What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.”
Psalm 145:16, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” 
It does not matter how long you have been waiting, but it does matter that in waiting, wait only on Him and be of good courage.
This month, with faith, expect to experience a new song to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the grace of God shall enable your waiting before God and that His goodness and mercy not expire over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer is a labor that is not for one with the spirit of laziness. 

Daniel 6

Give life to prayer before God.
Let your prayer be consistent, knowing there is no other
Seeking God diligently will lead to finding God, and fervent prayer is seeking God to gain the presence of God.
Prayer time is not a parade time to impress man but to provoke the hand of God for His favor of goodness. 
Prayer is a labor that is not for one with the spirit of laziness. 
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that God will not ignore prayer before Him.
Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”  
Ask for engaging in laborious prayer as a way of life, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
A prayer-less is not possible to prevail in the wicked world.
Prayer should be a continual engagement.
With prayer, God answers yes or no and waits.
Are you seeking God prayerfully? Are your expectations for manifestation delayed?
God answers prayer.
With faith, patiently wait on God to experience God.
Engaging in prayer time is not convenient, it is labor with commitment.
Do you have a prayer life?
Is your prayer consistent with commitment?
Daniel demonstrated what it takes to be committed to praying before God. 
Daniel had a heart for God.
As a young one, he purposed heart not to defile God, the character of a prayer vessel.
The life of a believer who lives by the word of God is the target of the wicked of the world.
Daniel is an example of who lives for God.
The life of Daniel is evidence that giving to God in prayer is bound to overcome. Daniel resolved to pray consistently to prevail.
Daniel was a prayer vessel.
Daniel 6:10 records, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
Custom prayer was the life of Daniel, making the way of life to become one that overcomes challenges.
When Daniel became targeted for an untimely death in the den of lions, his prayer delivered him from the victim of wickedness.
The prayer of Daniel was the frustration of his enemies.
The praying of Daniel denied an untimely death over his life.
Daniel prevailed because he was a praying vessel.
There is no substitute for praying to provoke the move of God.
In the pages of the Bible, living a life of prayer is evidence that God answers.
Apostle Paul testifies about prayer.
Acts 6:4 records, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Prayer for today: Ask that praying with commitment before God shall be your way of life.