FAITH CAPSULE: No one should not afford to live life foolishly. 

1 Samuel 13

Foolishness is a sin before God, but God does not tolerate sin.
It takes a foolish-minded one to take a position as a speaker for a forum that claims there is no God.  
Psalm 14:1 buttressed, “The fool has said in his heart that “there is no God” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.” 
One that says in the heart that there is no God is such that speaks it from the mouth that there is no God. 
Jesus buttresses, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.” (Matthew 12:34-35) It is always evil to say there is no God. Often, it is an action that reveals a foolish one, not only what utters from the mouth.
Are you saying there is no God by your verbal communication, body language, or the company you relate with?
The word will point out who the foolish is.
The foolish ones have all turned aside, not serving the Lord God.
The foolish ones engage in corrupt and dishonest practices, such as bribery, and lack integrity.
The foolish ones do not do good but evil in approach and live in sin and iniquity.
Does any of the above sound like you? 
No one should not afford to live life foolishly. 
Living life in the wicked world of today demands a constant answer not to be foolish. 
The world is wicked. 
Genesis 6:5 testifies, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”  
Without a doubt, it takes a foolish mind to embrace the wicked world. 
As a believer, how do you answer to a foolish world? 
A believer must be with wisdom, not to be foolish. 
Foolishness is a sin, and sin does nothing but destroy. 
One with the life of a sinner is far away from God.
Saul became a sinner by his act when he offered the burnt offering not belonging to the King but to a priest. 
In a time of war against the Philistines, Saul could not wait for Samuel to sacrifice. 
At the arrival of Samuel, Saul gave an excuse for his foolishness while his act was foolishness to have engaged in offering. 
Samuel responded to the foolish act of Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you.” (I Samuel 13:13)
In engaging the wicked world, avoid foolish excuse that amounts to sin before God. 
Foolishness is a sin before God and will deny sinners from seeing God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be delivered from foolish engagement and not to miss the presence of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not become a victim of distraction.

Genesis 11:27-32, Acts 7:1-8

Distraction is a deterrent that prevents one from arriving at the calling of God, the center of divine assignment.
Distraction is a reducer bound to reduce its victim.
Distraction is not of God but the evil to silently cause and lead to untimely or sudden termination of life.
Distraction can sneak into the life of its victim.
It will delay or deny one to gain and retain the presence of God.
An agent of distraction can be the closest one, whether far or near, and such an agent can be known or unknown to the victim of distraction.
What is your distraction?
Prayerfully is to be detached from a known or unknown agent of distraction physically or spiritually.
Imagine the documentation of Terah, the father of Abram (Abraham).
Terah was living in Ur of the Chaldeans when he set to go to the land of Canaan with his family.
When Terah arrived at Haran, distractions derailed going forward, not going to Canaan.
Genesis 11:32 records, “So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”
Terah was a victim of distraction and did not arrive at the desired location.
Terah was not aware of his distraction.
God appeared to Abraham to move Terah to Canaan. (Acts 7:2)
Terah stopped at Haran, which could be the distraction of reluctance.
Worshipping of the moon in Ur was the same at Haran to prompt Terah to stop at Haran until he died.
The mourning of Haran, the son of Terah, is also a reason to move to Canaan before stopping at the city of Haran, where Terah died.
FACTORS OF DISTRACTION THAT DERAIL ARE EVIDENT IN THE LIFE OF TERAH ARE:
Terah was reluctant and did not focus going forward, and the desire for change was not.
Terah was reluctant, not wanting to move from Ur because the call to move forward went to Abram.
Terah could not focus on moving away from the place of worship. At Ur to Haran, worshipped the moon as in Ur.
Terah could not let go of Ur till he died at Haran.
The drive that moved Tearh from Ur at the death of his son must have died down when he got to Haran.
Prayer is a key to locking out the force of distraction.
Ask that the spirit of reluctance that procrastinates to derail moving forward shall not have a place in your life.
Ask that every force that distracts one not to move for the glory of God be terminated in your life.
Ask the force that denies focus, an agent of distraction, to be crushed and not exist in all your ways of life.
Terah could not let go of Ur till he died at Haran.
Ask that goodness and mercy shall deliver you from sudden death rooted in distraction.
Ask that any expected or unexpected issue with the capacity to distract physically or spiritually shall not locate you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The eyes that open are bound to see all.

Genesis 15

See, look, or behold is the language that God often uses to call the attention of anyone He calls to be sent or point to His promise.
For example, after the separation of Abram from Lot, the Lord told Abram, “For all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.” (Genesis 13:15)
Abram was to see the promise of expectation in the word of God. 
When God wanted to give His promise to Abram for what He would do, God commanded Abram, ” Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” (Genesis 15:5)
Abram look to God in His word, to wait, to experience what God called him to look at.
In the place of lack, the Israelites complained negatively about the lack of food. God spoke to Moses, “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. ” (Exodus 16:4)
To see is to behold. God wanted the Israelites to look at their provision when there was none.
See, look, or behold is the language that God used to gain the attention of all.
With faith, see, look, or behold in every word of God to gain from God.
Anyone who comes across the word of God asking to see, look, or behold is to believe to receive and become what is directed by God.
Abram saw in the word of God what He is in place to claim.
Abram looked to experience the word of God.
The Israelites behold the word of God to gain the provision of God.
The word of God is God.
One who sees, looks, or beholds the word of God as it sounds in their direction is the evidence of faith.
Demonstrating faith is what pleases God to manifest.
His word is not a nonliving is alive to visit anyone in a position for God to be visited, for His agenda.
The pages of the Bible record the word of God moving to locate some.
Genesis 15:1 records, “After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.”
Jonah 1:1, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai.”
The word God is living and will locate anyone as the Lord desires it to be.
Hebrews 4:12 informs all, “For the word of God is living.”
As a believer, live to hear and see God in His word.
The life of Job documented evidence of the need to see God in His word.
One thing is to be hearing with the ear and not see God in His word.
Job testifies for the learning, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5)
A heart that the eyes opened is bound to see all from God, to live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Pray for the opening of the eyes of your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: The only thing God cannot do is He cannot fail.

Acts 3

God cannot fail, not fall or falter, but attends to one that waits on Him.
Only God inhabits eternity, and His mercy endures forever. 
God is the eternal surgeon and provides for the needy.
The grace of life is not by right but a privilege of God.
To be alive today is not a merit but a mercy of God. 
Gracious God will turn frustration into celebration, stagnation into motion, and God alone will convert mockery into a miracle. 
The servant of Elisha could only see stagnation crowding him and Elisha in the face of the enemy.
2 Kings 6:14-15 records about Elisha and his servant, “…horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”The servant of Elisha saw fear when he reported to his master when he could not see an escape from the enemy. 
The servant of Elisha gave himself to fear.
As a prophet of God, Elisha knows to behold God in times of challenges. 
Elisha responded to his servant in fear of the enemy, “So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 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.” (2 Kings 6:16-17)
The prayer of Elisha opened the eyes of his servants to see that the hands of God were in place against the enemy. 
Are you in a situation causing you to behold the enemy?
Know that the miracle of God is on your side.
Keep looking up to God.
Lameness can be a mockery. 
A lame man who is limited in motion needed a miracle in the place of his mockery. 
Acts 3:2 states, “…certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.”
Begging for alms was the portion of a lame man. 
The lame man desired to come out of lameness. 
Mockery to miracle demands attention with expectation. 
The lame man gave attention with expectation as Peter said, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.”(Acts 3:6-8)
God is yesterday, today, and forever. 
For your miracle, behold with expectation for manifestation.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled by beholding God in all situations.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Do you know His name, not deniable?

Exodus 6

God is the unchangeable God.
He is the only God.
He reverses reversible.
God alone was in the beginning; He is the same God that will be beyond forever.
Without any doubt, God shares a name with none. 
He is the Almighty, the King of kings, the eternal rock of ages. 
Exodus 24:17 describes God, “The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.”
Hebrews 12:29 buttresses, “For our God is a consuming fire.”
Pharaoh, with the stone of heart, rejected the request of God for the release of the children of Israel as he turned to Israelites with extra labor. 
The expectation of the freedom of Israel in the hand of Pharaoh was with pain from the command for the taskmasters to inflict more labor on the people. 
Moses wanted to know why God added trouble to the children of Israel. God responds to Moses with the assurance of His strong hand that the Israelites shall become free to go. 
God introduced His name to Moses, “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: ’I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD I was not known to them.’” (Exodus 6:2-3)
Are you asking, seeking, and knocking in times of trouble? 
Call out the name of God against challenges.
Are you attempting to lead the Spirit of God or allowing the leader of the Spirit of God over your life?
The word admonishes all, “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)
Concerning challenges, call the name of God by asking, seeking, and knocking. 
Asking, seeking, and knocking is approaching with expectation. 
All should know asking in the name of God is the all-inclusive way to become an over-comer. 
God answers to redeem the caller from bondage. 
A caller of the name of God shall be delivered and become preserved, one that calls to wait on Him.
To call on the name of God will cause God to visit with salvation.
Do you know His name? 
Today, know that “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.”(Proverbs 18:10)
The name of God brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
God alone was in the beginning; He is the same God that will be beyond forever. 
Psalm 148:13 records, “Let them praise the name of the Lord, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heaven.”
His name is the LORD!

Prayer for today: Ask God for the understanding to be calling on His name indeed and in truth.