FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know who you are before God.

Jeremiah 12

Identify or define who you are before God, who knows you.
Who are you before God?
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, sought to answer in His question from His disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” (Mark 8:27) 
The question by Jesus was not to evaluate Himself, but a lesson for all to be aware of who they are.    
On a serious note, who are you? 
Are you a believer, or an acclaimed believer that does not live by the word of God? 
Many claim to be a believer but have a mouth full of the word of God, with no heart for the word of God. Such is the character of wicked as Jeremiah 12:1-2 identifies, with a question of faith before God, stating, “Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.”
Does the word speak of you?
Does your life before God contradict what the world calls you to be, by how you live life?
Are you a Bible that people can read, or an acclaimed Bible that is not readable to anyone? 
The world is deceivable, but no one can deceive God. 
Many get promotions with titles before the world, but with no promotion before God. 
There are titles, but no task that counts before God.
Today, forget about your titles, live life for God, engaging in tasks that matter before God.
The individual should be able to answer the question as stated: “Who are you?”
Get to know who you are before God.
It is you before God that counts for you to the glory of God.
God cannot be deceived!
As the wickedness of the world is glaring to God, all should know not to live wicked before God.
Genesis 6:5 records the word of God, “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.”
Who are you?
You are not everyone; before God, each will answer to who they are before God.
Without a doubt, the walk, the stand, and where one sits are pointers of who one is before God.
Who are you in all endeavors?
Psalm 1:1 records, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1) 
When the word of God declares blessing, it is established in heaven and on earth. 
It is how one walks, sits, and stands that provokes the blessing of God.
Life is a journey.
Be conscious of who you surround yourself with, for it shall determine what you get out of life. 

Prayer for today: Pray to not live outside of the word of God but by the way of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The way of God is for life.

Seek God to know His way, His direction, not to live a life of waste.
The way of God is not an assumption but an assurance. 
Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Resume the way of God walking with or before Good.
Moses asked for direction without doubt, and not in complaint.
God responded to Moses for asking the way of God, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Going further this year, live by Isaiah 55:6, “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”
Among the points to give attention to, walking with or walking before is worth.
1. With faith to live by the way of God, is to ask God for the provision of direction in His way, not to fail His calling.
Know that every provision in redemption is only accessible by faith.
Live by the way of God, the word of God!
2. One who works on the ground of believers but walks not in the way (the word) is deceiving oneself.
3. Many claim to be a believer.
Claiming to be a believer and not abiding in His way is a joke, which is ceremonial religion. 
4. Do you have a desire to live by the way of God?
With desire, Moses and Gideon asked for the way of God.
The desire to pursue creates a purpose to be responsible and to walk with or before God.
Responsibility is the price for greatness.
5. Know to walk in the way or before God.
Which one are you?
Telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating are the same feathers, the character of not walking in the way of God, that will prevent one from arriving at a divine assignment.
6. Know to strive for the way of God.
Jesus said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” (Luke 13:24)
Preparation is crucial as a way of life.
7. One not prepared to find God will not encounter the presence of God.
Obedience to God as a way of life, an avenue not to miss His presence.
Silent or loud disobedience will prevent one from gaining heaven.
In the life journey, give attention to the word of God, the way of God, to gain and retain the presence of God. In answering the calling of God, in all endeavors, do not live a life of waste by not arriving at the calling of God.
John 14:6 records, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Ask that God enable you to live by His way, His word.
Prayer for today: Pray to live by the way of God.

THIS NEW SEASON

FAITH CAPSULE: In this new season, let your direction take over.

Exodus 33:12-23

Time belongs to God to live life by it, not by the clock of the world.
It is worthy to thank God for the grace of life this far.
In thanks to God is to pray before God to enable the new season, the time of the year, to live more by the way of God.
The way of God is in the direction of His word.
The word of God is God. (John:1:1)
God magnified His word above His name.
The word of God inhabits the way of God.
Obediently walking with God or walking before Him will not experience falling or failing in the life journey.
One who walks in the way of God lives life by the word of God.
To obediently live by the way of God is not to live a life of waste.
Genesis 5:24 testifies, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 6:9 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”
Genesis 17:1, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
To walk with God is to walk before God, not to live a life of waste.
Abraham walked before God, the character of one who is blameless.
It is one with a desire for God who will experience desire for God.
Evidently, to walk with or before God shall live life for the glory of God, to arrive at a divine assignment for life.
Are you in His way?
A believer should not live in ignorance, but in knowledge.
Know about is not knowing.
Knowing how to live in accordance with God’s way is to live for God.
In His way to lead, with obedience, there is a way to arrive at the calling of God without failing.
God calls all.
The calling of God for all is to live life for the glory of God. (Revelation 4:11)
The calling of God comes with direction.
Without direction for His calling, the called one will not walk by the way of God.
God called Moses, so all are called for different assignments, but all demand direction.
One who answers to the calling of God should not assume but ask to know the way of God.
For example, know how to ask for the way of God.
Moses asked God without doubt, and not in complaint.
God responded to Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
God is a good God who will answer when His children know to ask with understanding.
In the life journey, give attention to the word of God, the way of God, to gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live by His way, His word.

FAITH PRESCRIPTION: The going of God is leading you in His way.

Judges 6

Is God going with you?
In your endeavor, do you know if God will go with you?
In the calling of God over your life, do you care to know if God is going with you at the juncture of your calling?
In His way to lead, with obedience, there is a way to arrive at the calling of God without failing.
Moses needed to know the way, not to fail, alter, or fall.
Moses, despite his experiences, asked God to receive, and he received from God.
He needed to know for sure how God was going to go with him.
Moses asked God, “Then Moses said to the Lord, ‘See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 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. And consider that this nation is Your people.” (Exodus 33:12-13)
Moses asked God without doubt, and not in complaint.
How are you asking God to know how He is going with you?
God responded to the question of Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God is a good God who will answer when His children know how to ask with understanding.
Once, the Israelites were suffering at the hands of the Midianites.
While Gideon was in the business of preparing to hide from the hand of the Midianites, the Angel of the Lord showed up to Gideon, saying, “…The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!”(Judges 6:12)
Gideon responded to the word of God, stating,  “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” (Judges 6:13)
Just like Moses, with understanding, Gideon was not in doubt but was asking with understanding.
Asking with understanding is asking with faith.
With humility, he wanted to know if he was competent enough to be the servant of God, the calling of God.
Gideon was so humble when he responded to the assurance of God, stating,“…O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” (Judges 6:15)
The last response of Gideon prompted God to promise, stating, “…Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.” (Judges 6:16)
What God will not do is, He will not fail to answer one who seeks His way.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to ask with understanding.