FAITH CAPSULE: Know to do right to prepare.

Mark 14:12-26

Thanking God should be continuous to provoke His visitation to bless.
Waiting to be convenient before thanking God is not enough.
Make it a way of thanking God at all times for all things.
Thanking for all things is what makes all things work together for the glory of God.
Thank God continuously, not on a particular day of the year.
Thanking God is praising God.
Prayerfully meditate by asking for strength and understanding, thanking God as a way of life in the coming year.
With understanding, give thanks to God.
Psalm 47:7, recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising God is with understanding, giving thanks to God should be with understanding.
Give Him thanks with understanding.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With understanding, thanking God will open the door to gaining the presence of God in the coming year.
PREPARE IN PRAYER NOT TO BE REDUCED BEFORE GOD IN THE COMING DAYS
Just as prayerfully thanking God for living for God is to pray against forces that deny living for God and not gain the presence of God, in the coming days.
In the coming days and ongoing, pray that God enable you to keep your mind on God.
Mind that does not stay on God is vulnerable to the forces against the mind.
The presence of God activates the rest of God.
The rest of God inhabits the peace of God.
God is the author of peace. (1 Corinthians 14:33)
With trust and hope, consciously activate your mind to stay with God for His peace.
Isaiah 26:3 states, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. 
Also, the love for God with the mind stays on God, as Psalm 119:165 states, “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.”
From this moment ask to live with the mind that stays on God.
An act of obedience is a preparation to experience the move of God in favour.
It was a preparation commanded by Jesus to move the stone at the entrance of the tomb of Lazarus.
Jesus needed to pray for the resurrection of Lazarus after four days in the tomb.
It was preparation that brought the dead to life.
Preparation for God prevails.
At the time of Passover, Jesus sent out two of His disciples to say to the master of the house, “The Teacher says, ‘Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.” So His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover.” (Mark 14:14-16)
In preparation, there is a provision.

Prayer for today: Ask for the obedient to the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Engage the new season as a time to prepare

Psalm 150

Engage the new season as a time to prepare for the days, weeks, months, and a new year ahead.
Preparation in physical or spiritual will gain as expected.
Preparation entails action.
No action hides from God.
1 Samuel 2:3 informs, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.”
Know and believe that one in preparation for the coming days, weeks, months, and years is striving to draw the attention of God, to purposely live life for God by walking in His way.
With desire, prepare prayerfully, seek to live life for God in the coming days.
Walking in the way of God should be a characteristic of seeking God.
The word of God admonishes all to seek God first.
In seeking God is to gain.
Matthew 6:33 records, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Are you aware of the need to prepare to gain from God?
Preparation is the price to gain and retain the presence of God, to navigate and not be a victim of the wicked world.
Preparation is the action or process engaged in to gain the presence of God.
In the pages of the Bible, many situations call for preparation to gain expectation.
To prepare, with the mind of God shall provoke the blessing of God.
God blesses with conditions.
The condition is rooted in preparation.
Once, Jesus came to the tomb and wanted to raise Lazarus from the dead after four days.
Jesus spoke of the preparation needed for Him to wake Lazarus from the dead, stating, “Take away the stone.” (John 11:39)
Evidently, Jesus demonstrates the need for preparation for all who need to gain from Him.
Again, at the time of the Passover, Jesus sent His disciples to prepare a room for the need. (Marks 11:12)
Preparation will prompt manifestation of expectations.
The above summation demonstrates preparation to gain from God.
At this time of the year, prayerfully prepare for the coming year.
PREPARE BY PRAYING:
THANK GOD FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE, WHAT HE IS DOING, AND WHAT HE WILL DO.
PRAY AGAINST THE FORCES THAT REDUCE ONE NOT TO LIVE FOR GOD IN THE COMING YEAR.
THANKING GOD
The grace of God has brought those alive thus far in life.
Prayerfully thank God for the past days, and the present days, so He will perfect the coming days.
God performs in prayer and perfects in thanking Him just as He answered the ten lepers. (Luke 17:11-19)
God is not in debt to anyone, but the world owes God.
At every moment, give praise and thanks to God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
In preparation, there is a provision.
Obedient to the word of God to wait is a preparation to gain a way where there is no way, to the glory of God.
One who prayerfully engages in preparation before God will excel for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Pray for the strength to engage preparation.

FAITH CAPSULE: A new moment is a new beginning.

Matthew 6

To see the beginning of the first day of the last month of the year is not because you know how to live.
To be alive is the grace of God.
God is unquestionable, and no one can question Him as the reason why you are alive.
God owes none under heaven or above in heaven; it is the creation that owes God.
On this day, in this moment, turn to God with a heart of thanksgiving.
God is worthy, not to be reduced to just a mouthful of thanks.
God creates all to exist for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 confirms, “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.”
Know to live life for God.
To live life for God is by His word, not to live wasted.
No one is living by accident.
God knows every living life before it is born.
Do you know that, before this day, God knows you?
Jeremiah 1:5 tells all, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
God knows everything about everything.
So much to thank God for seeing this day.
Day after day, week after week, and month after month tell that you are alive.
You owe God!
So many see the beginning of the year and not standing, you are a privilege of God, to be standing.
One who can not create should not worry, but rather worship God.
Ponder on the verses of Matthew 6:25-27 to know not know about the life bestow upon you, stating, “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?
God does not lie by asking against worrying before God.
Worrying should not be your portion.
Live life for God, worshipping His name.
One able to acknowledge the grace of life through days, weeks, and months should be able to turn to God, asking for the grace to live for God in the coming days, weeks, and years.
It is not the celebration of the season alone that matters; it is how far God has brought you that demands appreciation of God.
God has brought you this far.
To live life for God is not a determination.
One with a desire, God will deposit in what it takes to live for Him.
The end of a year sets the stage for the new year to roll in.

Prayer for today: Make it a prayer that God enable you to live for Him in the coming year.

FAITH CAPSULE: To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.

Jonah 1, 2

DO NOT COMPROMISE WRONGDOING

It is never too much to pray before God.
It is worth engaging in prayer as a way of life.
Acts 6:4 states, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
In the word of God, there is no compromise against obedience to the word of God.
Without exception, all should give themselves to praying before God as a way of life.
The word of God is the direction of God, to keep and live by it.
His word is a command that does not return to Him void.
The word of God is not negotiable and not to be compromised.
All should live by the word of God to have a positive relationship with God. 
One who redirects the word of God, attempting to please self, will be doing wrong.
Are you engaging the command of God not to compromise the word of God?
Commit to the word of God, grow in faith to live a life pleasing to God. 
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Are you compromising the word of God consciously or unconsciously?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse for not living according to His word.
To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
The world is deceivable, but not God.
Disallow deception.
Judas compromises and does not rebuke iniquity (evil).
Judas was numbered, but not counted.
Anyone who is compromising iniquity is complicating the journey of life. 
Iniquity is evil. The word of God warns: “The fear of God is, to hate evil…” (Proverbs 8:13)
Know and pray to live truthfully before God, who does not sleep, and He shall see you.
PRAYER
Just like Judas, pray not to be a vessel of compromising wrongdoing.
Ask God to enable you not to compromise and engage in wrongdoing.
MORE THAN EVER, TURN TO THE WORD/PRESENCE OF GOD
Pray that, more than ever, you want to turn more to the word of God.
The word of God is God (John 1:1).
The word of God is His presence (Jonah 1:1-3).
Are you walking away from the word of God, His presence?
The word of God locates Jonah, but he went in the opposite direction.
Walking in the opposite direction will lead to a storm.
One can survive by disobedience to God, but none can hide from the consequences of disobedience.
Disobedience calls for repentance.
Attending to worshipping God is not enough.
Return to walk the word of God that sounds in your direction to avoid the storm of destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to turn to Him more than ever, to live by Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.

Psalm 104

Adopt the habit of giving thanks to God for His visitation.
Thanking God should be continuous.
Waiting to be convenient before thanking God is not enough.
Make it a way of like thanking God at all times for all things.
Thanking for all things is what makes all things work together for the glory of God.
Thank God continuously, not on a particular day of the year.
Thanking God should be a way of life for all created by God.
God creates all.
Thanking God is praising God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
The word of God that calls for praising God at breath also demands thanking God at breath.
To praise at breath is to thank God at every moment.
Thanking God, praising God, the way of seeking God.
Psalm 47:7, recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising God is with understanding, giving thanks to God should be with understanding.
Give Him thanks with understanding.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With the understanding of thanking God, Jesus thanks God for raising Lazarus from the dead after four days in the grave.
John 11:41-42 records, “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me…”
A meaningful, heartfelt thanksgiving to God, with understanding, will provoke the presence of God.
The word of God does not lie; only the world is full of lies.
To be alive is a privilege of God; it is not a right; to be alive is of mercy, and it is not of merit.
Think of it, to be alive, able to see the light of a new day, eyes functioning, legs not stagnant, mind in the right condition, all the above demands thanking God every moment.
To be alive is not the right of anyone but a privilege of God.
Think, whatever keeps you from opening your mouth wide to thank God has to cease.
From today, make it a pattern of life to thank God with understanding.  
Seek God, appreciating Him for the grace of being alive.
Do not plan for the season outside God; it is an error that will reduce one before God.
God alone is more than worthy of all praise and adoration.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you with strength and understanding, and keep thanking God unceasingly.