FAITH CAPSULE: It is a great grace that the good of God has brought you this far.

Psalm 145 

From the first month of this year to this moment is the grace of God.
God owes no one, but all owe the perfect God.
He is a caring Creator.
Psalm 150:6 admonishes all, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Indeed, everyone standing and not falling from the beginning of the year should praise God at every moment, not just at the breath of life.
Praising and thanking God shall cause a favorable lifting from God.
What He says to one speaks to all. 
God deserves praising and thanking Him.
God is a jealous God whose attention is the antidote to jealousy.
God wants all to seek Him diligently.
One who seeks God diligently will find God.
One who does not seek God diligently will not find God.
Proverbs 7:15 encourages, “So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.”
It is the love that you are alive at this time of the year.
John 3:16-17 testifies to the love of God for all, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” 
The point is that God invested so much in all while all extends so little to Him. 
All year long to the moment standing, the Lord God bestows upon you, how much have you extended to Him?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 records, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted.”  
At this time of the year, think of living a life to glorify God. 
Allow your expectations to change from material gain to walking in the ways of God. 
Deuteronomy 5:33 states, “You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.” 
Walk more in the ways of God, seeking God first. 
Seeking God will no doubt fulfill every one of your desires as the year runs into the coming year.
Live to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:33-34) 
A better way to seek God is by praising and thanking God.
Make the moment to be of praising and thanking God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to praise and thank God every moment.

FAITH CAPSULE: In life, giving is sowing, sowing is serving God. 

John 10

In life, giving is sowing. 
What is it that you are giving back to God?
What have you done for Jesus lately? 
All owe God, but God does not owe anyone.
The main reason the Lord God gave Jesus was for all to inherit eternal life. 
Every step taken to inherit eternal life is for all to live life for God.
The acclaimed believer should walk in His righteousness, positioning receiving from God.
In life, giving is sowing, sowing is serving God. 
What are you giving?
Are you serving Him diligently?
When there is no understanding in place to give, there will be no understanding to receive from God.
It is true that what one sows, such will not reap. 
God is a perfect Manager, and He perfects in managing every one of His creations by allowing His creation to reap from what they sow. 
Living life as one that sows the seed of deception and expecting to reap the fruit of perfection is an error. 
Any man who sows the seed of a lie will reap the fruit of being deceived. 
It is to live life as one who knows God, and anything short of living life as one who knows Him is living life as a liar, a life of waste. 
1 John 2:4- 6 records, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.”
God invests so much in all while all extend so little to Him. 
Nothing passes outside of God that He does not see.
All is bound to reap from whatever one sows. 
What kind of seeds are you sowing?
When it is reaping time, prayer time might have expired, too late to avoid the consequences of failure to sow.
John 10:10-11 states, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep”  
Celebrating the season of events in the life of Jesus is not evidence of sowing any good that glorifies God for all He has done. 
Also, It is not a license to heaven. 
However, living life to the glory of God is what provokes the hand of God in the life of a believer. 
Allow the heart of serving God to be your way of life.
Serving God is like sowing with expectation for the fruit sown.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to begin to move and lead you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Repentance and restoration is the mercy of God.  

Luke 15

Repentance from the heart will bring forth restoration.
A parable is an everyday truth that has spiritual application. It is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning. 
Jesus spoke many times using parables. 
He gave a parable of the lost son. 
This parable connotes the mind of God concerning repentance and restoration of all from sin. 
Jesus said, “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. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.” (Luke 15:11-14) 
Jesus went to the cross to shed His blood, a plan for restoration for all. In the parable, the younger son had his possessions and went far from his father. 
No one should go far from the presence of God in this wicked world. Going far is choosing a way that will always be a way of death. 
Going far from Him will lead to a wasted life. 
A wasted life will always provoke a life of “want” and “relegation” from what God wants all to be. 
Going far from Him will expose one to every trouble of this world. 
How are you living life? 
Are you living in the fear of God? 
Have you gone far from Him like the prodigal son? 
Luke 15:17-19 records, “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.’”  It is time to come back to yourself like the prodigal son. 
The prodigal son arose and came to his father. 
The Bible records, “But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’”(Luke 15:20-21) 
Repentance from the heart will bring forth restoration. 
The son repented, and his father gave him restoration. 
God is merciful. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
God is waiting for you.
Repent, the restoration will become your portion.

Prayer for today: Ask that the goodness and mercy of God shall not expire over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: None as God is power.

Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 11:1-44 

Power belongs to God. 
His power is command, His word, and none like God.
The command of God is in His word. 
God must be known as the only one and true God. 
He is an attention-seeking God who deserves all the attention from all. 
God made His Spirit to set Ezekiel up in the valley of dry bones. 
“The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry.” (Ezekiel 37:1-2) 
The bones that Ezekiel saw were dry and lifeless. 
God did not just expose Him to the valley of dry bones; He positioned Him to ask him if the dry bones, the lifeless bones, could have life again. 
God asked Ezekiel, “And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” (Ezekiel 37:3) 
Ezekiel responded to the question by God, “…So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” (Ezekiel 37:3) 
Every given answer is the evidence to the level of one answering.
As a believer, do you know God? God knows how to bring back to life what the enemy has taken away. 
God responded to the response of Ezekiel, giving them a command to speak life back into the dry bones. 
Ezekiel did the word of God he prophesied, and the dry bones regained life.
Ezekiel 37:10, “So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.” 
Just as Ezekiel received His command, Jesus has given His word of command to every believer today. 
His command is the authority invested in the word. 
Those who know themselves in the Lord (not those who know about Him) allow the Spirit to set them up to believe and receive God, doing exploits to the glory of God.
Daniel knows God. 
Daniel 11:32 buttressed, “…but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” 
The command of God is in His word, the authority that is not deniable.
The same command that called forth Lazarus from the grave for four days. (John 11:43)
Ezekiel allowed the Spirit of God to set him up where God wanted. 
One that will allow the Spirit of God to set such up where He wants and not where one wants, the same power will flow for all. 
God is true and faithful by His word. 
Ezekiel knew better by confessing that ‘God knows.
Making consistent confession that ‘only God knows’ will make the difference in the life of a believer today.

Prayer for today: Ask that obedience to the word of God shall be established in you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The purpose of life is to live for the glory of God. 

Job 2

God spoke to Jeremiah, “Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord!’” Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.”(Jeremiah 7:2-40)  
The calling of Lord God is not only for the Israelites but calls for all who claim to be worshipping Him. 
The key message is: “Amend your ways and your doings.” 
By this word of God, it is evident that many are entering to worship God but not dwelling in Him (His presence) because their ways and doings do not line with His word. 
As an acclaimed believer, how are your ways and your doings?
Everyone and their ways are evident in their walk. 
Also, your walk will determine where you sit and what you stand for. Whatever one stands for is a direct pointer to the doings of one. 
In life, the walk of one will provoke the blessing of God over such. 
The psalmist buttress in Psalm 1:1, “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” 
All should be steadfast and devoted to the word of God.
The way of all shall reflect the way of life.
Steadfast devotion is a way of life that will demonstrate integrity. Integrity is also the character of one devoted to God. 
Proverb 11:3 states, “The integrity of the upright will guide them…” 
To be guided belongs to acclaim believers with amended ways and doings. 
To be guided is to dwell in the presence of God. 
A believer whose ways are steadfastly devoted (integrity) shall not cease from the presence of God. 
God described Job, “…there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (Job 2:3) 
Job was a man whose ways and doings were steadfast before God, and the presence of God gave an impenetrable edge hedge that no force could access. 
Satan could not violate the guard around Job, and he testified by questioning God, “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side…?” 
Guard Job had before God was intact because of his steadfastness in God (the root of integrity), and his doings were of God.
Job received the testimony of God for his integrity. 
What one is doing is what reflects the beliefs of such. 
God is the same yesterday, and forever is to seek Him and find Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to teach, lead, and direct you in all your ways.