FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.

2 Samuel 6

A lack of knowledge and understanding is the state of being ignorant.
In life, ignorance makes destitute of a believer.
God alone is the creator of all.
God sees heaven and earth, and no one can successfully hide from God.
Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.
The lack of knowledge and understanding is engaging in a journey of self-destruction.
Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed, for lack of knowledge.”
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge that makes a believer destitute. Among believers, doing right in a wrong way or doing wrong instead of doing right before God is rampant. Romans 10:3 states, “For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Set yourself before God:
Study to know God and not be an ignorant believer.
Always do right and know there is no excuse for ignorance before God.
Taking the doings of God for granted is not acceptable or counts for ignorant.
Do not take God for granted.
Taking God for granted is disobedient to His word.
The word of God located Abraham asking for the sacrifice of his one and only child.
The word of God speaks to Abraham, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12) 
Abraham obeyed God, not withholding against the word of God that located Him.
Answering Abraham to God’s command is the character of seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Abraham found God.
One who seeks God with all heart and soul is seeking God diligently.
Abraham could not take God for granted but obeyed God and lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Are you taking God for granted?
The life of Uzzah is the evidence of ignorance with no excuse before God.
Uzzah made a wrong choice in an attempt to save the ark from falling.
When returning the Ark of God back to Jerusalem, Uzzah violated touching the Ark of God.
Uzzah was ignorant to touch the Ark of God for the termination of his life.
2 Samuel 6:6-8 documents, “And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.” 
The ignorance of Uzzah terminated his untimely death.
There is no excuse to experience wrongdoing before.

Prayer for today: Ask not to become a victim of ignorance before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Without exception, all should love their neighbor as self.

1 Corinthians 13

Anyone without loving is not with God and taken a distance from God.
Are loving others as commanded by God?
Paul the apostle stated the importance of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 
The word of Apostle Paul identifies that demonstrating the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, reaching out to the needy, and making oneself available when or where there is a need, but without having love, is empty, and nothing counts before God. 
To love is commanded by God.
Preaching love and not living by loving others is not complete before God.
Jesus meant what He said, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”(Matthew 7:22-23) 
Are you obedient to self-selected but not with obedience to all of the commands of God?
It is possible to be deceived or lie in the presence of God manipulating brethren, but God can see the heart of all. 
The apostle Paul also describes what love is about, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”(1 Corinthians 13:4-7) 
If believers consider the description of what love is as Apostle Paul identifies, the world will turn round for the better.
To love as commanded by God must be in truth and deed.
To love is not impossible, but love as God expects from all.
God is a good God; He did not command for what is impossible to obey. 
One that loves as commanded by God will count before God as one that fully obeys God as Galatians 5:14 speaks to all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Always know for yourself if you love as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of obedience to the command of God, avoiding a life of waste.

FAITH CAPSULE: HOW MUCH ARE WE GIVING TO SLEEP IN THIS 

Matthew 25

Challenges are mounting with evidence of believers sleeping the way it pleases acclaimed believers.
God is not talkative but actively truthful in His word.
God is coming to judge the world, if ready or not, at His appointed time.
Sleeping in the place to be awake is a sleep of death and shall not be your portion.
The Parable of Ten Virgins is a secret, not just an allegorical story, to point out what is to come on the appointed judgment of God over the word.
SLEEPING
Matthew 25:1-3 documents, “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.
11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 “Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
The majority answered that believers are flooding in the name of God as they please, sleeping or awake. 
Also, they are equipped with things of God or not.
The ten virgins in the parable are composed of five wise equipped with lamps and oil, while the five foolish with no oil for lamps.
As the bridegroom delayed (but not to deny) all, slumbered and slept.
Which speaks to you? 
A wise one or a foolish one?
The bridegroom arrived at his appointed time.
All woke up, but the foolish one had no oil, pleading to get from the wise with oil.
As the foolish went to buy, the bridegroom entered for those ready to go for the wedding.
The foolish called out to be allowed into the wedding but disallowed.
The foolish were not PREPARED, not READY for the bridegroom’s arrival.
How are you waiting for God?
Sleeping of carelessness is not giving regard to God to live a wasted life.
Every standard living life should be prepared, ready for the return of God, not to miss heaven.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to be shut out to miss His presence.

FAITH CAPSULE: The way to live life for the glory of God is to be humble.

2 Chronicles 7

Being humble will enable one to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure.
One knowing God will be humble, not be a vessel of faith failure. 
Are you humble?
A humble one is with a low estimate of the importance of self.
God pays attention to how all conduct themselves in the life journey. 
James 4:10 testifies that God pays attention to humble ones, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” 
One who is humble is one with a meek spirit.
The Bible identifies the meek ones:
Psalm 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. “
God is consistent and committed to His promise as 2 Chronicles 7:14 records the promise of God for humble ones, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you humble and glaring by your way of life?
With the desire, give yourself to become humble, to claim the promises of God over the life of the humble one.
Be humble in this challenging trouble and not become a vessel of faith failure. 
Philippians 2:3-8 identifies several ways to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The way to live life for the glory of God is to be humble.
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, humbled Himself and was obedient to the point of death on the cross. 
What stops you from becoming humbled and living life for the glory of God?
Numbers of people in the Bible were humbled to walk with God. 
Paul was humbled.
Moses was humbled, and Numbers 12:3 testifies, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” 
Make it your way of life to be humbled, keep your eyes on God, and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become humble before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you looking away from God?

Genesis 11:1-9, Psalm 24 

Without a doubt, creation cannot maneuver God, the Creator.
If you are surviving by telling lies to deceive or manipulate your world, mark that God, the Creator alone, sees all.
Watch it and know that telling lies can build you up for years to move you forward, but just a day is certainly enough to bring you out as a liar, a deceiver, and a manipulator to bring down all years built up in lies.
You can maneuver your world with lies, but not the Creator, the God of all.
Isaiah 40:28 records, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.” 
The one and only Perfect God does have the world in His hand. 
Psalm 24:1 states, “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.”  
Under heaven and above, no one is in place to outmaneuver God. 
Can you imagine a creature attempting to outmaneuver the Creator of all?
The God that spoke to Jeremiah is the same that created heaven and earth and all its fullness. 
He spoke to Jeremiah, “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.” (Jeremiah 1:5) 
Many, by the wickedness of their heart, are destroying others to build for themselves. However, when the building is outside God, it becomes an effort to outmaneuver the only Perfect Creator.
The building of the Tower of Babel was not in line with God.
The building was evidence of an attempt to maneuver God.
Genesis 11:4 records, “And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
Self-centeredness to take charge instead of focusing on God wants to maneuver God. 
Are you looking away from God? 
The construction of the tower of Babel failed to consider that God was in control.
The land and its fullness belong to God. 
God does not tolerate selfishness because it operates in opposition to the way of God. 
Self-centeredness represents arrogance and pride.
God saw the people were coming from and knew where they were going with the Tower of Babel.
The act of self-centeredness to build against God provoked the response of God. 
Genesis 11:7-8 states, “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So, the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”   
Stop building outside of God, the attempt to maneuver God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you are enabled to live life for the glory of God.