FAITH CAPSULE: Live responsibly, seeing in the word of God.

Joshua 1

Responsibility is the price to excel for the glory of God.
It is a responsibility to see in the word of God.
An acclaimed believer that does not see in the word of God will live as an unbelieving believer.
Seeing the word of God is rooted in listening to the word of God to do and receive according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you seeing in the word of God?
One that meditates on the word of God day and night is hearing and hearing the word of God to see what God says in His word.
One that is meditating on the word of God is communicating with God.
Joshua 1 Joshua 1:8 states, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Responsibility is a choice not to force one to see God continually and find God.
God is not a slave master but a saving God.
Responsibility is seeking God diligently to find God.
It is irresponsible to seek Him by mouth.
Deuteronomy 4:29 confirms, “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.”
However, it is ignorance of a believer not to seek God diligently to hear, to do according to the word of God to find God.
Responsibility is to watch and pray.
The word of God repeatedly commands all to watch and pray.
One that is not watching and praying is not in a position to see God that waits to act for those waiting on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 records, “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.”
Elisha was responsible and waited on God in prayer on behalf of his servant to see the deliverance plan of God over his life, not to become a victim of evil.
2 Kings 6:17 states, “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.”
It is ignorance of a believer not to hear, see, and do according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
As a believer, let it be a way of life, a responsibility to see God with His plan for deliverance and preservation over the life of such.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of responsibility to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.

Proverbs 19

God identifies Jesus in Luke 3:22, “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.” 
The love of God is the reason for the sent of Jesus for all freely, but the blessings He brought along to all demands condition. 
Luke 9:35 records, “And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!” Make it a way of life to be hearing from God.
Hearing Him by listening is the way to be blessed. 
It is impossible to hear His word by listening and not doing His word. 
Jesus is the wisdom of God for all that will accept Him.
He is the instruction that will make the hearer of Him live life abundantly. Jesus confirms, “I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, instructed at the wedding of Canaan of Galilee with the lack of wine, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 
Hearing Him by listening is the source to fear of God.
 Are you allowing the fear of God to reign and rule your life? 
To fear God is to live life abundantly, the blessing Jesus brought to all. 
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil. 
In life, the fear of God will cause the hearer to abide in satisfaction. 
One with satisfaction will shut out the evil one.
Are you hearing Him enough to be satisfied, living life abundantly? 
Judas, a disciple of Jesus, was positioned to hear the word day and night but yet disqualified from his calling. 
Judas could not be satisfied but lust for money. 
In life, the lust for money will cause anyone to become vulnerable to evil agenda. 
The Bible identified the lust of Judas: “But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.” (John 12:4-6) 
Judas loves money. 
Judas was not satisfied. 
Judas was not content but contaminated by lust for money.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 recorded the evil of satisfaction which is lust, “But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 
Search your heart to know the way in life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the fear of God to reign and rule your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know the truth, not know about it.

Romans 1

One that does not know the truth, the word of God, shall not be free, as John 8:42 says, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” 
Get to know the truth of God to be free from the wicked world by living free by the word of God.
In this world, taking time out will work against listening disability to understand and know the word of God that is truth.
Will you give attention to the word of God to enter you as the light of God? 
The word of God is truth, the light to journey in life.
Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
One with no word of God, the light of God, will continually experience challenges through the world of darkness.
With understanding, know the truth of God, and do not be one that suppresses the truth of God, which is the righteousness of God. 
Romans 1:18 warns, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
Romans 1:25 also points out that no one should exchange the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator. 
Does the word speak to you?
With understanding, know that if your unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, the truth of God shall be absent in your doing to position as one against God.
Also, if the truth of God has increased through your lie or if you are one getting away with doing evil in the name of good, claiming it for God, the condemnation of God is at your door. (Romans 3:1-8)
With understanding, seek God, and know that the truth of God will preserve a believer as Psalm 40:11 records, “Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord; Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.” 
With understanding, know to be full of the truth of God, to become established and not be denied before God. Proverbs 12:19 admonishes, “The truthful lip shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
With understanding, give self to the word of God as 1Thessalonians 2:13 speaks, “…because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.” 
Get understanding, know it, and let God be true but everyone is a liar.
Understanding God will have a zeal for God and know that God is not partial in responding with truth to the truthful ones.
Let the desire for God become your portion, to get an understanding that will enable you not to live a life of waste but to live a life of worshiping God, the purpose He creates all for His pleasure.

Prayer for today:  Ask to be filled with understanding and know His truth.

FAITH CAPSULE: Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God. 

Jeremiah 3

Turning from God is a sin before God.
Answering fully to God is turning to the calling of God.
God has placed a calling upon all with no exemption. 
The salvation plan for all is to answer to the calling of God.
Bible records the calling of God for all. 
2 Timothy 1:9 states, “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” 
Answering the calling of God is to turn to God. 
Indeed, God has given a holy calling through Jesus, but today majority has turned away from God. 
Lack of understanding will turn away from God.
Without understanding, there will be a lack of knowledge. 
Lord declares in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. “
The word of God is the source of understanding God. 
With understanding, there will be fear of God to turn God. 
The truth today is that acclaimed believer inside or outside of the church has turned away from God.
Turning away from God is a sin before God. 
Are you turning from God?
Romans 3:10-18, all should search heart to know if the word speaks to you.
“There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God; they have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues, they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 
The word of Romans 3:10-18 speaks of wicked of this world and rebelliousness before God.
Joshua 22:29 also speaks to all now, not just then, “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day…” 
Turning away from God is rebellion.
Turning to God is answering fully to God, the only God that calls right.
God expects the turning of all to Him with a whole heart. 
Jeremiah 3:10 testifies, “And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.” 
God is a God that none can deceive, and there shall be no deception in turning to Him. Turning to God shall be with nonstop in the journey of life, giving God His due attention.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to turn to God with all the heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: God calls and back up the called ones.

1Samuel 26

The Lord God yesterday, today, and forever is not partial but merciful. 
He watches over all. 
He is God that does not sleep nor slumber. 
The psalmist mentions, “Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4) 
God is a God that does not look away from His children but will fight for His children. 
Has He called you, but the enemy takes a position against you? 
Word of God encourages, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” (1 Thessalonians 5:24) 
He that calls you shall not slumber or sleepover; He shall show up on your behalf. 
Without a doubt, turn to God, be faithful, and know that He will fight for you.
Moses about the calling of God over his life.
Moses was accused but could not fight the battle by himself. 
Moses responded to his people, “And Moses said: “By this, you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.” (Numbers 16:28-30) 
Moses committed his fight to the hand of God. 
God could not slumber or sleep on behalf of Moses. 
God fought on behalf of Moses to terminate the enemies of Moses.
Today, your enemy shall experience the vengeance of God.
Did He call you as He called Moses to back him up?
Like Moses, God called David to back him up in answering His calling over his life.
God called David to be King after Saul, but Saul relentlessly sought to kill David by pursuing him all over the face of the earth. 
The hand of God was in place over the life of David. 
Who can bend the hand of God from manifesting on your behalf? 
Saul attempted, but he prevailed as a failure. 
Saul was pursuing David with three thousand soldiers. 
At night, David approached Saul while his guards were in a deep sleep. David could have killed Saul but vowed not to destroy the anointed of God. 
The Bible records, “So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.” (1Samuel 26:12) 
David did not attempt to fight his battle but allowed God to fight on his behalf.
When God fights for you, it shall be a permanent victory. 
Today, your enemy shall experience the vengeance of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to send your enemy into a deep sleep.