FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever He says, do without questioning Him.

John 2:1-12

1 Samuel 15:22 records, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.” 
Obedience to the word of God is taking a step not to despise God. 
To disobey the word is setting self up for destruction. 
Proverbs 13:13 states, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
One that fears God obeys the word of God.
Obedience to the word of God will save life.
One that fears God lives with the evidence of trusting in God and what He can do. 
Obeying the word of God is what marks one being faithful. 
Are you constantly or partially obeying the word of God?
John 2:1-2 states, “…there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.” 
A wedding with Jesus as a guest of honor is set not to be harassed by shame. 
Have you invited Jesus into your marriage or your life? 
Jesus was at the wedding in Cana when shame was at the wedding to discolor the wedding when there was no more wine to serve. 
At that wedding in Cana of Galilee, the mother of Jesus approached Jesus for intervention that would save the wedding celebration from shame for lack of wine. 
Jesus responded to the calling of His mother for intervention, “…Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4) 
The response of Jesus was not a discouragement to the mother of Jesus but encouraged the servants at the wedding with her response.
John 2:5 records, “His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 
What is in the word of God that is missing in your challenges, like marriage or lifestyle, because of your disobedience? 
One will search for self to know what He commands in His word. 
Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.” (John 2:7) 
The servants were obedient to engage the command of Jesus.
Can you testify as one living by the word of God?
In the place of lack, engaging the command of God is the evidence of faith.
Jesus commanded for the waterpots to become filled with water. 
The disciples did not question Jesus for His command as they filled the waterpots to the brink. 
As the disciples obeyed, the wedding took a new turn from shame to fame for the glory of God.
Be obedient to the word of God.
Allow the command of the word of God begins to rule your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be constantly obedient to the command of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Embrace His ways and meditate on His acts.

Jonah 1

All belongs to God.
God does not wrong in all He has done.
Psalm 103:7 records, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.”  
The ways of God are in the word of God. 
The word of God is the acts of God, while His acts are His direction and His testimonies. 
Living by the word of God is living in the ways of God. 
Also, living by the acts of God is living by keeping the testimonies of God. All should never live in assumptions that seem right. 
Proverbs 14:12 records, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”  
Are you allowing assumptions to take you for a ride in life? 
Just like Moses, those who walk in the ways of God walk in His law to experience His blessing. 
Psalm 119:1 buttress, “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord!” 
Ones that keep the testimonies of God are with evidence that walks by the ways of God, and they are blessed. 
Psalm 119:2 buttresses, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart.” 
The word of God is truth to perform.
Get to know His way, to keep His acts that are His testimonies to enable seeking Him diligently. 
To seek God diligently is to experience the promise of God. 
Proverbs 8:17 “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”  
Hebrews 11:6 expresses, “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.”  
As an acclaimed believer, one with a heart for God embraces His ways and meditates His acts to become a diligent seeker of the Lord God. 
Are you answering your calling? 
When the Lord calls you, rest assured that God does not call anyone to hide. 
Those that hide are those who turn their back to Him. 
Those that hide are those who walk away from His presence.
All should answer fully before God and not turn to the assumption way. 
Jonah turned his way despite hearing from God, and the presence of God deserted Him. 
Jonah 1:1-3 records, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord…”  
God has made His ways and acts known for all to engage in and have testimonies for His glory. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to be turned to God living by His ways, not to live wasted.

FAITH CAPSULE: True love for God is to fear Him. 

Deuteronomy 6

The word of God is the work of God. 
At the time of creation, God demonstrated that His word is His work when He spoke and created existence. 
Also, the word of God is His command. 
God alone is the Commanding commander, and there is none like Him. Among the purpose of His command is stated in Deuteronomy 6:1-3, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” 
The command of God is to teach all to fear Him in obedience to God. 
To fear God is to love God. 
The command is to teach all the fear of God by observing the word of God. 
A serious student of the word of God will gain the understanding of meditating on the word to observe and do according to the word of God.
Failure to obey God is not to fear Him. 
God expects all to love Him just as His word states, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) 
Sin and sinning are rooted in disobedience. 
Without a doubt, sin came to be through failure to eat one tree out of varieties of trees in the Garden of Eden. 
Genesis 2:16-17 records, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  
Adam and Eve engaged in a blatant act of disobedience with no reasonable excuse but consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin. 
God wants all to love Him with all heart, souls, and all strength. 
Abraham is an example of one that loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God. 
Obedience to the word of God is the fear in God the creator of all.
It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back. 
At age seventy-five, leaving behind a comfortable environment with no child is evidence of the fear of God and obedience to the command of God. Word of God testified to the fear of Abraham in Genesis 22:12 “…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) 
How are you serving Him with all your love? 
True love for God is to have fear for God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for that your heart will retain to obey the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: It will be the timing of God to expose the wicked one. 

Psalm 37

Are you afraid of evildoers or envious of the workers of iniquity?
The Psalmist warns, “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.” (Psalm 37:1)  
The evidence of being fretful of the evildoers is in not resting in the promises of God, not knowing that the wickedness is not beyond God.
One that does not trust in God troubles much and no longer rests in the Lord. 
Also, those who are envious of the workers of iniquity demonstrate that they are no longer resting in the Lord but rusting away. 
Indeed, the wicked are here to stay until the time of God to take them away.
The same Psalm 37 gave the prescription of what it takes to ignore the wicked ones by stating, “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” (Psalm 37:3) 
Let the Lord take care of His business concerning the wicked. 
There is nothing that gets past the Lord without intervention from God. 
The Lord God sees and knows all things that exist. 
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 admonishes, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” 
Fear God for your own and not fret because of the evil doers. 
God alone knows when to execute His punishment over the wicked with the choice not to repent before God.
Jeremiah questioned, “…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.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
God does not sleep nor slumber the evidence for all to concentrate on yourself pleasing God, working the works of God rather than questioning His response to the wicked. 
The honest question is, are you a wicked one? 
Is the word of God near in your mouth but far from your mind? 
No wickedness is excusable before God. 
God will judge all the wicked ones.
Psalm 37:2 states, “…They shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”  
One will experience deception, and the world can experience lies, but God cannot look over the wickedness on earth.

Prayer for today: Ask God to touch your heart and bring you out of every way of wickedness.

FAITH CAPSULE: Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God’s command.

Numbers 32

Living a life journey with comfort outside of the comfortably should not identify as a sin. 
However, when one comfortably places comfort ahead of commitment to the direction of God, in the life of journey, such is set not to arrive at the center of the divine assignment. 
God, in His goodness and mercy, brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years with a plan to settle them in the Promised Land. 
It is written, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8) 
God wanted to place them from bondage to abundance when he promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. 
God promised to bring the Israelites out of bondage, but the children of Gad and Reuben engaged comfort in the place of commitment and decided to settle in the East of Jordan. 
The Bible records that they had a great multitude of livestock, which prompted a request for a settlement in the region that was a place for livestock that was more comfortable by their understanding instead of the promise of God. 
Despite their understanding of the plan of God, they attempted a choice to wander from the way of God. 
Are you attempting to wander from the way of understanding gained from the word of God? 
Proverbs 21:16 admonishes, “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben approached Moses and stated their desire, “…the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.’ Therefore they said, ‘If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.’” (Numbers 32:4-5) 
It is clear that where there is livestock, milk will flow, but not honey. 
God promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but they attempted to settle for the comforting land of their understanding. 
The land which flowed with milk was comfortable enough for them. 
It is good to be comfortable but not to replace the command of God. Placing comfort above the direction of God is a direct avenue to becoming insensitive to the move of the Spirit of God. 
Spiritual insensitivity will reduce and not increase a believer. 
Are you operating the mind of the children of Gad and Reuben as you engage personal direction against the direction of God to the Promised Land? 
Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God to the command of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to restore you for whatever you have lost to spiritual insensitivity.