FAITH CAPSULE: The Israelites did not give to the word of God. 

Numbers 13

Listen attentively to no man but to the word of God.
Listening to the word of God is the key to understanding and doing according to the word of God.
Only listen attentively to the word of God. 
A failure to listen and gain direction or to look forward in the promise of God will dislodge and displace one from the destination in the promise of God.
Trouble in life might be too hard, but God can resettle one for the better. 
Listen attentively to the word of God, wait on the word of God, be renewed in strength, and not faint. 
God made the heavens and earth by His great power that cannot fail. 
Will you listen to wait on His word?
For over four hundred years, the Israelites got displaced into bondage. 
It was like no way out for the Israelites.
God spoke through Moses, “…I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:17)
With attention to the word of God, failure is an impossibility.
God has spoken, still speaking, and what He says is a done deal. 
Are you listening to His word? 
The Israelites could not listen attentively.
Since the pollution of man in the Garden of Eden by the deceiver, man has continued not to listen attentively to God. 
The Israelites did not give to the word of God.
They failed to move and possess all the promised word of God. 
Numbers 13:1-3 records, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.’” 
Moses played his role in relating the word of God to the Israelites.
The Israelites needed to spy out the land which God was giving them.  
In life, listening will deliver results in the promise of God. 
The spies saw the land and returned with a negative report. 
Sharing any negative report against positive ones is making God a liar, the evidence of a lack of faith by the spy. 
The spy reported a negative confession, “…The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are great men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.’” (Numbers 13:32-33) 
The negative report delivered by the spy to the Israelites provoked a rebellious response that caused many not to arrive at the promised land.
Listen attentively to no one but to God in His word. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to listen attentively to His word for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is security in the word of God. 

Psalm 37

What secures you in this world where wickedness is active?
Evil is continual.
Evil is where wickedness branches out and does not relent.
Genesis 6:5-6 records, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” 
Wickedness reigns all over, and none is safe but ones that abide in God.
The word of God does not lie nor return void to God but delivers promises for security and stability in this wicked word.
One that abides by the word of God is in of stability.
1 John 3:24 states, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in Him. And by this, we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” 
The word refers to now, not just in the past.
Today, keep the word of God to gain the position of security.
The word of God is wisdom. 
1 Corinthians 1:30 states that Jesus is our wisdom: “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” 
Why not give yourself wisdom from God for security in the wicked and instability world of today? 
The word of God promised security: “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation…” (Isaiah 33:6) 
The living word of God is the stability of God.
Many know about the word of God but do not know the word of God (there is a difference between knowing and knowing about the wisdom of God) 
Many are conversant with the word of God by the mouth but are far from the word in the heart. 
Without knowing the wisdom of God in truth, to become one with an edge over the wicked world shall not be in place. 
What is your security or your stability in this wicked world of today? 
The word of God is the secret for one that does not know God.
One that knows that secret of God will abide and dwell in the word of God for security and stability in the wicked world.
Psalm 91:1 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Make the right choice, give yourself to the word of God, to gain security to be stable in the wicked world.
Listen and hear what is true about God as stated in Isaiah 64:4, “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.”
For your security, seek God by waiting on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable continually dwell and abide in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Come out of selfish motives to set your heart on doing good before God.

Nehemiah 1

Many believers or unbelievers live as egoistic (self-centered) ones in every corner of the world. 
Who are you? 
Are you a believer or unbeliever devoted to or caring only for oneself, concerned primarily with self-interests to be regardless of others? 
Are you one with the character as selfish? 
Indeed, life should not be only about self but considerate of people around self.
Nehemiah was a non-entity. 
He was not a pastor, he was not a bishop, and was not a prophet, nor was he the son of a prophet. 
Nehemiah was an ordinary cupbearer to the king in the Persian palace. 
He got to where he was because he was a captive. 
One thing was clear about Nehemiah: he was concerned for the welfare of Jerusalem and its inhabitants at heart. 
Nehemiah was a cupbearer who desired a better life for his brethren. 
Nehemiah was not self-centered. Who are you? As a cupbearer, he wanted a change for others but not to be a liar or manipulation in the name of God. God saw the heart of Nehemiah, and He acknowledged him. God invested in the life of Nehemiah as a vessel to reconstruct the broken wall of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:3-4was the report that burdened Nehemiah, “And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” 
Nehemiah poured out his heart in prayer on behalf of his people and his homeland. 
He asked for nothing for himself, but he petitioned for his people to have a better life for his people.
The heart of Nehemiah was in line with what God looks for. 
Who are you in the eyes of God, that is traveling over the earth, searching for a heart that lines up with His glory? 
Jeremiah 17:9 confirms: “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” 
God alone knows every heart, and He will not overlook both the good and evil of the heart.
All should not be of selfish motives.
All should center their hearts on all that will glorify God, and God will not limit such to excel for His glory. {
Nehemiah was not self-centered but set himself for his people, and God deposited in him what it takes to bring glory to the name of God. Nehemiah, as a cupbearer, turned the issue of his nation around. 
Life is not to be about self but to the glory of God in all life endeavors.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled not to live life as a selfish one.

 FAITH CAPSULE: The wisdom available for all is the security of God for stability.

Proverbs 4

Today, the world is a place of instability rooted in wickedness at every corner. 
To live in security and not be a victim of instability is in the wisdom of God.
The word of God prescribed stability for this time we are living by stating, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation…” (Isaiah 33:6) 
It is important to note that Jesus is the wisdom as stated in 1 Corinthians 1:30, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” Jesus, the wisdom from God is available to be received as security in the wicked world. 
With wisdom comes knowing God, not just knowing about God.
Knowing God will have a knowing edge in navigating the wicked world as an overcome.
Knowledge is for one understanding of wisdom and has a security agent.
Jesus, the wisdom from God, is also the instruction of God for all in this wicked world. 
In this time, one that takes to the wisdom of God (instruction of God) is bound to experience stability in the wicked world. 
Proverbs 4:1 admonishes, “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding.” 
Wisdom (instruction) demands attention which is listening to gain security in wisdom.
The good God has delivered security to all, but many fail to engage the security because of the inability to listen to wisdom. 
Without the security of God available in wisdom is a lack of understanding that gives knowledge. 
Understanding is the key to having wisdom and knowledge. 
Jesus, in His word, demonstrated His concern for lack of understanding when He questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43) Wisdom for all is from God as our security. 
All should understand wisdom and knowledge to gain security which gives stability in the wicked world.
What is it about security in wisdom?
All should not forsake the word of wisdom (the word, the law of God).
All should let the heart retain words of wisdom and live.
Also should not forget, forsake, or turn away from the word that preserves.
Proverbs 4:7 states the importance of wisdom and understanding responsible for having a knowing edge in the wicked world, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7)
When security in wisdom is engaged, stability will become a portion of one and not be a victim of the wicked world.
Giving attention to the wisdom of the word of God will position one on the right path. 
On the right path activated by the wisdom of God shall not be hindered when one runs stumbling, shall not have a place.

Prayer for today: Ask God that the wisdom of God shall take charge of your life.