FAITH CAPSULE: Do the simple by remembering the word of God.

Psalm 28, 63

Doing simple things before God will make heaven.
However, not doing simple things before God is enough to miss heaven.
Doing simple before God will gain the attention of God for one not live a life of waste.
One that is gaining attention, claiming to be doing more before God, but failing to do simple before God is bound not to count before God.
What is a simple thing you are failing to do before God?
What are you not engaging before God to deny you heaven, missing God?
The documentation of the visitation of Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary points out doing the simple that counts before Jesus.
The Bible records that Mary sat at the feet of Jesus listening, the evidence of doing simple.
But Martha was distracted by all the preparations she did before Jesus.
Martha was concerned about her doing more before Jesus, but Jesus responded to Martha stating, “You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:41-42)
There is no excuse not to do more or simply before God.
Engage responsibly in doing what counts before God.
By conscience, of responsible doing before God.
What is the simple you are not doing before God?
As simple as remembering God will line one to set to gain the attention of God
In the new month, it is worthy for all to make it a way of life, remembering God to give regard to His works.
To remember God demands understanding of the word of God.
How will one that does not listen will understand the word of God?
Jesus rhetorically asks and answers why is a lack of understanding of the word.
John 8:43 states, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Listening by studying the word will gain an understanding of the word of God.
It is important to remember the word of God.
Remembering comes with meditating on the word of God.
David testifies in Psalm 63:6, “When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.” 
Do the simple by remembering the word of God. 
Psalm 106:7 records the Israelites failed word to remember the doing of God: “They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.” (Psalm 106:7)
This month, make it a way of life, understand to remember the word of God, and remember to meditate.
One meditating will know giving regard to the word of God not to fail is a way of life. The Israelites fail to give regard to God. 
Psalm 28:5 records, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.”
One with an understanding of the word of God is bound to remember, meditate, give regard to God, and gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to give regard to Him consistently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting and hoping the word of God is a way out.

Exodus 32:1-14, Philippians 4

As a believer of God, in your area of challenges of this world, are you experiencing affliction? 
Is it delay that is waging challenges to deny expectation?
Are your challenges taking longer than you do not perceive?
Are you beginning to lose sight of God for His divine intervention? 
As a believer, see your delay as deliverance on the way.
The word of God encourages all not to become a victim of discouragement waiting on God. Psalm 34:19 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
Trusting and hoping the word of God is to know that a delay in the manifestation of expectation is not a denial. 
It is clear that delay or another kind of challenge is imminent, but God is faithful to fulfill His promise of deliverance for the true believer of His word. 
Ignoring delay in any area of life will block out doubt and the idea of stepping off the right track. 
Ignore delay!
Knowing whom you believe with a consistent meditation on His testimonies is encouraging to know there is a way where there is none.
Also, take to the word which states, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
The Israelites experienced a delay that resulted in complaints and worries. 
The Bible records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”(Exodus 32:1) 
The children of Israel knew quite well by their exposure to different miracles through Moses that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave into an unnecessary worry that did not have a basis. 
As a result of the delay of Moses from coming down from the mountain, an unholy gathering took over from where there was supposed to be a holy gathering.
The Israelites saw a delay that turned them to seek another god. 
Some delays are necessary when God is at the beginning of such a journey. 
Also, there are places one has started, but the delay has made it look like wasting out. 
Today, waiting on God can never be wasted. 
Some delays are not of failure, but to make a way to get to the expected end. 
Take note that without faith, the delay will turn quickly out of the way of the word of God that delivers. 
Allow God by taking all your delay to God in prayer. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the miracle of deliverance to answer in your direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing God is having a relationship with God.

Psalm 142, Daniel 6

One that does not know God becomes short of benefits encased in knowing God.
A commitment to giving regard to God will build a relationship with God. 
David was giving regard to God. 
David had a relationship with God. 
One with a relationship with God determines the kind of communication with God.
The relationship of David with God is evidenced by his communication with God when he states, “I cry out to the Lord with my voice; With my voice, to the Lord, I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble. (Psalm 142:1-2) One that does not know God cannot have a special relationship by communicating with God.
Relationship with God is the evidence of knowing God.
In life, personalizing God is from giving regard to God constantly. Personalizing God builds up a relationship with God. 
Relationship with God is evidence of how much one knows God. 
Is it your desire to know God? 
God has given what it takes for one to be knowledgeable about Him. However, knowing God is a choice and not by force. 
One with the choice of knowing God will be full of the knowledge of God and not lack the knowledge of God. 
Just like David, Daniel knew God. 
The Bible testifies about Daniel stating that those who know their God shall do exploit. (Daniel 11:32) 
Truly Daniel did exploit when he lived as an overcomer through four different unbelieving kings that could hurt or terminate his life. 
Daniel constantly gave regard to God. 
In captivity, he did not complain, but he purposed heart not to defile himself with what is not of God. (Daniel 1:8) 
Daniel, a man of God, gave regard with his custom prayer approach to God. (Daniel 6:10)
David, Daniel lived life as an example of giving regard to God and knowing God.
One with the heart not to know God becomes short of the benefit encased in knowing good gracious God. 
To lack knowledge of God makes a man a vessel that perishes. 
The word of God states it clearly, “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. (Hosea 4:6)
The lack of knowledge is evidence of one that does not give regard to God.
Giving regard to God is very crucial to navigate through the wicked word. Give God regard. 
The Bible cautions, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. (Psalm 28:5)
Give God all your regard; become built-in Him for your inheritance among the sanctified.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to have a relationship with Him by knowing Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life to give God regard constantly.

Matthew 6

Do not be a hypocrite but live life-giving regard to God consistently.
Seek God by giving Him attention for all He has done.
Giving God attention is attending Him for his jealousy.
Exodus 34:14 identifies God, “For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” 
God also said in His commandment, “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…” (Exodus 20:5) 
God desires, deserves, and requires from all to live life by giving Him regard with all heart. 
Giving God regard at every breath is worthy. 
Psalm 150:6 states, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” Giving regard to God demands consistency, not a casual approach. 
Giving regard to God can be likened to sowing and expecting to reap. 
In life, what a man sow is what such will reap.
Regardless of how banana and plantain look alike, it is impossible to sow banana and expects to reap plantain.
To fear God is to love and seek God by giving Him constant regard. Deuteronomy 10:12 buttresses, “What does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” 
One that fears God is giving regard to God to gain the attention of God.
“As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.” (Psalm 103:13)
Giving regard to God can be described as thinking of God highly, giving God admiration, and giving esteem to God. 
Giving regard to God is rooted in hallowing Him with honor.
Jealousy God demands attention from His creation. 
The work of God is the operation of His hands and should never fail to gain attention from His creation.
Psalm 28:5 pointed out what a failure to regard God is about, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.” (Psalm 28:5)
Giving regard to God is to do good that pleases God. 
In times of challenge, give regard to God to gain His goodness, the evidence for His awareness.
Among ways of doing good to please God are: 
Charitable deeds, praying with no hypocrites, and fasting with a heart set on God the evidence of giving regard to God. 
Do good at all times, not only engage at times of challenging situations.
Give God attention for His awesomeness. 
Doing good to please God should not impress others press further in their relationship with God. 
Do not be a hypocrite but live life to give God regard constantly.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live a life of giving Him worthy regard.

FAITH CAPSULE: Look to God not to be a victim of stagnation. 

John 5:1-17                                                           

Stagnation not moving forward is evidence of the agent of paralysis.
Bible recorded, “Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.” (John 5:2-4)
A man with paralysis could not get healing where all kinds of sicknesses were getting healed.
The man with the paralysis of thirty-eight years could not get his healing.
The man with the thirty-eight years was on the right track not to remain trapped. 
The man with paralysis was at Bethesda with the meaning: ‘House of mercy.’ 
The man with paralysis was trapped and could not come out of his paralysis.
In any area of life where stagnation continues to hold a man back from moving forward is evidence of the agent of paralysis. 
Are you experiencing stagnation physically or spiritually?
For thirty-eight years, at a location for healing, a man with paralysis remained stagnated.
What is holding you down and not living life to the glory of God?
As one that believes in the goodness and mercy of God, is there any evidence of stagnation having a place in your life?
John 5:5-7 records, “Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 
At the breakthrough ground, the excuse is the holding force that holds many downs. 
The man with paralysis has been held down for thirty-eight years by the excuse of no man to put him into the pool.
Are you looking to man for your help, or are you looking up to Jesus for your breakthrough? 
Breaking out of stagnation and not becoming a vessel of mockery is knowing with understanding to lift a voice to God that does not ignore the calling of those who wait on Him. 
The Psalmist states, “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.” 
The paralysis of man is evidence of looking to man instead of looking to God, lifting his voice to God.
It is time to stop directing voice to man but to direct voice to God and look up to God. 
Jesus is the only one who can pull man through, not man. 

Prayer for today: Ask for mercy from the hand of God to bring you out of stagnation.