FAITH CAPSULE: Let the month be of living in the order of God. 

Isaiah 38

The word of God is His order.
The order of God is a precise direction not to become a victim of disorderliness.
Let the new month be your month of walking in the order of God.
One that knows to remember and prepare is in the order of God to gain and retain the presence of God.
Failure not to remember God will not know to prepare to have an encounter with God.
1 Corinthians 14:40 encourages all, “Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Ask: This month, remembering, preparing before God, and keeping His order shall be your portion not to be disordered and be displaced from living to the glory of God.
The word of God is His order, the source of having faith in God.
Romans 10:17 informs all: “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
The character of one with faith is living in the order of God.
HAVING FAITH:
Faith comes by hearing the word of God without ceasing.
Faith will also depart from one that does not give itself, hearing the word of God consistently, continually.
Are you giving yourself to hearing the word of God without ceasing, living in the order of God?
Many are with claim to have faith.
It is not enough to have faith, but one faithful matters and counts, toward living in the order of God.
Knowing about faith is limited, not being faithful, the identity of one that knows the faith, when engaged in giving self to the word of God as a way of life.
So many know about faith but do not know to be faithful and not live in the order of God.
To be living in the order of God is crucial, pleases God.
One living in the word of God is the character of seeking God diligently. 
Living in the order before God is the antidote to disorder.
In every form of the disorder, God does not inhabit.
Hezekiah, the King of Judah, does not have his house in order as Isaiah 38:1 records, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”
In every way of life, lack of order is evidence of the lack of faith that prompts painful consequences.
King Hezekiah turned to God for repentance, and God had mercy on him not to die an untimely death. (Isaiah 38)
Determination is not enough to live by the word of God. 
Determination failed Peter to deny Jesus three times, but desire and the prayer of Jesus established Peter to live by the order He gained, walking with Jesus.
With desire and prayer to live in order before God, so shall it be.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled living life in the order of God.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience to thanksgiving as commanded by God is a sacrifice.

John 11:1-44

Are you giving thanks to God or thinking thank before God?
Are you obedient to God? 
Obediently, give thanks to God as commanded and will provoke the hand of God to give life in the place of death.
At the grave of Lazarus, Jesus gave thanks, and Lazarus gained life in the place of death.
Bible records, “Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. “Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” (John 11:38-39) 
Are you like Martha, with a lack of hope and do not obey the command of God to believe?
Jesus responds to the unbelief of Martha:
“Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” (John 11:40) 
Martha does not believe, but the people obeyed Jesus, “then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” (John 11:41-44)
Obediently, the people took away the stone as the thanksgiving of Jesus gave life to Lazarus in the place of death.
Obey God continually, give self to giving thanks as a way of life before God, and live life for the glory of God.
Are you experiencing a journey of the wilderness with a lack of provision? One that gives obedience to the command of God will not know lack. 
Obedience to His command and thanking records the provision of plenty in the place of lack.
Mark 8:6-9, “So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. They also had a few small fish; and having blessed them, He said to set them also before them. So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. Now those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away.”
Allow plenty in the place of lack by knowing to obey the word of God, and let thanking God become your way of life.
A heart full of thanksgiving continually as an acceptable sacrifice before God will provoke the attention of God to meet needs.

Prayer for today: Pray to live life obediently to God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you learning from the word of God, the source of having hope in God in this wicked world?

2 Timothy 3

The reason to celebrate Jesus always is the understanding that God gave His all to all not to become a victim of the wicked world but to live life abundantly for His glory. 
John 10:10 records, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Are you giving all to the word of God not to become a victim of the thief, the wicked one?
The word of God declares in Genesis 6:5, “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.”
Are you giving attention to searching for yourself, not living as a wicked one before God?
With no exception, God has given ALL, His word.
Learn not to be wicked but to live life abundantly for His glory.
God, in His word, has given what it takes to live life, to be complete in Him.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 records, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
God has given Himself to all in His word as a way of life.
Have you been giving yourself to the word of God that is profitable for living life?
Are you learning from the word of God, the source of hope in God in this wicked world?
Romans 15:4 points out, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope”
Give yourself to the word of God, the wisdom of God, to learn the word of God, to gain understanding and knowledge, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
The word of God, Jesus Christ, is the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:30 records, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” 
Learn to know the truth of God, fear Him, and be free to live life for the glory of God.
One that gives self to the word of God that is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness, that such may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work, wickedness shall not be marked on such. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
All should give themselves to the word of God, which is for learning, and the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope not live life as a wicked one.
Learn the wisdom of God, and gain knowledge which is the way to live life stability.
Isaiah 33:6 counsels, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Gain wisdom and knowledge to fear God that God treasures.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will give yourself to learning the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What does it mean to be answering as a CHRISTIAN?

Acts 11

Answering to be a CHRISTIAN is not by attending a gathering in the name of a church or quoting the word of God.
Answering to be a CHRISTIAN is not by the word of God but living by the word of God.
Answering to be a Christian is not by engaging in an assignment in the church.
Answering to be a CHRISTIAN is not by having a title.
Many are with the title but lack a task.
Are you a CHRISTIAN searching for self to gain the understanding to know God or not knowing about God?
So many answers as a Christian, not live life because of no understanding with LACK KNOWLEDGE as a Christian!
Are you answering as CHRISTIAN?
Do you have an understanding of what it means to be a CHRISTIAN?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN (CHRIST-LIKE)?
With the persecution, the followers of Jesus Christ scattered as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the Lord Jesus. 
At Antioch, the title Christians started, meaning Christ-like.  
Acts 11:26 documents, “…And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
The ways of the disciples of Jesus identify believers as CHRISTIANS (Christ-like) 
Today, many are answering as Christians, while the majority do not live life as Christians like the disciples of Jesus, living life by the word of God.
A Christian should live by searching self, to seek God to follow the word of God as His disciple. 
Do you search yourself as David testifies in Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
SEARCH YOUR SELF constantly, and seek GOD diligently as a Christian.
Searching yourself in the word of God is like looking into a mirror, addressing yourself, and living life as Christ-like.
Among the reasons to SEARCH SELF constantly is seeking God diligently.
Diligently, seek God with understanding and know God not to live a life of waste.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 warns all, “For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.”
A failure to SEARCH (SEEK) to gain UNDERSTAND or know about will not have a place for deliverance but to become snared by evil agenda.
The word of God said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)
Do you search to know why you are not with KNOWLEDGE?
Lack of knowledge is evidence of no understanding.
Search for yourself to be a Christian (Christ-like). 
Search yourself continually, and gain understanding to know God.
Live life not to become a victim of the wicked world or live life as a wicked one but to be led in the way of everlasting.
Search yourself, find God, to live as a Christ-like (Christian).

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding to know God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God delivers and directs. 

1 Samuel 15

Are you opening your heart to the word of God?
The destination of the word of God for all is the heart.
One that does not give heart to the word of God is taking a position for destruction.
King Saul despised the word of God in his heart to experience destruction.
God sent Samuel to tell Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now, therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel, and donkey.’”(1 Samuel 15:1-3) 
Saul did not give his heart to the words of God. 
Saul despised the word of God, and as a result, God rejected him. (1 Samuel 15:10-35)
The word of God that enters the heart is the key to deliverance and direction. 
The word of God delivers: The word of God that entered into the heart of Moses took Israel out of the bondage of over 400 years.
At the time for God to bring the Israelites out of bondage, Moses was reluctant to lead the Israelites. 
God spoke to Moses, “Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.” (Exodus 4:15-17) 
According above verses, the word of deliverance that made Moses God over Aaron eventually gave the Israelites the key to becoming free from the bondage of over four hundred years. 
The word of God is the direction: Unfailing direction is in the word of God that teaches in the way which leads to the expected end of the journey. 
Psalm 32:8 testifies to the instruction of direction, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
With the deliverance of the Israelites from over four hundred years in Egypt, God gave the word of direction to lead the Israelites to Promised Land. 
Exodus 13:17-18 records the direction word of God, “Then it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.”

Prayer for today: Ask for a receptive heart for the word of God.