FAITH CAPSULE: In the place to do right, are you engaging wrongdoing?

2Samuel 11

Always do right to disengage wrongdoing.
In every assignment, that right is to engage in right doing, not wrongdoing. 
King David engaged in assignment right when he sent Joab, his servants, and all of Israel to battle.
However, he got the wrong result for himself as he stayed back by not leading to the war. 
The Bible records in 2 Samuel 11:1, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.”(2 Samuel 11:1)
David was to be at the battlefront when he remained at home.
King David used his rightful power when he unrightfully took possession of the wife of Uriah. 
Uriah the Hittite was at the battleground when David made his move for his wife. 
2 Samuel 11:4-5 records, “Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” 
David chose to be at the right place at the wrong time. 
David was supposed to be at the battlefront but chose to be home at the wrong time. 
The absence of David from the battlefront provoked devices outside of God. 
He committed adultery and also extended it to murder. 
Sin is like a disease that does not stop itself when there is no choice in place to stop sinning. 
Wickedness was the sin of David. 
In the place to do right, are you about to engage in a sin wrongly? 
It is always good to go back to God before the enemies use one as a ground to expand your sin. 
David could not put away his choice of sin but took his sin to another level. 
2 Samuel 11:14-15 records, “In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”
On that morning hour, David could have been in the presence of God seeking forgiveness when it became time for him to orchestrate the death of Uriah in the battle.
God rightfully positioned David as a king, but he took his rightful position to commit an unrightfully act. 
Regardless of your God-given position, inside or outside of the church, always remember, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.” (Proverbs 15:3)

Prayer for today: Ask God to take your moments for you to become focused on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: His testimonies are worthy of mediation.

Psalm 119:1-48

God is the perfect creator. 
In the beginning, God created by His word. 
Genesis 1:1-3 testifies, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” 
God created by speaking His word. 
The creation of God by the word of God is the testimony of God. 
Without a doubt, the testimony of the Lord God is sure, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7)
In keeping by meditating on the testimonies of God, there is a blessing, rejoicing, riches, and counseling that keeps one from shame.
Are you constantly meditating on testimonies of God? 
The Psalmist confessed testimonies:
Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies…”
Psalm 119:14, I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches.” 
Psalm 119: 24, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.” 
Psalm 119:46, I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.” 
The testimonies of God are all His doings, all He has done, the things He is doing, and the evidence of what He can do. 
His testimonies are worthy of mediation. 
In life, keeping the testimonies of God is getting to the expected end. 
The Israelites could not keep to the promise of God by meditating on it.
The Israelites could not meditate on the testimony of God as a vessel to the Promise Land. 
Repeated complaints of the Israelites in the place of meditating denied numbers of Israelites from stepping on the Promised Land. 
God responded to the complaint of the Israelites in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
God showed them great things and mighty signs in Egypt and on their way out of Egypt. 
The signs and wonders of God are His testimonies. 
Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies?
Meditating on the testimonies of God will provoke faith in journeying to the promise of God.
Hebrew 11:6 buttresses the exploits of meditating testimonies of God, “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.” 
Meditate on the testimonies of God; please God and your journey shall be pleasant.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to keep His testimony to provoke your faith in Him.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Hear, see, and receive to become what the word says.  

Proverbs 4
This new month, with desire, pray to be hearing and seeing in the word of God, and what you see shall become of you.
The statement of Job is encouraging, testifying, 
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5) 
What one hears in the word of God is what one sees to receive and become of such.
Do you hear and see in the word of God to experience the manifestation of the word?
Proverbs 4:21 speaks to all, “Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.” 
Hear, see, and receive to become what the word says.  
Ask to always see in the word constantly.
God has brought you this far.
It is not how long challenges persist or resist but how far God has brought you. 
God deserves thanks from all continually.
Give thanks to God for all things.
Gratitude is a feeling of being grateful or thankful. 
Among the identities of a thankful one is contentment. 
Regardless of your situation, are you giving thanks to God always?
Ephesians 5:20 encourages: Give thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Giving thanks to God for all situations will have all things work together for good, to the glory of God. (Romans 8:28)
Know that God loves all. 
God is mindful of His creation. 
God creates all to live life for His glory. (Revelation 4:11)
Give Him thanks for His goodness and mercy that have brought you this far in life.
Ask that the goodness and mercy of God shall not expire over your life in the name of Jesus.
Challenges that persist resists should not deny one from thanking God.
Know to trust with hope in God.
Trusting God should not be limited to when there is no challenge. 
Job, during his days of unimaginable challenges, declares, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” (Job 13:15) 
If Job can trust God during his challenges, what prevents all from trusting God? 
Are your challenges more than what Job experienced?
God will not overlook you in your challenges.
Trust with hope to provoke the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 encourages, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
Ask God to enable you to trust and have hope in Him.
Trusting and hoping in God is the character of one that seeks God diligently.
Seeking God with all heart and all soul is the evidence of seeking God diligently, and such will find God.
One seeking God with diligence is the one that pleases God to gain and retain His reward.
This season, seek God in His word to see Him, to live life for God. 
Seek God diligently, thanking Him for all things, the evidence of having faith.
One with faith will please God to find Him.
To find God is to see Him in His word, to receive from God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will live life to the glory of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny. 

1 Samuel 15

Twisting truth is a blatant lie. 
Twisting truth is evil.
Deuteronomy 19:19 responds to lying as evil by stating, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
One will twist the truth to deceive, steal, and bear witness to the act of demonstrating inconsistency in the word of God. 
Twisting truth is a choice of living for the father of lies. 
John 8:42-47 records the word of Jesus, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear because you are not of God.” 
Twisting truth is evidence of not listening to the truth but paying attention to lying.
Twisting truth is evidence of accepting the devil as a father.
Twisting truth is doing the will of the devil.
Twisting truth does not have a stand before God. 
To have a stand before God positions one in the place of power of God. The standing of Elija before God was rooted in not twisting the truth. 
1 King 17:1-2 records the stand of Elijah before God, “And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” 
When the word of God does have a place in one, it becomes possible for one to claim to stand in the word, just as Elijah took a stand and commanded rain to stop for three years and a half. 
One that does not twist truth stands in place of pleasing God. 
Twisting truth is evidence of not believing God, not hearing God.
Twisting truth yields spinning (turning) truth. 
Attempting self-defense provokes spinning the truth. 
The problem is that when one twists often, such becomes convinced that lying is the right way. 
Spinning truth also leads to too much talking and leads more to lies. 
Saul defended by spinning (twisting) the truth. 
Saul was with the word of God to destroy Agag but spare Agag. (1 Samuel 15) 
Twisting, spinning truth made Saul incur a curse that rejected him from being king. 
Avoid twisting truth; do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of lying, spinning the truth of God.