FAITHCAPSULE: One with a desire for God will live a life centered on the promise of God and not be a loser.

Genesis 13

Abraham spoke to Lot:  “Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me, if you take the left, then I will go to the right; or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.” (Genesis 13:9)
Abraham needed a voluntary separation from Lot when he made a statement of contentment to deny grievances between him and Job. 
Abraham was content. 
Abraham did not allow himself to ride over his care for Lot.
Abraham was counting on the promise of provision in the word of God for his life as was at the beginning of his journey.
Abraham is evidence of content. 
Abraham did not rope himself with love for material or property with abundance. 
Ecclesiastes 5:10 points out, “He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase…” 
Abraham with a desire to gain the promise of God. 
Abraham could not replace the promises of God with possessions. 
One with a desire for God will live a life centered on the promise of God and not be a loser.
Through the Scripture, many giants in the hand of God lived a contented life with testimonies of greatness through the goodness and mercy of God. 
He was a man of contentment. 
He was always letting go and not experiencing the threat of lack.
Abraham was contented and did not doubt the blessings of provision.
Paul, in his first letter to Timothy, mentioned, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these, we shall be content.” (1 Timothy6:6-8) 
Paul did not call it a ‘gain’ but a ‘great gain’. 
Paul was not just using the power of the word but testifying his experience of living the word of God.
In a life journey, contentment is like a driver that never fails but arrives at the expected end. 
Contentment answered for Abraham and also answered for Moses. 
In the journey of Moses to the center of his divine assignment, contentment in him did not allow derailment.
Exodus 2:21-22 records, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”   
In life, one that can trust and hope in the promises of God demands contentment and denies desire that outruns possessions. 
When contentment is rooted in the godliness of a believer, there will be grace to move forward in the center of the assignment. 
What is it that you need to let go and allow the hand of God to become established over your life? 
All should know that godliness with contentment is to gain.

Prayer for today: Ask to be impacted with contentment to take charge of your life journey.

FAITH CAPSULE: Take control of the things you see not to become corrupted

2 Samuel 11

Take control of the things that you expose yourself to see.
Without a doubt, what eyes of man feed on the heart will live. 
One that sees negatively, the heart, shall become corrupted. 
What are you feeding your heart that is negative?
David, a man after the heart of God, lost control of his heart when he recklessly set on negativity.
2 Samuel 11:1-3 documents the reckless David, “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. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”  
The eyes of David fed his heart when he saw and beheld a beautiful woman bathing. 
What are you beholding wrongly? 
David’s heart was not diligent enough to rebuke the negative presentation of the eyes. 
What are your eyes feeding your heart? 
David responds to his eyes as his heart by acting, “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.” (2 Samuel 11:4-5) 
Indeed, David committed a crime before God when he eventually set up the death of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba.
David fed his heart wrong with evil engagement. 
David was responsible for the killing of Uriah and took over his wife. 
David could not hide from God, but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
Take control of the things you see, do not expose your heart to self-destruction. 
Keep your eyes clean to keep your heart pure. 
Jesus called the eye a lamp of the body. 
Matthew 6:2 records, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” 
What the eyes feed on, the heart lives on.
A diligent heart will be pure. 
To be pure in heart is to be righteous. 
To be righteous will identify a believer as one with integrity. 
A believer with integrity lives the life for God. 
The pure in the heart is not wicked and will see God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your eyes and heart to keep on positive.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God, know and have in the heart that it is wisdom to fear God.

Psalm 103

The book of Psalm 64:9 states, “All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider His doing.”
Do you fear God as commanded by the word of God? 
Does your fear of God reflect the life you are living? 
Proverbs 19:23, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; he will not be visited with evil.” 
Fearing God should not be a one-time engagement but a continuous way of living life. 
It is wisdom to know and live life fearing God. 
The Psalmist also pointed out that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). 
Samuel states clearly in 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.”
Joshua 24:14 admonishes, “Now, therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth…” 
When there is fear of God in the life of one, there will be every reason to serve Him in truth with the whole heart. 
Any believer serving God with the consciousness of all the great work the Lord has done will live with the understanding that there is nothing God cannot do.
Can you think of what God cannot do?
It is foolishness to give up on God for what God can do.
Fear God and have in the heart that it is wisdom to know God. 
Not fearing God is also a lack of wisdom to knowing God, evidence of foolishness. 
Psalm 14:1, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’. They are corrupt, they have abominable works, there is none who does good.’” Where do you stand? 
Do you fear Him just in the mouth, or do you fear Him in your heart?
Those who fear God take a position as His treasure. 
To fear God is taking a position of not distancing from God. 
Psalm 103:11 buttressed, “For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.”
It is grace to be alive. 
Living life is not a right but a privilege of God. 
It is wisdom to know that in living life, there is nothing that counts most but to fear God. 
The book of Ecclesiastes concluded with a clear warning, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God is not just a suggestion but a wisdom to live and be living for God to gain His attention. 
Make it a way of life to fear God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to put His fear in your heart and not depart from Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Does this speaks to you?

Job 1, 2

The Bible describes Job, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1)
One with the fear of God is complete before God. 
The story of Job testifies to one with the fear of God, experiencing the wicked hand. 
Despite the faithfulness of Job, he was exposed to the attack of Satan but could not become terminated. 
He lost all his wealth; Satan attacked his health; Satan attacked his character; Job lost His property and children. 
Above all, his wife and friends ridiculed his faith.
In it all, Job remained persistently faithful and did not despise God. 
Job experienced brokenness in all areas of his life, but his breakthrough was intact when God responded to his faithfulness.
Job 42:12-15 records the response of God to the faithfulness of Job, “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yokes of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.”
In the brokenness of Job, God upholds him for his breakthrough.
In life, to be broken comes before a breakthrough.
To be broken comes to the glory of the Almighty God. 
Fear God, walk consistently, and be relevant in line with the word of God. 
Are you with the experience of overnight changes; you are down, friends can no longer help, and desertion is showing their faces everywhere you turn? 
You can hardly count on anyone for help, while it seems you are the only Christian experiencing out-of-place. 
All that surrounds you is beginning to wonder how long you will endure what you are going through. 
Complaint, discouragement, or self-destruction is not what you need. 
You need to know that God will see you through if you keep seeing through with the mirror of the word of God. 
God has a plan for you. 
Isaiah 63:14 buttresses, “As a beast goes down into the valley, and the spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, so You lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.” 
The point here is that God constantly wants to be glorified and make Himself a glorious name. 
When your breakthrough arrives, the glory of God shall be your mark.
Job is a testimony. 
God will see you through and know that you are not alone.  

Prayer for today: Ask God, “O Lord my God, look upon me and let me not live a life of failure, in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God that enters will give joy.

Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4

Receive and believe in the living word of God.
The word of Jesus to His disciples confirms the word of God that enters as the source of joy when He said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11) 
John also confirms the word of Jesus as a source of joy, stating, “And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” (1 John 1:4) 
Paul the apostle buttresses, “…Christ is preached, and in this, I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.” (Philippians 1:18) 
One that allows the entrance of the word of God shall retain and be full of the joy of the Lord in life.
What is taking away the joy of the Lord?
One with sorrow does not have joy.
Choose joy to deny sorrow.
Nehemiah states against sorrow in his word to the Israelites when he said, do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10)
Are you experiencing sorrow?
Receiving and believing in the living word of God is the source of joy.
Exchange sorrow for joy to be strength-full, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
One that is hearing and hearing the word of God is bound to be full of joy to access the presence of God. 
The psalmist testifies, “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11) 
Has He promised and not done? 
In the place of joy, one with joy should not have a place for worrying in the world. 
One that has received and believes in the word should have no place for worrying but rejoicing because Jesus, the word of God, the source of joy, says: “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:31-33)
One that opens for the entrance of the word to live the purpose of God will have the strength of God, the root of joy.
What is it that is denying the joy of God in your life?
In a time of every challenging situation, engage the word of God by knowing that challenges shall eventually work together for good for one with the presence of God.
One that lives life by His word, rejoicing will become the portion of such in the face challenges of the world. 

Prayer for today: Ask God that the word of God become established in you.