FAITH CAPSULE: To be alive at this time of the year is not to complain but give thanks to God.

Psalm 119:1-48

In this particular season of the year, there is no time for complaining to God. 
Are you looking around enough?
As a living soul begin to give thanks more than the thanks of the past. Think of it there is no time engaging complaining before God. 
Acts of complaining are evidence of a rebellious spirit.
The children of Israel, due to their never-ending complaining against gracious God, provoked a painful response of God over their life 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 has brought you this far, and He does not plan to cut off in your going further if a rebellious spirit shall not gain entrance in you.
Just like the Israelites, make sure that the spirit of complaining will not have a place in your life against God.
Great and mighty testimonies of God are everywhere. 
The testimonies are enough for meditating that is enough for thanking God instead of complaining to God.
The word of God pointed out, “The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.” (Psalm 19:8) 
The testimonies of God are more than enough to lead and take believers into the promises of God. 
Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies? 
One that knows to give thanks praises God as a way of life, not complaining.
The Psalmist praised God with the whole heart!” (Psalm 119:2), 
Also testifies, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.” (Psalm 119:24), 
“I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.” (Psalm 119:46
The testimonies of God are worthy of mediation. 
Do you have testimonies to lift to God in thanksgiving instead of complaining before God?
Giving self to testifying the goodness of God is seeking God faithfully
to please God. 
Hebrew 11:6 buttresses, “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.”
Let today be your day of meditating on the testimonies of God.
Meditating testimonies of God will not give a place for complaining.
Thanksgiving is the right to engage, not complain.
In the place of complaining, the journey of eleven days turned out to be a journey of forty years. 
Are you thanking God to gain and retain the hand of God over your life? God is not deceived but decides in your heart to be thankful to God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the heart of thanksgiving shall be your portion, not to give a place for complaints.

FAITH CAPSULE: Does the Word of God means to your navigation in the world of darkness?

Psalm 119:129-136, John 1:1-18

John 1:1-5 Introduce the Word of God: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” 
Without a doubt, the Word of God is life, and life was the light of man. 
Do you know the Word of God is the light?  
The world is wickedly clouded, full of darkness. 
The only way to navigate to the expected end is to be full of the Word of God, having light continually.
The Word of God in the beginning with God is the command of God, the law of God, to lead and direct.
The Bible points out the Word of God: “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105)
“For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life.” (Proverbs 6:23)
The light for the world is here, speaks across the pages of the Bible for anyone that will hear.
The light of God is what it takes for the world to get over clouds and darkness. 
The light of God that gains entrance in one gives direction and clarity not to be a victim of a wicked world.
With the Word of God in one, there will be no falling for darkness. 
With Word, one shall be able to stand and not be a victim of falling flat in this wicked world.
Are you allowing the Word of God to take charge of your life?
The Word of God that gains entrance into the life of one life will not become a victim of the wicked world. 
Do you have a place for the Word of God to be a part of your life?
Jesus, the Word of God, came to give life and to give it more abundantly. (John10:10) 
Are you granting Him access to your life? 
The Psalmist confirms the need for the Word of God to gain entrance: “The entrance of the word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130) 
How can the Word of God enter without spending time studying? 
Allow the Word of God to enter you. 
The light of God will generate light to navigate the wicked darkness of the world. 
In the coming days, weeks, months, and years, know to give yourself to the Word of God.
Live life by the Word of God to gain the light of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you always allow the entrance of the Word of God for your deliverance and direction.

FAITH CAPSULE: Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.

Ezra 7

The Psalmist testifies to God, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16)
Is the satisfaction in His hand your abiding place? 
If the fear of God is your portion evidently, satisfaction becomes your abiding place. 
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” 
The right hand of God is all that everyone needs to ask. 
Also, in the hand of God, there is deliverance and preservation that settles for having satisfaction in life.
It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
God spoke when the Israelites were in the hand of Pharaoh of Egypt, “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.” (Exodus 3:20)
“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.” (Exodus 7:5)
The hand of God is power, and no force under heaven can deny the hand of God. 
Indeed, through Moses as a vessel, the hand of God delivered mighty deliverance for the Israelites. 
Ezra testified the hand of God as the agent of being granted every request during their quest to rebuild Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6) 
Ezra testifies to the hand of God as gracious (good) when they were able to get to Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:9) 
Ezra 7:28 records, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…”  
Ezra could not stop but testifies again, “And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.”(Ezra 8:31)
What would one do without the hand of God in life?
Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position. 
The book of Ecclesiastes states, “Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.” 
This testimony of Ecclesiastes 2:24 adds to the truth that everything that has to do with living life abundantly is in the hand of God.
Jesus was received by the right hand of God after He left for heaven. 
Mark 16:19It states, “So then after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” 
Let the right hand of God be your portion.
The hand of God is to desire in facing the challenges in the life journey.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to reign and rule over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have you allowed a mixed multitude to turn your celebration season into the commercial season? 

Romans 1

Are you a true believer or an unbelieving believer? 
A failure to accept the Lord Jesus as the gift of God for all will not know the love of God.
God sent His beloved son, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) 
Are you a true believer, one forgotten and not remembered that the gift is not a commercial celebration?   
One that is not mindful of God and the works of his hands shall expose to the spirit of forgetfulness.
Paying attention to the works of God is giving jealous God His due exaltation. 
It is a blessing to be paying attention to the works of God.
The children of Israel could not wait for God but take their way. 
Know and understand that the way assumed as right only leads to death. (Proverbs 14:12) 
The book of Psalm 106:13-14 records the forgetfulness of the Israelites, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” 
Not waiting on God will lead to wasting away like the children of Israel that died in the wilderness and did not get to the Promised Land.
The lust of the past prevented them from remembering the acts of God that brought them out of bondage. 
God was leading them to a better future, but they were reserved for their ugly past because they forgot His wondrous works that delivered them.
A mixed multitude will mislead the celebration of the gift of God to commercialize the gift of God. Exodus 12:8 records about mixed-multitude that went up with Israelites on their journey to Promised Land. As the journey advanced, the mixed multitude caused them to be lustful and lost.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the lust, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” 
The lust of the Israelites was the cause of their loss of not arriving at the promise of God.
Focusing on the works of God prevents one from forgetting and not sinning to God. 
Today, mixed multitude are not focusing on Jesus as the gift of God for salvation but commercial celebration. 
Celebrating the world in the place of the word of God identifies a believer and an unbelieving believer.
It is time to avoid mixed multitude to avoid the commercial celebration of the gift of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and not be a victim of ignorance.

FAITH CAPSULE: God sent His love for all.

Genesis 39

God cares to give His love, but the world does not care to know.
The love of the word for God is not glaring, and that prompts David with a curiosity to ask God, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm8:4)
Do you know the love of God?
Bible records, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
Do you know about the love of God, or do you know?
To know the love of God is identified in 1 John 5:3, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.” 
Keeping the commandment of God is doing His will, and obeying the word of God. 
It takes sacrificial commitment to obey the commandment of God.
With God, there is a standard for every area of His expectation for all. 
God did not just ask for love, but He does expect a standard for love. Deuteronomy 6:5 records, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” 
To love God means to give Him all. 
Through the pages of the Bible, men, and women that gave Him all were able to live a fulfilled life and accomplish great exploits to the glory of God. 
Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and other giants loved God and were able to do great exploits. 
The giants in the hand of God demonstrated the love of God by their way of obedience to God.
Know Jesus, the love of God, not know about Jesus? 
The truth is that God is not receivable. 
Joseph is an example of one with love for God to ignore the temptation for the wife of his master.
Joseph loves God and could not make himself become the object of the wife of his master when she could not resist asking Joseph to lie with her. 
Joseph refused to sleep with the wife of his master. 
Joseph was obedient with his love for God and had no excuse to sleep with the wife of his master, stating, “…how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.” (Genesis 39:9)
The love of Joseph for God made him refuse and not give himself to enter into a way of wickedness towards God. 
Joseph demonstrated love for God.
Jesus, live life for God, the evidence of His love for God.
To live life for God is documented for all to live a life for God, evidence of one that loves God.
Every time the love for God overrides the love for self, heaven shall respond by lifting such. 
Joseph, by his love for God, the favor of God could not depart from him because he loved His God and demonstrated His love for God by not giving in to temptation, the sin of the wife of his master.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you to love Him fully.