FAITH CAPSULE: The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.

1 Samuel 13

Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels one to attain what the heart wants. 
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or a believer with sincerity for God? 
What you desire is what you seek. 
One that desires to live in heaven on the heart will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. 
Jesus declares, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
The whole matter that counts and works perfectly is to fear God and keep His commandments, for this is all that counts. 
God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God and to keep His command fulfill the desire to seek God. 
1 Samuel 12:24 states, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great things, and He is doing more for all.
God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart of all. 
God once corrected Samuel in his attempt to make the brother of David the king, “Do not look at his appearance or his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 
Without doubt, the heart of David is what God saw when His word declares, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David sought God, and He saw the desire of David.
God knows that his heart is for His name.
What do you desire? 
The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.
Anyone with a desire for God is in the heart, and God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him to be decorated by His presence. 
King David knows what is best to desire when he said, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
As an acclaimed believer, think if you sincerely desire the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask for the desire for God to become rooted in your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking God is serving Him, following His word.

John 12:23-32

The book of Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “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.” 
To fear God will keep His command and will seek Him. 
Seeking God is serving Him, following His word.
Jesus points out, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” (John 12:26)
The whole matter is to Fear God, seek God, serve God, and follow Him so that the Father will honor such.
Seeking God leads to serving Him. 
In serving God is to follow Him. 
Jesus declares clearly, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”(John 12:26)
Are you serving God fully?
Are you serving God for your material gain?
Search yourself to identify how you are serving God.
Apostle Paul encourages, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”(Romans 12:1)
With understanding, know to serve God sacrificially, and let your serving God be acceptable before God alone. 
Do not serve God casually but serve God by following God fully as Jesus requests, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me.” 
Following Jesus means putting all away to follow him. 
Following Him is stepping after the same way that He stepped while He was on the face of the earth. 
The expectation of Jesus from His disciples to follow Him records, “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mark 8:34)
Do you have the desire to follow Jesus? 
Jesus made fishermen of those who desired to follow Him. The book of Matthew 4:19 records, “Then He said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” 
Serving Him is following Him. 
Following Him is a sacrifice by giving up everything for Him. 
To follow Him is not to be a spectator but to learn and to become fishers of men. 
Jesus’ request for a man to follow Him does not identify Him as a slave master. 
Matthew 19:28 records the reward for all that follows Him, “…Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”  
Serve Him fully to experience the fullness of the reward for following God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him fully by following Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier? 

2 Timothy 2:1-13

Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or by act? 
A Christian soldier need not be introduced as a soldier because warlike disposition will always point such out as one operating as a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
What kind of a soldier are you? 
Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier? 
A soldier should contend or serves in any cause as a soldier of the Lord. Soldiers are to persist steadfastly in their cause and to persevere until an assignment, as expected.
An eligible and qualified soldier for Christ should be a sold-out soul for the cause of the cross that Jesus carried to Calvary.
Paul, the apostle, admonishes Timothy by using an illustration of a soldier. “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” (2 Timothy 2:3-4)
Paul’s illustration for faithfulness is that a soldier (follower of Christ) must endure hardship. 
Unfortunately, Christian soldiers today do not want to endure hardship but will like to enjoy worldly pleasures or live lives of convenience and not commitment. 
Are you an acclaimed Christian with no iota of desire to live life to experience the endureth life of Christ?
Endurance can be painful and can generate unwanted suffering.
Enduring hardship brings a good soldier out of a Christian soldier of Jesus Christ. 
Christian soldiers cannot escape hardship in this world of wickedness. 
The Christian soldiers without endure challenges in this world are soldiers that often entangle themselves in the affairs of this life. 
It is evident in the word of Paul that no soldier engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life and answers to the cause of Christian soldiers.
Peter 2:11 warns against fleshly lusts: “Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.” Fleshly lust is the affairs of this world that will derail a soldier for Christ.
With lust, it is not possible to answer as a sold-out soul for the assignment of Christ. 
Undoubtedly, fleshly lust is a principal target which Christian soldiers should not take for granted because it launches its attack regularly. 
Are you working not to walk living lust?
Living lust will present great or small temptation that does not spare grave for fleshly lust ones. 
It is so deadly that it only goes after its target, the soul of every Christian soldier.
As a soldier of Christ, you become captured by the enemy of all, the evil one, then your role as a soldier will mark you as a victim soldier in the hand of the chief of all wicked, the evil one himself.
Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or one with a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life for Him.

FAITH CAPSULE:  The Word of God delivers and preserves.

2 Samuel 22

The Word of God is worthy and profitable to trust and hope for living by it. 
2 Samuel 22:31 identifies the character of God in His Word. 
“As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.” 
About the way of God: 
Moses proved the way of God is to find grace in His sight. 
Moses confirmed the trust of God in his question with the answer he received from God. 
Moses asked God, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:13-14) 
The way of God is perfect because taking to it is to encounter grace in the sight of God that gives rest.
AS REGARD THE WORD OF GOD IS PROVEN:
The creation of heaven and earth by the Word of God is proven, and having a place in it will not fail. 
John 1:1-3 made it known, “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.”  
The Word of God is proven it comforts in a time of affliction as Psalm 119:50 testifies, “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” 
Also, the Word of God is proven to give rest because it is true that God magnified His Word above all His names. (Psalm 138:2)
AS REGARD TO GOD THE SHEILD TO ALL WHO TRUST IN HIM
God is indeed a shield giving deliverance and preservation.
For example, God declared to be a shield for Abraham not to be afraid in Genesis 15:1, “…Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” 
God was the shield in the old days and is still the shield beyond the times to come.
Are you distracted from trusting God?  
In times of challenges, do not be distracted but trust God. 
With trusting God, the peace of God reigns.
The testimony of God cannot gain entrance and doubt the Word of God.
One that hears from God will have no reason to fear but gain the peace of God.
In a time of challenges, stand on the testimony of God, confessing it is well.
Do not doubt but stay on the Word of God.
Isaiah 26:3-4 testifies, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.” 
The Word of God is profitable to trust in it.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to rest in Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you experiencing a limiting condition?

Acts 3

Stagnation is rooted in lameness. 
In the journey of life where stagnation persists, delay and denial will disrupt getting to the expected end. 
Lameness can be a position or a condition that no one desires. 
No man would love to be in a position of lameness concerning any issue of life. 
Peter and John operated as an agent that delivered a lameness man with stagnation. 
The Bible records, “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.” (Acts 3:1-2)
Are you experiencing physical or spiritual lameness? 
Are you in a position experiencing physical, spiritual, or emotional stagnation rooted in lameness condition nature?
The lame man stagnated outside the temple while inside the temple was a place of healing. 
The lame man had been in that situation since birth. 
Lameness and stagnation often reduce what no one does not want to be.
Are you one with experience the condition of lameness but yet not know? 
Many have been lame since the womb and could be of generational curse nature. 
Any experiencing a “lame” condition in any area of life? 
Like the lame man outside of the temple, are you at the right location and time to receive your deliverance? 
If you can identify your location, and time, your situation is half-solved. 
The lame man at the gate, at the hour of prayer. 
The lame man, after years of stagnation, finally in time to engage his deliverance.  
When the lame man saw Peter and John, he asked for alms, but being the hour of prayer, Peter and John had more to offer him. 
Bible records, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.” (Acts 3:4-5) 
With consciousness, the lame does need to give to expectation for the manifestation to come out of the stagnation condition.
The lame man gave attention to Peter and John for the manifestation to come out of stagnation rooted in lameness over his life. 
The lame man received healing.
Peter testified the deliverance healing of the lame man in Acts 3:16, “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” 
Regardless of the lameness stagnation nature, if you give attention with expectation, then the faith through Him will deliver you from the lameness nature condition.

Prayer for today: Ask God to reverse the irreversible lameness and stagnation in every area of your life for His glory.