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.

FAITH CAPSULE: God has given, and all should be giving themself for His gift.

Matthew 2

Among the ways of seeking God is celebrating God for who He is a good and caring God. 
A God that is jealous will undoubtedly appreciate being celebrated by His creation. 
With understanding, it is safe to say celebrating the birth of Jesus is testifying to the goodness of God, making Him known.
Making Him know with testimony is seeking Him. 
The word of God demands, “But seeks first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”(Matthew 6:33) 
It is always worth it to make seeking God a fruitful experience not a display of glamorous celebration. 
A glamorous celebration can be just an attraction that all displays in the name of celebrating God. 
In your celebration, handing gifts to families and friends is not evidence of a true reflection of love before God.
Celebrate God to demonstrate as one existing for God.
Live love as one that celebrates the love of God in Jesus.
Jesus came to offer the love of God.
1 John 4:9 buttresses, “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” 
Jesus is the love of God for all. 
1 John 5:1 states, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” 
Give Jesus a gift by accepting His love and abiding in Him.
What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him? 
At the time of His birth, he got gifts.
The Bible records, “And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” (Matthew 2:11) 
The wise men visited the birthplace of Jesus with gifts for His coming as the savior of man. 
As an acclaimed believer, a supposedly wise one, what do you have to offer Him on His birthday? 
Besides glamorous celebrations, handing out gifts and receiving gifts, and singing songs not rooted in the heart or with a lack of understanding, what do you have to offer as a gift for the birthday celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ? 
Is your celebration meaningful? 
Does it truly reflect your confession, living life for God? 
Celebrating one that is not pleased with one could be an incomplete or unacceptable celebration. 
Do you have faith? 
It is faith that pleases God (Hebrews 11:6) but nothing else. Christianity or Christmas celebration is not just about adornment but knowing God as the Lord and savior.
Disallow adornment from occupying you from celebrating the reality of Christ Jesus. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from religion into the reality of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to prepare your inn 

Luke 1:26-56

Jesus is the Lord and Saviour.
At His birth, there was no available in the inn for Jesus.
Jesus was not received at His birth.
Do you have an inn available to receive Jesus?
Know to prepare your inn, and be available for the Saviour to occupy your inn once and for all.
Let it not be once a year of allowing the in and out of Jesus.
In the past days, Jesus did not force any into the unavailable inn, and today He will not.
What is holding you from giving your inn to Jesus?
Live life continually with an inn filled with the word of God. 
From today, allow Jesus to take His place in your inn.
Many know about the coming of Jesus but do not know to have an inn for Jesus.
Do you have an inn for Jesus?
Have an inn for Jesus, and celebrate Him all year, not for a season in a year.
Having Jesus in your inn is sharing Him with your world as the gift of God for all.
Jesus was born in a manger because there was no room for Joseph and Mary in the inn. 
The inn that matters to Him is the inn of all, not the commercial inn that is filled and not has a place for Him. 
It does not matter the kind of gift of this world that occupies your inn, waiting to be delivered, as a gift to acclaimed loved ones. 
Let the love of Jesus fill your inn as a meaningful gift. 
Jesus said in Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Jesus came to have a place in our inn so that we overcome and be granted a seat with Him on His throne.”
As you celebrate daily, let your inn open up for Him.
When one is full of self, living life for self by lying, deceiving, and manipulating with all sorts of selfishness will not open an inn for Jesus.
What are you full of not to have a place for the coming Lord and savior in your inn?
Many are with what will not carry them when the trumpet sounds. 
Some are filled or occupied with desires that will not grant salvation. 
The opportunity for the inn to become the most acknowledged inn in the history of creation came knocking, but it was too full to be opened for the birth of the Lord. 
How full are you to deny your inn for the Lord Saviour?
Delete to clean out your inn with the desire to live life for God.
Prepare your inn for the coming back of the Lord and Savior.
Prayer for today: 
Ask that your inn be open and be occupied by Jesus, always.
At the arrival of Mary and Joseph, with the expectation for having the birth of Jesus.