FAITH CAPSULE: Seek Jesus diligently to know Him, not to know about Him.

John 21

All to hear directly from God to know and answer the calling of God.
Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli.
Until he heard directly from God, he could not resume at the center of divine assignment. 
Samuel did not know the calling of God when God called him three times while he was answering Eli. 
After the third time of calling, Eli redirected Samuel to go and hear and answer directly to God.
1 Samuel 3:9 records, “Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.”  
Samuel heard directly to know and answered God for the calling over his life.
Disciples spent time with Jesus but evidently could not hear to know Him enough and could not resume the calling of divine assignment upon their life.
Jesus repeatedly appeared to His disciples before they heard, saw, and knew Jesus to resume their divine assignment.
After the resurrection of Jesus, he appeared to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, where they were on fishing business.
The Bible records, “But when the morning had now come, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus” (John 21:4)
Disciples and all that do not know Him are those who read and do not see Jesus in the physical and are bound not to know Him.
Many celebrate the rise of Jesus with a lack of knowledge.
Many spend time in the church but very far from Jesus while He is in their presence. 
Today, so many answers are titles, but there is no evidence of engaging the task of the calling.
When not knowing God is in place, destruction shall be in place. 
Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”  Seek Jesus diligently to know Him and avoid self-destroy. 
Jesus is the living word of God.
Know Him by encountering the word of God. 
Ezekiel encountered the word to gain knowledge of God. 
Ezekiel 2:1-2 recorded, “And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him who spoke to me.”
No man hears God indeed and doubts Him. 
Having doubt is the evidence for not being built by the word. 
Allow the word of God to build you. 
Before all the build-up, Jesus was there in the beginning, and there He is forever. 
Jesus is the Master builder. 
The word that brought forth creation is still the same that is building those who receive and believe in Him. 
Get to know Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know Him more diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer gets the attention of God.

Psalm 40

A prayer that will not miss the attention of God is when asking to be doing the will of God.
In the prayer lesson, Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the will of God. (Matthew 6:10)
The will of God is His plans or thoughts concerning the life which God has given to His creation.
God confirms in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
God is a good God with good thoughts toward His children.
The good thoughts of God are not in the assembly line but already in place.
Understand and know to ask for the will of God over your life.
Jesus encourages, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9)
The word did not ask to beg for what is in place for all. But with the evidence of having a desire for the will of God, you ask, seek, and knock to receive from Him.
Asking is praying or calling on God through the name of Jesus Christ.
Asking sometimes requires consistency or persistence, but the bottom line is that children must ask to receive.
Prayer does not have to be in multitudes of words or colorful words.
Prayer is not limited to time or location but prays with understanding.
A prayer encased in the word of God is with power prayer that moves mountains.
Faith has its source in the Word of God, and the Bible testifies mountains cannot resist, but the prayer of faith moves mountains.
Do you carry the word of God?
In your prayer, the word you carry will answer as fire to burn off the agenda forces against you, to the glory of God.
Jeremiah 23:29 confirms, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord…”
The word of God is fire.
With the knowledge and understanding in the word of God, know to ask and not fail to receive.
The way to receive from God is by positioning self by waiting patiently before God.
The prophet Habakkuk did not hide the secret of waiting on God to receive from God.
Habakkuk 2:1 records, “I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.”
When you ask before God, do not fail to take the position to receive.
Know and understand to pray and receive.
Waiting with the patient is the way to receive.
Know to wait patiently, a way not to miss an answer.
King David testifies in Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.” In his waiting, he positions himself to receive by being patient regardless of how long it takes him to receive an answer.

Prayer for today: Ask by thanking God for answered or yet-answered.

FAITH CAPSULE: What you are thinking is asking consciously or unconsciously before God.

Numbers 14

What are you thinking?
What are you asking that God will not give heed?
Get the understanding that what you think is what you ask.
God sees all, and He alone hears all.
Psalm 94:9 admonishes all, “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”
What is it that you are saying out loudly or silently before God?
God alone hears it all. He hears it all in your thinking and sees it all before you say it out through your action.
What are you thinking or asking, thinking God does not gain your attention?
It is wisdom and understanding to demonstrate the knowledge not to be confessing negative that spring up from the depth of thoughts of the heart.
The Israelites confessed negatively, complaining, asking from thought, and questioning God: “Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” (Numbers 14:3)
God heard the word of the Israelites by answering through Moses in Numbers 14:28-9, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.)” 
The children of Israel received exactly all they asked from God.
God is not a joker.
God does not play hide and seek with no one, the evidence that God does not bless carelessly.
What is your complaint before God that you are thinking or asking?
Proverbs 23:7 says, for as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
What you are thinking shall build you up in the face of your challenge for deliverance and preservation.
What will deliver not becoming a victim of thinking or asking with complaints or negative is the power of God inside of one.
Ephesians 3:23 speaks to all, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
Are you one that carries the word of God inside of you?
The word of God is the power of God that shall enable the manifestation of expectation.
Think or ask about what you are expecting from God that is favorable.
Avoid thinking or asking what can provoke the hand of God against your life.
The children of Israel, in the thought and asking that is negative to provoke God against them not to arrive at the promised plan of God.
God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, do not void the word of God.
What is it that you are thinking or asking wrongly before God?

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall enable you not to be a victim of negativity from your thoughts and your asking.

FAITH CAPSULE: No one is born with the fear of God, but all learn to fear God by hearing the word of God.

Deuteronomy 6

To be fearful of God is to be sinless before God. Exodus 20:20 buttresses, “…His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” 
No one is born with the fear of God, but all learn to fear God by hearing the word of God.
God sent Moses to the Israelites, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.” (Deuteronomy 4:10) 
One that learns to fear God will know to seek Him, as  Deuteronomy 6:13 states, “You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him and shall take oaths in His name.” 
Sincerely, do you fear God? 
Today, many claims to be Christian but far from walking as CHRIST-LIKE. 
Many claims to have faith, but the majority are not FAITH-FULL. 
God deserves to be feared. 
God pays attention to recognizing those who fear Him indeed. 
One that is full of the things of this world is empty of the word of God and not full of the fear of God.
With the fear of God, Abraham obediently answered the calling of the command of God.
Genesis 22:12 records, “And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” 
Wickedness has been on earth, and God sees it all.
Genesis 6:5 states, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” 
Wickedness has been, and it remains at the center of evil-doing due to a lack of fear of God. 
Foolishness in the heart of one is blinding one from learning and knowing that God sees all wickedness. 
It is the fear of God that sets Job before God. 
Job 1:1 records, “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.”  
Is it your identity to be shunning evil? 
Learn to fear God by hearing and hearing His word. 
To fear God is seeking God with a loyal heart. 
The eyes of God will be spotting those who fear Him.
2 Chronicles 16:9 records, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore, from now on you shall have wars.”  
God is watching over all to identify one that fears Him, to seek Him diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask to fear God all the days of life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to a warning and not become a victim of the world. 

2 Samuel 11

Doing right wrongly will not receive an answer that is right as the answer.
With no exception, Colossians 1:28 sounded a warning to every man, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” 
Are you one that is taking to the word of God as a warning? 
The word of God is a warning for all to gain understanding and be free not to become a victim of the wickedness of this world.  
In the line of warning, 2 Timothy 2:1-4 states, “You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 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.” 
Are you an acclaimed soldier of Jesus Christ? 
Regardless of title among believers, there is no one with exception from the warning in the word of God.
A good soldier of Jesus Christ carries a mark to be identified by the enemy of God.
A soldier of Jesus Christ should take a careless stand to becoming a victim of the enemy.
Taking a careless stand is letting down guard as a soldier of God. 
Letting down a guard will invite the enemy to bring the war to the soldier front. 
King David, a soldier for God and a leader, lowered his guard for the enemy to strike against him. 
All the victories in the life of King David could not uphold him against an enemy with adultery in front of David.
King David lost the battle against adultery.  
2 Samuel 11:1 records, “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.” 
King David was at the right place at the wrong time.
As a prime target of the enemy, there is no room for mistakes that are life-consuming. 
As a believer, you cannot afford to be at the right place at the wrong time.  
The warning word of God is for learning (Romans 15:4) 
Attention to the warning word of God is to identify healing and deliverance from the vices of wickedness under the heaven.
Apostle Paul speaks to all, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10-11) 
Give self to a warning and not become a victim of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask that you increase giving attention to the word of God.