FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire, not just the determination to serve God.

Psalm 27

It is a good choice, the right one to serve God. 
Responsibility is all that the right choice demands.
Determination with desire shall set one to serve God reasonably to experience the blessings of serving God. 
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a church-going believer or a true believer in God? 
With desire is to know God and live life for God.
One that desires to live for God will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is encased in fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “…fear God by keeping His commandments, “for this is man’s all”. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”  
Fear God, keep His commandments to desire to seek Him reasonably.
1 Samuel 12:24 advises fearing God and serving Him wholeheartedly, “Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Without any doubt, the desire for God should be in the heart.
Every desire for devotion to God will provoke one to be deposited in the presence of God. 
Are you with the desire to seek God without an iota of doubt?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great and is doing things that should provoke the desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the acts rooted in the heart of all.
Once He corrected Samuel concerning Jesse’s son, Eliab, “Do not look at his appearance or at 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). And before this incident, it was without doubt that, David’s heart was what God saw before Samuel declared, “…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) 
God sought David and saw the desires of his heart for Him.
King David knew what was best to desire of the Lord when he stated, “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) 
From today, the desire from the depth of my heart to serve God shall provoke enablement by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy for you to live a life serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Possibly, answer the question for yourself.

Philippians 2

Is it possible that your selfishness has closed you not to be mindful of God and not know Him as the evidence of living life as a foolish one?
To live life, do not be fooled because it is foolish to say there is no God. 
A selfish heart that is not mindful of God is bound to be far from God. Proverbs 14:1 identifies, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.”
As self-minded, such is not with the fear of God, to become self-displaced from God, the automatic route into the path of eternal damnation.
Without any compromise, the will of God for all is to fear God. 
No one is born into this world with the knowledge to fear God.
The knowledge to fear God comes from learning the word of God. 
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 informs all, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” 
To live a life with the fear of God is the character to be humble and obedient to God continually.
The word of God will cause tenderness of heart to be a place for humility. 
Without humility, obedience is not possible. 
Philippians 2:8 records that Jesus “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The humble will fear God. 
How would selfish-minded, one with selfish ambition as in selfishness, self-centeredness that is not of God, shall know to fear God? 
Do you fear God in deed and truth? 
To be lost from the word of God will be disobedient to lose the rightful position in God.
Pray to find and Know God, to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 identifies what it takes to find God, “…seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Do not be deceived but fear God from the depth of your heart.
Today, search for yourself to know your stand before God.
The way one lives life is a testimony of character, the evidence of selfishness or set for not being mindful of God.
Come out of selfishness, and live life to reflect the mindset of God.
It is not right to live a life of selfishness.
Selfishness can be unconscious for self-destruction.
Live life for God, not for yourself.

Prayer for today: Pray before God to enable you to live life for His glory. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God.   

Genesis 22

Are you one that feels lonely for not having friends?
Why not give yourself to having God as your friend?
Having God as a friend is not with any risk.
Having God as a friend is possible but is a sacrifice living strictly by the word of God, not the way of the world.
The word of God testifies possibility of having God as a friend:
Exodus 33:11, “So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.”
John 15:14, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
John 15:15, “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant, does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
James 2:23, “And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.”
Are you with a desire to have God as a friend or the world as a friend?
Today in the wicked world, having the world as a friend is like opening yourself to the activities of the world.
Are you a believer feeling lonely and prompted to have friends?
It is better to be lonely and not have flocks of friends.
Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God in His word.
One with God will mount up not to live a life of waste.
Having a flock of friends, the world, can be a foolish move.
Proverbs 9:6 encourages, “Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.”
With a desire to be a friend of God, ask to live by the command of God. 
The word of Jesus in John 15:14 states, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
Are you one that is willing to put aside all for the command of God over your life?
One that gives self for the command of God is counted as a righteous one.
Abraham lived life and gave himself to doing the command of God. 
Genesis 12:1 and Genesis 22:2 records the command of God to Abram: “Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:1)
Genesis 22:2, “Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:2)
Abraham obeyed God with all his heart.
Obedience to the command of God is the key to living life as a friend of God.
It is possible to live life as a friend of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Until one builds by the word of God, such cannot answer for divine assignment in life. 

Jeremiah 1 

Honestly, search for yourself to identify and know what is building you.
The word of God is power and communicates power.
The power in the word of God will transform anyone who believes in the word of God. 
No one should not compromise the word of God. 
Compromising the word is despising the word.
Are you available to be built by Jesus?
Matthew 16:18 records, “… I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”  
A temple of God not built by His word will not be able to contain what He purposed for your life to carry for His glory. 
Will you allow Him to build you up for His glory? 
He will build His church, and nothing shall prevail against it. 
Do not prevent yourself from being built by the word of God.
In Acts 20:32, Paul admonishes all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified” 
Jesus, the word of God, is the One that builds and gives life abundantly. 
How can the word build you? 
The word of God must be planted and grow in you. Psalm 119:11, Thy word have I treasured in my heart that I May not sin against thee” Before Jeremiah could become what the Lord wanted him to be, he gave himself to the word of God that sounded in his direction to build him.
Jeremiah 1:5 records about Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” 
The same word that identified and called Jeremiah out informed him what he was before he was born. 
The word of God caused him to begin to see from where he could not see. The word of God prepared him and positioned him into the center of his divine assignment. The Bible documents the word which built him up into boldness: “Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,’ says the LORD.” (Jeremiah 1:8). 
The word guided Jeremiah to be bold, answering his divine assignment for his life. 
Just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel also encountered the word. “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.’” (Ezekiel 2:1-2) 
No one 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.

Prayer for today: Ask the word of God shall build you up for His glory.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Give meaningful thanks and praise to God.

Psalm 92

Thanking and praising God is not a thinking engagement. 
Give thanks to God in every moment of engagement. 
Giving thanks and praising God cannot be separated and carries weight to glorifying God.
Psalm 92:1, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name…” 
Are you thinking of thanks instead of giving thanks? 
With understanding, giving thanks to God is the key for all things to work together for good. 
Give well-meaning thanks and praise to God, not thinking thanks and praise. 
The Psalmist buttresses praising with understanding, “For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.” (Psalm 47:7)  
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle. 
Know that when thanking and praising God without understanding, it becomes empty emotion.
Thanking and praising God is always an act of declaring the goodness of God.
The Psalmist buttresses, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High. To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night.” (Psalm 92:2) 
Giving thanks and praising God is not limited to the guidelines of anyone to provoke the move of God.
 Psalm 92:3 identifies a way of giving thanks: “On an instrument of ten strings, On the lute, And on the harp, With harmonious sound.” 
King David also demonstrates giving thanks and praise by leaping and whirling before the Lord. (2 Samuel 6:16) 
Thanking and praising God can be like King David’s dance before God. 
It is never too much to be giving God ceaseless thanks and praise. 
The Psalmist declares why all should thank and praise God: “For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands. O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.” (Psalm 92:4-5) 
God is worthy of thanks and praise worship to declare His work.
Giving thanks and praise is also evidence of giving God attention due to Him. 
Volumes and pages of books will never be enough to identify the goodness of God. 
Giving thanks and praise will gain the attention of God. 
God inhabits the praises of His people.
Give thanks and praise to God for all He has done.
Give thanks for all things.
Give thanks for all He is doing and for all expected from Him. 
Are you expecting God to move concerning your expectation?
Jesus believed God to bring Lazarus back to life from death. 
Jesus did not wait for Lazarus to rise before He gave thanks to God for Lazarus to rise from the dead.
John 11:41-42 records, “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, ‘Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me”  
Your Lazarus will rise. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be giving thanks and praise to God.