FAITH CAPSULE: Doing right continually is with a loyal heart.

2Chronicles 25

Doing right before God but not maintaining right before God is evidence of a lack of a loyal heart.
What kind of a believer are you before God?
Man can demonstrate deception, but not God.
Do not do right with no commitment to God as a way of life, evidence of a loyal heart.
Acclaimed believers are doing right without maintaining doing right before God is evidence of no loyal heart in the sight of God.
Today, continual wickedness reduces acclaimed believers and unbelievers with no loyal heart.
Amaziah is one that did right before God but was not loyal before God. 2Chronicles 25:1-2 records, “Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a loyal heart.”
For example, one is right before God accepting Jesus as the Lord and savior but not loyal in the sight of God.
Many are right to come out regularly to worship God in the church but not loyal in the sight of God.
Does that sound like you? 
2Chronicles 25:3-4 records about Amaziah that was right, “Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king. However, he did not execute their children but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin.” 
Amaziah carefully obeyed the Law in the book of Moses, which counts as doing right in the sight of God.
For Amaziah, the lack of a loyal heart in the sight of God is evident after winning a battle against the Edomites.
It was a battle he would not have been able to win, but the divine intervention of God gave victory to him and Judah when they defeated the Edomites. 
After his victory, “he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them. Therefore the anger of the Lord was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?” (2Chronicles 25:14-15) 
Amaziah was unwilling to listen to the prophet sent by God.  
Amaziah could not maintain a loyal heart for God that won him battle.
Today, many answers as Amaziah doing right in the sight of God but with no loyal heart before God. 
Be committed to God doing right and maintaining a loyal heart in the sight of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live right with a loyal heart before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life to experience His visitation.

Genesis 18

BE SPIRITUAL
To be spiritual is to be prepared to receive from God. 
For example, spending time in the word of God continually is taking a position to experience the visitation of God. 
God gave His word to Moses for His people, “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.” (Exodus 19:10-11) 
The prescription in the word of God was to prepare the Israelites to experience God.
Preparation is to stay away from sin, open self to the word of God, to experience Godly visitation.
ENGAGE EFFECTIVE PRAYER
Engaging in effective prayer is to shut in with God and shut out the world.
The visitation of God is in seeking Him diligently at the prayer altar. Jeremiah 29:13-14 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity…” 
Without a doubt, prayer is an opening key to assessing the presence of God for His wonders.
WALK IN OBEDIENCE
Living life in obedience to the word of God is to remain and retain the presence of God. 
Obedience to God is evidence of faithfulness and not being a vessel of evil agenda.
John 14:21 records, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
Obey God to experience His visitation.
BE SPIRITUALLY SENSITIVE
Spiritually sensitive is to be spiritually awake and not miss out on divine visitation that will position one in the assignment of God.
John 6:63 states, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Spiritual sensitivity to the word is to engage the presence of God in His word.
Abraham could not miss unexpected divine visitation when he received the word of God of the son of promise and the deliverance of Lot from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 18)
Receiving a message from God is the engaging visitation of God
PRAISING/THANKING GOD
Praising and giving thanks to God is like being pregnant with the wonders of God.
For example, thanksgiving of Jesus always provokes the experience of the presence of God, His visitation.
At the grave of Lazarus, Jesus gave thanks to God, to experience the visitation of God.
John 11:41-43 records the word of Jesus, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”  
Live for God to experience His visitation.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to encounter His divine visitation.

FAITH CAPSULE: With desire, one is set not to give up but to push on to achieve expectations. 

Proverbs 20, Matthew 15:21-28

Desire is a like a force that drives one to arrive at an expected end. 
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain what the heart expects. 
With desire, one is set not to give up but to push on to achieve expectations. 
A woman of Canaan with desire had an inner feeling which compelled her to receive healing from Jesus despite the denial held against her from receiving from Jesus.  
Matthew 15:21-22 records, “Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, ‘Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.’”  
The woman of Canaan desired a positive response from Jesus but the response for her was enough to discourage her desire for Jesus. 
Matthew 15:23-24 records Jesus and His disciples’ response to the woman of Canaan, “But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she cries out after us.’ But He answered and said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’”
Life is full of ups and down as the world is loaded with discouragement to work against desire. 
The woman of Canaan maintained her desire and remained focused on Jesus. 
Instead of her giving up, she pressed further. 
She persisted, resisting all discouragement. 
Matthew 15:25 records, “Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, ‘Lord, help me!’”  
Despite her desire, Jesus answered her, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” (Matthew 1:26) 
The answer of Jesus was not enough to discourage the woman of Canaan’s desire but made her insist and persist in her miracle. 
The woman responds to Jesus, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” (Matthew 15:27) 
The desire of Caanan woman from the depth of her heart was not hidden from Jesus as Jesus ultimately answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.’ And her daughter was healed from that very hour.” (Matthew 15:28)
God only sees and moves by desires in the heart of man. 
Proverbs 21:2 states, “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the hearts.” 
No one can hide in the heart from God. 
Proverbs 20:27 buttressed, “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, Searching all the inner depths of his heart.”
The case of the Canaan woman demonstrates that Jesus answers to all with a desire for expectation.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to desire from God without fail.

FAITH CAPSULE: Loving God is not just of emotion but get motion to doing good for the glory of God.

1 John 3

The command of God from the beginning speaks to all loving one another.
Deuteronomy 6:5 records, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” 
Luke 10:27 states “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.”  
Loving one another is evidence of loving God.
The message for all since the beginning is to love one another.
1 John 3:11-12 states, “For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.” 
The majority always claim love for God when there is no love for one another.
An acclaimed believer that does not practice righteousness by not loving others as commanded by God is a liar.
1 John 3:10 buttresses, “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.”
Do you have a love for God by living by His word? 
The love of God is to love unconditionally, sacrificially, and personally.
Personally: Christ should be the character of the believer that claims to love.
1John4:20-21, “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
Jesus demonstrates unconditional love for all to learn and to live life for His glory.
With is the love for all?
He died for all while we were sinners. (Romans 5:8)
Sacrificially, the demonstration of love should be of the love of God, not just talking about love. 
1 John 3:16-18, “By this we know love because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but indeed and in truth.” Do you love God as commanded by God? 
Loving God is not an emotional or mouth love.
God sees all hearts under the heaven. 
Love Him indeed and in truth.

Prayer for today: Ask that love of God become established in your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Continually live life for the glory of God.

Genesis 39

Continuity can be uninterrupted flow. 
Continuity demands unceasing discipline living right for the glory of God. Through the pages of the Bible, those who continually focused on God excelled greatly to the glory of God. 
Continuity eschews inconvenience and answers with commitment, meaning that those who continually seek God do not have excuses for the inconvenience in every area of seeking after God. 
Continuity is what constantly connects one with God.
Giving continually to serving the Lord God shall experience the hand of God consistently. 
The Psalmist testifies, “But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more.” (Psalm 71:14)
“So shall I keep Your law continually, forever and ever.”(Psalm 119:44)
Hosea 12:6 buttresses, “so you, by the help of your God, return; Observe mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.” 
Act 6:4 laid it down for all, “we are to give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Hebrews 13:15 admonished us, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God.”
With continuity, Joseph served God faithfully and did not give himself to sin.
Joseph did not hide in sin but stayed away from sin before God.
Joseph experienced pressure from the wife of his master.
The wife casts longing eyes on Joseph, asking him to sleep with her. 
Joseph responds, “But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:8-9) 
Joseph, abstaining from sin, hidden from the world but not from God, was evidence of the continuity to avoid sin and sinning before God. 
Joseph states, “How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God.” 
Continuity should be a constant with consistent walking with God.
Continuity in serving God is to position one to gain the hand of God that has never failed to deliver. 
Seek God by serving Him continually.
In the journey of life, whenever contentment is missing in the life one, covetousness shall set in to give way to complaints that become the act of rebellion. 
With rebellion, there is no conscience, and compromising the word of God establishes itself. 
A believer that compromises demonstrates a lack of commitment.
Lack of commitment is evidence there is no continuity in living life by the word of God. 
Live life continuity in the word of God for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live a life of commitment to the glory of God.