FAITH CAPSULE: know to plead for the mercy of God.

Exodus 15

Plead for the mercy of God!
God is at a distance where or when sin exists and does not accommodate sin.
With sin, one is short of the presence of God, but without sin, one will gain the fullness of the presence of God. Romans 3:23 speaks to all, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
Distance from the presence of God will provoke unwanted, unexpected painful challenges that exist in the wicked world of sin.
With repentance from sin, the mercy of God shall answer painful challenges.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the mercy of God has been consistent to see you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
His mercy is with forbearance that does not run out.
Only God is in the position to render mercy unto all without failing.
The mercy of God does not result in merit but in the goodness of God. 
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by His creations to obtain His mercy.
God testifies to His mercy, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” (Romans 9:14-16)
The mercy of God is in place for all, and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one to experience His mercy.
The mercy of God could not be displaced or denied of the Israelites from coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In this wicked world, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God as the Bible records His word.
Know to plead for the mercy of God.
Know to plead for the mercy of God.
God identified Job as a blameless man that fears God and shuns evil but not with an excuse not to plead for the mercy of God. Job 9:15 records the pleads for mercy by Job in the presence of God, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
There is no excuse for Job to receive the mercy of God without pleading for His mercy. 
Just like Job, the Psalmist pleads for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Know to plead for the mercy of God.

Prayer for today: Ask, and plead before God for His mercy over the challenges of your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: God creates all, calls all.

Genesis 19:1-29

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. Revelation 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
God alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days. 
1Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” 
God alone is above and beyond all, and Psalmist states it clearly, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God will make and un-make.
God alone is the unchanging changer in a position to reverse the irreversible. 
God creates all.
God creates all for divine assignment, and His calling comes with the process for His purpose. 
The calling of God for you must be connected to God continually by dwelling and abiding in His direction, the only way to answer the calling of God in life.
God has a calling for all with a different assignment. 
The calling of God will break one at the initial of calling but will no doubt turn such to God, to experience His blessing when obeys His direction.
One called will not be left alone.
When God calls you, do not look away from His direction.
God called Lot and his family for salvation.
The wife of Lot looked outside of the direction to position her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God will come with challenges, but obedience to God will deliver.
Know to remember, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”  (1Thessalonians 5:24) 
When God calls you, do not be discouraged from answering the calling of God.
Deny doubt, and answer the calling of God over your life.
Discouragement will question you with negativity to redirect your calling wrongly. 
Engaging the calling upon your life, commit yourself to no man but God alone. 
The word of God in John 2:24 is for understanding, to be cautious, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.”
When God calls you, there will be no negotiation for your preference of how or when to answer God.
God is the Creator of all and sees before or beyond the journey in life. Also, time belongs to God for the called one to arrive at the divine assignment of God.
When God calls, there will be no prior arrangement; no announcement before calling, and no baggage to hinder or slow the call down. 
Where are you today?
Consciously or unconsciously, life today can be a journey that will lead to the calling of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life for His calling over you.

FAITH CAPSULE: One compromising the word of God shall complicate the calling of God.

1 Samuel 2:22-36, 1 Samuel 3:1-13

Compromising the word of God is evidence of a lack of fear of God and a lack of understanding among believers and unbelievers.
Are you compromising the word of God by choosing against how He wants all to live life?
Compromise exists in the church and outside of the church. 
Any believer that serves God as such pleases is against the word of God. 
Compromising the word of God is a lack of faith. Without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6) 
Compromise is not of God. 
Compromising the word of God is the root of confusion to complicate the life journey before God. 
Compromise can be a conscious or unconscious way of engaging evil, not living life to fear God. 
A believing believer that does not restrain wrongdoing is taking to a position of compromise, not to do right.
James 4:17 buttresses, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
Are you compromising the word of God to impress your world?
Are you compromising the word of God?
Compromising the word of God in all areas of life is bound to complicate the calling of God.
The sons of Eli compromise the word of God.
The compromise of the sons of Eli complicated his life of journey.?
The Bible records the corruption of the sons of Eli in 1 Samuel 2:12-15, “Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the Lord. And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”
Compromising the word of God by the sons of Eli was recorded as a great sin before God because Eli did not restrain his children. (1 Samuel 3:13) God called on Samuel to identify and point out His judgment of Eli, “In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.” (1 Samuel 3:12-13) 
Eli compromised before God, and it counted as his sin before God. 
The compromise of Eli was his corruption before God, and his sons experienced the consequence of their sin.

Prayer for today: Ask to be delivered from every ground of compromising His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you living life to know to enter the kingdom of God?

Matthew 19:13-30

Regardless of the challenges of the earth, all should know to live life and not miss the Kingdom of God.
The journey of life is a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
In the life journey, how one walks with God will determine making it to the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God.
What does it take not to miss the kingdom of God?
The word of God speaks to all, “…Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:23-24)
Demands of the word not to miss the Kingdom of God is very challenging as disciples were stunned to question Jesus, “…Who then can be saved?” (Matthew 19:25) 
Are you a rich one in your world not living by the word of God?
Are you a rich one living life with comfort without commitment to God?
One with the richness of the world is a tendency not to take a position to enter the kingdom of God.
The disciples of Jesus asked, “…who then can be saved?”
Jesus answered the disciples by stating, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
Through the pages of the Bible, the possibility belongs to God.
Prayer before God and thanksgiving will locate God.
God performs in prayer and perfects in thanksgiving.
All should give themselves to praying with the expectation of the possibility before God.
In the life journey, the route that leads to the kingdom of God also demands following Jesus.
The word of Jesus records the need to follow Jesus.
Matthew 19:28-30 states, “So Jesus said to them, “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. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.”
Regardless of the status before God should not be an excuse not to follow Jesus.
The word of God demands following Jesus will make it to the Kingdom of God.
With desire and continual prayer that will make it possible not to miss the Kingdom of God, follow the Word of God (Jesus) in life journey, a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
Are you living life not to miss the kingdom of God?
Know to follow the word of God fully, and not miss the Kingdom of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you follow Jesus in all the days of God over your life.  

FAITH CAPSULE: How is it with your heart before God?

Daniel 1

What is your desire for God?
What one thinks is what one asks.
Ephesians 3:20 records, “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.”
Do you want a heart for God?
One with a desperate heart to live life for the glory of God shall experience the backing of the good hand of God.
No, that there is heart activity hidden from God. 
Psalm 44:21 buttresses, “…God knows the secret of the heart.” 
The Bible records about the heart, “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.” (Proverbs 20:27)
How desperate is your heart for the glory of God? 
Daniel demonstrated his heart to live life for the glory of God. 
The hand of God backed Daniel up to do great exploits for His glory. 
Daniel 1:8 states, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore, he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” 
Daniel purposed in his heart for God to live life to do great exploit (Daniel 11:32) 
How is it with your heart before God?
God sees all. 
Know that “As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reveals the man.” (Proverbs 27:19)
Give your heart to God that sees heart with desire for His glory.
Nehemiah, a cup-bearer had a heart for God.
The heart of Nehemiah was with genuine concern for the welfare of Jeremiah but not for self-interest. 
The heart of Nehemiah was a desperate heart for a better life for his brethren.
Nehemiah had a heart for God to see his desperate desire to touch lives for the glory of God. 
God invested in Nehemiah as a vessel for reconstructing the broken wall of Jerusalem. 
The report of Jerusalem caused a burden on the heart of Nehemiah.
Nehemiah, with a heart for God, intercedes on behalf of the land and his people. 
The Bible records in Nehemiah 1:3-4, “And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” 
A caring heart is a heart for God.
Nehemiah had a caring heart that poured out in prayer on behalf of his people and his homeland. 
He asked for nothing that had to do with selfishness but petitioned for things that had to do with a better life for his people. 
A believer should have a heart for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to have the heart for God.