FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life. 

Colossians 3:1-17

God is the creator, the One and only God that cannot and should not be disregarded but live life for His glory.
Are you assuming to be seeking God?
Are you a believer by the mouth? 
Are you searching for yourself to identify who you are before God? 
Are you a believer in truth to the heart?
Believing God is not only by confessing with the mouth but seeking God diligently. 
To be seeking God with diligence is the standard by God for all.
God is a jealous God while giving attention is the antidote to gaining the attention of God.
To seek God with diligence is giving attention to God.
What is it that is worth more than seeking God diligently?
Jesus admonishes, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) 
Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life. 
Seeking outside of God is taking a distance from the presence of God. Seeking besides God is setting self for the wicked world.
Accepting the truth of the word of God is to believe by behaving in the word of God. 
Jesus identifies a challenge for believers: “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.” (John 8:45) 
Give yourself to the truth of God to put the devil to shame.
A believer with truth lives by the expectation of God.
Have you given your life to the truth of God? 
In truth, seek God with all diligence. Jesus is the truth of God, John 14:6 records, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Believing God is behaving the word of God.
In this world of challenges, seek God diligently, and know to set your mind to experience the promise in God.
Paul buttresses, “If then you were raised with Christ; seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:1-2) As a believer, what you seek and set your mind on in the truth of God is what will make you up in the journey of life. 
The standard of seeking and setting the mind on things above states: “…seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deuteronomy 4:29)
Consider setting the mind seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. 
A commitment to seeking God will position man before God that all things are possible.  

Prayer for today: Ask that you want to seek God with diligence in all your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you failing not to give regard to God?

Psalm 106:13-33

Forgetting what God has done is not knowing to wait on God. 
Experiencing a delay of expectation should not prompt discouragement.
Importantly, know that delay is not a reason to forget the doings of God.
Psalm 103:2 states, “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.” 
Forgetting what God has done or what He can do can lead to taking a route of sin. 
By the hand of God, the children of Israel came out of the bondage of Egypt but could not remember what the Lord did for them. Psalm 106:13-14 mentions, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” (Psalm 106:13-14) 
The Israelites overlooked the doings of God.
They failed to recall and did not remember what the Lord did for their salvation from the bondage of over four hundred years.
When there is a failure for one not to remember the beginning, arrival at the destination shall experience a complication.
As a result of the truth that the Israelites could not remember the works of God, failure not to wait for the counsel of God took charge of their life. From their testimony, it is evident that not waiting on God is a passage to become wasted, a failure to arrive at the promise of God. 
The Israelites lost exceedingly.
One that is under the cloud by the delay of expectation will forget the works of God?
Can it be that you are disregarding the works of the hand of God? 
Isaiah 5:12-13 documents what it is not to give regard or consider work of God “The harp and the strings, the tambourine and the flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” (Isaiah 5:12-13) 
A failure to give regard to the work of God is bound to experience the consequence of disregarding God.
One that does not give attention to what God has done will deny self from responding to what God is doing or what God will do.
Where are you standing?
Are you failing not to give regard to God or not giving attention to what God is doing or what He can do?
It is iniquity not to give regard to the work of God or not to consider the operation of His hands because He is a Jealous God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to remember and not disregard the works of His hand.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Why not give regard to the living God and know to worship Him instead of worrying? 

Mathew 6:25-34

Worrying is rooted in the failure to give regard to God.
Is it the issue of meeting needs that prompts worrying?
The Lord Jesus is the provider that meets the needs and gives life abundantly. 
He came to take away worrying, but the enemy is in the business of activating worrying in life.
Worrying cannot be corporate with worshipping God. 
Jesus warns against worrying, stating the reasons not to worry, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin.” (Mathew 6:25-28) 
Why worry when Jesus specifically encourages against worrying? 
Apostle Paul buttresses the word of God when he states in Philippians 4:19, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 
God is more than capable and shall supply all needs. 
He alone is the Almighty God, and nothing is impossible for Him to do.
The word does not promise the supply of needs for anyone based on the power or strength of such.
However, needs can be in place for anyone according to the riches in glory of Christ Jesus.
Why not give regard to the living God and know to worship Him instead of worrying? 
Many meditate on the promise of God in the mouth but do not meditate in mind. 
With meditating, the word of God in mind, the power of God will answer. However, when doubt is activated, the inability to wait on the promise of the word of God provokes worrying. 
Worrying can be a reason for a wrong answer, and the worrying one to react negatively in the face of a challenge. 
In the place of worrying, Jesus admonishes His disciples on how to respond to challenges of the end time, “But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.” (Mark 13:11) 
The word of God for disciples also speaks to all that knowledge to give regard to God continually. 
At all times of challenges, give God regards in His words to have worrying subsided.

Prayer for today: Ask to be delivered from the spirit of doubt and worry.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give regard to God, and know to avoid captivity.

Psalm 145

Know God to fear God, and give regard to God more than ever. 
Know God that is able and in place to deliver in all challenges. 
Give regard to God that gives possibility over impossibility.
Giving regard to God is rooted in knowledge not to become a victim of captivity.
It is not possible to stop growing in the knowledge of God.
Knowing God is a continual and never be an end in knowing God.
Do you know God not just to know about God?
Get to know God and gain knowledge having an edge in ways of life.
One with the lack of knowledge is with an assurance to enter in the way that leads to captivity. 
Isaiah 5:13 confirms, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
Without a doubt, the act of knowing is the way out of captivity. 
For example, giving regard to the work of God is with consideration for His works and not misplacing knowledge of God that keeps one from captivity. 
In life, Isaiah 5:12 clearly states the reason why the lack of knowledge drives to captivity, “…But they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands.”  
Psalmist also confirms that a failure not to give regard to the work of God destroys as it states, “Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.” (Psalm 28:5) 
Give regards to God, know to avoid captivity, the way of destruction, and not be built for God.
Giving regard to God is consciously paying attention to the operation of the hand of God. 
Meditating on the word of God is the meditation of the word of God that creates all His work. 
Meditation is not memorizing the word of God in the head. 
Meditation is learning laboriously in the heart day and night to establish continual communication with God. 
As a desire for the knowledge to be regarding the work of God and not be a victim of captivity, allow mediation of the word of God to become your way of living life.
Regarding the word of God is looking closely or attentively to observe steadily, to hold in awe (reverence, fear, wonder, respect) to look upon or consider in a specified way.
Give regards to the wondrous works of God that declare His name near to all.
Psalm 75:1 testifies, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” 
Why not begin to give regard to the works of His hand to gain and maintain the fear of God that keeps one from any form of captivity? 
Give regard to God more than ever, and gain the knowledge not to become a victim of the challenges of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to be giving regard to Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?

Exodus 16

Without having trust and hope in God is not complete to arrive at the plans and promises of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  
Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. 
Trusting God and having hope in God makes man rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but stopped trusting that is moving without hope in God to meet their needs.
Are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist testifies, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). 
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the desire for want by the Israelites overtook their need.
One focusing on wants before God instead of gaining needs is set for self-destruction.
Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?
The desires of the Israelites for wanting that lack turned them to the complaint before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is an act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny one from receiving the promised plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a vessel of complaining before God, or one with the character of complimenting God at every breath of life that He is giving you?
The Israelites craved a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. 
God had a plan to meet the need of the Israelites.
Exodus 16:16 records, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  
The direction of God to meet the need was enough, but the Israelites focused on wanting to violate the command of God by taking portions more than directed.
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The want of the Israelites more than their need could not help them but lost.
One with faith in God for His goodness, such will trust with hope in God to gain enough more than one wants. 
In all waiting to seek God, be patient, look up to God, and know that the provision of God is always on time to meet needs.
Paul confirms, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to trust and hope to wait on God.