FAITH CAPSULE: One that does not know God is not possible to fear God.

Psalm 139

Fear God to obey Him. 
Obedience is serving God. 
Serving God is not the evidence of attending church, being a church member for years, or making a church building house. 
Serve God with fear! 
Psalm 2:11 said it all, “Serve the Lord with fear…”
Serving God right is evidence of being righteous before God. 
Also, serving God wrong is evidence of being wicked before God. 
God knows the ones that serve Him or not because He sees all by way of living life. 
What kind of a believer are you?
How are you serving God? 
Are you serving God right or wrongly?
David, a man after the heart of God, searches his service before God to re-address himself for doing what is right before God. 
Psalm 77:6 records, “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.”
Psalm 139:1, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.”
The word of God demands from all to be righteous before Him, doing right at all times. 
Also, all should restrain from serving God wrongly the character of the wicked.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the mind of God as regards how individuals serve God.
“Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
Serve God right to reap the fruit serving God right.
What kind of a believer are you?
Who are you before God? 
How are you serving God?
Are you righteous or wicked? 
Interestingly, a simple answer that will settle all as regards how one is serving God is not hidden but in the word of God.
The book of Jeremiah 12:1-2 recorded, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.”
One that is wicked cannot possibly be righteous before God.
The wicked ones are quick to quote the word of God, but the word of God is far from the mind with no fear of God. 
One with the mind of God answers as righteous ones with the fear of God.
Fear God by knowing His word to live by His word.
One that does not know God is not possible to fear God.
Know God to fear Him and live a life pleasing Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will serve Him right to be righteous before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you too quiet not to be victorious?  

John 11:1-44

Unfailing consistent prayer that is quiet or loud crying before God will provoke an answer. 
Let your crying be rooted in understanding that you are crying to God, not to a man. 
Crying out loud or crying inside quietly is not hidden before God. 
With understanding, know to cry in prayer to God alone.
One with a schedule of prayer without failure before God is the evidence of crying out to God alone. 
Unfailing consistent prayer quietly or loudly is loud crying before God. Without a doubt, crying out will always get the attention of God.
God is not a deaf God because He hears. 
The question in the word of Psalm 94:9 points out the truth that God hears as stated: “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”  
In your challenges, are you crying out to God or crying out to a man? 
The Psalmist encourages that crying will get the attention of God.
Psalm 18:6 records, “In my distress, I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”
One praying consistently to God is crying out for the attention of God that disregards crying out to Him.
Psalm 39:12 buttresses, “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.” 
Is your crying consistent and loud enough to get the attention of God?
Are you too quiet not to be victorious? 
The word encourages all to open their mouth loud. 
Psalm 81:10 states, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”  
Crying out loud is not evidence of weakness it is a demonstration of trust and hope with the understanding of God in His word. 
The understanding of King David in the word of God is the mark of crying out to God consistently not to fail for the attention of God.
Psalm 55:16-17 buttresses, “As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.”  
The testimony of David is evidence of his reason to get the attention of heaven. 
Praying, the calling out to God all day, will get the attention of God.
Is it your custom to be calling on God in the evening hour, morning hour, and noon? 
Those who make calls on God as their way of life do so regardless of their challenge. 
Does that sound like you? 
To cry out when the need calls for will provoke heaven on behalf of those with understanding to
be praying, crying out to God. 
Do not be quiet in your seeking God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek God more than ever in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Understanding the word of God will have a knowing edge over wicked agendas and not be a victim. 

Hosea 4

Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
One that is lacking is the evidence of one that is not full.
One full of the knowledge of God is bound to go far with God, walking with God or before God to avoid and not become a victim of this wicked world.
To know is to have an understanding. 
Having understanding is rooted in the listening ability to the word of God. 
Do you listen to the word of God constantly or casually?
Jesus asked and answered the reason why there is a listening disability: “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8: 43) 
Having understanding shall not lack knowledge. 
With no understanding is the disability of listening to the word of God.
With no understanding, living according to His word is not possible. Listening will understand, knowing to be stable in a wicked world.
Every command in the word of God is doable, not impossible, for one engaged in the word of God.
Understanding the word of God will have a knowing edge over wicked agendas and not be a victim. 
There is no choice like listening and gaining an understanding of the word of God to become full of knowledge and not become a victim of the wicked world.
With understanding and knowledge, give self to repeated do-able directions for self-deliverance to watch and pray.
Matthew 26:41 records, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.” 
Luke 21:36, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  
Just like Jesus said, the apostle Paul also called for the importance of prayer.
Ephesians 6:18 states, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saint.” 
The book of 1 Peter 4:7 records, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.”  
How is your prayer life? 
Are you one that is serious about prayer? 
Jesus demonstrated the need to watch and pray, and Paul encourages the need for prayer as  Acts 6:4 records, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Be exposed to the word of God and be filled with understanding and knowledge.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with understanding to gain knowledge of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting patiently on God can be painful, but gainful to experience the act of God.

Psalm 40

Believing God is having faith in the word of God to be obedient, waiting patiently on God.
The Bible describes faith as “…the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
Do you believe in God? 
Abraham lived a life of obedience because he believed in God. 
Hebrews 11:8-10 states, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”  
With faith, Abraham distinctly did things that made him obtain good testimony and live life with an understanding of God: he obeyed by going as commanded by God; by faith, he dwelt in a strange land; and by faith, he waited on the promise of God.
Waiting on God partially without a patient in all endeavors shall not gain the promise of God.
Abraham waited patiently on God to arrive at the center of divine assignment for his life. 
David testifies, “I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.” (Psalm 40:1) 
Wait on God with patience! 
King Saul could not wait with the patient when Samuel told him to wait, as commanded by God, for a sacrificial offering before the war against the Philistines. 
The Bible records: “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him. So Saul said, ‘Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.’ And he offered the burnt offering. Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering that Samuel came…” (I Samuel 13:9-10) 
King Saul violated the word of God by not waiting for seven days as requested by Samuel.
Unlike Saul, Abraham waited patiently in the face of hopelessness but lived life with hope for the glory of God. 
Waiting patiently on God can be painful, but gainful to experience the act of God for the patient ones on Him.
Know to wait like Abraham to claim the promise of God for obedience.
Living right is living patiently, waiting on God. 
Why not live upright?  
Give self to the written word of God as stated, “…no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (Psalm 84:11) 
Continually, walk upright by waiting patiently in life endeavors, and God will act with answers.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable living uprightly in the life journey.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you fighting a battle outside the direction of God?

Judges 7

Jerubbaal (Gideon) with his people camped for war against the Midianites when God spoke to him, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claims glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.” (Judges 7:1-3)
In every battle, there is a need for high numbers of soldiers to emerge victoriously. 
God instructed Jerubbaal to reduce the number of soldiers. 
Without hesitation, the Word of God prevailed as instructed. 
Jerubbaal reduced the number of soldiers from twenty-two thousand to ten thousand. 
The God of battle that does not share His glory with no one called on Jerubbaal after he had cut down the numbers saying, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there…” (Judges 7:4)
If you are Jerubbaal communicating with friends about the instruction that God called to reduce your soldiers, how would you react? 
The obedience of Jerubabel to reduce the number, without doubt, His friends would have considered Jerubbaal as foolish, spiritually insane, overzealous, and unrealistic. 
Jerubbaal led the people to the water as directed by God to have the number reduced the second time. 
At the water, God spoke again, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.” (Judges 7: 5-6). 
In going against the Midianites, one that considers assigning men that lapped from water over ones that got on their knees to drink water would have been considered foolish. 
Always engage the instruction of God regardless of how foolish it sounds. 
The cut of number went to battle against the Midianites.
Going to battle from twenty-two thousand to three hundred sounds foolishness by human reasoning. 
For any man, it is suicidal to go to war after ending up with such a small number. 
Twenty-two thousand seems to be the right way and not the foolish way. Remember that Proverbs 14:12 states, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
Jerubbaal did not take the path of the assumption that seems right but obeyed the instruction of God without complaint nor doubt and went with three hundred men to fight a battle that initially called for twenty-two thousand men. 
Are you fighting a battle outside the direction of God?
No one should replace the instruction of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the instruction of God shall rule your life.