FAITH CAPSULE: For your sin, are you counting on excuses before God?

Genesis 3

A failure not to do as commanded by the word of God is disobedient.
Every disobedient before God is sinning to God. 
With sin, no man can reach God. Disobeying the word of God does not have an excuse before God but only leads to a consequence. Romans 3:23 admonishes, “…all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
To become short of the glory of God is not to access the presence of God.
Is sin and sinning your way of life?
There is no legitimate excuse for one with sin before God.
Adam and Eve violated the word of God, and there was no reasonable excuse for their sin. 
Adam did not ask God for a helper when God created Eve as his helper. Genesis 2:20-22 confirms, “…But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” 
The sin of Adam was rooted in the disobedience of Eve but was not a legitimate excuse before God.
Genesis 3:9-13 documents that God called on Adam for his sin and his excuse for sin: “Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you? So, he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. “And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
The sin of Adam does not have a reasonable excuse before God but provoked the consequence of sin over Adam.
Are you living a life of sin and sinning and counting on excuses before God? 
Be warned, know, and understand that sin and sinning are not excusable before God.
Title or role engaged before God will not count but bring painful consequences to the sinner, a disobedient to the word of God.
As a temple of God, are you taking care of the temple of God? 
The word of God records, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) Answering as a believer does not stop the consequence of God. 
According to the word of God, be warned!
1 Corinthians 3:17 records, “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” Are you defiling the temple of God in you? 
Keep away from the sin that God alone sees it all.
No excuse for sinning will excuse anyone from the consequences of sin.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you not to be a vessel of sin and sinning.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you one that looks up to God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?

Genesis 39, Esther 2:1-18

God remembers with favor. Psalmist prayed, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.” (Psalm 106:4)
Favor is what makes the difference in every journey of life. 
When God pours out His Favor, one shall live life for the glory of God.
The favor of God is with the grace which God freely grants. 
In the Bible days, so many experienced the favor of God, and today God is still finding one to grant His favor.
Are you one that looks up to God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?
By your way of life, do you rightly deserve the favor of God?
God is merciful, and if you sincerely desire His favor, He will deposit His favor over your life.
Esther experienced the visitation of God not because she was perfect in the way of life.
Esther was an orphan raised by her uncle after her father and mother had passed away.
While at the palace of King Ahasuerus, Esther experienced the favor of God when Queen Vashti failed.
Queen Vashti lost it when she dishonored King Ahasuerus as the door of favor for Esther to become the queen.
Today, pray that a door of favor will open for you.
Esther experienced favor to be chosen among many women to become the queen in place of Queen Vashti. 
Esther 2:9 documents the channel of the favor Esther, “Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.”
In your challenge, are you seeking the favor of any man or woman?
Esther did not need additional help because God was operating on her behalf. 
When the favor of God is in place, all that it takes to meet every need will be in place. What you thought was a need shall become available for you. 
Favor is not your merit; it is God working on your behalf. 
Favor has no age barrier or any form of discrimination. Only God alone has the power to grant undeniable in the life of any as He desires. It is never too late for you to be blessed and highly favored because He is a faithful God.
Are you with the expectation of the favor of God?
Live life as Joseph.
Joseph lives life for God, and he could not do great wickedness and sin against God. (Genesis 39:9)
Genesis 39:21 records the testimony of Joseph not sinning against God to provoke His favor, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.” 
The favor of God is certainly not to become a victim of evil.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to walk with Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer prevails in times of challenges. 

Genesis 6

The wickedness is continual, as challenges are rooted in it.
Genesis 6:5-6 records, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” 
The challenges under heaven are undeniable but are possible to become delivered in it all.
There are challenges in all corners of the world.
With God, one can live on earth and not become a victim of challenges.
The word of God promises in Psalm 34:19, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers in it all.”
The righteous are full of wisdom and knowledge of God, the evidence of the fear of God. Isaiah 33:6 encourages, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
To gain wisdom and knowledge is not by determination but with desire before God shall deposit what it takes to have wisdom and knowledge of God.
PRAYER
Ask that God fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
Ask that you shall walk worthy of the Lord by His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to be stable, not frail in the challenges of this world.
Ask for the wisdom and knowledge of having faith, fully pleasing God, and being fruitful in every good work before God.
Ask that wisdom and knowledge of God enable us to be strengthened with all might, according to the glorious power of God.
In all challenges, it is possible to live life for God.
Living life for God by walking with God, walking before Him, and walking in Him is crucial not to live a life of waste.
Enoch walked with God to live 365 years and did not die a sudden or untimely death as God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Noah walked with God at a time of corruption and destruction to find grace before God. 
Genesis 6:9-10 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. 
Abraham walked before God to be blameless and possess the promises of God for his life.
God is the unchanging changer that does not contradict His word.
Walking with God is walking before God, also walking in Him.
WALKING IN HIM
The word of God points out that walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him. 
Colossians 2:6 records what it means to walk in Him, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
Without deliverance possibility in the time of challenges in the world, the world would not have promised deliverance of God.
Live life for God and not become wasted in life.

Prayer for today:
Ask that God enable you to live life for Him.
Ask that you are enabled to live life by walking before God, walking with Him, and walking in Him.
Ask that by the blood of Jesus, you shall not fall, fail or falter in every step of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus had a zeal for the things of God.

What does it mean to be zealous for God?
The documentation of the life of Jesus is what it means to have a zeal for God.
John 2:13-17 records a demonstration of the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up”.
The evidence of having the zeal of Jesus for God is living life for God by seeking God diligently.
With the zeal for God, there will be boldness and character for the acclaimed believer of the word of God to stand against activities that are not of God. 
Are you zealous for God?
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple when he drove to pour and overturn all wicked world activities out of the temple of God.
Do you know that you are the temple of God?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 identifies the temple of God, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”   
As a temple of God, what do you carry that is not or of God? 
With the zeal for God, it shall be able to recognize that the house of God is not the house of merchandise but to stand against the activities of the world.
One with a zeal for God will not compromise the word of God in the temple of God.
The disciples testify of Jesus for His boldness and character, “…Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up” (John 2:17) 
Do you have a zeal for God that has eaten you up by the things of God?
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is one that is built up by the word of God, meditating the word of God day and night.
Why not desire to be eaten up by the zeal of God?
Jesus reacted to the temple, “He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.” (John 2:15) 
With self-deception, every worldly activity occupies the majority temple.
Jesus knows all the temples with deception, not living right before God.

Prayer for today: Ask Jesus to flush out all that is not of God in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you living life as a true believer? 

John 8:31-47

The word of Jesus about truth to those who believed Him also speaks to all with no exception. John 8:31-32 records, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  
The word of God is truth.
Do you know God or know about God?
Knowing about is not the same as knowing the truth.
Knowing the truth builds a believer not to be a liar, deceiver, and manipulator. 
Knowing the truth is the evidence of knowing to fear God and turns one to live free for God. 
The book of Hebrews 2:1 admonishes all, “…we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.” To live life as a believer that is true and not live as a liar, one must give more earnest heed to the things heard in the word of God.
Are you living life as a true believer? 
In truth, are you fellowshipping with one heart, one soul that builds up all things in common in the fellowship?
Are you violating or not violating the spirit of God and great grace upon your gathering?
The word of God repeatedly admonishes all to be a true believer stating, “…give the more earnest heed to the things heard in the word of God”.
The word of God demands from all to, “…give the more…” 
Asking all to give the more is additional hearing and hearing in the Word of God. Giving self to the word is not casual attention but demands earnest engagement to become a true believer.
To be a true believer is not by noisemaking of the word or quoting bible verses. 
Also, it is not only attending fellowship or holding a position in the fellowship gathering. 
To be exposed to bible teaching and not be imparted by the word is the evidence of not giving earnest heed to the word of God.
Today believers are busy with the world more than giving more earnest heed to the word of God. 
When a believer gives less to the word of God, the world will occupy more of the believer. 
You can be a liar to deceive and manipulate others, but God cannot be lied to or deceived because He sees all.
Today, know the truth (word) of God.
Be steadfast in living by the word of God, the source of salvation. 
Give more earnest heed to the word of God to allow the truth of God to take over in your life. 
Proverbs 12:22 states, “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.”
Be a believer that is full of the truth of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God empower you to be a true believer.