FAITH CAPSULE: Always listen to the word of God to become of you.

Joshua 6

The Word of God is God. (John1:1)
The Word of God is for all to see in His Word.
The ability to listen to God in His word will behold (see) God in His word for direction, to live life for God.
The Word of God is God. 
Always listen to the word of God.
In listening, behold (see) the word of God, to receive and become of what word speaks to you.
The direction in the word of God does not fail.
For example, Joshua needed to behold (see) the word of God to gain victory over Jericho. 
Jericho posed as an enemy in the attempt to stop the advance of the Israelites to the Promised Land. 
Joshua 6:1-2 records the word of God for Joshua to see (to behold) victory in the Word of God, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.”  
Always listen to see in the word of God.
Joshua listened; he was able to behold (see) direction in the word of God as he gained character and boldness to become the winner over Jericho. 
God wants all to see in Him (His word) to engage His direction and not become a failure. 
Are you seeking direction by listening to the word of God?
Jacob was to engage in a journey, his course of running away from his brother when he needed victory in his journey. 
God responded to the need of Jacob by calling his attention to see in the word of victory, “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” (Genesis 28:15) 
Today, listen to see (behold) in the word of God to engage the path of victory over your challenge.
There is victory in the word of God for one that will listen to see in the word of God.
God magnifies His word above His name. (Psalm 138:2) 
The Word of God is worthy to deliver; His word is mighty and will preserve one that beholds the word of God.
Do you listen to God?
Listen to see in the word of God and gain boldness for the victory for the glory of God.
God is power; God that delivered Israelites is still in the business of deliverance and preservation if one will take a position to listen, to see (behold) God in His word.
God sent His word to heal, deliver, to preserve living life for the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to always see in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: You shall not become buried.

Mark 4:1-32

The majority lack the knowledge and understanding that God creat all for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 testifies, “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.”
God creates all to exist for His glory and not be a victim of the wicked world. 
God is a good God that delivers.
Psalm 34:19 testifies, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
Affliction can be an attempt or effort for the enemy to bury another one while such is alive.
Pray before God that you shall not die but live life to the glory of God.
To experience being buried does not have to be one is dead physically and becomes buried under the ground.
One can be alive but remain buried as in living dead, the experiencing of being delayed, denied, or delayed to become stagnated not moving forward in life.
Are you experiencing delay, being denied, or derailed in all your endeavors, living life at in dead-end yet, having the breath of life?
Consciously or unconsciously, are you burying yourself by choices made or the choices made on your behalf?
The agents of burying one can also be the force of the wickedness of life.
The plans to bury one can be from the closet or distance.
To be delivered from stagnation, from being buried while alive physically, spiritually, or emotionally demands to seek God diligently to find God.
Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:13 mentions the word of God, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”   
It is impossible to seek God diligently and find God to remain buried physically, spiritually, or emotionally.
The enemy does not have more power than one that lives life by the word of God.
Among ways to seek and find God, to gain self-deliverance is living by the word of God.
One that brings the word of God (Spirit of God) out from letter to life shall gain life in the word of God. (2 Corinthians 3:6)
With knowledge and understanding, engage the word of God as life to live life to the glory of God.
Consider yourself as a seed of God.
As a seed of God, it is unfortunate that the people who tried to bury you did not know that you are a seed of God.
Know that seed happens to thrive when buried, then it grows to become a big tree like a mustard seed.
The Parable of the Mustard Seed points out what mustard seed is like when it is buried and grows, “when sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; but when sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.” (Mark 4:31-32)
The word of God is life to answer for one that believes, to receive His word.

Prayer for today: Prayerfully, meditate to be a seed that cannot be buried but live life for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Remember the doings of God, the evidence of understanding. 

Psalm 106

To experience the wonder of God is rooted in the mercy of God.
With a lack of understanding of the wonders of God, one will not remember the mercies of God. 
One that does not remember the mercies of God is bound to become rebellious to the word of God.
Psalm 106:7 records the lack of understanding of the wonders of God by the Israelites, “Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies but rebelled by the sea-the Red Sea.”  
Lack of understanding prompts rebellion and complaints, the cause of negative confession. 
Numbers 14:1-4 records, “…And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt…?”
The Israelites repeatedly demonstrate a lack of understanding of the move of God on their behalf. 
Are you of the same that is complaining negative before God? 
A complaint before God is a sin is with painful consequences.
God responds to the complaint of the Israelites, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness…” (Numbers 14:28-30) 
Are you with the understanding of God not to live a life of waste?
Understanding is not of the mouth but of the heart. 
Understanding is critical to living life for the glory of God.
Understanding the wonders of God will cause one to remember and with a rebellious heart. 
Proverbs 16:22 testifies that “Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it…”  
Wellspring is a source of abundant supply. 
With understanding, one will have an abundance of life that Jesus brought for all. 
The Israelites lack the understanding to become wasted in the wilderness.
Forgetting the works of God cannot be separated from the lack of understanding of the doings of God. 
As regards the Israelites, Psalm 106:13-14 points out, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.”  
One that is not mindful of the works of God will forget the doing of God to become of sin before God. 
The Israelites forgot; they could not wait on God but died in sin and did not get to the Promised Land.
One with a lack of understanding of the doings of God will not remember, will forget to fail not to believe in what God has done and what God can do. 

Prayer for today: Ask to know and constantly remember the understanding of the doing of God in your life.

FAIRH CAPSULE: Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?

1 Psalm 27

Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels to attain what the heart wants. 
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a believer or to be an unbelieving believer?
One that answers as a believer lives life by the word of God.
The unbelieving believer knows about the word of God and does not know God to be living life by the word of God.
What is your desire to live while alive?
Why not have the desired heart, and seek to live life for God?
Matthew 6:33 prompts all, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” 
The heart with the fear of God is what counts not to miss the presence of God.
1 Samuel 12:24 speaks to all, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great things, and He is doing more for all with the desired heart for Him.
God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart of all. 
God once corrected Samuel in his attempt to make the brother of David king, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 
The heart of David is what God saw to declare, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David was sought by God and saw that the heart of David desired His name. 
What does your heart desire? 
The desire for God must be mindful of all heart and not just in the mouth.
God is not a slave-master to force the heart with no desire for Him but will deposit in heart with devotion to Him and decorates such with His presence. 
King David knows what is best to desire when he said, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
As an acclaimed believer, search your heart to know and have a sincere desire for the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask for a heart that desires to be living life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God, keep to Him, seek Him, serve Him to follow Him fully!

John 12:23-32

The book of Ecclesiastes 12:13 states, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.” 
To fear God and to keep His command is encased in seeking God. 
To fear and know to seek God will serve God. 
To serve God is to follow God in His word.
Fear God, keep to Him, seek Him, serve Him to follow Him fully!
Jesus points out, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”(John 12:26)
The conclusion of the whole matter is: Fear God to experience the presence of God.
Seeking God leads to serving Him. 
In serving God is to follow Him. 
Jesus declares clearly, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” (John 12:26)
Are you serving God fully?
Are you serving God for your material gain?
Search yourself to identify how you are serving God.
Apostle Paul encourages, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”(Romans 12:1)
With understanding, know to serve God sacrificially that your serving God is acceptable before God alone. 
Do not serve God casually but serve God by following God fully as Jesus requests saying, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me…” 
Following Jesus means putting all away to follow him.
Following Jesus is walking in Him. 
Mark 8:34 records the expectation for being followed, “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” 
Do you have a desire to follow Jesus? 
Jesus called the disciple out of fisher of fish to fishers of men.
Matthew 4:19 records, “Then He said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” 
Serving Him is following Him. 
Following Him is a sacrifice by giving up everything for Him. 
To follow Him is not to be a spectator but to be a fisher of men, living life to the glory of God. 
The calling for all to follow Him is not as a slave-master but a saving master of all. 
Matthew 19:28 records the reward for all that follows Him, “…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.”  
Serve Him fully to experience the fullness of the reward for following God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to fear Him and follow Him fully.