FAITH CAPSULE: Destruction strikes when there is no knowledge.

Hosea 4

One with half knowledge or without knowledge is the same as not knowing.
Understanding is the result of having a knowing edge in the ways of life.
The source of understanding is listening.
Jesus identifies the reason for the lack of understanding as the inability to listen.
Listen to the wisdom of God by hearing and hearing (the word of God)(John 8:43)
To gain a knowing edge will not be a vessel of destruction, but to live for the glory of God.
A lack of knowledge is a route to destruction.
Hosea 4:6 records for all, “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.”
Demonstrating a lack of knowledge or half of knowledge is not an excuse for obedience to the word of God or failing to exercise knowledge before God.
Have you forgotten or not known the law of God?
God is a gracious God.
God will not overlook the consequences for not doing according to His word for His glory.
God is not a God who will entertain any form of excuse from anyone who despises His law.
Forgetting the law of God to do wrong before God shall provoke painful consequences.
Are you considering a reasonable excuse for despising the law of God?
Adam had a good excuse that did not count before God.
Adam violated the law of God.
He ate wrongly when his wife, Mrs. Eve persuaded him to eat from the wrong tree.
God approached him, “…Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11)
Adam answered with a good excuse before God, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)
Adam had a reasonable excuse, knowing that he did not ask God for Eve.
God gave Adam Eve as a helper.
Adam demonstrated a lack of knowledge.
The excuse for his disobedience before God is a lack of knowledge.
Adam forgot that God never does wrong.
The case of Nadab and Abihu testifies that ignorance is not an excuse before God.
Nadab and Abihu demonstrated a lack of knowledge concerning the word of God. Every lack of knowledge exposes man to a risk of devastating consequences.

Leviticus 10:1-2 records, “Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.”
There was no time for both sons of Aaron to give an excuse to escape the consequences of their lack of knowledge.
It is knowledge to engage the command of God as directed.
Avoid the painful consequences of a lack of knowledge.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to forget His law.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let it be your character to look up to God.

Daniel 6

Know to know God, to love Him by looking upon Him, and He will look upon you for your salvation.
Jealousy is the character of God.
One who seeks God fulfills the expectation of God seeking Him, to know Him.
God is a jealous God. He desires and deserves the attention of His creation.
God looks upon all because of His love for all.
Psalmist testified, “Look upon me and be merciful to me, as Your custom is toward those who love Your name.” (Psalm 119:132)
Know God more to seek Him, give your love to Him to gain His attention. Direct your love to God for His looking upon you.
The Israelites cried out in pain for His attention; He did not look away from them, but He looked upon them for their deliverance. Exodus 2:25 records, “And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
God will look upon anyone with the character of looking up to Him.
God looks upon His children with action and no delay.
He is an awesome God and sincerely cares for His children.
All ways of seeking God demand understanding.
Do you have the understanding to seek God?
Psalm 14:2, 53:2  records, “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Knowing God is to love God by looking upon God.
Looking upon God is taking a position to possess His promises in His looking upon man.
Praying constantly is looking upon God.
Daniel customarily prayed, looking up to God to gain from God.
When a firm decree was in place against Daniel for not serving a god that is not his God, death in the den of lions was established as punishment.
Daniel became a target for sudden death while looking up to God.
Daniel 6:10  states, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” Looking up to God is the way of life for Daniel.
An unbeliever of God recognized God of Daniel when he declared, “…But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.”(Daniel 6:16)
Daniel came out of the den of lions with no injury or scratch on him because he believed in his God. (Daniel 6:23)
Daniel looked up to God, and God could not look away from him for his deliverance and preservation.
Know God to love Him by looking upon Him prayerfully, and He will look upon you for your salvation, where there is no way out.

Prayer for today: Ask that God remember you to visit you for salvation.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Feed on the word of God, and not become a victim of self-destruction.

Psalm 18

To grow in life demands feeding.
Growing physically or spiritually requires nourishing food.
What kind of food are you eating?
Eat the right food at the right time and in the right environment to enhance growth.
Feed on the word of God to grow in knowing God, living life for the glory of God.
One can fast by not eating bread for days, but no one should fast the word of God under any circumstances.
Word from the mouth of God is a live wire for man in this wicked world. Jesus declared the importance of the word from the mouth of God, “But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4)
It is exceedingly good for all to settle it in the heart that the word of God is God Himself.
Think of it, the word of God is His mark (signature), the mark of God only represents God.
In life, hear the word that proceeds from the mouth of God to prompt growing in God, before God.
The word of God heard and established in the heart will grow confidence in the walk of life.
Genesis 15:1 records, “After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
The word of God that came to Abram was God Himself.
Abram knew God, and to grew with confidence in God.
Psalm 18:30 buttressed, “The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.”
The word of God is God, a proven shield, and not any other God that shielded Abram.
One who knows God in His word as a shield is bound to gain boldness and the character not to live a life of waste, but to be a winner for God.
To know God will gain boldness and character, a winning combination.
The word of God that proceeds from the mouth of God is for one to grow, and not to be a victim of self-destruction.
God already sent His word as stated in Psalm 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Know God more, and His word is dependable.
A believer who claims to be feeding on the word of God but lacks growth in the things of God lacks understanding.
The lack of understanding is a testimony of not knowing and growing in God.
Jesus questioned and answered rhetorically, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”(John 8:43) The word of God that is known will enhance growth in life.

Prayer for today: Pray that the word of God becomes a personal priority to feed on.

FAITH CAPSULE: Answering the calling of God is to put aside self for God.

Philippians 4

Life is full of ups and downs.
In life, having content is having satisfaction.
Engage the journey of life with contentment to arrive at the center of God’s divine assignment.
In a world that screams of asking for more, it is tough to find fulfillment and satisfaction. 
One with Self-discipline will be focused on God, regardless of life challenges.
Living life for God with the character of contentment will enable one to excel for the glory of God.
Moses was content with God’s divine assignment for his life.
Without contentment, Moses would not have been able to stay at Midian after he escaped for killing an Egyptian.
Contentment was a pointer for Moses to live for God, leading as a leader under God.
The leadership of Moses brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt to God’s Promised Land. Exodus 2:21 described Moses, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.”
Moses was content and disciplined not to miss the calling of God as a leader for God’s assignment.
In life, having content is having satisfaction.
To answer the calling of God should not be separated from satisfaction.
Are you answering the calling of God?
Is satisfaction your character?
Satisfaction is to have the fear of God.
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.”
Without fear of God, how would one be led?
To know God in the heart is the possibility to live in the fear of God.
One with the fear of God will live by the fear of God to lead as directed by God.
Moses led as commanded by God.
Know God to live for God, having the spirit of satisfaction, not to become a victim of evil.
Contentment is satisfaction.
The book of 1Timothy 6: 6-7 states, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can certainly carry nothing out.”
Know God to be content and be exposed to gain, answering the calling of God.
Answering the calling of God is to put aside self for God.
Philippians 4:4-7  records the identity of one with contentment that is living life in satisfaction, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Contentment encases the peace of God, rejoicing, gentleness, but rendering prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving to God in one’s life.
To be content shall not be covetous in the calling of God.
Be contented in life and serve God with steadfastness.
Have faith, give yourself to God.

Prayer for today: Pray that the spirit of contentment ride over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Make it a prayer point to know God more.

Luke 13:22-35

In this season, make it a prayer point to be enabled by God to know Him more.
God creates all to live for His glory, to exist for Him. (Revolutions 4:11)
Do you know God?
All should know God more.
No one should be limited in knowing God.
Seek God diligently to find Him and know Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
There is no limit to knowing God.
Answering to a title does not exempt one from knowing God more.
To know God should not be only in the mouth, but in the heart.
Determination is not enough to know God more, but one with desire is bound to know God more.
Anyone with a desire will strive to know God more.
Luke 13:24 encourages, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
Acts 24:16, “Paul says he always strives…”
Know the word of God to know God more.
One who does not know the word of God will not live for God to answer as a believer.
Upgrade knowing God to live by the word of God.
Answering as a believer is not evidence of one who lives by the word of God.
Answering as a believer and not living by the word of God is the same as claiming to be a Christian and not living as Christ-like.
Acts 11:26 made all know the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Many know about God but do not know God.
One who does not know God has no faith to live for God.
Knowing the word of God is knowing God.
The word of God is the source of having faith
The opposite of Good faith is bad faith.
Good faith will be hearing and hearing the word of God, the source of faith, to do what is right and good before God.
Bad faith is not hearing the word of God, not living for God, but living a life of wickedness.
1 Timothy 6:12 admonishes those who will hear and take to the word of God, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
Strive to have the good fight of faith, not to miss eternal life.
In the new month, week, or this day, ask God to enable you with wisdom and understanding to strive to know Him more than ever.
Be exposed to the word of God to know how to live life for the glory of God.
Why not have a desire to know God more?
Anyone assuming knowing God more is setting themselves up to become a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Pray that to live by the word of God, the character of one giving oneself to the word of God becomes your way of life.