FAITH CAPSULE: The world is invested by selfish-minded.

Psalm 8

Selfishness is what to become separated from if one is to turn to God, to answer the calling of God, to engage the divine assignment of God over the given life that God creates one to live before Him. 
Selfish one is with wicked spirit having a sealed conscience not available for others except when to gain for self-interest.
A selfish one is uncaring for others with a dubious wicked character.
Live life for God, not for self!
Be mindful of God, a care-minded, in your way of life.
Are you mind-full of God or mind-full of yourself as a self-centered soul?
A selfish-minded lacks consideration for others to be concerned chiefly for self to be profit
above others at all times. 
A selfish-minded is never with the character to take a position of sacrificing for others. 
A self-minded is not with the mind of God that creates all.
Are you selfish and not know you are?
The character of a selfish one is not mindful of anyone but the self, especially when nothing is at stake to gain.
A selfish-minded does not accept constructive criticism and always believes to deserve everything, one as self-centeredness the evidence of self-ambition. 
The word of God in Philippians 2:3 speaks against self-ambition, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”
One with selfish ambition is as selfishness, self-centeredness that is not of God to be absent from the presence of God.
Selfishness is not a spirit of God.
Selfishness is sin and not being able to God.
Are you a self-minded soul?
Is selfishness your character of life?
Search yourself, check to know if selfishness is your character against the word of God in the way of life that cannot hide from God.
A selfish-minded is unconsciously closed to self hardly listens to others with the character to achieve better than all involved.
A selfish-minded avoids being responsible for any out of self.
It is a self-minded character to criticize behind the others.
One that lives life as selfish-minded does not have consideration for the time for others.
Selfish ones are not mindful of others, the evidence of self-centeredness, not the spirit of God.  
Can one that is not mindful of others be mindful of God?
Psalm 8:4 questions: “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” 
Does the question speak to you?
Are you mindful of God?
The wicked world is full of self and empty of God. 
The emptiness of God in one is the evidence of not living by the word of God, the lack of fear of God. 
The majority no longer fear God with heart but with the mouth.
Is it possible that your selfishness has closed you not to be mindful of God and not know Him the evidence of living life as a foolish one?

Prayer for today: Ask that the fear of God be your ways of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The visitation of God, redemption, and resurrection is the miracle of the third.

Esther 5

Exodus 19:10-11 records, “Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.” 
The third day was the time of God to visit His people. 
Something about the third has to do with the time of visitation, redemption, and resurrection by God.
The life of Moses, Esther, and Jesus Christ of Nazareth testify to the miracle of the time at the third. 
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever and He will answer with the manifestation of the third miracle of the time. 
The time of the third over the life of Moses: 
When Moses was born, the pronouncement of the death penalty for every son born by Hebrew women was in effect. 
As a result, the mother of Moses decided to hide him. 
The mother of Moses, “…Hid him for three months.” (Exodus 2:2) 
When Moses was out of hiding in the third month, he ended up in the compassionate care of the palace, where his murderer became a law.
The of mother Moses, “… took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.” (Exodus 2:3) 
In the third month, the daughter of Moses saw the ark of bulrushes at the bank of the river, and when she opened it, “…She saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children” (Exodus 2:6) 
The coming out of an ark of bulrushes into the palace of Moses was his time for his redemption.
The time of the third over the life of Esther:
The favor that brought deliverance for Mordecai and the Israelites in the hand of the wicked Harman began on the third day as Esther stepped on the court of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 5:1-2 records, “Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. So it was when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand…”  The favor gained on the third answered for the deliverance of Mordecai and the Israelites.
The time of the third with Jesus:
Jesus does nothing by accident to have taken the third day as the resurrection time. 
The time of the third is a miracle.
Claim the miracle of the third, remind God as stated in Isaiah 43:26, “Put me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case that you may be acquitted.” 
God is not partial but will attend to your case.

Prayer for today: Ask that God give you the miracle of the third.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you carrying that you do not know?

Exodus 4

Many do not know what they carry to turn to God.
Moses does not know what he carries and could not turn to God instantly.
Physically, spiritually or emotionally, where have you turned, turning, or about to turn away from God?
One that turns from God is taking a position to be lost from God and not arrive at the calling of God.
Moses was stubborn before he answered to the calling of God and needed to turn to God.
Exodus 3:3-4 records, “Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn. So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
PRAYER
Ask that wherever you have turned away from God consciously or unconsciously, God shall have mercy to make you turn to Him.
Ask that whatever is keeping you not to turn to God shall become separated from you.
Ask that you be enabled to live life for God.
WHAT IS IN YOU THAT YOU CARRY BUT DO NOT KNOW TO LIVE LIFE IN DIVINE ASSIGNMENT OF GOD?
Moses was carrying a ROD ( that is simple, not look important) in his hand, but when the calling of God sounded in his direction, he answered with boldness and character to resume the calling of his life.
Exodus 4:2 records, “So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.” 
God responded to Moses in Exodus 4:17, “And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
PRAYER
Ask that the word of God that will open your understanding to engage what you carry to live life in the divine assignment should answer in your direction.
(BOLDNESS AND CHARACTER ARE A WINNING COMBINATION)
Ask that boldness and character of God shall be activated in your life to resume for the glory of God. 
The rod in the hand of God answers as a force of navigation for the Israelites.
The rod in the hand of Moses answers as the miracle in the hand of Moses. 
What is holding you from turning to God?
What is in you that you carry but do not know to live life in the divine assignment of God?
One can run but will not be able to hide from God.
When the appointed time of the calling of God is up, there will be no more place to run or hide from God.
Moses could not run away from the calling of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 assures about the calling of God, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Do you have any reason to run from answering the calling by God?

Prayer for today:
Ask for wisdom and knowledge to answer to the calling of God.
Ask that you will not live a life of waste but live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Among sacrifices to God for His blessing is giving Him thanks.

Psalm 100

Deuteronomy 5:8 records the declaration of God, “…For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…” God is a jealous God. 
Deuteronomy 32:21 records the reaction of God to the wrong sacrifice of Israelites, “They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols…” 
It must be clear and settled in all to know that God pays attention to receiving sacrifice that will provoke jealousy that moves Him to bless. 
Among sacrifices to God for His blessing is giving Him thanks.
Hebrews 13:15 buttressed, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.” 
Begin to provoke God for His attention with a continual offer of thanks. 
Giving thanks to God is not thinking thanks, but giving thanks.
God alone is worthy of constant and consistent thanks.
Are you one that can count the number of thanks offered to God in a day? 
The ability to count is evidence of a shortage of giving thanks to God. 
God is worthy of an uncountable number of thanksgivings every moment. 
Are you in place thinking thanks before God? 
Thinking thanks before God is not the same as thanking Him, but a muted thanksgiving that is not worth it for a Worthy God.
For Worthy caring God, the Bible identifies thanksgiving to learn from: “And when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, offer it of your own free will.” (Leviticus 22:29)
Free-will thanksgiving demands shout joy to God and declare His works with rejoicing.
Psalm 95:2 records, “Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.” 
Psalm 107:22 “Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.”
Another free will of giving thanks to God is the character of those who rely on God.
Jeremiah 30:19 records, “Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.”  
“But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving.” (Jonah 2:9)
Giving thanks with a loud voice was demonstrated by Jesus when Lazarus came out of death to life, “…Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” (John 11:41-44)
With understanding, give God thanks as a reasonable sacrifice to provoke God for His blessing.

Prayer for today: Ask that thanksgiving be your way of life.