FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid the wrong way by taking the right way. 

Jeremiah 7

The way to move forward is in the word of God, while the way backward is in the wicked world of man. 
With you, which way are you? 
Are you going by the dictates of your heart or by the living word of the living God?
Going by the dictates of the heart can be evidence of going by the world.
The way of the world is the way that seems right to man, not the way of God. 
Proverbs 14:12 makes us realize that “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
The way that seems right to man comes from the dictates of the evil heart. 
There is no way to go forward in a way that seems right. 
The way that seems right is wrong; the way that seems right is always a way of assumption with no certainty to lead right.
Think about it to identify why going backward instead of not going forward.
The possibility of your going back is following the dictates of your heart. God spoke to Jeremiah about the dictates of their evil hearts and going backward in Jeremiah 7:21-24, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. 
But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”  God called it evil heart. 
Evil heart belongs to wicked.
The word of God is worthy and should be for the heart.
The word of God to the hear will see through life journey.
Journeying of life demands to avoid counsels and dictates from the evil heart as mentioned by God. 
Evil heart or wicked heart only leads to the wrong way. 
The word God says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) 
Why should a God-fearing one want to keep going back to the evil heart for counsels and dictates? 
Going back and away from God will lead to the wrong way. 
From today, begin to take your counsels to the Lord in prayer; He alone is the living God. 
Avoid the wrong way by taking the right way. 
In your life journeying, allow God to guide and lead you through.

Prayer for today: Ask for the leading, the guidance of God to be your way.

FAITH CAPSULE: The boasting in God is the testimony of giving attention to God 

1 Samuel 17

With understanding and knowledge, boasting about God is glorifying God.
Who are you boasting about besides God?
Are you boasting about your strength?
In your boasting, allow God to be your strength. 
David was a shepherd boy, caring for sheep when he killed a lion and the bear with his strength and might to deliver sheep in his care. 
David was with the strength might, but he did not boast in himself, but he identified God as his strength and might to boast in God. 
Are you bosting about your strength?
It was boasting in God that David confronted Goliath at his war of Philistines against the Israelites. 
At the onset of war between the Israelites and Philistines, Goliath repeatedly despised the Israelites and their God. 
David boasted in God to convince Saul for his permission to fight against Goliath. 
David states before King Saul: “Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. Moreover, David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!” (1 Samuel 17:36-37)
The boasting of David in the Lord did not allow him to boast in his strength which is the evidence of why he was able to kill a lion and bear by his hand. 
The boasting in God is the testimony of giving attention to God in life. 
One that gives attention to God will prompt a favorable intervention as a winner. 
Against Goliath, the weapon of David was not of man but was the hand of God.
What is your boast about in life? 
Among the things man boasts about consciously or consciously in life are their wisdom or riches. 
Jeremiah 9:23-24 speaks to all about the issue of boasting, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these, I delight,” 
In life, get understanding and know that God matters the most. 
In life, not boasting about God testifies to a lack of understanding or knowing God. 
Making your boast in God is a way of glorifying God with praise. 
To be acknowledging God is praising God. Psalm 50:23 buttress, “Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.” 
Allow boasting God to become your way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to make boasting Him your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: A right or wrong decision will prompt consequences in the life journey.

Exodus 3

Romans 15:4 records, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” 
Learn and live by the living word of God.
The life journey is full of ups downs that can deliver unexpected manifestation.
One thing that is true to deliver in the journey of life is giving self to learn in the word of God, as a map to arrive at the divine assignment of God. 
The effect of decision-making can be positive or negative. 
The decision is possible to provoke gain, while a negative is possible to inflict pain.
A decision is a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
Making a right or wrong decision will prompt consequences of pain or gain in life.
In life, a decision made on your behalf yesterday or a decision made on behalf of one will affect or determine where such is today or tomorrow.
Today, decisions that are made by grandparents, parents, or by you are not immune to being painful situations.
What kind of position are you experiencing in life?
Every position of life rooted in the wrong decision of yesterday or today is reversed from pain to gain.
In the journey of life, decision-made by self, on behalf of one is possible to deliver pain of derailment to delay or destroy one.
What decision was made on your behalf, inflicting pain in your life?
The Israelites were in bondage of slavery in Egypt by the decision made by their grandparents.
The decision to deliver the Israelites from famine on their land eventually led them to Egypt that turned to serve in the bondage of years at Egypt.
The prayer, crying out of Israelites before God, gained the attention of God.
God remembered the Israelites, intervened by His stretch-out hand for deliverance out of Egypt bondage.
Bible records: “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.” (Exodus 3:20)
“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.” (Exodus 7:5)
The stretch-out hand of God brought the Israelites out of the decision rooted in challenges that brought them into Egypt, where they lived the life of bondage for over four hundred years.
Know and believe that God is the only God that reverses irreversible. 
God answered the crying out of prayer by the Israelites, by the stretch-out hand which delivered the Israelites from the bondage of over four hundred years. 
Every painful decision made on your behalf is reversible by watching and praying. 
Also, every decision with a gainful situation that is worthy is to be kept by watching and praying.

Prayer for today: Cry out to God for intervention over a consequence decision of negative with pain over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Sin is not seeking God and will not see God. 

Exodus 32

With pride is an engaging personal ride to self-destruction.  
A decorated name for sin is PRIDE. 
One with the desire to live life for the glory of God is seeking God diligently not to despise God but will take a position to see God. 
Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one that is despising the word of God will sink into sin. 
Sin is not seeking God and will not see God. 
Diligently seeking God does not have a place for telling lies as a way of life, deceiving and manipulating others. 
Does that speak to you?
Come out of sin to seek God that sees all with nothing hidden from Him.
God hears and sees all. 
2 Chronicles 16:9 informs all, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…”  
Gain understanding and knowledge in the word of God that no one can hide sin from God.
Sin is a sin before God; sin can last for a thousand years, but a day is enough for God to expose a thousand years.
Are you conversant with telling lies, deceiving to manipulate your world? 
With lies to deceive others, claiming miracle that is not of God shall provoke the judgment of God at His appointed time. 
Seek God diligently, come out of sin abhor iniquity. 
Seek God with no deception.
The word of God warns, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23) 
Every life of sin is not seeking God but getting exposed to the devil for self-destruction. 
There is no presentation of lies as truth before God.
Romans 3:7-8 testifies, “For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.” 
Does the word speak to you?
Be truthful with no deception. 
Come out of sin to seek God diligently.
Sins can be a stumbling force that denies finding God when seeking God. 
With sin, no one can see God.
Give self to repentance to find God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the deliverance of God over your life from living a life of sin.

FAITH CAPSULE: Submission to God shall follow God in life.

Genesis 22

Live a life of submission to God.
Submission to God is to give self to God, following not to miss the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, there is no excuse for rich or poor from following God, otherwise, not to make the kingdom of God shall be for not following God.
In the journey of life, whatever a man is holding onto against the command of God is not in submission to God, will not follow God to make it to the kingdom of God. 
What is it that you are holding on to and not submitting yourself to the command of God?
Abraham, a rich one, submitted to the command of God for him to sacrifice the life of his son. 
In his attempt to sacrifice his only son, God spoke to him in Genesis 22:12 records, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” 
Abraham fears God to follow the command of God, and God testifies the fear of Abraham for His name.
In life, whatever holds one not to give self to the word of God, such will not follow God but to miss the kingdom of God.
Are you with desires to make it to the kingdom of God, a life of eternity?
Submit to the word of God in your way of life.
Elisha, regardless of his wealth, submitted to follow the calling of God over his life. 
When God called Elisha, through Elijah, he responded, “…Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you…” (1 Kings 19:20) 
At the initial answering of Elisha to the calling upon his life, he was reluctant to follow God because he was not ready to follow God. Eventually, Elisha gave up all in submission to follow God. 1 Kings 19:21 records,  “So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” 
In life, what is it that is holding you back from following God?
Is it your property or family that is holding you back from following God? 
Jesus identifies what it takes to follow Him, “…you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” (Matthew 19:28-30)
Live life for God by following His command to make the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, that is not fiction.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall live life follow God fully.