FAITH CAPSULE: To live for God is rooted in having a heartfelt desire to know God.

Exodus 20

Engage living in the fear of God and allow His mercy to be yours.
Living life for God is rooted in knowing God.
Desiring to live for God is not a determination, but rather a heartfelt desire to live for God.
Peter had the determination not to deny God, but determination failed him.
The prayer of Jesus was in place for Peter before he denied Jesus.
Jesus prayed for Peter, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:32)
The mercy of God answered for Peter, not to become a victim of failure but to live for God.
The mercy of God is the covenant-keeping God.
Mercy belongs to God, and He renders mercy unto whom He chooses.
It was the mercy of God that led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. Exodus 15:13 records about God, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” 
Pray not to be out of the mercy of God.
Joseph feared God.
Joseph gained the position not to miss the mercy.
God was with Joseph through his challenges because he knew God.
The word testified about Joseph, “…the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy…” (Genesis 39:21)   
The mercy of God answers for one who walks in the word of God.
The mercy of God is abundant, and His mercy does not run out.
One who disobeys God shall run out of His mercy.
Truly, the mercy of God endures forever.
Many are under the power and mercy of God. God spoke to Moses, “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” (Romans 9:15-16)
It was not of Moses’ will, but the will of God, in His mercy that kept Moses through the calling of God over his life.
Knowing God will grow in the fear of God.
Live in knowing God, grow in Him and the fear of God shall continually order your step.
Knowing is having an understanding of God that the fear of the Lord is His treasure.
One with the fear of God will answer as God’s treasure.
Luke 1:50 testifies, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.”
Who are the ones who fear Him?
To fear God is to live by His word.
God planted fear in the heart of man.
Engage living in the fear of God and allow His mercy to be yours.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand to come upon you for living life to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Strive more to know God more than ever.

1 Timothy 6

What kind of a believer are you?
In the new month, week, or this day, strive to know God by engaging the word of God.
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.
One impressing the world is not evidence such as a believer.
Speaking in one tongue is not enough to be counted as living 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 acclaimed Christians 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.
Are you a believer living by the way of God, seeking God by the way of God, not by your way?
A believer who seeks God diligently will find God.
One who does not know God has no faith to live for God.
Knowing God is knowing the word of God, 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.
No one should wait until time to pack for eternal life to find out the importance of fighting a good fight.
In the new month, week, or this day, strive to know God by engaging the word of God.
Live life as one who knows God.
Pray to fight a good fight of faith.
Search to answer the kind of believer you are before God.
Through the word is to be identified as living by the word of God.
The word of God is not a story but a secret.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Seek God diligently to find Him in His word.
Give yourself to study the word more than reading.
There is power in the word of God.
The devil approached Jesus with temptation, but the word of God delivered Him. (Matthew 4:1-7)
What kind of a believer are you?
The word of God is irrelevant and does not count for unbelieving believers.
To carry the word of God in the heart is power, unlike in the mouth.

Prayer for today: Pray to live by the word of God, the character of giving self to the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Which way are you moving in the coming month?

Jeremiah 7

With a month running out, let the new month be a time to live for God more.
Answering as one living for God moving forward, to the glory of God, should be of desire in the coming new month.
The way to move forward is in the word of God.
The way backward is in the wicked world.
With you, which way are you moving in the coming month?
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 of man can be of the world.
The way of the world is the way that seems right, 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.
The way that seems right is wrong; the way that seems right is always a way of assumption with no certainty to lead right.
As a child of God, have you thought about the reason why you have been going backward instead of forward?
The possibility of your going back is following the dictates of your heart. God was speaking to Jeremiah about the disobedience of the Israelites 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 an evil heart. Evil heart belongs to wicked.
There is a way that is alive when aligned with God.
Take to the word of God, and it will see you through the journey of life.
An 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 person 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 of the past and present month by taking the right way.
In the coming month, have the desire to be a living believer of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be a vessel living for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who knows God will know to ask from God.

Hebrews 3

Moses knows God, not just to know about God.
Search yourself to ask if you know God or if you only know about God.
Knowing God opens one asking Him for His direction as a way of life.
One who will seek God, whether to run in the place of walking or running in the place of walking, cannot be a victim of falling in the journey of life.
For example, Moses needed direction from God when he prayerfully called on God, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.” (Exodus 33:13)
Are you asking God for direction?
Know God that He is a caring God who waits for His creation and who has the desire to gain from His direction.
God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Know that the presence of God is the word of God.
John 1:1 informs all, “The word of God is God.”
Do you know about the word of God, or do you know God?
The majority of believers claim to know about God, not engage in the presence of God.
Such have the word of God at the tips of mouth, but not in the heart, to carry the presence of God.
Know God by studying the word of God to be carrying Him in the heart.
God shall not become known by accident but be known by studying His word or by His mercy.
God is unquestionable.
He cannot be a subject of questioning about why or how He arrives at having mercy for some.
Romans 9:15 records, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Know to pray (plead) for His mercy to know Him.
The presence of God is His word.
Psalm 138:2 makes it known that “God magnified His word above all His name.” 
Engage the word of God.
Have a place for Him in the heart.
One with a heart occupied by the word of God is one with a heart occupied by the presence of God.
One who goes with the presence of God is bound not to be a victim of the world but to know the way of God and excel to the glory of God.
God answered Moses when he asked for the way, “God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
With the presence of God is to gain His rest.
Rest for all is in the promise of God, not in the wicked world.
The rest of God gained will deliver the stability of God in the times of instability of the wicked world.
It is worthy to seek God diligently to gain the rest of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not live outside of the presence of God.