FAITH CAPSULE: The celebration of Jesus should be at every breath of life.

John 3

Jesus was born quietly in an unexpected location.
Luke 2:7 record the scene when Mary gave birth to Jesus, “she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”
When Jesus was born, no single inn with an available room for His arrival to the world to deliver and preserve against lack of abundance in every way of life.
Since the time of the birth of Jesus, there are no rooms, no space in the inn that is available for Jesus. 
Do you have a room for Jesus in your inn?
Celebration for the birth of Jesus is with wild glamorous but not with a position to count before God.
Celebrating the birth of Jesus should be at every breath of life, not once a year.
Celebrating the birth of Jesus should be with Christ reality, not religious engagement. 
Celebrating the birth of Jesus should be with understanding to gain and retain the presence of God.
What are you celebrating about Jesus?
Are you one that celebrates the gift of God at a selected time of convenience celebration?
With understanding, get to know and be giving continual celebration for the birth of Jesus.
Jesus is the gift of God, and the celebration of Jesus entails giving back to God by living life for the glory of God.
Live life for the glory of God by obedience to the word of God.
To obey is to be living as commanded by God.
God, in His goodness and mercy, sent His Word.
Remember that the Word of God is God. 
Jesus, the Word of God, is here, not that He is yet to come! 
John 10:10 records the word of Jesus: “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Jesus is here already.
Understanding is celebrating Jesus continually.
Are you a believer by mouth but not a believer by heart, not living the way of God?
God truly loves His creation to give His Son.
John 3:16-18 records:
For, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jesus is here!
The purpose of His coming is to believe in Him and not perish.
It is an error not to believe in Him celebrating Him.
Celebrating Jesus without understanding defeats the purpose of His coming over the life of one that does not believe in Him.
Celebrate Him continually, with understanding, give yourself to live life to the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is here to give abundant life, not that He is yet to be here.

John 10

He is here!
Jesus is here to take over all challenges, and He is the same yesterday and forever. 
He will move for those with trust, hope to obey His word for deliverance and preservation. 
At one of the passing by of Jesus, He restored a blind man: “…He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So, he went and washed, and came back seeing.” (John 9:6-7) 
The point here is that the blind man did not question or doubt the word of God but took off and went to wash.
The direction word of Jesus for the blind man gained his sight. 
Doubt or distraction could not derail the blind man from obeying Jesus for his miracle. 
Doubt is with an attempt to hinder faith and not move faith forward. 
Jesus is here to take over all challenges, and He is the same yesterday and forever. 
When God takes over in the challenge, man should not overtake God but allow God. 
Psalm 34:19 testifies, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
At all times, the word of God does not fail.
The blind man responds to Jesus with faith.
Since the arrival of Jesus, till today, since 2000 years ago, Jesus has been winning battles.
Jesus is here for victory to all, but many remain victimized because of doubt.
Get to know Jesus! 
From today know Him and not doubt Him. 
One must know God for who He is and what He is here to do. 
What is it that you do not know about it that Jesus is here?
The word of God is His work.
All His creation from the beginning was His word. 
Knowing by seeing His work (creations by His word) is the evidence that He is near. 
Psalm 75:1 buttressed, “…For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
God is near! Jesus is here!
It is time to be living by His word. 
Seeing the creations of God by His word is everywhere for man to know Him and not doubt Him. 
God is unfailing, and He is a mighty warrior. 
In all seasons, at every moment, know that Jesus is here for all.
Jesus, in His word, confirmed the purpose of His coming when He said, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) 
Are you talking to the word of God, knowing that Jesus is here?
Jesus is here to give abundant life. 
Jesus confirms in His word that He is here, not that He is yet to be here.
Take Him serious in His word, not in the word of the world religion.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable you to live life for Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Obedient to the word of God commits to God.

Genesis 19

Day after day, week after weeks, month after month, and year after year is a journey.
The journey demands walking with God.
God gives every moment to be alive to walk with God, walking before Him.
Commitment to the word of God is giving self to walk before God without ceasing.
A commitment to the living word of God is the unfailing route in the journey of life.
A believer without commitment to the word of God is a religion with no relationship with God. 
Does that sound like you?
Are you truthful to yourself, living by the word of God, walking with God?
Are you deceiving with demonstration walking with God but walking away from God?
One with a commitment to the word of God is with an understanding of seeking God diligently, walking with God. 
One that seeks God diligently walks, sits, and stands in the word of God, the evidence of commitment to God and to become blessed by God. 
Psalm 1:1-2 confirms: “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law, he meditates day and night.” 
As an acclaimed believer of God, let your commitment be rooted in God, not seeking the counsel of the ungodly.
Failure can be the lack of commitment to God in His word. 
Giving self to self-convince in the place of commitment to God will not arrive at the promise of God.
Commitment is not convenient, but it is self-sacrifice before God.
One that compromises the word of God is with no commitment.
Discipline works with commitment but doubting will deny not to be committed. 
With doubt, fear will relegate faith. 
One with a lack of commitment to the word of God is not mindful of God.
Lack of commitment to the word of God will lead to confusion in the journey of life.
Lack of commitment to God is looking away from God.
The word of God directed Lot and his wife for deliverance from destruction, “…Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
Lot was committed to the word of God, but his wife could not commit to the word of God for her deliverance from destruction. 
The Bible records the consequence for the wife of Lot, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) 
Are you sincerely committed to the word of God? 
In the journey of life, be committed to God and remain connected to the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge of the life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The thanks offering before God provokes the deliverance of God.

John 11

Daniel 6:10 records, “10 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.”
Daniel went into the den of lions but could not be touched.
The thanks offering before God provoked the deliverance of God for Daniel not to become a victim of sudden and untimely death.
King Darius reluctantly signed for Daniel into the Den of Lions came to check David in the morning, calling him out: “20 And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” (Daniel 6:20)
Daniel responds, “Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” (Daniel 6:21-22)
Daniel experienced deliverance from the sudden and untimely death in the den of lions.
Ask that giving understanding thanks before God shall be your custom, your way of life.
Ask that you shall be giving God thanks that will provoke His hand to be upon you, not to become a victim of sudden death and untimely death.
Lazarus was dead.
In his death, there was no hope to rise again.
Jesus identified the hindrances for Lazarus not to rise are:
STONE and THE LACK BELIEVE OF THE PEOPLE OF LAZARUS
John 11:39 records, “Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 
The stone is a hindrance needed has to be taken off for Jesus to do a miracle.
The people of Lazarus had given up on hope for him to rise.
Jesus reacted, “40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 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.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 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 11:40-44)
With thanks, Jesus brought Lazarus out of death.
Ask, declare that you are coming out of every physical or spiritual trap that is denying you to live life for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Declaration of testimonies is the evidence decoration of one.

John 10:1-30

Jesus declared, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (John 10:9-11) 
In His word, there is positive to meditate as a testimony. 
Jesus encourages all to go in and out and find pasture.
In Jesus, there is life to have life abundantly.
He is the good shepherd that gives for the sheep. 
It is clear that if the word of God that is deliverance and preservation should have a place in the heart, by meditation day and night, that such shall have a mouth of confession.
What man confesses is a declaration. 
Making a declaration can sound like testimony. 
Do you have the word that you diligently meditate in your heart?
What are your testimonies in the face of the wicked world?
David is one testimony of the doing of God in His life to experience a great and mighty deliverance. 
With declaration as a testimony of David, he overcame Goliath.
In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) 
David refused to be discouraged but gave an account of his experience of God over his life as he responded to King Saul. 
David said, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) 
God is a good God. 
God distinctively pays and hears the words of mouth with the testimony of His doing.
King Saul could not delay or deny David with his discouraging word for David not to fight Goliath.
David is with the testimonies of God for his victory experiences of his past.
Do you have any testimony of God over your life as decoration for your declaration against challenging force in life?
Declaring, testifying, God to honor His name gives glory to His name.
Glorifying will provoke the attention of God.
As a believer, allow good treasure of the heart to bring forth good by confessing, declaring testimonies of the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you constantly meditate and confess to the good of God to experience a positive result.