FAITH CAPSULE: Listening, giving attention will attain understanding. 

Listening is giving attention, and attention is listening.
Proverbs 4:1 testifies to the importance of attention to have the understanding saying, “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding” (Proverbs 4:1)
Jesus also questions and answered about understanding and listening, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
With listening comes understanding to know God, the truth to live for the glory of God.
Listen, with understanding, know that Jesus is the word of God. John 1:1 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Understand that Jesu, the word of God, is the truth when He says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) 
One that does not listen to understand the word of God, the truth of God, cannot believe and will not know God as John 8:45 confirms, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”  
Think of it, how can you know God that you do not know to believe?
In life, it is not possible to know God that you do not understand but to only know about God.
Do you know God, or do you know about God?
The majority of acclaimed believers that do not know the truth of God do not know God. 
One that does not know the truth, the word of God, is not free.
John 8:42 confirms, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” know the truth of God to be free from the wickedness of the world, living free by the word of God.
In this world, listening disability not to understand and know the truth of God is rooted in not having time for God.
Will you give attention to the word of God, to enter you as the light of God? 
Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” One with no light of God shall continually experience the challenges of the world of darkness and not experience free, navigating through the world of darkness.
With understanding, know the truth of God, do not be one that suppresses the truth of God, which is the righteousness of God. 
Romans 1:18 warns, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
Let the desire for God become your portion.
Get the understanding that will enable you not to live a life of waste but to live a life of worshiping God, the purpose He creates all for His pleasure.

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall fill you with spiritual understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character.

John 2

In the life of Jesus, what it means to have a zeal for God is evident in His way of life.
John 2:13-17 records the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
To have the zeal for God is living life, seeking God diligently.
The zeal of Jesus is the documentation for all to learn, to know what it means to live life for the glory of God.
Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character, which is a winning combination.
Without the zeal for God, there will be no boldness and character for the acclaimed believer of the word of God to flush out activities of the world in the temple. 
Are you zealous for God?
One with zeal for God will always stand against the world of disobedience by looking into the word of God with action. 
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple but drove all wicked world activities outside of the temple of God.
Are you an acclaimed temple of God, full of activities that are not of God?  
One with the zeal of God will identify merchandise that is not of God that calls for turning it out.
One with the zeal of God will not compromise the word of God in the temple of God.
The boldness and character of Jesus is the reason why His disciples said, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up” 
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is one that is built up by the word of God and one meditating on the word of God day and night.
Why not desire to become one with the zeal of God?
It is wise to engage in prayer, not a determination to become one with the zeal for God.
Manifestly, until the zeal of God eats up a believer, the possibility of having a clean temple will not be possible. 
Do you have the zeal for God?
With the zeal for God, the presence of God will have a place in your life.
In life, desire for the zeal for God to eat you up and to set and settle you before God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal of God to eat you up, that you live life in all God-given days to you.

FAITH CAPSULE: With God, to be broken is to be blessed.

Genesis 37

In life, to become broken comes before experiencing the blessing of God.
Abraham experienced broken when he answered the calling of God that sent him out of his comfort zone, his family.
Later, in the journey of Abraham, the manifestation of the blessing of God answered in his life.
Moses grew up in the palace of Pharaoh, undoubtedly one of the best palaces in time pf Moses.
The broken point for Moses in life was when he ran away from the palace Pharaoh until the blessing of God answered for him as the leader of the Israelites. 
The calling of God broke Joseph before the manifestation of the blessing of God answered over his life.
When Joseph answered to the calling of God, it was without knowing the challenges and the blessing hidden in his journey of life. 
At age 17, the answering of Joseph to Jacob (his father) was the route for his divine assignment. Jacob said, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14) 
The answering of Joseph to the calling of Jacob was not outside of God.
The book of Psalm 105:17-22 confirms the calling of Joseph as it states, “He sent a man before them Joseph who was sold as a slave.” They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. “Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him; the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.”  
Joseph, at 17 years (Genesis 37:2) was broken.
Joseph experienced a painful broken relationship, not seeing his beloved father Jacob until over 30 years. (Genesis 41:46) 
Joseph, the beloved of Jacob (his father), unknowingly answered calling as a priced slave the became blessed as prime minister. 
Regardless of where you are today, do you know if you are answering the calling of God with pain?
Joseph became a slave; he could no longer move at his own will.
Joseph came under an authority that he could not control. 
The calling of God will lead the called one into an unknown route where learning is waiting for called one to know and become obedient to God. 
Jesus was broken and answered as the blessing of God to become the blessing of all.
Philippians 2:8 testifies of Jesus, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
God blesses the broken one before Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that the strength of God shall have a place in you to answer the calling of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: There is the unfailing way in the direction of God.

Exodus 3

The command of God is His word, the direction to ride living life for the glory of God.
In the direction of God, there is a way where there is no way. 
The direction of God delivers when there is obedience. 
In the direction of God, doubt will lead to self-denial, misdirection, fear will rise, and faith will sink.
The calling of God is in His direction. 
When He calls you, He shall back you up and not fail. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 buttresses, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Today, disallow doubt not to interfere with the journey of life. 
Give to the direction of God that does not fail.
Know that doubt will provoke disobedience to the direction of God and not arrive at the divine assignment of God. 
Are you looking up to the word of God for direction?
To look for direction in the world does not lead to the promise of God.
When it was time for God to make a way out of bondage for the Israelites, He called Moses to lead with His direction saying, “…I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:10) 
In the calling of God, Moses responded with doubt saying, “…Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11)  
God said to Moses, “…I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you…” (Exodus 3:12) 
When God calls you, deny doubt knowing that He shall back you unfailingly. 
Moses listened to God with understanding and answered to the calling of God over his life.
With faith in God for His direction, ask to confirm His calling without a doubt.
Prayerfully, Moses knows to ask in faith in Exodus 33:13 “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. And consider that this nation is Your people.”  
In the journey, know to ask God with faith, not in doubt.
God is not a wicked God but a good caring God. 
Moses asked prayerfully, and God answered him, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) 
Always ask Him and know to be holding onto His answer that does not complicate the life journey for the obedient one.
Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?
Know God, know His promise as Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.” 

Prayer for today: Ask God to uphold you not to be a victim of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not stop praying to live life for God.

Revelation 21

1. BE MINDFUL OF GOD
David asked God, “What is man that You are mindful of him…” (Psalm 8:4)
Are you mindful of God?
Why not be mindful of God?
Know to stay your mind on God as one that walks with God, to gain the blessings of God. 
Isaiah 26:3 records the promise of God for the mindful towards Him, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
To live life by the word of God is mindful of God not to stumble.
PRAYER
Ask that from this hour to live a life mindful of God.
2. BE OCCUPIED BY THE PRESENCE OF GOD
Jesus, the word of God, is the Lamb of God.
Revelation 21:23 states, “The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”
Jesus is the light of God.
God is light. 1 John 1:5 records, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”
All should have the desire to be occupied by the glory of God.
God shall enter to occupy anyone that opens for Him. 
The word of God states, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20) 
Psalm 119:130 records, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
PRAYER
Ask the light of God to gain entrance into your life to occupy you.
3. IT COUNTS TO DO RIGHT BEFORE GOD!
Walking with God is not by quoting the word in the way of living life.
Walking with God is not justified as going to church, joining a prayer group.
Walking with God is with a chance in our way and, all should make the right choice of action
that carries weight and counts before God.
God weighs actions that count. 1 Samuel 2:3 states, “…For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.”
Does your action carry weight before God?
How are you addressing the choice of chance before you?
A priest had a chance to do good but walked away.
Luke 10:31 points out, “Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.”
All have a chance and should do right before God.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to walk with, not walk away from Him in the chance that will mark you not to miss eternal life.
Ask that all your actions in this year shall carry weight to lift you before God.
Ask that you shall not miss a chance that will keep you to God.