FAITH CAPSULE: Keep confessing the testimony of God to provoke His blessing.

1 Samuel 17

Testifying what God has done, what He is doing, and what He will do shall provoke the blessing of God.
It is those who have to share, meditate or confess the testimony of God that keeps the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 points out the promise of God for those who keep the testimony of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
King David is an example of one that keeps the testimony of God to experience the blessing of God, his victory over Goliath of the Philistines.
The testimony by David was the weapon that denied the discouragement of King Saul for him not to go against Goliath. 
1 Samuel 17:33 states the discouragement of King Saul 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.”  
David refused to be discouraged from going to fight Goliath.
In 1 Samuel 17: 34-37, David testified what God has done and what God can do, “But David said to Saul, “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, 35 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. 36 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.” 37 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.”
David could not be intimated not to fight the confronting challenge before his life. 
David counted on the testimony of God over his life.
David dwelt on the testimony of God over his life.
David, by the word of his testimony, was able to overcome the challenge of Goliath.
What is it that you count on God for your deliverance by the testimony of your mouth?  
Know to recollect to count the testimonies of God over your life and experience victory, the blessing of God.
With the testimony of God, give your tongue to speak life in the place of untimely death.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” 
David saw challenges, he testified to the power of God, and he overcame, be Keeping the testimonies of God by speaking out to challenges about what God has done and what He can do to enable you to overcome your challenges.
Keep the testimonies of God to meditate, confess, and be established for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be keeping the testimonies of God for your deliverance and preservation, the blessing of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Walk in line with God, to be upgraded.

2 Kings 2

The wicked world of today demands constant and consistent upgrading by seeking God. 
Seeking God is pleasing to God. 
Pleasing God is to be living by the word of God. 
In a wicked world, Enoch upgraded himself by walking with God.
He demonstrated a life of fellowship with obedience to God. Hebrews 11:5-6 records, “By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
In this wicked world, to keep self-upgrading is living a life of fellowship with obedience to God. 
Just like Enoch, Noah lived a life of self-upgrading. 
For Noah, the Bible records the upgrading life of Noah: “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So, God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.” (Genesis 6:9-12)
Elijah lived a life of upgrading by taking a stand for God against false religious leaders and kings. 
Elijah did not align himself with wicked kings and leaders. 
Elijah lived right before God to keep him upgraded in the wicked world. Elijah did not die but went up to heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2:11) 
Walking and standing in fellowship with obedience to God in this wicked world is not impossible but possible for one with a purposed heart for God. 
Elijah stood for God, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” (James 5:17) 
Today, it is possible to be upgrading as Elijah was in his life journey. 
Matthew 6:19-21 identifies what it takes to remain upgraded, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” 
Does the word of God speak to you in this wicked world?
In the wicked world, get upgraded; be built up in the word of God. Apostle Paul identifies the need to be built up in Acts 20:32, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
It is worthy, commit self to the word of God and be upgraded with continual prayer and to the ministry of the word. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you walk in line with God, pleasing Him to become upgraded.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be mindful of God is to live life for God.

Psalm 8

The majority are not mindful of God but are empty of God, not a believer. 
Are you with a mind for God or of the world?
God is mindful of anyone with a mind for Him.
God testifies David in 1 Samuel 13:14 that David is a man after His own heart, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart…”
God continually looks for one that is mindful of Him.
David, a man after the mind of God, knows to ask from God why God is mindful of man in Psalm 8:4, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? “
To have a mind of God is not by determination but by desire. 
Know to ask that God will enable you by depositing in you with His word to be mindful of Him. 
Hebrews 8:10-12 states, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 
One with the word of God shall be mindful of God to answers as one that belongs to God.
God wants all to be mindful of Him. 
The majority are not mindful of God but empty of God. 
Pray, without ceasing, ask to be enabled with mindful of God.
PRAYER:
Ask that God will put His word (law) in your mind as He promised the Israelites and to stamp them on your heart to live life as His own in all the days of life He has given you.
Ask that the mind for God shall make you be in a position of having His mercy continually in the life journey that your unrighteous and sins shall not remember before Him.
Inquiring is an approach to asking questions, making discoveries for what is not known, to gain understanding and knowledge.
One that is quick in inquiring before God lives as one after the mind of God.
Having faith is inquiring from God, not to doubt, the evidence of one that is mindful of God.
One that inquires with faith does not doubt but acknowledges God with the mind.
Why not be mindful of God?
Know to stay your mind on God as a way of life, to gain the blessings of mind that focus on 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 for today: Ask to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: How are you serving God?

Psalm 139 

David searches his service before God to re-address himself for doing right before God. 
Bible records: “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.” (Psalm 77:6)
Psalm 139:1, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.”
Word of God demands all to serve God to be righteous before God, doing right at all times. 
To be doing right before God is, knowing the word of God, living life by His word.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the mind of God towards how individuals serve God: “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
To be serving God right is sowing fruit to reap from God.
Living life to please God is sowing to reap good before God.
Living life to know good before God and not doing good before God is wrong, the mark of a wicked one.
Who are you before God? 
How are you serving God?
Search yourself before God to know yourself and how you are serving Him.
Are you righteous, or are you wicked? 
Interestingly, serving God by all is not hidden but in the word of God is to be identified to know serving God.
Despise from wickedness, live life right before God to reap the goodness of God.
Answering as a believer is not evidence of not being a wicked one in the ways of life.
The error in life is answering as a believer and living a life of wickedness?
Jeremiah must have been curious by the wicked act of acclaimed believers before he asks from God: “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2)
One that is wicked cannot possibly be righteous before God.
The wicked ones are quick to quote the word of God, but the word of God is far from the mind with no fear of God. 
One with the mind of God will experience the hand of God that is in place for righteous ones with the fear of God.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the judgment of God for the right ones and the wicked ones: “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
Know God by His word to fear Him, be obedient by serving God right, not as a wicked one.
In the journey of life, the judgment of God for how all serve Him matters.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life for God, not live a life of waste.

FAITH CAPSULE: God shall remember you by your way of life.

Genesis 6

This season, understand and know to provoke God to remember you.
One that calls on God to gain the attention of God is not an error.
God does not forget, but one with a desire to be remembered by God should expectantly call on God that does not disregard calling on Him.
Take note that God waits to ask for those that wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Calling on God to be remembered is not a sin but asking, seeking, knocking to gain the attention of God.
Matthew 7:7-8 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”  
The Israelites called on God to remember them in the bondage of Egypt.
Exodus 2:23-25 documents the calling of the Israelites unto God,
“Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
The challenging time is now.
Knowing God for His goodness and mercy is not to keep quiet from calling on God, to be remembered for His divine intervention.
How are you living for God to mark you to remember you in a challenging time?
For example, during the days of Noah, when wickedness was increasingly unacceptable before God, Noah was the only one in his challenging time to be remembered by God, to gain the salvation of God.
The Bible records, “…Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”  (Genesis 6:8)
Noah could not be intimidated to stop doing right but gained attention before God.
Noah found grace, and salvation was his portion to be remembered by God. 
Genesis 8:1 records, “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.” (Genesis 8:1) 
The Grace of God is the Lord Jesus that was, and He is here for all to walk with God, to be remembered by Lord God. 
Among ways to be remembered is to be consistent with the Word of God. 
Malachi 3:16 testifies, “Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, And the LORD listened and heard them; So, a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name.” (Malachi 3:16) 
Live life to the glory of God that remembers to respond. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to be right before God and be remembered by God.