FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire for the power of God over your life.

1 Peter 5

Power belongs to God alone.
Psalm 66:3 testifies, “…How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.” 
Know that power belongs to God, the perfect creator. The devil is the adversary of man and walks around.
God sits on His throne to oversee all the affairs on earth. 
With God, the enemy cannot be more powerful.
The only thing that God cannot do is that: GOD CANNOT FAIL.
Live life by the word of God to gain and retain His presence over your life.
Ask to live life for God.
The book of 2 Chronicles 16:9 encourages 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.”
Living life by the word of God is a privilege to experience the power of God. 
Power God to answer in the life of one that lives life by His word is not to be abused.
The book of 1 Peter 5:8 warns, “Be sober; be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
God shall not look away from those with focus on Him. 
Do you fear God enough to continually focus and acknowledge Him for the protection of His power over your life? 
Having a loyal heart knows to rely on God. 
Fear God to find Him.
For Satan, it is business as usual to be looking for someone to devour. Since the days of the Bible, Satan has been going to and fro his evil doing.
Today he is still looking for whom to devour, and tomorrow he will continue to look for one to do his evil, but the power of God is able to deliver and preserve.
The power of God is in place to deliver and preserve if one will keep the mind with diligence not to become a victim of the devil. 
Proverbs 4:23 warns, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”
Devil was in business to destroy. He gained entrance into the mind of Judas Iscariot, a disciple of Jesus.
John 13:2 testifies to the careless mind of Judas Iscariot in the hand of the devil, “And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him.”
Indeed, when it was time for Satan to work through Judas, it was in a convenient way to walk through the mind/heart of Judas Iscariot.
Judas gave Jesus up with a kiss. 
How are you keeping your heart?
It does not matter who you are or what you do, but live life for God to deny Satan from having a place in your heart to devour you. 
Live life for God, and not make yourself available for the devourer. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to become a victim of the devil.

FAITH CAPSULE: The journey in life will lead to everlasting or damnation.

Jeremiah 12

Which way are you taking?
Do you know God, or do you know about Him?
Scriptural verses documents the character of God:
“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” (Psalm 90:2)
“Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.” (Psalm 145:13)
“How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and His dominion is from generation to generation.” (Daniel 4:3) 
“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.” (John 3:16)
Why not meditate on the verses above and take to the way of God?
There is a way of everlasting, and there is a way of eternal damnation. 
However, no one can take to both ways at the same time. 
Both ways are engageable depending on your choice that you live life.
Which one of the two ways is your choice in your journey of life? 
The way everlasting is to God just as the way to eternal damnation is to the devil.
All the above scriptural verses testify where God is. 
The place of God is in place for obedient ones that live life for God.
Today, make the right choice. 
Engage the way of everlasting, disengage from the eternal damnation.
Living life as a wicked one is a choice that leads to eternal damnation.
Wickedness operates from the heart and does not have a place for the right before God.
Jeremiah testifies, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) 
The wicked one is taking a journey on eternal damnation.
Are you keeping your heart to avoid missing everlasting? 
Ending up in eternal damnation is not the right choice.
The word of God warns, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Eternal damnation is a wrong choice, a “no-go” place. 
The psalmist strives not to be on the wrong choice of eternal damnation but spoke, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
What is the identity of the wicked one?
Jeremiah 12:1-2 identifies the character of the wicked one, “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.”
Take to the way of everlasting, strive to avoid the eternal damnation. 

Prayer for today: Ask for mercy to gain and to retain in the route of everlasting.

FAITH CAPSULE: The foolish one does not fear God.

Genesis 3

Despising the word of God is dishonoring God.
The book of Proverbs 13:13 cautions, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
Are you despising the word of God, the lack of fear of God? 
Foolishness is the identity of lack of fear of God.
The Psalmist states, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” They are corrupt, they have done more abominable work, there is none who does good.” (Psalm 14:1) 
The foolishness of one is in the heart with the demonstration as a fool is an act.
The foolish one does not fear God.
David is an example with no room in his heart for foolishness but full of fear for God. 
The fear of God in the heart of David restrained his act not to kill King Saul, the king of God for the Israelites.
The way of the life of David qualifies him a lesson for all to know the fear of God. 
In Psalm 34, David spoke out, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” (Psalm 34:11) Are you a true believer that listens to hear and to become one with an understanding of the fear of God?
Psalm 34:13-14 of David identifies four points to learn and know the fear of God: Keep your tongue from evil, keep your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 
One that will learn from the word of David will know to live life as a God-fearing man. 
Adam and Eve had a better excuse by wanting to be excused by God for their disobedience to the word of God. 
The excuse of Adam and Eve was not excusable before God. 
Adam and Eve ate from the tree that God commanded not to eat. 
God approached Adam asking, “…Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11) 
Adam responds to God with an excuse that was inexcusable before God.
The excuse of Adam states, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12) 
Are you excusing your disobedience before God, or are you repenting before God for your forgiveness? 
Disobeying the word of God is despising the word of God. 
Disobeying God is foolishness. 
Foolishness is conscious or unconscious of saying there is no God. 
How can one not obey the Almighty creator, the only God that creates all? 
How can one look around and not look up to see the sky among His creation and not know that indeed God is near and to be fear? 
Psalm 75:1 buttress, “…For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” With God, no excuse is excusable for sin.
To fear God is good because it keeps one not to depart from God. 
One that fully obeys God by fearing God, He will preserve such fully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your heart for obedience, with fear before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fervent prayer is intensely passionate prayer. 

Psalm 64

Earnest prayer is to ask from God with the character of waiting on God to experience manifestation.
Earnest prayer can be effective and be a fervent prayer that prevails for a believer. 
Fervent prayer is intensely passionate prayer. 
Earnest prayer is a serious intention, a purpose rooted in having an understanding of what to pray.
The prayer of Elijah was with an earnest approach.
James 5:16-18 describes the quality of the prayer of Elijah, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 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. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”
The prayer of Elijah was to address a need.
With prayer, are you addressing a need with no intense passion, with no serious intention? 
It is time to address a need with a fervent, earnest prayer as Elijah did.
Meditating prayer will work as a fervent quality prayer and earnest before God. 
Meditating prayer shall be by asking, by communicating with God, before God day and night. 
Without a doubt, praying word before God day and night is labor to gain the attention of God. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually by meditating prayer of deliverance and preservation.
Praying with your expectation for the manifestation, adapt to the way of David by meditating as: “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows-bitter words.” (Psalm 64:1-3) 
Meditation is not memorization. 
By meditating on your prayer, God shall give the attention of God for your deliverance and preservation. 
Meditating the word of God answered for Moses and Joshua as their compass for navigation through the wilderness journey. 
Meditating your prayer of deliverance and preservation before God will bring forth manifestation. 
In the life of a believer, when faith sinks, fear will rise to take place. 
Fear does not announce itself before it invades its victims. 
Fear knows no discrimination. 
The David prayer of meditation was against fear when he states, “Preserve me from the fear of the enemy.” 
Fear belongs to the devil as a tool.
The devil is the author of the wicked world all day and night.
Giving yourself to God, meditating day and night against the devil is the solution to quell the fear. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually to meditating word of prayer against fear, and your deliverance and preservation shall come to be.  

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with fervent effective earnest prayer for your deliverance and preservation.