FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is His secret.

Psalm 91

The word of God is not just a story but a secret to be engaged to become unfolded as the light of God navigating the darkness, wickedness of the world.
The word of God is light that gives understanding for one that believes.
Psalm 119:130 informs, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
Diligently, engage the word with attention for the word to gain entrance into your life.
Also, in reading, know to study the word of God, meditating the word of God continually.
Joshua 1:8 admonishes, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written, in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
The word of God is not just storytelling but getting to know the secret in the word of God, with intention and attention to become penetrated by the word of God.
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
Carry the word of God, the presence of God, to live life for the glory of God.
Does the word of God enter into you?
Have you allowed the entrance of the word of God into your life?
With God in you, you are in God, the secret place of God to dwell and abide.
Psalm 91 speaks about the experience of those dwelling abiding in the secret place of God, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God with trust shall take refuge in God.
Having a refuge in God is with assurance for deliverance and preservation in the journey of life.
Taking refuge in God shall have no fear of the wickedness in the day or night.
Psalm 91:7 explicitly encourages the deliverance and preservation dwelling and abiding for one that trusts and hope in the secret place of God, “A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.”
Can you be counted as one standing, not falling, the evidence of dwelling and abiding in the secret place of God?
Make the Lord God as the dwelling and abiding place living life by the word of God the position not to fall by evil. 
The evidence not to fall is of being kept by the angels of God.
Know God, not know about God.
One that dwells and abides in the word of God knows God to fear God, the love for God.
Psalm 91:14 points out what it is when one loves God (living life by the word of God), “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known My name.”
The word of God is not just a story but the secret place of God to dwell and abide, to experience God and excel for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to gain and retain the presence of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Desire for the Word of God to be established in your life.

Joshua 1

The Word of God is near to all at all times.
Deuteronomy 30:14, Romans 10:8 confirms that the Word of God is near, in mouth and heart.
Are you giving yourself to the Word of God that is near but not far from all?
The Word of God is God. 
John 1:1 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
The Word of God answers to living life.
One that is enabled to engage the Word of God will have the Word of God established in self, experiencing the power of God.
Know that the Word of God is POWER.
Hebrews 4:12 testifies, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
The order of God carries direction, directive, the demand of you in the journey of life not to live wasted.
God sent His Word, His POWER, to heal and deliver from destruction. (Psalm 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”) 
Jesus came, He is here, He is not just coming when He notifies to all saying, “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.” (John 10:10)
The living Word of God, the power of God that has been here, desired by all, then enabled and engaged with the Word to become established in life.
ENABLE with His Word (His power) by giving yourself to the Word of God continually. Paul admonishes in Acts 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
ENGAGE by asking that you be meditating on the Word of God day and night.
After the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to Joshua in Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
One that meditates consistently in the Word of God shall have the Word of God established in the self.               
ESTABLISH Those that Word of God establishes in their life shall know God (Knowing the Word of God is not to know about God) Daniel 11:32 informs us, “the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.”
Moses, Daniel, was enabled to engage to have the Word of God established in their life, to live a life of strength, and to carry out great exploits.
Give yourself to the Word of God, the power of God, not to live a life of waste but to live to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God your desire to have His presence take over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know the word of God to know God. 

Psalm 107

Know to turn to God.
Running after a man that answers as a great man of God is not evidence that one KNOW GOD or have TURNED to GOD. 
Get to KNOW GOD by TURNING to God alone.
Paul points out that Jesus is for all to turn to, but to iniquities.
Acts 3:26 records, “To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.” 
Today, pray the prayer of Psalmist for yourself as prayed in Psalm 119:37, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.” 
Turn to the word of God, give yourself to Him in word to live life by His word.
Listen to know God.
Listen to the word of God, with submission, be led by the living word of God. Turning to the word of God is listening to be delivered from shame to joyful celebration. 
At the wedding at Cana of Galilee, when the celebration ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus advised the servants of Jesus saying, “…whatever He says to you, do it.” (John 2:5) In every way of life, turn to the word of God by listening to Him, and your testimony shall not experience shame. 
Turn to God!
Be responsible by knowing God.
The limitation of your relationship with God is the evidence of the limited time you study the word of God. Romans 15:4 informs all, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” Why not give yourself to studying the word of God, to know Him not knowing about Him? 
Deny the world to give more of yourself to the word of God. John 8:32 admonishes all, “…YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH” It is your responsibility to know God, not your Pastor.
Know God in His deliverance for deliverance.
Genesis 19:17 records the word of deliverance for Lot and wife, “…Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”
Lot was committed to the word of God, but his wife could not be committed to the word of God. 
The Bible records, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) 
Are you looking away from the word of God to deliver you?
Commit yourself to the word of God or do more to become committed to God and be connected with His deliverance.
The word of God is God. (John1:1)
Knowing the word of God will know God.
Know God to be a vessel that is set for deliverance and preserved in the wicked world.
Psalm 107:20 testifies, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
Know the word of God for God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God become established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: By seeing, believing is to receive the promises of God.

Exodus 14

Inability not to believe and receive what is in the word of God is the disability to receive the promises in the word of God. 
Undeniable manifestation of miracles brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but they could not see deliverance in their journey to the Promised Land. 
At a point in the journey, Pharaoh approached the Israelites, attempting to return Israelites to the bondage of Egypt. 
Exodus 14:10 records, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold the Egyptians marched after them. So, they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.”  
The Israelites were not able to see the promises of God in His word to deliver them. 
In life, the inability to see in the promise in the word of God will provoke fear to become a victim of wicked agenda. 
Inability to see promises in the word of God was the reason why Israelites saw fear at the approach of Egyptians with pursuing them with the attempt to return them to Egypt.
What a man sees outside of the word of God will have a direct effect on what man thinks, says to become of man. 
The Israelites saw fear and spoke negatively. 
The fear made the Israelites speak negatively to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12) 
The Israelites saw outside of the promise of God to see wrongly, spoke wrongly to end wrong.
In the journey of a year or the journey of life, the grace of God alone brought you this far in life. 
Why is it so difficult for you to see that God alone is in control to see you further? 
Think, ask to know if you have taken your eyes away from the promises in the word of God that is more than able to lead you through to your expected end? 
Whatever a man behold is what a man shall eventually hold to and not become a victim of falling, failing, or faltering in the journey of life. 
Moses responds to the negative confession of the Israelites when he states, “Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13)
God will not leave nor forsake anyone that sees, believe to receive in the word of God to claim the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that by seeing, you believe, receive the promise of God to become of you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Another about the issue of confusion. 

Judges 16

The world hanging on confusion is not stable.
Confusion is not of God but the evidence of the lack of understanding of God. 
To live life according to the word of God is not by force but the choice to make to avoid confusion.
Proverbs 2:11 admonishes, “Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you.”
Are you making the right choice before making your move, or do you move before making the right choice?
One that gains the understanding rooted in knowledge of God is bound not to become a victim of confusion.
Isaiah 33:6 encourages, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
To gain understanding is the key to seeking God, to find God and not be lost in the wicked world.
Psalm 14:2 testifies, “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Jesus rhetorically identifies the reason for the lack of understanding in John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
To hear is not listening, but hearing and hearing (continually)shall gain understanding.
To gain understanding is crucial not to become a victim of confusion.
Proverbs 4:7 counsels, “Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” 
In life watching, and praying is the key not to becoming a victim of confusion.
Know to pray for understanding.
It is the lack of understanding that one will work against the warning word of God, evidence of confusion.
The wife of Lot walked against the word of God, the lack of understanding the consequence of confusion.
Genesis 19:17 records the direction for the escape of the wife of Lot, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”
The wife of Lot looked back against the direction of God to experience self-destruction.
Genesis 19:26 states, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” 
Sampson revealed the secret of the power of God over his life to become a victim of his enemies. (Judges 16:18-21)
Paul the Apostle was warned against his going to Jerusalem by the Holy Spirit, but he went on his own. (Acts 21:11)
Confusion is not with respect for no one regardless of title.
Lack of understanding is evidence of not knowing God, not disobeying God to experience confusion.
Understand that confusion is rooted in disobedience to the word of God.
PRAYER POINTS:
Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will and spiritual understanding.
Ask God to enable you to walk worthy before Him, to be fruitful in every good work, and to increase in the knowledge of His name.
Ask that the deliverance of God be established in you not to become a victim of confusion in every endeavor, all the days He has given you.