FAITH CAPSULE: Never too much to have more reasons to pray before God.

Jonah 1, 2

DO NOT COMPROMISE WRONGDOING

The word of God is His command that is not negotiable and is not to be compromised.
With no exception, all should live life according to the command of God to gain and retain a positive relationship with God. 
One that redirects the word of God to please oneself but not to please God is the evidence of a lack of understanding to serve God diligently.
Are you engaging the command of God not to compromise the word of God? 
Do you have faith in pleasing God without compromising His command?
Giving yourself to the word of God is to gain faith and live life according to the command of God. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “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.”
Are you compromising the word of God consciously or unconsciously?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse not to live life according to His word.
To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
The world is deceiveable, but not God.
One with a lack of truth is a deceiver.
It is a sin to compromise iniquity.
Do not compromise with iniquity.
Judas compromises and does not rebuke iniquity (evil).
Judas was numbered as disciples but not counted.
Anyone that is compromising iniquity is complicating themself in the journey of life. 
Iniquity is evil. The word of God warns: “The fear of God is, to hate evil…” (Proverbs 8:13)
Know and pray to live truthfully before God, who does not sleep, and He shall see you.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to live a life of truth and be counted as one who lives for His glory.
Just like Judas, pray not to be a vessel of compromising wrongdoing.
Judas was numbered as one of the disciples but not counted when it mattered before God.
Ask God to enable you not to compromise and engage in wrongdoing.
MORE THAN EVER TURN TO THE WORD/PRESENCE OF GOD
Pray that, more than ever, you want to turn more to the word of God.
The word of God is God (John 1:1).
The word of God is His presence (Jonah 1:1-3).
Are you walking away from the word of God?
The word of God locates Jonah with direction, but he went in the opposite direction.
Walking in the opposite direction from God is a route of challenging storms, the experience of Jonah.
One can survive by disobedience to God, but none can hide from the consequences of disobedience.
Disobedience calls for repentance.
Attending to worshiping God is not enough.
Return to walk the word of God that sounds in your direction to avoid the storm of destruction.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to turn to Him more than ever, to live by Him.
Ask that the spirit of God will activate in you to walk in His word that sounds in your direction and not be a victim of the storm of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Continue to pray for more reasons before God.

Matthew 6

Do not stop to pray for reasons before God.
When your prayer focuses on living for God, it shall become established.
Know to seek first about the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:33 states, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Ask before God is seeking, searching to gain from God according to His word.
ASK FOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD TO OCCUPY YOU.
Know to ask for the reason carrying the presence of God.
God is a saving master, not a slave master.
What you desire before God is what He will deposit in you.
Let your desire set before God to occupy you.
What is your desire that is as good as asking for the presence of God to occupy the life He has given you?
With the occupation of God in your life continually, fully experiencing God becomes your portion.
Proverbs 6:22 records what to experience when God occupies you.
“When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
PRAYER
Ask that your desire for God (the presence of God)occupies you continually so that you become full of God’s presence.
Ask that the lead of God over you in all your endeavors shall be continual.
Ask that in all your sleep, the occupation of God in your life shall answer against forces that locate one in sleep, and no evil shall have a place in you.
Ask God to enable you to hear when He speaks to you.
Take a position of one that knows God, to become occupied by the presence of God.
Ask that the presence of God occupy you to live for His glory.
IT IS UNDERSTANDING, WITH A DESIRE TO ASK FOR GOD TO OCCUPY
Mark, understand that your desire to be occupied by God shall be provoked and manifested.
Asking to be occupied by the presence of God, not to impress your world.
Pray with understanding to gain the attention of God.
The understanding that Jesus is the Lamb of God.
Revelation 21:23 states, “The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”
Jesus is the Lamb of God, the light of God.
Have the desire to be occupied by the glory of God.
God shall enter anyone who opens for Him. 
Revelation 3:20 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.”
PRAYER
Ask to be occupied by the presence of God that you will live for His glory.
Ask that you be a vessel of God occupied with light and not be a victim of the darkness of this wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: There are many reasons to pray before God.

Psalm 14

Have the understanding to exercise a knowing edge.
Two points to be encouraged are paying attention to and backed with prayer not to become a victim of ignorance in the wicked world.
Ignorance makes a destitute of a believer.
FOOLISHNESS OF A FOOL HAS CONSEQUENCES BEFORE GOD
Among ways of living wasted is living as foolish, consciously or unconsciously.
It is worthy to pray against not to live as foolish.
Living life outside of the word of God is ignoring God, the character of a foolish one.
Psalm 14:1-2 records, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Action, thought, or communication outside of the word of God is evidence of foolishness. 
Pharaoh is an example of a blatant fool.
The actions and ways of Pharaoh in response to the Israelites ignored the message of God through Moses. 
God said, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness.” (Exodus 7:16)
Foolishly, Pharaoh ignored God to bury his people in the Red Sea.
Be wise, and live by the word of God. 
PRAYER
Ask God to take over your mind so as not to live foolishly.
Pray that in all your thoughts and actions, you will not entertain foolishness against the word of God.
Pray not to act foolishly (like Pharaoh acted against the Israelites) by denying the word of God in any way of life.
KNOW AND LIVE TO COMMIT TO GOD ALONE!
God alone is available for all to live a life of commitment to Him.
Looking away from God is not committed to God.
No one can engage one eye to the world and the other eye up to God in His word with the expectation to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 37:5 advises, “Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” 
The wife of Lot looked away from God, an act of no commitment to God.
Lack of commitment to God is open to self-destruction.
The Bible records that Jesus did not exempt disciples and none He committed to.
John 2:24 warns, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men.” 
Know to walk along with man, but be committed to God alone.
PRAYER
Pray that your desire for the spirit of God, which enables commitment to God continually, shall be your way of life.
Ask that in all your looking up to God, distractions that lead to failure shall become your portion.
Ask not to be a victim of commitment to the evil world. 
Ask that this year, the leading of God over your life have a place in you so as not to become a victim of destruction like the wife of Lot.
God answers prayer. Open your mouth to pray from the depths of your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Make it a way of life, seeking God to find Him.

Exodus 3

Seeking God is the purpose of finding Him.
Seeking God demands seeking Him in His way, not seeking God in the way of such.
There is understanding in place for one to seek God and find Him.
Jeremiah 29:13 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
How the heart set for God will find Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
When you seek God, make it a way of life, seeking God to find Him.
Seeking God will serve God.
Are you serving God to find Him or serving Him to impress your world?
God creates all to serve Him.
God is the only creator and wants to be glorified and honored.
Revelation 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
God is waiting for His creation to seek Him diligently, denying hindrances of the wicked world.
God is jealous that He wants nothing but for all to be free and serve Him.
What does it mean to serve God? 
To serve God demands all seek Him diligently and set their mind on things where God is above.
The book of Colossians 3:1-2 clearly states, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”
Seeking God will come with the challenges of this world.
Among the reasons not to seek God diligently are:
-One that is yet to be dead in their trespasses will not rise to serve God.
-Inability to put off the body of the sins of the flesh.
-Setting the mind on worldly things more than things above will not serve God diligently.
There is no excuse for taking one’s mind off God’s things to avoid missing God’s presence.
Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?
Have you separated yourself from worldly things you once walked with as a way of life? 
The word requires all to put to death members on the earth, such as fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 
The members on earth will bring the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Colossians 3:6-7)
The word also points directly for all to put off: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of our mouth, do not lie to one another. (Colossians 3:8-10)
Be renewed in knowledge according to the word of God. 
Serve God diligently to experience the power of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him and seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: What God cannot do is: “God cannot fail.”

1 Samuel 13

God alone is available for all to live a life of commitment to Him.
Who do you commit to besides to God? 
Know to commit to no one but God.
Jesus selected few to walk with Him day and night.
The few elected to walk with Him is not evidence for Him to commit to anyone.
Jesus could not commit Himself to any man. 
The Bible records, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.” (John 2:24) 
The documentation of the experience of Jesus is for all to learn.
It is possible to walk along with man but not commit is wise of God.
Are you studying instead of reading the word of God to learn?
Study the word of God.
Know Jesus. Do not commit to anyone but to Jesus alone.
God does not fail.
Be committed to God.
He does not fail, but man will fail.
God waits to act when we wait on His committed love and caring. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies to God, “For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
God is enough to be committed. 
God alone is the Helping helper of man that has never failed. 
Looking for help from the wrong sources is evidence of limiting God for His loving care. 
Your help will not come from where you are looking, nor will it come from your thinking. 
King Saul became the King over the children of Israel. 
Saul was to fight the Philistines but could not wait for the Prophet of God to carry out the burnt offering. 
Samuel confronted Saul about the presentation of the burnt offering, “…What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12) 
Committing to man instead of meditating on the testimonies of the care of God will compel one to become a failure like King Saul.
Meditate on what God can do, what He has done, and what He is doing. God is enough to look up to in all areas of life. 
God alone has brought you this far, and He will not leave you, and He shall not forsake you. 
Are you wondering where your help will come from?
Help from God is sure and unfailing for one who will be committed to God alone.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to commit to anyone but only to Him.