FAITH CAPSULE: The characters of God are in the message for good.

1 Corinthians 13

The message from God is for all to live by the word of God. 
If the acclaimed believers know God, darkness should not prevail over the world today.
Do you know or know about God?
Do you love the character of God?
Expecting the power of God where there is no love for God and not keeping to the word of God is self-deception. 
1 John 4:8 admonishes, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 
The message from God is for all to live by the word of God.
Today, seek and give self to the message of God for all His creation.
1 John 1:5 records, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declares to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”  
God is light, and one that knows Him, not about knowing about will reflect Him. 
Love according to the word of God.
One that loves is with the character of God.
With that character of God is of light.
John 8:12 states, “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
Today, the darkness of wickedness is hoovering the whole world.
With self-sincerity, today, search yourself as David did in Psalm 139:23-24 stating, “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.” 
Search to know God by His word to identify the character of God.
Know God by keeping His commandments. 1 John 2:3-5 testifies, “Now by this, we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.”  
Get to know God, and live by His command.
Love for God should not be limited to the mouth or head but be demonstrated by walking in the word of God. 
1Corinthians 13:4-8 identifies, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”  
Having the desire to live by the character of God will take charge of your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live by the word of God and not be a victim of darkness.

FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, there is no half-obedience. 

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

With obedience to the word of God, such takes a position as having the password to claim the blessing of God.
Be obedient to the word of God and be exposed to the promises in the word of God.
Psalm 107:20 records God, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”  
The word of Jesus records, “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) 
Indeed, Jesus, the living word of God, brought healing and deliverance that is evident in having life abundantly.
On every issue of life, one that walks His word, the word will work for such. 
The word of God is the power to deliver the blessing of God for one who will live life by the word of God.
Live a life of obedience before God.
Will you give life to live by the word of God?
The word of God comes with a blessing.
The word of God will not deliver a promise if there is a failure to obey. 
Obedience is the password to opening the door of blessing. 
The standard for obedience is unceasing and steady in obeying the word of God.
Before God, there is no half-obedience. 
Obeying the word of God will deliver such unnecessary, costly, and painful situations in the walk of life.
In life, many avenues lead to disobeying the word of God. 
Among many reasons for disobedience is pointed out in Nehemiah 9:17, “They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks and in their rebellion…” 
The word of Nehemiah 9:17 refers to the children of Israel, but it also speaks to all today. 
The word of God identifies that disobedience is caused by not being mindful of the wonders of God.
One that lacks mindfulness of the wonders of God gives the mind to the hardness of the heart. 
The hardness of the heart will cause one not to live life by the word of God.
The word of God is a way to gain and retain His presence.
A hardened heart lacks belief that denies one the ability to gain the way.
Make it a way of life, live by the word of God, and not be a vessel of waste. 
The word of God is the source of faith, and when one does not believe in the word, having faith is not in place.
Are you a vessel with a hard of heart or a full-blown hardness of heart? 
Pray against having a hardened heart.
Have a desire for wisdom, knowledge, or understanding of the word of healing and deliverance. 
Take careful note the hardness of the heart is evidence of unbelief.

Prayer for today: Ask to obey fully before God as a way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Having fear for God abstains from sin and iniquity.

Genesis 19:1-29

To fear God makes one to live life for God.
One with no fear of God is not able to live for God.
The fear of God is the character of one who lives by the word of God, not just talks by the word of God.
Proverbs 1:7 states, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Prayerfully ask that the fear of God shall overtake your life.
The ones that do not fear Him have it rooted in their heart, and 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, while demonstration testifies to a lack of no fear of God. 
The wife of Lot was foolish in the heart.
The wife of Lot lacks fear of God and acts foolishly by not being obedient to God.
In her escape from sudden death, she foolishly disobeyed God
God told her and Lot, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:16-17)
The wife of Lot looked back against the word of deliverance, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
The word of God is truth and never fails.
One who does not live life for God does not have fear for God in the heart. 
The word of God is accurate to say, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction: he will not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19:23) 
The foolishness of the wife of Lot was evidence of a lack of fear of God.
The foolishness of the wife of Lot terminated her life while Lot escaped from sudden death.
Why not live for God to experience the goodness of God?
Fearing God should not be only of the mouth but with evidence, living life for God. 
Know to confess the fear of God by living by the word of God.
It is a responsibility to fear God, the creator of all.
Integrity counts before God, while noise-making does not count for living life before God. 
One cannot fear God and have evil intentions for a neighbor.
The race of life is to fear God and be righteous before God through the blood of Jesus. 
A lack of fear of God shelters sins, and God does not overlook sin.
In your life, let the fear of God become conspicuous and be free from evil visitation.
With desire, make it a way of life to fear God.

Prayer for today: Ask for one heart and one way to fear God, living life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Keep praying before God as a way of life.

JOHN 5:1-15

At the time of coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years, there was a deliverance and preservation plan of God to go before them and come behind them.
Exodus 13:21-22 records, “And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.”
There is an understanding that God is not a partial God.
Romans 2:11 states, “For there is no partiality with God.”
As God has brought you thus in life, you shall ask for His deliverance and preservation as He answered for the Israelites.
PRAYER
Ask God who brought you to see today shall lead you by day in a pillar of cloud.
Ask God to lead by night in a pillar of fire.
Ask God not to take away the pillar of cloud by day or fire by night.
As you advance in your life journey, ask for the stability of God to answer for you and your loved ones.
Isaiah 33:6 states, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
PRAYER
Ask God to fill you with His wisdom and knowledge to answer for your deliverance from the instability of this world.
Pray that you will not live a life of instability and not be a victim of the wickedness of this heart.
The word said that the fear of God is His treasures.
PRAYER
Ask that the fear of God become your garment, that the fear of God reigns over your life, and be enabled to live life for God.
Pray that you will not be a victim of being trapped on the track in place for deliverance and preservation.
At that Pool of Bethesda, whoever stepped in first was made well of whatever disease he had.  
A man had an infirmity of thirty-eight years.
The man remains trapped on the track of deliverance.
Jesus showed up for him to question why he was trapped.
The sick man gave excuses for being trapped.
Eventually, Jesus commanded him in John 5:8, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
The word of God is enough to terminate struggle regardless of how long the challenge persists and resists deliverance.
The word of God sounded in the direction of the sick man and healed thirty-eight years of sickness and disease.
PRAYER
Ask that every good track of breakthrough you are experiencing, trapped or not, shall answer for the word of God that gives a breakthrough in the name of Jesus.
Ask just as the sick man rose from sickness that this year, you shall rise above and beyond to the glory of God.
Ask that every stagnation in your life gains a motion for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Communicating is also praying before God.

Ephesians 3

How are you relating to God, your father, the perfect creator who cares?
Do you communicate with God non-stop, or do you only engage God partially or not communicate at all?
This new season, make it a way of life to be praying before God.
Meditating or praying do not fail to communicate with God.
Meditate is communicating with God day and night.
Prayer is seeking God.
Seeking God is not seeking Him in any way but by His way. Know to seek God diligently.
Acts 6:4 states, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
God always has an answer of YES, WAIT, or NO.
Continually, we are to watch and pray.
God is God the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
Let prayer be your way of life before God.
Patiently wait on God in prayer.
James 5:16 reveals, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
What avails much for a righteous is understanding in the word of God.
The understanding comes when there is listening, as Jesus points out in John 8:43.
Know to pray the word of God, which does not return void to God.
Be prayerful:
Ask that the wisdom of understanding to gain and retain communication with God shall be your portion.
Pray that the strength and understanding of praying before God continually becomes your way of life.
Pray that you become enabled with patience to watch and pray before God.
BY THE GRACE OF GOD, PRAY BY THE WORD OF GOD THAT DOES NOT FAIL.
Ask for God to occupy you this year.
In your prayer, ask God to draw you near Him and be occupied consistently by His presence.
Psalm 73:28, “But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, That I may declare all Your works.”
Ask that the grace to trust God become activated in your life.
One occupied by the presence of God lives life for God.
Ask that from this moment, you be enabled to live for God.
The Psalmist prayed to God:
Psalm 106:4, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.”
The word of God encourages all, “What you think is what you ask” (Ephesians 3:20)
Without a doubt, it is what you desire God will deposit in you.
Pray that your desire is for the year answers as a year of the visitation of God in all your endeavors.
It demands you ask for God to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
PRAYER
Ask God to look down on you and remember you with favor.
Ask God for His favor to visit you with His salvation.
Ask that the year answers with the visitation of God in all your going and coming and in all your endeavors for the glory of God over your life.