FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever one desires, God will deposit.

Matthew 7

Seek God diligently by following Jesus!
Jesus was teaching when He stated, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21)
Does that sound like you?
Are you one who does not walk before God?
Do you profess Jesus but perfect in wickedness?
Jeremiah talked about the wicked in his statement before 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)
The wicked ones are near to God in their mouth but far from God in their mind.
Also, lying, deception, and manipulation are their makeup.
The Lord God, the perfect creator, is not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with Him. (Psalm 5:4)
Those who carry the identity of the wicked do not follow God.
Jesus specifically requested, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.  For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:24-26)
Whatever one desires, God will deposit.
Is it your desire to seek God diligently by following Jesus?
Following Jesus is not flowing with the crowd.
Many are flowing with the crowd, but few are following Jesus fully.
To follow Him demands to be steadfast in the walk that is in line with the Word of God by forsaking all for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Anyone who is self-full cannot be word-full.
Following the Word of God is following Jesus steadfastly.
Jesus is the living Word of God that was in the beginning.
John 1:1-3 buttresses, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”
Why not steadfastly deny yourself, forsake all, and settle for the living Word of God?
Why not take up His cross and follow Him to cross over?
Following is not a one-time or an on-and-off engagement.
Allow this new season to be a new way of walking before God.
Have the desire to seek God diligently.
To seek God diligently is the character of one who finds God.
Proverbs 7:15 testifies, “So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.”
Seek God diligently!

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to seek God more than in the past.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to seek God diligently.

Proverbs 8

Proverbs 8:17, “I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.”
If seeking God to find God is not possible, God would not have asked for seeking Him diligently.
Live life for God, seek Him diligently and find Him. 
BE UPGRADED BY SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY
Seeking God diligently means actively and persistently searching for a relationship with God as in father and child.
Seeking God diligently requires a dedicated effort to understand and follow the teaching of God, and not quit, but constantly striving to draw close to God; effectively, it insinuates an attentive and unwavering intent of God in life. 
SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY MEANS
It means we keep seeking God until we find Him, not resting until we hear from Him in our situation or circumstance.
Doing something diligently means doing it energetically and persistently.
Seeking God diligently means the opposite of the way to seek God.
Seeking God diligently is the effort to keep faith and reliance on God.
To seek God diligently assures spiritual success.
The constant, bold effort, serving the Lord, and obeying His word is seeking God diligently to find God.
God rewards those who diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY SHOULD BE A PRIORITY
Priority seeking God diligently is:
Act according to the word of God, and be careful to observe them for this is your wisdom and understanding. (Deuteronomy 4:-5-6)
The character of seeking God diligently will:
Pray for guidance and strength.
Persistent, not to give up when challenges resist.
Find joy and satisfaction doing the work of God.
Such will act without being told what to do at all times.
Focus on what is not distracting to deny finding God.
WHAT DOES IT MEANS TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY
Seeking God diligently for His strength and his presence continually!
Among ways to seek God diligently:
Making it a priority to call upon God in prayer and watch.
Know to forsake evil ways and thoughts.
Serve God with whole heart devotion and with a mindful for God.
Let your cares be committed to God.
Keep your tongue from evil.
KNOW TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY
To seek God diligently is the labor to find God that demands persistence.
To seek God diligently is the opposite of seeking God not in His way.
One who truly knows God (not to know about) shall have a love for God and seek God diligently.
When one loves to seek God, one will naturally seek Him energetically and perseveringly, expecting to find God.
Seek the Lord diligently and earnestly now so that when challenges come, you will readily receive the answers, victories, and rewards that He reserves only for His faithful ones who seek Him diligently.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord…”

Prayer for today: Ask God to teach and enable you with the strength to seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: The fear of God rooted in love for God seeks God diligently.

Deuteronomy 6

John 1:1-3 records, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”
The Word of God is the work of God. 
Without the Word of God, nothing is made.
The Word of God is His command.
Among the purpose of His command is stated in Deuteronomy 6:1-3, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” 
The command of God is to instill fear to obey God. 
TO FEAR GOD IS TO LOVE GOD. 
Fear God to obey Him.
One with the fear of God will gain the understanding of meditating on the Word of God to observe and do accordingly.
Failure to obey God is not to fear Him. 
God expects all to love Him. 
Deuteronomy 6:5 states, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”  
Sin and sinning are rooted in disobedience. 
Without a doubt, sin came to be through failure to eat one tree out of the trees in the Garden of Eden. 
Genesis 2:16-17 records, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  
Adam and Eve engaged in a blatant act of disobedience with no reasonable excuse but a consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin. 
God wants all to love Him with all heart, soul, and all strength. 
Abraham is an example of one who loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God. 
Obedience to the Word of God is the fear in God, the creator of all.
It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back. 
At age seventy-five, leaving behind a comfortable environment with no child is evidence of the fear of God and obedience to the command of God.
Word of God testified to the fear of Abraham in Genesis 22:12 “…Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12) 
How are you serving Him with all your love? 
True love for God is to have fear for God.
Moving forward from this moment, the fear of God rooted in love for God shall enable one to serve God diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask God so that your heart shall retain to obey the Word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is faithful, and He will honor His word. 

Numbers 14

The evidence of the doing of God is in His testimony.
One that gives to the doing of God takes the position of experiencing the blessing of God.
One who shares what the Lord God has done, He is doing, and one who listens to hear the doing of God are keeping the testimony of God.
Testimony is an open declaration or profession of faith.
The testimonies of God will transport a believer to a ground of transformation. 
All that the children of Israel needed for their transportation through their wilderness journey was the testimonies of God to keep them from complaining against God. 
Are you complaining or testifying about what God has done?
The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years.
Are you experiencing a time of wandering where you are to be a wonder to your world?
A failure to keep the testimony of God is evidence of not remembering God for what He has done.
For the Israelites, complaint replaced testimony.
The acts of complaints against God trapped them in the wilderness. 
The act of complaining is evidence of not keeping the testimony of God. 
Due to their never-ending complaining against what God was doing in their life, God responds in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
While the Israelites were in Egypt, God showed them mighty signs, but they could not meditate to keep His testimony.
Why not constantly meditate on His testimonies? 
The Psalmist identifies the blessing of God as keeping the testimonies of God.  Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!” 
Keeping His testimonies is setting oneself up to serve God and not rebel by complaining.
The testimonies of God are the things of God, the evidence of what God can do.
His testimonies are worthy of mediation. 
The testimony of God is what is needed to plead for the case before God. Isaiah 45:26 states, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
Do you have any testimony to remind God when presenting your case before God to gain His favor?  
In your challenge, state your case by referring to what God has done and what He can do.
Meditate on testimonies of God to provoke your faith in Him.  

Prayer for today: Ask that the help of God will enable keeping His testimony constant.