FAITH CAPSULE: The way of God is in the word of God.

Exodus 33 

With faith, God is pleased with one who walks in Him.
Walking in the way of God is to live a life to the glory of God.
Which way are you walking in this challenging world?
To walk in the way of God is to arrive at the center of divine assignment.
The way of God is in the word of God.
Do you know the way of God to walk in it?
With understanding, walk in the way of God.
The word of God admonished all to ask.
Ask God for His way. 
Moses asked before God, “Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” (Exodus 33:13)
The way of God is direction, deliverance, and preservation. 
Are you asking for the way of God?
With God, there is a way not to live a life of waste.
Ask for the way of God, but do not assume the way of God.
Proverbs 16:25 buttresses, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
The way of the world can be a mockery, but not the word of God.
God alone sees all!
Which way is your way taking you to?
Straying from the way of God is a path with no presence of God, the rest of God, which leads to self-destruction.
God answered the question of Moses: “And He said, ‘My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) 
The word of God is God. The word God is His presence that carries His rest. 
The Bible documented the way of God. 
Moses asked before God, and he received an answer in which Psalm 103:7 testifies, “He made known His ways to Moses…” 
Are you asking before God for the way that will give an unfailing answer for the way to engage?
God cannot fail when one adopts His way.
It is impossible to take the way of God and end up in destruction. Evidently, when one goes outside the ways of God, self-destruction becomes a possibility. 
Many ways seem right, but not all lead to life because they are not of God. 
Will you give yourself to search for yourself, to avoid self-destruction?
The book of Proverbs 16:2 states, “All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirits.” 
Will you be sincere with yourself and let God direct or redirect your steps in His way? 
Taking to the way of God is evidence of having faith in God.
With faith, God is pleased with one who walks in Him, His way, the evidence of having faith in Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life that walks in Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: A different spirit will fuel one to follow in the way of God, to arrive at the plan of God.

Numbers 14

Pray to give oneself to following God as a way of life.
Claiming to be a believer is not enough to be fully following God.
The word of God identified Caleb as one who followed God.
Numbers 14:24 records, “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully.”
Many followed, but not all followed in the way of God.
Possibly, the different spirit in Calab is the word of God.
Joshua meditated on the word of God consistently. (Joshua 1:8)
Joshua and Caleb walked together and must have contacted the word of God, a different spirit.
Ask that the different spirit that enables Caleb to follow fully become activated in your life in the name of Jesus.
A failure to fully follow God is the cause of negative confession and does not lead to gaining the promise of God.
What have you placed on yourself consciously or unconsciously?
What is it you have said about yourself?
Plead for the mercy of God to reverse what seems to be irreversible.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Matthew 12:34 states, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
How do you curtail your words to prevent yourself from being a victim of negative confession?
Challenges prompt speaking negatively in life.
God promised to take the Israelites to the Promised Land.
The challenges on their way to the Promised Land prompted them to confess negatively because they failed to see deliverance in the word of God.
Numbers 14:2 records the confession of the Israelites, “And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, ‘If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!”
God responded, sent Moses to them, in Numbers 14:28, stating, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.”
God hears all.
What are you saying negatively?
Ephesians 3:20 admonishes, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
What do you think, or what are you asking about, saying it negatively?
Words in the heart spoken out will launch you into what is said or what you think it.
The Pharaoh of Egypt could not keep the Israelites in bondage permanently.
The Red Sea failed to deny the Israelites from going to the Promised Land.
The wall of Jericho failed to deny the Israelites from getting on the way to the Promised Land.
However, the mouth of the Israelites (the negative confession) denied their arrival in the Promised Land.
Prayer for today: Pray that you live a life with control to speak right, not wrongly.
God reverses the irreversible.
Whatever follows you or you carry that is not of God must cease permanently in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who does not follow is bound to miss the kingdom of God. 

Genesis 22

Living life by the word of God is the character of following God.
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The works of God are His word created.
The word of God is His command.
One who has the choice to work the work of God is described as one who believes in God.
Jesus was asked about what it means to work the works of God, and He responded as is recorded in John 6:28-29, “Then they said to Him, ‘What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
One who believes by the word of God lives by the word of God.
To live by the word of God, work the word of God.
Are living by the word of God, the character to work the word, and become living by the word of God.
Given self in submission to the word of God will follow God and will not miss the kingdom of God.
In the life journey, there is no exception for the rich or poor to walk with God and make it to the kingdom of God.
In the life journey, whoever goes against the command of God will not walk with God to make it to the kingdom of God. 
What are you holding on to and not giving yourself to the command of God?
Abraham is an example who does not hold back from following God.
He followed the command of God as he attempted to sacrifice his only son when God spoke to him. Genesis 22:12 records, “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.” 
Abraham fears God to follow the command of God. 
God testifies to the fear of Abraham for His name.
Whatever holds you back from giving yourself to the word of God will keep you from following God.
One who does not follow is bound to miss the kingdom of God. 
Are you with desires to make it to the kingdom of God, a life of eternity?
In your life journey, what is it that is holding you back from following God?
Is it your property or family that is holding you back from following God? 
Jesus identifies what it takes to follow Him when he says, “…you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” (Matthew 19:28-30)
From today, live life for God by following His command to make the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God that is not a fiction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Ignorance is a lack of knowledge that makes a believer destitute.

2 Samuel 6

When there is understanding, one will demonstrate a knowing edge.
A lack of knowledge and understanding is the state of being ignorant.
God knows all!
No pretender can escape the knowing of God.
God alone is the creator of all.
God sees heaven and earth, and no one can successfully hide from God.
Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.
The lack of knowledge and understanding is engaging in a journey of self-destruction.
Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed, for lack of knowledge.”
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge that makes a believer destitute.
Among believers, doing right in the wrong way or doing wrong instead of doing right does not have an excuse before God, but prompts consequences.
The ignorant do not have a place before God.
Romans 10:3 states, “For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Set yourself before God:
Study to know God and not be an ignorant believer.
Always do right and know there is no excuse for ignorance before God.
Taking the doings of God for granted is unacceptable and constitutes ignorance.
Do not take God for granted.
Taking God for granted is disobedient to His word.
Abraham demonstrated not taking God for granted by obeying God.
The word of God speaks to Abraham, “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) 
Abraham obeyed God, not withholding from the word of God.
Answering Abraham to command is the character of seeking God diligently.
One who seeks God to find Him does not give an excuse for being ignorant.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “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.” 
Abraham found God.
One who seeks God with all heart and soul is seeking God diligently.
Abraham could not take God for granted; he obeyed God and lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Are you taking God for granted?
The life of Uzzah is evidence of ignorance with no excuse for doing wrong in the place to do right before God.
Uzzah made a wrong choice in an attempt to save the ark from falling.
When returning the Ark of God to Jerusalem, Uzzah touched the Ark of God.
Uzzah was ignorant when he touched the Ark of God and lost his life.
The bible records that Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God. (2 Samuel 6:6-8)
The ignorance of Uzzah led to his untimely death.
There is no excuse for not having experienced wrongdoing before.

Prayer for today: Ask not to become a victim of ignorance before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: He did not command what is impossible to obey. 

1 Corinthians 13

Without exception, all should love their neighbor as themselves.
One not loving by word or by action is evidence of the agent of evil.
Anyone without love is not with God, and at a distance from God.
Are you loving others as the word of God commands?
Paul the apostle states the importance of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 
The word of Apostle Paul identifies that demonstrating the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, reaching out to the needy, and making oneself available when or where there is a need, but without having love, is empty, and nothing counts before God. 
To love is commanded by God.
Preaching love and not living by loving others is not complete before God.
Jesus meant what He said, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”(Matthew 7:22-23) 
Are you obedient to self-selected but not to all of the commands of God?
It is possible to be deceived or lie in the presence of God, manipulating brethren, but God can see the heart of all.
The apostle Paul also describes what love is about, “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.”(1 Corinthians 13:4-7) 
The description of love, as Apostle Paul identifies, is that the world will turn around for the better.
To love as commanded by God must be in truth and deed.
To love is not impossible, but love as God expects from all.
God is a good God; He did not command what is impossible to obey. 
One who loves as commanded by God will count before God as one who fully obeys God, as Galatians 5:14 speaks to all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Always know for yourself if you love as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of loving as obedience to the command of God, avoiding a life of waste.