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PUT ASIDE ALL FOR GOD

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Answering the calling of God is to put aside self for God.

Philippians 4

Life is full of ups and downs.
In life, having content is having satisfaction.
Engage the journey of life with contentment to arrive at the center of God’s divine assignment.
In a world that screams of asking for more, it is tough to find fulfillment and satisfaction. 
One with Self-discipline will be focused on God, regardless of life challenges.
Living life for God with the character of contentment will enable one to excel for the glory of God.
Moses was content with God’s divine assignment for his life.
Without contentment, Moses would not have been able to stay at Midian after he escaped for killing an Egyptian.
Contentment was a pointer for Moses to live for God, leading as a leader under God.
The leadership of Moses brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt to God’s Promised Land. Exodus 2:21 described Moses, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.”
Moses was content and disciplined not to miss the calling of God as a leader for God’s assignment.
In life, having content is having satisfaction.
To answer the calling of God should not be separated from satisfaction.
Are you answering the calling of God?
Is satisfaction your character?
Satisfaction is to have the fear of God.
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.”
Without fear of God, how would one be led?
To know God in the heart is the possibility to live in the fear of God.
One with the fear of God will live by the fear of God to lead as directed by God.
Moses led as commanded by God.
Know God to live for God, having the spirit of satisfaction, not to become a victim of evil.
Contentment is satisfaction.
The book of 1Timothy 6: 6-7 states, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can certainly carry nothing out.”
Know God to be content and be exposed to gain, answering the calling of God.
Answering the calling of God is to put aside self for God.
Philippians 4:4-7  records the identity of one with contentment that is living life in satisfaction, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Contentment encases the peace of God, rejoicing, gentleness, but rendering prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving to God in one’s life.
To be content shall not be covetous in the calling of God.
Be contented in life and serve God with steadfastness.
Have faith, give yourself to God.

Prayer for today: Pray that the spirit of contentment ride over your life.

THIS SEASON  

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Make it a prayer point to know God more.

Luke 13:22-35

In this season, make it a prayer point to be enabled by God to know Him more.
God creates all to live for His glory, to exist for Him. (Revolutions 4:11)
Do you know God?
All should know God more.
No one should be limited in knowing God.
Seek God diligently to find Him and know 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.”
There is no limit to knowing God.
Answering to a title does not exempt one from knowing God more.
To know God should not be only in the mouth, but in the heart.
Determination is not enough to know God more, but one with desire is bound to know God more.
Anyone with a desire will strive to know God more.
Luke 13:24 encourages, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
Acts 24:16, “Paul says he always strives…”
Know the word of God to know God more.
One who does not know the word of God will not live for God to answer as a believer.
Upgrade knowing God to live by the word of God.
Answering as a believer is not evidence of one who lives by the word of God.
Answering as a believer and not living by the word of God is the same as claiming to be a Christian and not living as Christ-like.
Acts 11:26 made all know the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Many know about God but do not know God.
One who does not know God has no faith to live for God.
Knowing the word of God is knowing God.
The word of God is the source of having faith
The opposite of Good faith is bad faith.
Good faith will be hearing and hearing the word of God, the source of faith, to do what is right and good before God.
Bad faith is not hearing the word of God, not living for God, but living a life of wickedness.
1 Timothy 6:12 admonishes those who will hear and take to the word of God, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
Strive to have the good fight of faith, not to miss eternal life.
In the new month, week, or this day, ask God to enable you with wisdom and understanding to strive to know Him more than ever.
Be exposed to the word of God to know how to live life for the glory of God.
Why not have a desire to know God more?
Anyone assuming knowing God more is setting themselves up to become a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Pray that to live by the word of God, the character of one giving oneself to the word of God becomes your way of life.

HEARTFELT DESIRE

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: To live for God is rooted in having a heartfelt desire to know God.

Exodus 20

Engage living in the fear of God and allow His mercy to be yours.
Living life for God is rooted in knowing God.
Desiring to live for God is not a determination, but rather a heartfelt desire to live for God.
Peter had the determination not to deny God, but determination failed him.
The prayer of Jesus was in place for Peter before he denied Jesus.
Jesus prayed for Peter, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:32)
The mercy of God answered for Peter, not to become a victim of failure but to live for God.
The mercy of God is the covenant-keeping God.
Mercy belongs to God, and He renders mercy unto whom He chooses.
It was the mercy of God that led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. Exodus 15:13 records about God, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” 
Pray not to be out of the mercy of God.
Joseph feared God.
Joseph gained the position not to miss the mercy.
God was with Joseph through his challenges because he knew God.
The word testified about Joseph, “…the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy…” (Genesis 39:21)   
The mercy of God answers for one who walks in the word of God.
The mercy of God is abundant, and His mercy does not run out.
One who disobeys God shall run out of His mercy.
Truly, the mercy of God endures forever.
Many are under the power and mercy of God. God spoke to Moses, “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” (Romans 9:15-16)
It was not of Moses’ will, but the will of God, in His mercy that kept Moses through the calling of God over his life.
Knowing God will grow in the fear of God.
Live in knowing God, grow in Him and the fear of God shall continually order your step.
Knowing is having an understanding of God that the fear of the Lord is His treasure.
One with the fear of God will answer as God’s treasure.
Luke 1:50 testifies, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.”
Who are the ones who fear Him?
To fear God is to live by His word.
God planted fear in the heart of man.
Engage living in the fear of God and allow His mercy to be yours.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand to come upon you for living life to fear Him.

KNOW GOD MORE

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Strive more to know God more than ever.

1 Timothy 6

What kind of a believer are you?
In the new month, week, or this day, strive to know God by engaging the word of God.
One who does not know the word of God will not live for God to answer as a believer.
Upgrade knowing God to live by the word of God.
One impressing the world is not evidence such as a believer.
Speaking in one tongue is not enough to be counted as living by the word of God.
Answering as a believer is not evidence of one who lives by the word of God.
Answering as a believer and not living by the word of God is the same as acclaimed Christians and not living as Christ-like.
Acts 11:26 made all know the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Many know about God but do not know God.
Are you a believer living by the way of God, seeking God by the way of God, not by your way?
A believer who seeks God diligently will find God.
One who does not know God has no faith to live for God.
Knowing God is knowing the word of God, the source of having faith
The opposite of Good faith is bad faith.
Good faith will be hearing and hearing the word of God, the source of faith, to do what is right and good before God.
Bad faith is not hearing the word of God, not living for God, but living a life of wickedness.
1 Timothy 6:12 admonishes those who will hear and take to the word of God, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
Strive to have the good fight of faith, not to miss eternal life.
No one should wait until time to pack for eternal life to find out the importance of fighting a good fight.
In the new month, week, or this day, strive to know God by engaging the word of God.
Live life as one who knows God.
Pray to fight a good fight of faith.
Search to answer the kind of believer you are before God.
Through the word is to be identified as living by the word of God.
The word of God is not a story but a secret.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Seek God diligently to find Him in His word.
Give yourself to study the word more than reading.
There is power in the word of God.
The devil approached Jesus with temptation, but the word of God delivered Him. (Matthew 4:1-7)
What kind of a believer are you?
The word of God is irrelevant and does not count for unbelieving believers.
To carry the word of God in the heart is power, unlike in the mouth.

Prayer for today: Pray to live by the word of God, the character of giving self to the word of God.

JULY 2025 FAITH MAIL

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BE LIVING BY THE WORD OF GOD

One who lives by the word of God answers as a believer.
Are you a believer?
What kind of believer are you?
Be a believer who lives for God.
A believer from the depth of the heart is not the same as a believer from the tips of the mouth.
Have the desire to be living by the word of God.
Moses is a testimony of one who lives by the word of God.
One who knows God will know to ask from God.
Search yourself to ask if you know God or if you only know about God.
Knowing God opens one asking Him for His direction as a way of life.
One who will seek God, whether to run in the place of walking or running in the place of walking, cannot be a victim of falling in the journey of life.
For example, Moses needed direction from God when he prayerfully called on 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.” (Exodus 33:13)
Are you asking God for direction?
Know God that He is a caring God who waits for His creation and who has the desire to gain from His direction.
God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Know that the presence of God is the word of God.
John 1:1 informs all, “The word of God is God.”
Do you know about the word of God, or do you know God?
The majority of believers claim to know about God, not engage in the presence of God.
Such have the word of God at the tips of mouth, but not in the heart, to carry the presence of God.
Know God by studying the word of God to be carrying Him in the heart.
God shall not become known by accident but be known by studying His word or by His mercy.
God is unquestionable.
He cannot be a subject of questioning about why or how He arrives at having mercy for some.
Romans 9:15 records, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Know to pray (plead) for His mercy to know Him.
The presence of God is His word.
Psalm 138:2 makes it known that “God magnified His word above all His name.” 
Engage the word of God.
Have a place for Him in the heart.
One with a heart occupied by the word of God is one with a heart occupied by the presence of God.
One who goes with the presence of God is bound not to be a victim of the world but to know the way of God and excel to the glory of God.
God answered Moses when he asked for the way, “God answered Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
With the presence of God is to gain His rest.
Rest for all is in the promise of God, not in the wicked world.
The rest of God gained will deliver the stability of God in the times of instability of the wicked world.
It is worthy to seek God diligently to gain the rest of God.
In the presence of God, there is His rest, which gives direction not to fail for obedience to the word of God.
The presence, which is the rest of God, led Moses, leading the Israelites in his obedience to God.
Psalm 103:7 informs all, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.”
The word of God that speaks to Israel speaks to all because God is not a partial God.
Romans 2:11 testifies, “For there is no partiality with God.”
All the days God bestows on you, remember to know what Hebrews 3:7-11 records for all, “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter my rest.
God is a good God who is not partial, who does not carelessly bless, but blesses by His mercy.
Ask God to enable you to live life consistently obedient to His condition.
God bless with the condition.
Live for God as a believer to gain the promise of God who blesses with condition.