FAITH CAPSULE: Which way are you moving in the coming month?

Jeremiah 7

With a month running out, let the new month be a time to live for God more.
Answering as one living for God moving forward, to the glory of God, should be of desire in the coming new month.
The way to move forward is in the word of God.
The way backward is in the wicked world.
With you, which way are you moving in the coming month?
Are you going by the dictates of your heart or by the living word of the living God?
Going by the dictates of the heart of man can be of the world.
The way of the world is the way that seems right, not the way of God. Proverbs 14:12 makes us realize that “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” The way that seems right to man comes from the dictates of the evil heart.
The way that seems right is wrong; the way that seems right is always a way of assumption with no certainty to lead right.
As a child of God, have you thought about the reason why you have been going backward instead of forward?
The possibility of your going back is following the dictates of your heart. God was speaking to Jeremiah about the disobedience of the Israelites in Jeremiah 7:21-24, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.  For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.  But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’  Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”  God called it an evil heart. Evil heart belongs to wicked.
There is a way that is alive when aligned with God.
Take to the word of God, and it will see you through the journey of life.
An evil heart or wicked heart only leads to the wrong way. The word God says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
Why should a God-fearing person want to keep going back to the evil heart for counsels and dictates?
Going back and away from God will lead to the wrong way.
From today, begin to take your counsels to the Lord in prayer; He alone is the living God.
Avoid the wrong way of the past and present month by taking the right way.
In the coming month, have the desire to be a living believer of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be a vessel living for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who knows God will know to ask from God.

Hebrews 3

Moses knows God, not just to know about 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.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not live outside of the presence of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The truth of God never fails to wait for those who wait on Him.

Matthew 7 

The assurance in God is knowing the truth.
The truth of God is to wait on God without regret.
The truth of God does not disappoint to gain freedom.
One with the truth of God is on the side of the word of God that does not fail.
Jesus is the truth of God that never fails. (John 14:6)
Jesus spoke the truth to those who believe (not just the Jews), “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Abiding is to dwell in the word of God to gain knowledge of the truth of God. 
Knowledge is the application of wisdom. 
Understanding is listening to wisdom, which is instruction.
Jesus wants all to know the truth that will make free possible.
The truth of God is waiting on God to find Him.
What is it about waiting on God?
Waiting is not fun when there is no knowledge of the truth about waiting.
Waiting is a pain when it takes a long time to get an answer.
Waiting demands the patient to experience the manifestation of expectation.
The word testified to the truth of God will answer to those who call on Him. Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
In life, understanding to ask, seek, and knock shall be backed not to wait wasted.
The understanding of the truth will always act for those who wait on Him. Gain an understanding of the truth of Isaiah 64:4-5 that testifies, “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. You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways…” 
Isaiah 64:5 identifies three ways of truth that will activate God for one that waits on Him:
God meets with those who rejoice.
God meets with one that does righteousness.
God meets with those who remember His ways.
Apostle Paul knows the truth of waiting.
Waiting on God because He can do all things.
The word of God encourages all to remind Him concerning the work of His hand. (Isaiah 43:26)
The word of God is not just a story but a secret that will deliver the answer to a believer. 
A believer with knowledge of the truth of the word of God will know to wait on God with expectation without frustration. 
Wait on God.
God acts for those who wait on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open up your understanding of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: In waiting is looking up to God alone.

Psalm 91

Waiting on God is asking, seeking, and knocking for intervention.
Power belongs to God to intervene in the life of one who seeks Him.
God is a good God who cares for His creation and does not look away from those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “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.”
It is understanding to know and wait before God.
With the understanding of asking and knocking to seek God is not a time to be quiet.
God is a caring God, and He waits to act for those who wait on Him.
Jesus buttressed, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
There should be no frustration waiting on God.
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time will lead to frustration.
With frustration, rebellion and disobedience reign.
Psalm 91:15 states, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” (Psalm 91:15)
Knowing to call on God is a way to provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is a caring God.
God honors His word.
Isaiah 58:9  confirms the faithfulness of God, “Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
One thing God cannot do He cannot fail.
King David demonstrated calling and gaining the attention of God.
1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.”
It is the heart that trusts to remember the calling of God and will gain the attention of God.
David could not go to war without waiting on God.
Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, he repeatedly went and inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines.
One crying out to God is waiting on God.
With the bondage of over four hundred years, the Israelites cried to God, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8)
God does not fail.
Look up and ask from Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall endow you with knowledge and understanding at the time of waiting on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Crying out to God is reaching out to unfailing God.

John 11:1-44

Unfailing to pray quietly or loudly is loud crying before God.
Crying out to God is possible, not shedding tears.
Crying out to God is not only screaming at the top of the voice.
Are you crying outside of God for help?
Seeking help in times of challenge is before God alone.
Let your crying be rooted in the understanding that you are crying to God, not to anyone.
To be crying out loud or crying inside quietly is not hidden before God. With understanding, know to cry to God alone.
A schedule of prayer without failure before God is like crying out loud to God alone.
Without a doubt, crying out will always get the attention of God.
The question in the word of Psalm 94:9 points out the truth that God hears as stated: “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”  
God reverses irreversible.
God is the unchanging changer.
God is a caring God.
God will not look away from crying before Him.
In your crying before God, be encouraged by the word in Psalm 18:6, “In my distress, I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”
The Psalmist testifies to the calling out to God to get His attention.
Psalmist pleaded in Psalm 39:12, “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.”
Is your crying consistent to get the attention of God?
Are you too quiet when there is no need to be?
Are you too quiet not to be victorious?
The word encourages all, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”  
Crying out loud is not evidence of weakness but a demonstration of trust and hope in the word of God.
The understanding about David is the character of crying to God, knowing to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 55:16-17 buttressed, “As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.”
The testimony of David is evidence of crying out to God to gain His attention.
Praying is calling out to God all day, that will get the attention of heaven. A custom of praying day and night is the character of unfailing prayer before God.
To cry out when the need calls will provoke an answer on behalf of those with understanding, crying out to God.
Do not be quiet in your seeking God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek Him more than ever before.