FAITH CAPSULE: God is enough to be committed to.

Isaiah 64

God is a Caring God. 
God is near.
God is not far from His creator that is not far from Him.
Sin and iniquity will always set one to be far from God.
Romans 3:23 informs all, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
God is a good God!
God waits to act when one waits on His committed love and caring. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies to God, “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.”
God is enough to be committed to His help, not to anyone. 
God alone is the Helping helper that has never failed. 
Are you looking forward to anyone for your help?
Looking for help from the wrong sources is evidence of limiting God for His loving care. 
Your help will not come from where you are looking for but shall be from God through unexpected channels to you. 
Imagine Saul God appointed him to be the king but looking away from God to get the help of God, as king.
God called him.
Did God call you?
1 Thessalonians 5:24 records, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Saul did not look to the caring God for his help.
Saul was to fight the Philistines, but he could not wait for the Prophet of God with direction to carry out the burnt offering. 
Saul disobeyed the law of God by engaging in an offering that was only to be carried out by Samuel, the priest of God. 
Samuel confronted Saul about the presentation of the burnt offering, “…What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12) 
Committing to man instead of meditating on the testimonies of the care of God will compel one to become a failure like King Saul.
Who do you commit yourself to?
One who is committed to the word of God commits to God.
One who is committed to the world shall experience self-destruction.
Jesus could not commit Himself to any man. 
The Bible records, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.” (John 2:24) 
The documentation of the experience of Jesus is for all to learn.
Are you studying instead of reading the word of God to learn?
Study the word of God, and do not look over the word by committing yourself to no one. 
Do you commit to someone?
Who do you commit to for getting help? 
God, creator of all, can visit for His salvation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to commit to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Giving regard to the Word of God is the character of one who gives self to God.

Psalm 28

The work of God is the Word of God.
The work of God is the creation of God by His Word.
John 1:1-3, “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.”
The Bible states nothing is made, without the Word of God.
The Word of God worked everything out.
God magnified His Word above all His name.
How are you giving regard to the Word of God?
Psalm 28:5 records, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.”
Does the Word speak to you?
One that commends to the Word of God shall become built by the Word of God.
Acts 20:32 states, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
The Word of God is a manual to engage, not to live a wasted life.
His Word is His command.
One who lives by the Word of God is obedient to the Word of God.
God is not a respecter of no one.
Moses disobeyed the Word of God to live by the consequences.  
Moses failed to obey the command of God when he struck and spoke.
Numbers 20:11-12 records, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” 
Striking is not the same as speaking. 
Failure to fully obey is an avenue to self-destruction. 
Are you paying attention to yourself rather than paying attention to the command of God.? 
Moses could not step on the Promised Land based on his disobedience to the command of God.
Be accountable and not count yourself out through disobedience.
Striking is not the same as speaking. 
Failure to fully obey is an avenue to self-destruction. 
He is God and calls for all to be obedient in His direction.
Are you paying attention to yourself rather than paying attention to His command? 
Moses could not step on the Promised Land based on his disobedience to the command of God.
Be accountable and not count yourself out through disobedience.
God is not a joker. 
God expects obedience to His Word without failure.
Do not disobey the command of God at all times because no excuse will count for disobedience to God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant obedience to God and not to self.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you turning away to the word of God in your direction for your deliverance?

Numbers 13

A failure to allow the entrance of the word of God shall lead to failure in endeavor.
The Israelites turned away from the word of God to arrive at the promise of the word of God.
Numbers 13:1-3 records, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.’” 
Moses played his role in relating the word of God to the Israelites.
The Israelites needed to spy out the land which God was giving them.  
In life, listening to hear consistently will provoke understanding, the key to observing the promise of God.
The promise of God is a done deal!
The promise of God does not void but delivers for one that does not void or not do according to direction in His word.
The spies saw the land and returned with a negative report. 
Sharing any negative report against positive ones is making God a liar, the evidence of a lack of faith by the spy. 
The spy reported a negative confession, “…The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are great men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.’” (Numbers 13:32-33) 
The negative report delivered by the spy to the Israelites provoked a rebellious response that caused many not to arrive at the promised land.
One who listens is the one who is hearing continually.
Hearing day and night is one meditating on the word of God.
Meditating is not memorizing but meditating the word of God in the heart, not in the mouth.
One who meditates will listen to do according to the word of God.
Listen attentively to no one but to God in His word. 
Will you listen to wait on His word?
For over four hundred years, the Israelites were on a journey of forty years instead of eleven years. 
It was like no way out for the Israelites.
God spoke through Moses, “…I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:17) 
God spoke to the Israelites repeatedly, but they turned deaf and corrupted minds to the word of God.
With attention to the word of God, failure is an impossibility.
God has spoken, still speaking, and what He says is a done deal. 
Are you listening to His word? 
The Israelites could not listen attentively and not arrive at the promise of God for their life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled not to turn away from the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is the condition before the promise of God?

Deuteronomy 1

There is always a condition to gain and possess the promise of God.
All should know that God is forever faithful to His promise. 
Do not fail to engage and possess the promise of God.   
God called Abraham, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son…” (Genesis 22:3) 
Abraham rose to the calling of God to deny the failure not to engage the condition, obedience that provokes the promise of God.
There was a promise of God for the Israelites to claim; however, the condition to claim the promise must be done.
When it was time for the Israelites to possess the promise of God, it was time to move from dwelling at the mountain bottom. 
The mountain bottom could be a place of comfort that takes away the sight of potential breakthroughs in life. 
The Bible records in Deuteronomy 1:6-7, “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.” 
One can engage in comfort and not continue the journey to possess fully. 
Are you dwelling in a comfortable position, not moving to pursue and possess the promise of God?
When God called the Israelites out of the mountain bottom, He called their attention, “See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land…” (Deuteronomy 1:8) 
Possessing what is yet at hand demands faith to see in the place of nothing. 
The word of God and His promises are not visible physically until one begins to see it as the truth to go after it. 
The truth of God cannot fail to deliver. 
Above all, His word does not return to Him void, but the world voids His word, not doing according to the word of God.
In addition to coming out of the mountain bottom (comfortable dwelling position) and not seeing, there shall be no room for fear and discouragement. 
Moses warned about fear and discouragement while emphasizing to the Israelites the need to see and be able to possess in Deuteronomy 1:21, “Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.” 
Fear is the opposite of faith. 
Fear sinks faith.
Discouragement denies the ability to see in line with what God has promised.
Can you consider where you are in the promise of God for your life? 
Identify if you are at the mountain bottom or you have engaged in rising to possess.
Have you allowed fear and discouragement to take over the seat of driving your journey? 

Prayer for today: Pray not to be a victim of failure not gain the promise of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Carry the word of God to be carried by God.

Proverb 30

Are you giving to the word of God for the heart?
Do not dilute the word of God.
Proverb 30:6 warns, “Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.”
Revelation 22:18 o warns, “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.”
No one should add or take away from the word of God.
How do we carry the word of God?
Carry the word of God in the depth of hearts, not just by the mouth.
Deuteronomy 6:6 records, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.”  
Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore, you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”
Psalm 119:11 “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”
Ezekiel 3:10 “Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.”
Joseph is a testimony that carried the word in the heart and could arrive at the center of God’s divine assignment for his life.
As he journeyed, sin presented itself to him when the wife of his master approached him to lie with her.
Joseph could not fall to sin against God.
Genesis 39:19 “…How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Joseph hid the word of God in his heart so as not to sin against God.
Imagine what could have happened to Joseph in life if he had fallen for the sin presented to him by the wife of his master.
The word you in the heart will serve as a key to open the door for deliverance and breakthrough.
One meditating the word of God in the heart will not be a victim of the wicked world.
Word of God promised to deliver the Israelites to the Promised Land, and the word of promise stayed in the heart of Caleb. Joshua 14:7 records the testimony of Caleb, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.”
Caleb and Joshua did not confess negatively as a spy.
The report by Caleb and Joshua branched out of the heart occupied by the word of God.
Come out of memorizing the word in your head; commit to meditating the word in the heart.
In this wicked world, keep the word of God.
The word of God is alive and is proven.
1 John 2:5 said it all, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.”
Give yourself to the word of God to become a building that stands for God, by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be carrying the word of God.