FAITH CAPSULE: Encased in the word of God to escape.

John 1:1-38

Are you receiving the word of God to be living by the word of God?
Look into the word to secure your destiny in the word of God.
Encased in the word of God is what it takes to escape and not be a victim of the wickedness of this world. 
One that seeks will see and be able to capture a secured future in the word of God that can not break nor return to Him void.
How do you effectively engage the word? 
Begin to see in the word of God as looking into the mirror. 
Behold the word by constantly hearing and hearing with listening ability. Begin to see and receive the word of God. 
One cannot see in the word of God and doubt. 
What you see is what you receive, and it becomes of you.  
How you see yourself in the mirror before engaging your day determines how you carry yourself through the day in all endeavors. 
One who sees self as sick first thing in the morning will walk through the day as the sick one.
However, one that looks in the mirror of the word of God and says to self: 
“I am looking strong and good today” is set to rule the day with uncommon energy. 
Make the word your daily routine.
Study the word continually, not only when it is convenient. 
Allow the word of God to impact your perspective of life; allow the word to be your mirror to identify you for a breakthrough. 
Look into the mirror of the word for what you will adhere to adjust your life so that you may have great exploits in the life God has given you.
Daniel did a great exploit. Daniel 11:12 records, “Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” 
Among the secrets that made Daniel a difference in his life to do great exploits was praying three times daily. 
It was testified in Daniel 6:10, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” 
Daniel must have seen Himself in the mirror of the word in the Psalm of David that states, “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.” (Psalm 55:16-17) 
Look into the word to secure your destiny in the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled that your eyes see and receive the word of God in your image.

FAITH CAPSULE: The eyes of God are watching and none can hide from God.

1 Samuel 2

Character counts before God. 
Testimonies of God over the life of some men like Abraham, Job, and David are evidence that the eyes of God are watching over all.
The word states evidence of the eyes of God that sees:
“Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.” (2 Chronicles 14:2) 
“For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth…” (2 Chronicles 16:9) 
“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous…” (1 Peter 3:12) 
The whole world is not beyond God not to see or sport out every individual. 
God does not sleep nor slumber as He sees all. 
What are you doing that is hidden from all but open to the eyes of God? 
God testified about Abraham: “And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.” (James 2:23) 
The Righteousness of Abraham was his action before God. 
The Bible states, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3)
How are you doing before the eyes of God?
God sees all.
God sees and testifies on behalf of Job, “Then the LORD said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to destroy him without cause.” (Job 2:3) 
God testifying His creation as a man of integrity must have been the result of having walked the walk and having lived the word of God. 
Besides Abraham and Job, David was referred to as a man after the heart of God. (1 Samuel 13:14) 
The same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow will not ignore anyone who lives up to His expectations. 
God is not a partial God but a God that is particular in seeing His creation live in line with His word. 
How are you living as a picture in the eyes of God? 
Are you an acclaimed believer living life for God, to be seen for His glory? 
God is not deceive-able, as many are lying, deceiving, and manipulating others in the name of God. 
Many believers today have a church, with no Christ in their message, by their way of life.
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous. 
In life, God does not ignore or look away from the righteous in times of challenges but attends to the challenges of the righteous.
Psalm 34:19 buttresses, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.”
The eyes of God are watching, but no character can hide from God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will always listen for His lead and instruction for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be occupied by the presence of God. 

John 1:1-35

Day after day, week after week, and month after month.
To be alive is the grace and mercy of God.
Undoubtedly, God does not own any creation but, all own God to live for His glory.
What occupies you determines living for God.
What is your desire to occupy you?
To be occupied by the word of God is in a position to live by the word of God.
The word of God is God.
John 1:1-3 informs all, “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.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
Jesus is the word of God.
Whoever is occupied by the entrance of the word of God is bound to live for God.
Revelation 3:12 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
God, the perfect creator, does not force anyone to gain entrance into the life of one.
God is not a slave master but a saving God.
Why not take a position to allow the word of God into your life?
Why not?
One that allows the entrance of the word of God shall become built to gain the inheritance among the sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
One occupied by the word of God is to gain the presence of God, live by His word, and retain His presence.
The word of God is not a destination for the tips of the mouth but for the heart.
One not occupied by the word of God lives by the way of the world.
It is a wicked world covered by the darkness of evil.
The wicked world demands the light of God to navigate and arrive at the divine assignment of God.
Jesus, the word of God, is the Lamb of God.
Revelation 21:23 states, “The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”
John the Baptist once identified Jesus as the Lamb of God when Jesus approached him, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
The word of God is light.
Jesus is the Lamb of God.
Jesus is the light of God.
God is light. 1 John 1:5 records, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”
Pray for the understanding of God.
Psalm 119:130 records, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”

Prayer for today: Ask the light of God to gain entrance into your life to occupy you against the darkness of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be on the ground is to live for God.

Psalm 150

GROUND OF WORSHIP IS NOT A MARKET
Seeking God by serving Him.
Psalm 150:6 states, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
At every moment, not just at breath, praise the Lord!
Time belongs to God, but the clock belongs to the world.
Advancing in the days of God bestowed in you, know God to live right before Him.
For example, on the ground of worshiping God, seek Him right, not seek Him in your way of life.
The ground of worship is not a marketplace of selling and buying.
Are you buying and selling on the grounds of worshiping God?
It is not how long or short you have made worshiping ground a buying and selling ground directly or indirectly, but at an appointed time, there shall be consequences.
Jesus reacted to selling in the temple, “Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.” (Mark 11:15)
Lies, deception, and manipulation are ways of selling and buying on majority grounds of worship.
Does that sound like you?
Do not be everyone, but always be yourself.
Know that God oversees all in their endeavors.
Live for God as a way of life, not only on the day of worshiping God.
Pray to live for God.
DO NOT WORRY, BUT YOU SHALL PREVAIL 
Waiting not to gain expectation is not how long, but how far God has brought you.
Give glory to God for His grace that has brought you this far.
To be alive today is not your right. 
Day after day, week after week, month after month, are the privilege of God to be alive.
Do not waver.
Do not worry.
One not knowing God is worrying instead of worshiping God.
Matthew 6:25-27 speaks to all, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…”  
God will not deny sincere attention to His word.
Know to give attention to God and not to worry.
Give regard to God
Ask that the grace of God shall not expire over your life. 
LIVE LIFE IN THE DIRECTION OF GOD
To read is not hearing and hearing the evidence of studying the word to live obediently by the word of God.
The word of God is deliverance and preservation.
Turning into the word of God is obedience to God.
In a time of sin and iniquity against the word of God, Noah received a word of direction from God to build an ark for his separation from untimely death.
Noah turned in the direction of God. The Bible states that Noah: “…went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.” (Genesis 7:16)
Ask that you turn to the word of God to shut you in and not become a victim of the wicked world of sin before God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to engage the word of God as your way of life.