FAITH CAPSULE: All are to live for God, to exist for His glory.

Psalm 27

With desire, not just determination, pray to live for God.
David, a man after the heart of God, was seeking God to declare in Psalm 27:4, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.”
The prayer of David is the prayer with the heart to seek God diligently.
It is the character of one who lives for God.
One that lives for God is the testimony of living by the will of God for all.
Revelation 4:11 confirms, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
All need to know the will of God that is for His creation to exist for Him (to live life for God)
Are you living for God?
The determination to live for God is not possible.
The determination can fail and will not work because the enemy, the only anabolous Devil, is doing all possible to gain many along with him into hell.
One with desire backed with prayer will not miss God.
Determination failed Peter, but the prayer of God delivered him.
All are to live for God.
One who does not live for God gives no regard to God.
Psalm 28:5 warns: 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.
All are to live for God, to exist for His glory.
A prayer with understanding is the key to seeking God diligently to gain the blessings of God.
Matthew 6:33 states, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Prayerfully, all are to strive not to live a life of waste that misses heaven.
Jesus speaks to all in Luke 13:24, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
Paul also testified that he also strives. (Act 24:16)
Praying to live for God is crucial to be continual and not to miss out on God.
PRAYER
Ask that the spirit of God occupy your heart and always be after the things of God.
Ask from the depth of your heart that the desire to live for God be activated and established in your life.
Ask that you will continually be found in the center of the will of God all the days God bestowed upon you.
Ask that you will know to give regard to God in all areas of life.
Ask that the strength of God to strive and not live a life of waste become your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is healing and giving in the word of God.

Psalms 138, 148

The word of God is God.
The word of God is power.
God made heaven and earth by His word.
Psalm 138:2 informs that God magnified His word above all His name.
In the name of God, the characters of His word are undeniable when engaged with understanding. 
The word of God is with healing.
Matthew 8:16 records a demonstration of the healing character of the word of God when Jesus had an encounter to heal, “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.” 
The word of God is power.
The word of God will do and undo by casting out all that does not represent God in the life of anyone that the word answers for.
Also, just a word of God is enough for healing, deliverance, and preservation. 
Healing, the character of the word of God, is evident through the pages of the Bible. Psalm 107:20 documents, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
With understanding, know to call on God for His healing word. Isaiah 43:26 encourages all, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”  
God is the same yesterday and tomorrow and He does not forget but will answer when called on Him according to the promise in His word.
The word is giver.
Whatever God wants to give out is in His word to give one an understanding and ask for manifestation of what the word of God carries. 
For example, the word of God will give comfort or light to meet the expectation for one with the understanding that asks from Him.
Psalm 119:50 testifies, “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” Are you with the expectation to get from the word of God? With understanding, know the word of God to ask for what the word of God will give.
Psalm 119:130 testifies, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” With understanding, know to ask for the word of God that can give light for navigating through the darkness and not to become a victim of falling. 
Also, one who gives self to the word of God will be built up to inherit as the approved one before God. Acts 20:32 records, “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.” 
Give yourself to the word of God to build you, to receive from the word of God that will give unfailingly.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer calls for faith to be gained from God.

Luke 18: 1-30

A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and Knocking before God.
To be seeking God with prayer demands praying in the word of God.
Prayer calls for faith to gain from God.
The word of the apostle speaks to all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
What is it that you are asking God to change in your life?
To seek God with prayer demands giving self to continual prayer, a persistent prayer before God. 
A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and knocking before God until the answer is delivered.
It is the character of God not to ignore the calling on Him.
God always answers yes and no or waits when called on Him with persistent prayer.
The parable of Jesus in Luke 18:1-8 records for all to know that God is a caring God that will not ignore persistence just as a judge could not.
A widow needed justice for an adversary. 
The widow prompts the response of the action of the judge.
Luke 18:4-5 documents, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
Jesus speaks in response to the judge, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
The expectation with no manifestation in sight, there is reason to engage in persistence and knocking that is the evidence of FAITH.
In the time of expectation for manifestation, it is worth knowing that:
FAITH should not be a mouth noise.
FAITH is not a fanfare (a display or elaboration) but to engage God to experience manifestation for expectation.
FAITH is not an effort to impress anyone but to press on to experience God.
With faith, be one with persistent prayer by asking, seeking, and knocking as the word of God commands.
Give heart to God.
With heart given to God, eyes will observe His ways as Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Ask that you give heart to God, see in His ways, and live a life for God, not a waste of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enables you to know His way in all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Giving yourself to prayer with attention will gain the attention of God.

Isaiah 64

Prayer is not to intimidate God.
How is your prayer?
With understanding, pray to gain the presence of God.
In prayer is not to impress your world but to provoke the presence of God by praying His word.
Prayer is not a playing ground but a ground to prevail by continually giving oneself to prayer and the ministry of the word.
Engage prayer with expectation for manifestation.
Prayer is seeking God diligently to find God.
The only thing God cannot do is: God cannot fail but will answer with yes, no, or to wait.
Prayer is where God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
The Word of God testifies in Isaiah 64:4, “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.”
Paying attention to prayer BEFORE GOD will gain the attention of God, the evidence of praying with understanding. 
Psalm 47:7 points out that seeking God should be with understanding, For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
To give oneself to prayer before God is seeking God to gain His attention for manifestation.
With an understanding of the word of God, pray the following points: 
God spoke in Genesis 6:5, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
This hour, pray against evil occurrences in this wicked world not to locate you.
Ask that the Word of God have a place in your life in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Pray that the healing nature of the word of God answers in your life.
Pray that deliverance and preservation power in the word of God will have a place in your life.
Pray that the word of God becomes established in your life and that you live life for the glory of God.
Paul the Apostle admonishes all in Acts 6:4, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.”
One who engages the word of God will not experience failure.
Pray the word of God. 
Jeremiah 23:29 says, “Is my word not like fire? says the LORD. And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” 
Pray that the fire in the Word of God burns off all that does not represent God in your life journey physically, spiritually, or emotionally in the name of Jesus.
Pray by asking for the hammer nature of the Word of God to break down every rock of hindrance in your life.

Prayer for today:  Ask that God give ears to your prayer in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Sin is with no business but to bring down one.

Joshua 7

Covetousness is sin before God.
Keeping eyes on what the neighbors possess shall prompt an overwhelming spirit of covetousness.
Are you one with the sin of covetousness that is enough to deny your victory when victory should be answering for you?
The falling of the Israelites was the result of their sin of covetousness before God that prompted Joshua to go before God, as Joshua 7:7 records, “And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought these people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!”  
Joshua did not know that the sin of covetousness was the cause of their defeat at the hands of their enemy but was curious why their past situations were better than their present challenge.
Are you curious about why your past is better than your present? 
Is your past better than your present?
It could be that God has departed from you just as He departed from the Israelites due to their sin of covetousness.
On behalf of the Israelites, Joshua pleaded before God when God told him about the covetous sin of Achan. 
The sin of covetousness by Achan counted against all the Israelites.
Achan transgressed the command of God when he stole and engaged in deception. (Joshua 7:10-11) 
The sin of covetousness brought the Israelites down, not able to stand before their enemies but turned their backs on their enemies. 
The character of covetousness is greed to acquire with a strong desire for material possessions. 
Covetous implies an inordinate desire for another belonging to another.
Covetousness is rooted in the lack of contentment.
One with covetousness is in sin against the word of God, the evidence of the lack of fear for God.
The Bible records, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17) 
Is covetousness your way of life?
Covetousness is critical to complicate the journey of life.
Consciously or unconsciously, the sin of covetousness before God can be the reason for the delay or derailment in the life journey.  
Covetousness is a sin to deny one from obtaining promises in the word of God.
The obedience of the Israelites to the word of God was the reason for their victories over their enemies.
The disobedience of the Israelites to the word of God was the reason they lost against the people of Ai with the lesser might of the military.
The Israelites assumed victory against the people of Ai, not knowing that their sin of covetousness was before God, to deny them victory.
All should know to search for self and not live a life of sin consciously or unconsciously before God.
Before God, there is no excuse for violating His word but the consequence.

Prayer for today: Ask against sin not to have a place in your life.