FAITH CAPSULE: As a believer, what do you desire?

Psalm 27

Make the right choice to serve God.
Serve God in His way to find Him. 
Responsibility is all that the right choice demands.
Determination with desire shall set one to serve God reasonably and experience the blessings of serving God. 
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a church-going believer or a true believer in God? 
With desire, live to know God and live life for God.
One who desires to live for God will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is encased in fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “…fear God by keeping His commandments, “for this is man’s all”. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”  
Fear God, keep His commandments, and desire to seek Him reasonably.
1 Samuel 12:24 advises fearing God and serving Him wholeheartedly, “Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Without any doubt, the desire for God should be in the heart.
Every desire for devotion to God will gain the presence of God. 
Are you with the desire to seek God without an iota of doubt?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great should provoke the desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the acts rooted in the heart of all.
Once He corrected Samuel concerning Jesse’s son, Eliab, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7). And before this incident, it was without doubt that, David’s heart was what God saw before Samuel declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God sought David and saw the desires of his heart for Him.
King David knew what was best to desire of the Lord when he stated, “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.” (Psalm 27:4) 
From today, the desire from the depth of my heart to serve God shall provoke enablement by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy that you live a life of serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: No one can avoid the hand of God.

Exodus 3

The word testifies to the extension of the hand of God.
For example, Moses ran away from Egypt to end at the location where running away from all challenges had no more track to run on.
Moses was leading the flock when God rounded him up. 
Exodus 3:2 records, “…the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.” 
Do you know where or how God is waiting for you in your running? 
When God wants to send one to the North Pole, running away to the South Pole, it is not enough for such to escape from the hand of God.
Moses gained the attention of the Angel of the Lord while the bush in a fire did not burn.
Moses saw a fire burning, and the bush did not burn. (Exodus 3:3) 
God waited for the runner Moses to answer his calling assignment. 
In life, pay attention to God. 
The attention of God draws the answering of Moses. 
The Bible records, “So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:4)
Just like Moses, Ezekiel did not run from God before the outstretched hand of God reached him and set him up for the assignment of God.
Ezekiel testifies to the hand of God upon him, “The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry.” (Ezekiel 37:1-2) 
The hand of God came upon Ezekiel to get his attention.
By your understanding, do you think you are running far from God or too fast for God to put you under His arrest?
Know it this day that God will wait or stretch out His hand to draw your attention to His intention. 
Ezekiel experienced the hand of God that God is in control to reach any of His creation as He wants to.
God is in perfect control over all His creation.
One can run from answering God, but God will only need to wait for the runner.
Are you running from God? 
God does not need to run before catching up with His creation.
The fastest-created one running away from answering the calling of God will not escape the hand of God.
The awesome eternal God is in perfect control over all His creation. 

Prayer for today: Ask not to run against the calling of God over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Doing good is the character of God.

Proverbs 6

Good is what God looked for throughout His history and creation.
Through the scriptural verses, the word of God repeatedly admonishes all about the importance of doing good, 
“Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” (3 John 1:11) “And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?” (1Peter 3:13)
“But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” (Hebrews 13:16) 
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.” (Titus 3:8) 
“Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.” (Psalm 73:1)
What is doing good before good God?
Doing good describes one as morally excellent, righteous, pious (having or showing a dutiful spirit, to be reverence for God) 
Doing good is what God likes but hates evil, the opposite of doing good. 
Knowing and understanding what God hates should make obeying the word of God. 
Doing good is also about staying away from what God hates. 
The book of Proverbs 6:16-19 identifies seven things the Lord God hates: “These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, and One who sows discord among brethren.” 
Knowing what God hates should keep man to be doing good.
God is good. 
His Spirit is good. (Psalm 143:10) 
Doing good is the character of God.
Jesus responded to a ruler calling Him good, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, but one that is God. (Luke 18:19) 
There is no good as God. 
It is the goodness of God that makes Him endure for everlasting. (Psalm 118:1, 136:1)
Those who study the word will understand and know the importance of doing good to the glory of God. 
Also, knowledge and understanding of doing good will provoke the good hand of God upon one doing good. 
Doing good is what is acceptable to God. 
Since the beginning of creation, it is what is good that God expects. 
The Bible records, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light” and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good…” (Genesis 1:1-4) 
Let doing good be your character before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to impact you by doing good for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Disobedience will disposition one in the plan of God.

Deuteronomy 28

God does not look over disobedience that provokes painful consequences.
Obedience to the word of God shall provoke the move of God.
One who hears and heeds the word of God shall see a miracle. 
Acts 8:5-8 records, “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.” 
Philip preached Christ (the Word of God), and many heard him heed to experience the move of God.
With obedience by hearing and heeding, seeing the miracle of the hand of God answers in the life of obedience.
Understanding the blessing of obeying the word of God also demands understanding the consequences of disobedience. 
In life, not hearing and hearing is taking the route of curses. 
The book of Deuteronomy 28:15 records, “But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
No one can deceive God.
James 1:22-23 admonishes, “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.” 
Know that sacrificial service to God is good. 
However, sacrificial service is not enough if hearing and doing the word of God is not a way of life before God.
Attend the word of God to know, “…to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)
Obedience is to believe and do what God says. 
The character of obedience will demonstrate having trust and hope in God.
To obey is like gaining access to the door of blessing as stated, “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God…” (Deuteronomy 28:2) 
One having trust and hope is like having the key to the opening door of blessing. 
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Obedience demands hearing to do the word of God. 
Philippians 4:9 records the importance of hearing and doing as obedience to God, “The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.” Are you obeying God to have the blessing of having the peace of God?
Do not take chances of disobedience.

Prayer for today: Ask that hearing and doing the word of God shall be your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: How responsible are you for the word of God? 

Daniel 1

A life of responsibility does have consequences.
Be responsible!
Responsibility is the price for greatness. 
To be responsible is a choice, not a force. 
One who chooses to be responsible in response to the word of God shall live potentially on the face of the earth. 
Jesus frequently and unswervingly communicated humility through His words and actions throughout His ministry on the face of the earth. 
Jesus demonstrated humility for all to learn.
Humility is a choice to be responsible. 
The word of God points out that with no humility, obeying the word of God becomes impossible. 
Philippians 2:8 buttressed, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, chose to be humbled and responded with obedience. 
Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient to be great for the glory of God.
How responsible are you for the word of God?
Daniel was responsible for the word of God to attain the price of greatness for the glory of God.
Daniel 1:8-9 documents about Daniel, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.”
Daniel lived responsible to gain the favor and goodwill of God before the chief of the eunuchs and throughout his day of captivity.
The responsibility way of Daniel was glaring as he avoided wickedness against the covenant. 
The book of Daniel 11:32 records, “Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery (sweet talk); but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” 
A wicked way of living life is possible to be rooted in irresponsibility.
Why not have the desire to live responsibly before God?
To be built by the word is a direct route to becoming responsible, which is the price of greatness. 
In life, commit to the word of God. 
Apostle Paul admonishes all, “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.” (Acts 20:32)
How responsible are you for the word of God? 
Jesus has paid the price. 
Are you doing your part for the price paid by Jesus?
Christianity does not have to be just a noise-maker or one quoting the word of God alone.
Christianity should live by the word with evidence of being responsible before God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live responsibly as a believer of God.