FAITH CAPSULE: Following God is serving God and demands forsaking all. 

1Kings 19:11-21, Luke 5:1-11

Who do you follow in your life journey?
Know to follow God alone!
Answering the calling of God is following God.
Following God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God.
At a point in time, four fishermen forsook all and followed Jesus.
In life, to follow in serving God demands forsaking all. 
Elisha followed Elijah in his serving of God. 
The Bible records that Elisha answered the calling to serve when he wholeheartedly followed Elijah. 
Elisha broke with his old life by kissing his father bye and destroying the yoke of oxen, which was his livelihood. (1Kings19:19-21) 
What do you forsake to follow in serving God?  
Four professional fishermen at the right place and time failed to catch fish. 
The four fishermen could not give up until daybreak, yet they caught nothing. 
As they were washing nets to pack for the day with nothing to show for fishing, Jesus showed up, “Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.” (Luke 5:3) 
Despite no success in catching fish, their kindness was intact as they allowed the stranger to use their vessel without any refusal. 
After Jesus finished teaching the multitude, He turned to the fishermen and gave them His word, saying: “…Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)  
In response, professional fishermen lamented about toiling all night with nothing to show forth. 
Are you in any situation where disappointment denies turning to any word of change? 
Have you found yourself on a ground where you lack positive results in the endeavor? 
Listening to hear and see the word of God will often change to become positioned on the route to transformation. 
The fishermen responded to the word of God, to launch out into the deep and let down nets, and were able to catch several fish, “…and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” (Luke 5:6-8)
Is there any area of your life where you have been toiling? 
No matter how long you have been toiling with nothing to show off, God shall bring forth a breakthrough. 
However, listening and seeing God in His word is enough for transformation. 
The fishermen listened and heard the word that terminated their struggle. Give it all to Jesus, and He shall settle you.    

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to sound in your direction to come out of lack.

FAITH CAPSULE: Having God as a friend is not with any risk.  

Genesis 22

Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God. 
Are you one who feels lonely and does not have friends?
Why not give yourself to having God as your friend?
Having God as a friend is not with any risk.
Having God as a friend is possible but is a sacrifice living strictly by the word of God, not the way of the world.
The word of God testifies to God as a friend:
Exodus 33:11, “So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.”
John 15:14, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
John 15:15, “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant, does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
James 2:23, “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.”
What do you want as a friend?
Today in the wicked world, having the world as a friend is like opening yourself to the activities of the world.
Are you a believer feeling lonely and prompted to have friends?
It is better to be lonely and not have flocks of friends.
Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God in His word.
One with God will mount up not to live a life of waste.
Having a flock of friends, the world, can be a foolish move.
Proverbs 9:6 encourages, “Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.”
With a desire to be a friend of God, ask to live by the command of God. 
John 15:14 states, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
Are you one who is willing to put aside all for the command of God over your life?
One who gives self for the command of God is righteous.
Abraham lived life and gave himself to doing the command of God. 
Genesis 12:1 and Genesis 22:2 records the command of God to Abram: “Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.”
Genesis 22:2, “Then He said, “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.”
Abraham obeyed God with all his heart.
Obedience to the command of God is the key to living life as a friend of God.
It is possible to live life as a friend of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let the word build you to answer to the calling of God.

Jeremiah 1 

Until one builds by the word of God, one cannot answer for divine assignment in life. 
Honestly, search for yourself to identify and know what is building you.
Honestly, search for yourself to identify and know what is building you.
The word of God is power and communicates power.
The power in the word of God will transform anyone who believes in the word of God. 
No one should not compromise the word of God. 
Compromising the word is despising the word.
Are you available to be built by Jesus?
Matthew 16:18 records, “… I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”  
A temple of God not built by His word will not be able to contain what He purposed for your life to carry for His glory. 
Will you allow Him to build you up for His glory? 
He will build His church, and nothing shall prevail against it. 
Do not prevent yourself from being built by the word of God.
In Acts 20:32, Paul admonishes all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified” 
Jesus, the word of God, is the One that builds and gives life abundantly. 
How can the word build you? 
Allow the word to gain to grow you.
Psalm 119:11, Thy word have I treasured in my heart that I May not sin against thee” 
Before Jeremiah could become what the Lord wanted him to be, he gave himself to the word of God that sounded in his direction to build him.
Jeremiah 1:5 records about Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” 
The same word that identified and called Jeremiah out informed him before he was born. 
The word of God caused him to begin to see from where he could not see. The word of God prepared him and positioned him into the center of his divine assignment. The Bible documents the word which built him into boldness: “Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,’ says the LORD.” (Jeremiah 1:8). 
The word guided Jeremiah to be bold, answering his divine assignment for his life. 
Just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel also encountered the word. “And He said to me, ‘Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.’ 
Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him who spoke to me.’” (Ezekiel 2:1-2) 
No one hears God indeed and doubts Him. 
Having doubt is the evidence for not being built by the word. 
Allow the word of God to build you.

Prayer for today: Ask to become built by His word for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: God knows it all regardless of deception by all.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Do you have a heart for God?
Hardness of heart does not live life by the demands of the word of God.
The word of God inhabits the blessing of God.
Jesus, the living word of God, declares, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) 
Indeed, Jesus, the living word of God, brought healing and deliverance.
Testimony of God is deliverance.
God sent His word to heal and deliver from destruction. (Psalm 107:20)  Jesus, the living word of God, is here to bless all that will obediently live by the word of God.
Hebrews 4:12 describes the word God as “living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
The word of God is promising and able to deliver without fail. 
However, the word of God will not deliver promises for disobedient ones. 
Obedience is a password to open the door of blessing from God. 
Unceasing and steady is to obey God, with no place for half obedience. The character of one with half obedience seeks God only at convenience.
Obeying the word of God at all times is pleasing God, the evidence of faith. Obeying God to please God to deliver obedience from the unnecessary, costly, and painful situations in life.
Among many reasons for disobedience is pointed out in Nehemiah 9:17, “They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks and in their rebellion…” 
The word of Nehemiah 9:17 refers to the children of Israel but also speaks to all. 
It points out that disobedience is rooted in not being mindful of God and leads to having the hardness of the heart. 
A hardness of heart will cause one not to live life by the word of God.
In the word of God, there is a way. 
Jesus is the Word, and He is the Way. 
A hardened heart lacks the belief to deny faith from having a place in life.
Hebrews 4:2 states that the word not mixed with faith becomes unprofitable. 
The word of God is the source of faith.
Romans 10:17 testifies, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Are you a vessel with a hardness of heart? 
It is possible to be a vessel of a hardened heart unconsciously. 
Today, search your heart to determine your stand in the word of God. 
One with a hardness of heart is evidence of unbelief.

Prayer for today: Ask against the spirit of the hardness of heart not to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The shame belongs to the enemy of God.

Genesis 3

The enemy is the orchestration of shame in life.
Any believer living by the word of the living God shall know no shame. Shame is the consequence of a sinful act. 
Adam and Eve became ashamed when they hid because they violated the word of God. 
With command, God gave Adam and Eve a beautiful garden, “…Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17) 
Adam and Eve violated the command of God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
After the violation of God, Adam and Eve “…heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” (Genesis 3:8) 
Hiding from the presence of God is evidence of shame. 
In life, shame causes one to hide from the ground of the blessings of God. 
The shame of Adam and Eve denied their opening to the visitation of God.
Sin, the disobedient to the command of God, closed Adam and Eve from God.
Without a doubt, sin is a consequence of shame.
As a believer, living by the word of God shall deny shame and not have a place in the life of a believer of God.
All should give to the command of God before and behind steps.
The command of God, His word, is perfect progress in life.
God is true to His word, and His word does not return void. 
Isaiah 55:11 buttressed God’s promise, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” 
Pay attention to every word of God, and God will attend to every walk of life.
Adam and Eve failed to trust and hope in God.
Failure to trust in the word of God shall lead to shame. 
The Psalmist buttresses, “In You, O Lord, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.” (Psalm 71:1) 
Live by the word of God and not become a vessel of shame.
According to the word of God, the shame belongs to the unbeliever.
Psalm 97:7 declares, “Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.” 
As a believer, living life by the word of God shall be the portion of such not to shame. 
Romans 10:11 records, “For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 
Know to be living by the word of God! 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your obedience to His command as a way of life.