FAITH CAPSULE: Why not gain understanding to relate with God?

Psalm 136

Understanding a given information gives way to having a knowing edge. 
Matthew 7:7-8 gives out the information from Jesus to all, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
With understanding, one will know to ask, seek, and knock, the evidence of watching and praying.
Repeatedly, the word demands watch and pray.
1 Peter 4:7 warns, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Are you praying not to ask amiss?
James 4:3 cautions, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Why not gain understanding to relate with God?
With understanding, one that prays in line with the word of God, for expectation is in prayer to experience manifestation.
God cannot be intimidated by many words or live life as ignorant with the expectation for manifestation as expected from God.
Do you understand God by His word?
Are you with the expectation of the mercy of God but not walking in line with God?
God is a merciful God. 
The mercy of God is His favor. (Isaiah 60:10)
Numbers 14:18 admonishes, “The Lord is long-suffering and abundant in mercy…” 
God does not run out of mercy, His creation walks out of His mercy. 
As merciful as God is, God will also have mercy on whom He chooses to.
Romans 9:15 testifies to the word of God, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 
Are you praying for the mercy of God?
It is not a miss when asking for the mercy of God, but it is always to pray with understanding before God.
ASKING FOR HIS MERCY
About the mercy of God is to know God, to fear Him.
Luke 1:50 admonishes, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
According to the word of God, with the fear of God, mercy will become obtainable from God. 
Why not desire and allow the fear of God to reign and rule your life?
Understanding and knowing to fear God will lead to the love of God by obeying His word.
Deuteronomy 7:9 testifies, “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.” 
With fear of God, mercy will become the portion of one that loves God and lives a life of testimony of the mercy of God.
Gain the understanding of God in His way to receive and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be filled with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is the power of God.

Hebrews 4

The Old and New Testaments record the importance of knowing about the word of God.
Deuteronomy 4:2 warns, “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
Are you taking away or adding to the word of God? 
Hebrews 4:12 introduces what the word of God is about for all, “For the word of God is 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.” 
Give yourself to know the word of God that is magnified by God as Psalm 138:2 states, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
The word of God is the power of God over any force or activity of darkness. 
Psalm 105 states, “He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against His word.” 
The word of God is power for healing and deliverance. 
Psalm 107:20 made it known, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Calling on God by His word, God shall intervene.
God will not fail to send His magnified word against challenges.
Are you full of the word of God?
One full of the word of God will not be quiet but know to call for the magnified word of God in times of challenge.
Jesus was with His disciples when He demonstrated the power of the word of God that can calm a troubling wind and sea as He traveled on the sea. 
The Bible records, “Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So, the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:23-27)
Jesus spoke the word to calm the troubling wind and sea.
As a believer of the word of God, in the troubling challenge, speak the word of God that delivers and preserves from evil agenda. 
Listen, power belongs to the word of God to rebuke and calm any challenge that ravages your world. 
Give yourself to the word of God that will build you to give you abundant life.
The word of God speaks to all.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to gain entrance into you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you give attention to the word of God or the world?

Genesis 6

God creates all to exist for His glory. (Revelation 4:11)
One that does not give regard to the word of God does not stand to become built by the word of God.
The word of God builds.
Disobedience is the character of not 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.”
Noah was moved by the command (w of God, and without a doubt, he did not question God. 
Noah received and believed the word of God to build an ark that served him as a vehicle against a flood of destruction. 
The word of God testifies to the obedience of Noah, “Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.” (Genesis 6:22) 
What holds you back from becoming a build of God?
Why not give yourself to the word of God that will build you up? 
The obedience of Noah upholds the construction of his life to become built for God.
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul identifies what it takes to become built up, “So now brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace which is able to build you up and give your inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32) 
Will you allow the word of God to build you, living life for the glory of God, to gain the presence of God?
Engaging the word of God with heart shall prompt one to be living by the word of God.
Meditating the word of God is a way to see the word of God and live as a believer.
Joshua 1:8 encourages, “This book of law shall not depart your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” 
Let obedience to the word of God become your way of life.
Take position in the word of God not to fail or fall in the life journey.
Noah heard to see, receive, and become of the word of God.
Noah and his family could not become of the flood of destruction.
Are you giving attention to the word of God or the world?
Allow the word of God into your life, and respond as commanded by God to gain the light of God against the darkness that is not of God.
Psalm 119:130 says, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” 
Hear, see, receive to become a vessel of obedience to God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God shall occupy you.

FAITH CAPSULE: In the journey, ask God with faith, not in doubt.

Exodus 3

The command of God is His word, the direction to ride living life for the glory of God.
In the direction of God, there is a way where there is no way. 
The direction of God delivers when there is obedience. 
In the direction of God, doubt will lead to self-denial and misdirection, fear will rise, and faith will sink.
The calling of God is in His direction. 
When He calls you, He shall back you up and not fail. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 buttresses, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Today, disallow doubt not to interfere with the journey of life. 
Give to the direction of God that does not fail.
Know that doubt will provoke disobedience to the direction of God and not arrive at the divine assignment of God. 
Are you looking to the word of God or the world for direction?
The direction in the world does not lead to the promise of God.
When it was time for God to make a way out of bondage for the Israelites, He called Moses to lead with His direction, saying, “…I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:10) 
In the calling of God, Moses responded with doubt, saying, “…Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11)  
God said to Moses, “…I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you…” (Exodus 3:12) 
When God calls you, deny doubt, and know He shall back you unfailingly. 
Moses listened to God with understanding and answered the calling of God over his life.
With faith in God for His direction, ask to confirm His calling without a doubt.
Prayerfully, Moses knows to ask in faith in Exodus 33:13 “Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”  
In the journey, ask God with faith, not in doubt.
God is not a wicked God but a caring God. 
Moses asked prayerfully, and God answered him, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) 
Always ask Him and know to hold onto His answer so that complications will not be the life journey for the obedient one.
Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?Know God, know His promise as Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.”
Know to ask! 

Prayer for today: Ask God to uphold you, so that you do not become a victim of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: King David exemplifies keeping the testimony of God.

1 Samuel 17

One that shares, meditates, or confesses the testimony of God that keeps the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 points out the promise of God for those who keep the testimony of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
King David exemplifies keeping the testimony of God.
The victory of David over Goliath of the Philistines was the provocation of the testimony of what God had done for David.
The testimony by David was the weapon that stopped King Saul to discourage David from going against Goliath. 
1 Samuel 17:33 states the discouragement of King Saul to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”  “
David refused to be discouraged from going to fight Goliath.
In 1 Samuel 17: 34-37, David testified what God has done and what God can do, “But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37 Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”
David could not be intimated not to fight the confronting challenge before his life. 
David counted on the testimony of God over his life.
David dwelt on the testimony of God over his life.
The testimony of David was able to overcome the challenge of Goliath.
What is it that you count on God for your deliverance by the testimony of your mouth?  
Know to recount the testimonies of God over your life and experience victory, the blessing of God.
With the testimony of God, give your tongue to speak life in the place of untimely death.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” 
David saw challenges, testified to the power of God, and overcame them. Keep the testimonies of God by speaking out to challenges about what God has done and what He can do to enable you to overcome your challenges.
Keep the testimonies of God to meditate, confess, and be established for the glory of God.
Testifying what God has done, what He is doing, and what He will do shall provoke the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to keep the testimonies of God for your deliverance and preservation, the blessing of God.