FAITH CAPSULE: Giving regard to the Word of God is the character of one who gives self to God.

Psalm 28

The work of God is the Word of God.
The work of God is the creation of God by His Word.
John 1:1-3, “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.”
The Bible states nothing is made, without the Word of God.
The Word of God worked everything out.
God magnified His Word above all His name.
How are you 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.”
Does the Word speak to you?
One that commends to the Word of God shall become built by the Word of God.
Acts 20:32 states, “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.”
The Word of God is a manual to engage, not to live a wasted life.
His Word is His command.
One who lives by the Word of God is obedient to the Word of God.
God is not a respecter of no one.
Moses disobeyed the Word of God to live by the consequences.  
Moses failed to obey the command of God when he struck and spoke.
Numbers 20:11-12 records, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” 
Striking is not the same as speaking. 
Failure to fully obey is an avenue to self-destruction. 
Are you paying attention to yourself rather than paying attention to the command of God.? 
Moses could not step on the Promised Land based on his disobedience to the command of God.
Be accountable and not count yourself out through disobedience.
Striking is not the same as speaking. 
Failure to fully obey is an avenue to self-destruction. 
He is God and calls for all to be obedient in His direction.
Are you paying attention to yourself rather than paying attention to His command? 
Moses could not step on the Promised Land based on his disobedience to the command of God.
Be accountable and not count yourself out through disobedience.
God is not a joker. 
God expects obedience to His Word without failure.
Do not disobey the command of God at all times because no excuse will count for disobedience to God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant obedience to God and not to self.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you turning away to the word of God in your direction for your deliverance?

Numbers 13

A failure to allow the entrance of the word of God shall lead to failure in endeavor.
The Israelites turned away from the word of God to arrive at the promise of the word of God.
Numbers 13:1-3 records, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.’” 
Moses played his role in relating the word of God to the Israelites.
The Israelites needed to spy out the land which God was giving them.  
In life, listening to hear consistently will provoke understanding, the key to observing the promise of God.
The promise of God is a done deal!
The promise of God does not void but delivers for one that does not void or not do according to direction in His word.
The spies saw the land and returned with a negative report. 
Sharing any negative report against positive ones is making God a liar, the evidence of a lack of faith by the spy. 
The spy reported a negative confession, “…The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are great men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.’” (Numbers 13:32-33) 
The negative report delivered by the spy to the Israelites provoked a rebellious response that caused many not to arrive at the promised land.
One who listens is the one who is hearing continually.
Hearing day and night is one meditating on the word of God.
Meditating is not memorizing but meditating the word of God in the heart, not in the mouth.
One who meditates will listen to do according to the word of God.
Listen attentively to no one but to God in His word. 
Will you listen to wait on His word?
For over four hundred years, the Israelites were on a journey of forty years instead of eleven years. 
It was like no way out for the Israelites.
God spoke through Moses, “…I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:17) 
God spoke to the Israelites repeatedly, but they turned deaf and corrupted minds to the word of God.
With attention to the word of God, failure is an impossibility.
God has spoken, still speaking, and what He says is a done deal. 
Are you listening to His word? 
The Israelites could not listen attentively and not arrive at the promise of God for their life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled not to turn away from the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is the condition before the promise of God?

Deuteronomy 1

There is always a condition to gain and possess the promise of God.
All should know that God is forever faithful to His promise. 
Do not fail to engage and possess the promise of God.   
God called Abraham, “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. So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son…” (Genesis 22:3) 
Abraham rose to the calling of God to deny the failure not to engage the condition, obedience that provokes the promise of God.
There was a promise of God for the Israelites to claim; however, the condition to claim the promise must be done.
When it was time for the Israelites to possess the promise of God, it was time to move from dwelling at the mountain bottom. 
The mountain bottom could be a place of comfort that takes away the sight of potential breakthroughs in life. 
The Bible records in Deuteronomy 1:6-7, “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.” 
One can engage in comfort and not continue the journey to possess fully. 
Are you dwelling in a comfortable position, not moving to pursue and possess the promise of God?
When God called the Israelites out of the mountain bottom, He called their attention, “See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land…” (Deuteronomy 1:8) 
Possessing what is yet at hand demands faith to see in the place of nothing. 
The word of God and His promises are not visible physically until one begins to see it as the truth to go after it. 
The truth of God cannot fail to deliver. 
Above all, His word does not return to Him void, but the world voids His word, not doing according to the word of God.
In addition to coming out of the mountain bottom (comfortable dwelling position) and not seeing, there shall be no room for fear and discouragement. 
Moses warned about fear and discouragement while emphasizing to the Israelites the need to see and be able to possess in Deuteronomy 1:21, “Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.” 
Fear is the opposite of faith. 
Fear sinks faith.
Discouragement denies the ability to see in line with what God has promised.
Can you consider where you are in the promise of God for your life? 
Identify if you are at the mountain bottom or you have engaged in rising to possess.
Have you allowed fear and discouragement to take over the seat of driving your journey? 

Prayer for today: Pray not to be a victim of failure not gain the promise of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Carry the word of God to be carried by God.

Proverb 30

Are you giving to the word of God for the heart?
Do not dilute the word of God.
Proverb 30:6 warns, “Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.”
Revelation 22:18 o warns, “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.”
No one should add or take away from the word of God.
How do we carry the word of God?
Carry the word of God in the depth of hearts, not just by the mouth.
Deuteronomy 6:6 records, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.”  
Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore, you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”
Psalm 119:11 “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”
Ezekiel 3:10 “Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.”
Joseph is a testimony that carried the word in the heart and could arrive at the center of God’s divine assignment for his life.
As he journeyed, sin presented itself to him when the wife of his master approached him to lie with her.
Joseph could not fall to sin against God.
Genesis 39:19 “…How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Joseph hid the word of God in his heart so as not to sin against God.
Imagine what could have happened to Joseph in life if he had fallen for the sin presented to him by the wife of his master.
The word you in the heart will serve as a key to open the door for deliverance and breakthrough.
One meditating the word of God in the heart will not be a victim of the wicked world.
Word of God promised to deliver the Israelites to the Promised Land, and the word of promise stayed in the heart of Caleb. Joshua 14:7 records the testimony of Caleb, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.”
Caleb and Joshua did not confess negatively as a spy.
The report by Caleb and Joshua branched out of the heart occupied by the word of God.
Come out of memorizing the word in your head; commit to meditating the word in the heart.
In this wicked world, keep the word of God.
The word of God is alive and is proven.
1 John 2:5 said it all, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.”
Give yourself to the word of God to become a building that stands for God, by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be carrying the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God magnified His word.

Psalm 138

The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
God creates all!
God magnified His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2)
The word of God is living, and it stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8 states, “…But the word of our God stands forever.”  
The word of God is a proven living word.
Without a doubt, what is it that the word of God cannot do?
Hebrews 4:12 points out, “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.”
There is nothing the word of God cannot do!
With understanding, know to give yourself to the word of God and be able to live for God.
God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29)
God also testified to have sent His word.
With faith in God, whatever is not of God shall be consumed by His fire.
His word is in place for all purposes to answer for all who believe in His word.
God describes His word in Jeremiah 23:29, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
An acclaimed believer who is not an unbelieving believer will gain understanding to know and engage the word of God that is consuming fire, which devours all that does not represent God.
The word of God is like a hammer in position to break forces to deny one not to be a victim of the forces of the wicked world.
The word of God is not to be taken for granted.
In this wicked world, not believing the word of God is taking a position of self-destruction. Proverbs 13:13 warned, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Doubt is a way of despising the word of God.
The word of God warns against lying, deception, and manipulation, but the wickedness despises the word of God.
Often, the world, by their action, takes to the word of God as not truth. One that is true to the word of God will not live the life of wickedness but shall abide by James 1:21-23 as stated, “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 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.”    
Engage the world to be built by and not be broken.
The word of God performs to perfect.
Paul, the Apostle, admonished in Acts 20:32, “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.”
Live for God according to His word.

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