FAITH CAPSULE: Every promise in the word of God will not fail.

God is a good God. His goodness is His blessing.
Living life for God is the undeniable condition required by God for one to claim and gain the promises of God.
Every promise in the word of God does not void.
Isaiah 55:10-11 records, “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 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.”  
The promises of God are in His word.
One with knowledge and understanding of the word of God is a condition for man to claim and gain His promise.
Every promise in the word of God will not fail.
Clearly, through the pages of the Bible, claiming the promises of God comes with a condition (doing according to the word of God).
For example, Exodus 19:5 records, “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
Hear the word of God and do as commanded to gain His promise.
Deuteronomy 6:17 also buttresses, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.”
The verses above identified the condition to claim and gain the promise of God:
Is your way of living life going to deliver the promise of God in your life?
Word of God promises, “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.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Live life for God, know to ask, seek, and knock to provoke what to gain.
In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of perfection. 
Live life as one who knows God because anything short of the truth of God is living a life of a lie.
Living for God is sowing self in God and keeping His commandments. The word states, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (1 John 2:4-6)
One with work before God but without walking in Him is not enough.
Living before God demonstrates believing, but walking before God is behaving in the word of God, the character of living for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently.

Isaiah 51

To find God is to seek God diligently.
The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently to please God but not seek God by mouth. 
To please God is rooted in faith. 
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
To seek God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him.
One that finds God will have God in such.
To seek God diligently is identified in Deuteronomy 4:29, which records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Will you seek God diligently?
In this wicked world, for your benefit, do not be deceived, seek God diligently dwell, and abide in God. Psalm 91:1-3 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” 
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God being righteous as the word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1)
The wickedness of this word demands becoming wise by listening to the word of God.
Listening to God will not follow the dictates of the heart.
Listening to God will be awake with strength.
Righteousness is listening to God and seeking God diligently to find God.
Seek God diligently which is serving God with no hidden agenda before God.  
John 12:26 identifies what it means to serve God, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” 
In serving God there is a need to seek God diligently.
One that follows God can not possibly walk in darkness as declared by the word of God in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true.
Live to seek Him diligently to find Him.
David is an example of one who followed God with his heart and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8)
With the desire to seek God diligently, follow His righteousness in His word. 
Have faith, to possibly obey the word of God, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you be able to seek God diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire for the Word of God established in your life.

John 1:1-18

What one does not understand will not answer to having a knowing edge in a challenging life?
Understand to have a knowing edge in all areas of life, the Word of God is God.
John 1:1-3 records understanding: “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.”
Without any further description, the Word of God is God.
The Word of God is light. (Psalm 119:130)
When the Word of God gains entrance into life, it gives understanding.
Jeremiah 23:29 also identifies the reason for engaging the Word of God, stating, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
The Word of God is crucial to engage as a way of life.
Psalm 138:2 God magnified His word above His name, evidence of the importance of giving self to the Word of God.
Psalm 107:20 records God sent His word for healing, deliverance, and preservation.
How much understanding one possesses will excel to the glory of God.
The Word of God is a food that needs to be found and consumed.
Jeremiah 15:16 testifies, “Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, o Lord God of hosts.”
Are you feeding on the word enough to build you up for His glory?
In Acts 20:32, 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.”
Give yourself to the Word of God that will build you up.
One that the word build-up is not breakable by the force of the world.
One built by the Word of God and doing according to the Word of God will dwell and abide in the secret of God.
To dwell but not abide in the secret of God does not qualify to gain the promise of God.
The prayer of all should be asking for the strength of God to enable living by the Word of God.
The minute of the word prayed can deliver the greatest manifestation.
Remember the mustard seed?
Matthew 13:31-32 records, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, 32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Prayer for today: Praying a minute word of God with understanding, as a custom of prayer time, a great result is undeniable.

Faith Capsule: God sees the inside more than the outside.

Matthew 23

When it was time for Jesus to clean the temple Bible records, “Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’” (Luke 19:45-46) Cleaning of the temple was not from outside to inside it was from the inside to outside.
God does not look from outside to inside but looks from inside to outside.
As a temple of God, how clean is your inside compared to your outside?
All should know that what is present on the outside is not as important to God as what is inside.
The Pharisees were one of the sects among the Jews during the days of the New Testament.
Pharisees, meaning separated ones, believed that religious rituals and separation from sinners were the way to please God.
Matters such as the laws of tithing and ritual purity were to the Pharisees.
Jesus referred to them as hypocrites. He said in Matthew 23:25, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.”
As a temple of God, there is a need to take a close look from the inside to know if you are a Pharisee of the modern day.
Is it your desire to shine on the outside while the inside is dull and not before the Lord?
Are you a modern-day Pharisee that offers more than what is requested for the outside while the inside gets no attention?
Interestingly, man is deceiveable because man looks from the outside, but God is not because He looks from the inside.
God sees all, and that demands from all to come out of self-deception to remain clean before God.
Live right before God.
Know that God only looks at your ways of living life.
When Jesus went into the temple to clean, nothing on the outside could impress Him enough not to start cleaning from the inside.
God cleaned the inside.
Today, no title is enough to impress Jesus.
As a believer, do not be deceived by your title.
God is only interested in how one is living life for His glory.
It is a clean temple from inside to outside that will answer God’s expectations for all.
Jesus cleaned the temple and was able to teach and get the attention of the people in the temple.
Jesus cleaned the temple to make it a house of prayer, and it no longer answers as a den of thieves.
Make yourself available for Jesus to clean you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to cleanse you and make you become a prayer house.

FAITH CAPSULE: Doing according to the word of God is dwelling and abiding in the secret of God.

Judges 16

The testimonies of God are rooted in His word.
The word of God is the strength, the secret for anyone who hears and does according to the word of God.
The word of God will come to locate one not to become a failure in the calling for the assignment of God.
At the time Samson’s parent was barren with no child, the word of God, that is strength, secret, came to the parents of Samson (Manoah and his wife) saying, “Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now, therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” (Judges 13:2-5)
The word of God visits the parents of Samson because they dwell in the secret (word) to be engaged, to avoid failure in the purpose of the calling of God.
Samson’s wife (Delilah) knows about the strength of Samson but does not know the secret of his God-given strength. Judges 16:6 records, “So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”
In the documentation of the secret revealed to the parent, doing according to the word is abiding.
Dwelling is getting to know the secret while doing according to the word is abiding in the secret.
Samson did not abide by the secret.
Samson, positioned himself outside of the word by not living by the word (secret) of God.
Judges 16:15-17 documents how Delilah pressed Samson to reveal the secret of his strength: “Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” And it came to pass when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
To know the secret belongs to be dwelling but not do according to the secret is evidence of not abiding.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not be a victim of not dwelling and abiding in the secret of God.