FAITH CAPSULE: A new moment is a new beginning.

Matthew 6

To see the beginning of the first day of the last month of the year is not because you know how to live.
To be alive is the grace of God.
God is unquestionable, and no one can question Him as the reason why you are alive.
God owes none under heaven or above in heaven; it is the creation that owes God.
On this day, in this moment, turn to God with a heart of thanksgiving.
God is worthy, not to be reduced to just a mouthful of thanks.
God creates all to exist for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 confirms, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Know to live life for God.
To live life for God is by His word, not to live wasted.
No one is living by accident.
God knows every living life before it is born.
Do you know that, before this day, God knows you?
Jeremiah 1:5 tells all, “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.”
God knows everything about everything.
So much to thank God for seeing this day.
Day after day, week after week, and month after month tell that you are alive.
You owe God!
So many see the beginning of the year and not standing, you are a privilege of God, to be standing.
One who can not create should not worry, but rather worship God.
Ponder on the verses of Matthew 6:25-27 to know not know about the life bestow upon you, stating, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you, by worrying, can add one cubit to his stature?
God does not lie by asking against worrying before God.
Worrying should not be your portion.
Live life for God, worshipping His name.
One able to acknowledge the grace of life through days, weeks, and months should be able to turn to God, asking for the grace to live for God in the coming days, weeks, and years.
It is not the celebration of the season alone that matters; it is how far God has brought you that demands appreciation of God.
God has brought you this far.
To live life for God is not a determination.
One with a desire, God will deposit in what it takes to live for Him.
The end of a year sets the stage for the new year to roll in.

Prayer for today: Make it a prayer that God enable you to live for Him in the coming year.

FAITH CAPSULE: To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.

Jonah 1, 2

DO NOT COMPROMISE WRONGDOING

It is never too much to pray before God.
It is worth engaging in prayer as a way of life.
Acts 6:4 states, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
In the word of God, there is no compromise against obedience to the word of God.
Without exception, all should give themselves to praying before God as a way of life.
The word of God is the direction of God, to keep and live by it.
His word is a command that does not return to Him void.
The word of God is not negotiable and not to be compromised.
All should live by the word of God to have a positive relationship with God. 
One who redirects the word of God, attempting to please self, will be doing wrong.
Are you engaging the command of God not to compromise the word of God?
Commit to the word of God, grow in faith to live a life pleasing to God. 
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.”
Are you compromising the word of God consciously or unconsciously?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse for not living according to His word.
To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
The world is deceivable, but not God.
Disallow deception.
Judas compromises and does not rebuke iniquity (evil).
Judas was numbered, but not counted.
Anyone who is compromising iniquity is complicating the journey of life. 
Iniquity is evil. The word of God warns: “The fear of God is, to hate evil…” (Proverbs 8:13)
Know and pray to live truthfully before God, who does not sleep, and He shall see you.
PRAYER
Just like Judas, pray not to be a vessel of compromising wrongdoing.
Ask God to enable you not to compromise and engage in wrongdoing.
MORE THAN EVER, TURN TO THE WORD/PRESENCE OF GOD
Pray that, more than ever, you want to turn more to the word of God.
The word of God is God (John 1:1).
The word of God is His presence (Jonah 1:1-3).
Are you walking away from the word of God, His presence?
The word of God locates Jonah, but he went in the opposite direction.
Walking in the opposite direction will lead to a storm.
One can survive by disobedience to God, but none can hide from the consequences of disobedience.
Disobedience calls for repentance.
Attending to worshipping God is not enough.
Return to walk the word of God that sounds in your direction to avoid the storm of destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to turn to Him more than ever, to live by Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.

Psalm 104

Adopt the habit of giving thanks to God for His visitation.
Thanking God should be continuous.
Waiting to be convenient before thanking God is not enough.
Make it a way of like thanking God at all times for all things.
Thanking for all things is what makes all things work together for the glory of God.
Thank God continuously, not on a particular day of the year.
Thanking God should be a way of life for all created by God.
God creates all.
Thanking God is praising God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
The word of God that calls for praising God at breath also demands thanking God at breath.
To praise at breath is to thank God at every moment.
Thanking God, praising God, the way of seeking God.
Psalm 47:7, recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising God is with understanding, giving thanks to God should be with understanding.
Give Him thanks with understanding.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With the understanding of thanking God, Jesus thanks God for raising Lazarus from the dead after four days in the grave.
John 11:41-42 records, “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me…”
A meaningful, heartfelt thanksgiving to God, with understanding, will provoke the presence of God.
The word of God does not lie; only the world is full of lies.
To be alive is a privilege of God; it is not a right; to be alive is of mercy, and it is not of merit.
Think of it, to be alive, able to see the light of a new day, eyes functioning, legs not stagnant, mind in the right condition, all the above demands thanking God every moment.
To be alive is not the right of anyone but a privilege of God.
Think, whatever keeps you from opening your mouth wide to thank God has to cease.
From today, make it a pattern of life to thank God with understanding.  
Seek God, appreciating Him for the grace of being alive.
Do not plan for the season outside God; it is an error that will reduce one before God.
God alone is more than worthy of all praise and adoration.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you with strength and understanding, and keep thanking God unceasingly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Having fear and no faith in God is the fuel of instability.

Psalm 34

A raging storm, expected or not, is always the center of every challenge that persists or resists and does not cease.
Having fear and no faith in God is the fuel of instability that offsets a victim of challenges.
In the face of challenges, give in trust and hope in God, which enables faith to rise for fear to sink.
Let the word of God, which never fails, uphold you always.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Answering as living by the word of God (righteous) is not an exemption from experiencing challenges, but God shall deliver.
Fear is the orchestration of the devil.
Fear the work of the devil is to sink anyone who looks not in the word of God, which is the source of faith.
Job, a great man of God, testified, “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.” (Job 3:25)
Job faced his challenge by looking outside of God, which would have upheld him against fear.
Imagine Job, a man terrified by God and yet looked out of God, to become a victim of fear that is not in God.
Job 1:8 records, “…Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
Without doubt, fear will always come with challenge, but having faith should be in place, knowing that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19)
Imagine Job, a man of great stature in the hand of God, with challenges of fear, attempting to reduce him?
Are you with challenging fears?
Know to have trust and hope in the word of God for deliverance.
Psalm 107:20 encourages, stating, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Without any doubt, the devil orchestrates or fuels challenges.
Imagine Peter sank in fear?
Peter walked with Jesus to observe miracles, yet allowed fear to overtake his life.
In the middle of the storm, Peter had fear.
When Jesus walked on the storm towards Peter and his disciples, Peter could not keep his focus on increasing his faith to walk with Jesus in the storm.
The Bible records, “…And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:29-30)
In the word of God, there is faith for deliverance, but looking into the face of fear, there is a way to sink.
What is your storm?
In your challenging fear is your storm.
Ignore the storm to embrace strength.
David encouraged himself in the word of God, and he stepped into his storm.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the spirit of fear.

FAITH CAPSULE: Worrying is seeking after want in the place of need.

Matthew 6

Worrying in the place of waiting on God is the testimony of error.
When one proposes to build outside of God, worrying will take charge and lead to destruction.
Knowing to embrace the provision of need by God instead of want, worrying shall not have a place.
Philippians 4:19 records the promise of God, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
One who sees it in the word of God will know how to receive and become of the word of God.
With a delay in manifestation of need, it should not be evidence running outside of God.
Why are you worrying when Jesus said, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you, by worrying, can add one cubit to his stature?” (Matthew 6:25-27)
Why do you have to worry when our creator says to His creation not to worry?
Worrying is a device of the enemy to deny one from serving God with a whole heart.
When God says do not, the enemy is around to say do.
God spoke to 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.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
The word of God to Jeremiah speaks to all without exception.
Evidently, God knows the end from the beginning.
By virtue of this, it is true that whatever God proposes, no man can dispose.
What God disposes, no man can propose it.
Most times, when man proposes to build outside of God, worry will take charge and lead to destruction.
Genesis 11:4 documents the character of wanting, outside of God, as stated, “And they said, ‘Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The proposed building was not the problem, but the motive behind the proposal conflicted with the Almighty God of creation.
The people were not Godly-minded; they were planning outside of God, which prompted challenging worry.
What is it that you want that is not in the plan of God?
The proposal that does not center on God is an indirect withdrawal from the only One who can make or unmake the fulfillment of any proposal. Avoid unexpected worrying by taking your proposal to the Almighty God, who has seen the future from the past.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to seek after God.