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ALL ABOUT IT

FAITH CAPSULE: Share and keep all about His doing. 

Psalm 119:1-64

The testimony of God is His doing.
The doing of God should not be quiet but be the song of provoking His blessing. 
Keeping what God has done in your life and keeping what one shared with you is keeping the testimony of God to provoke the blessing of God.
God is not a liar to fail to deliver His promise.
What God said He will do is a done deal.
Glory be to God!
Glory be to God!
The word of God does not return void to Him.
Isaiah 55:11, “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.”
What God said He will do is a done deal.
What God cannot do, He cannot fail.
Sharing with others about what God has done or done in the life of one is also keeping the testimonies of God.
Share and keep what God has done and is doing, to provoke the blessing of God.
Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies…”
Make it a way of life, keeping what the Lord God has done.
Testimony is a way of not keeping quiet but speaking out loud to the glory of God.
Testimony is also a way of celebrating God by speaking out loudly.
Consider being loud about lifting a jealous God for what He has done or is doing.
Testifying to the goodness of God is giving Him attention.
One that testifies to the doing of God, promotes His goodness, and takes a position for promotion.
The psalmist understands to rest in the testimony, testifying, “The wicked wait for me to destroy me, but I will consider Your testimonies.” (Psalm 119:95) 
The testimonies of God are the evidence of His work. 
Testifying about God is gaining access to the power of God that is mighty to deliver. 
Testifying of God is counting on God.
Above all, when one reminds God of the work of His hand, He will react concerning the war that confronts one. 
Once, Goliath stood against the children of Israel with verbal insults and harassment of Israel, and none of the Israelites could consider the testimonies of God, that is powerful enough to deliver.
David drew boldness and courage from the testimonies of God to bring down Goliath. 
David testified, “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.” (1 King 17:37) 
The first offensive weapon David used against Goliath was reminding all forces of opposition about what God had done in his life. 
In the face of challenges, those who trust God enough to remember what He has done will always gain His support.

Prayer for today: Ask that the testimonies shall continually be your portion.

LET GOD BE  

LET GOD BE  

FAITH CAPSULE: Think or ask for your step to be in God.

Jeremiah 12

Ephesians 3:20 encourages you to think about what you ask.
Think or ask for your step to be in God.
In life, how one takes a step determines where one lands to settle.
What kind of steps are you taking before God?
What one gives into life is what one gets back from life.
Prayerfully, watch your steps, and know that God oversees the affairs of man.
God is not the author of suffering; He is full of mercy. 
Psalm 86:15 testifies, “But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.”
PRAYER
Ask that from this hour, God order your steps in all your going and all your coming.
Ask that you shall not fall, fail, or falter in every step. 
Ask that you shall not be a victim of evil in your going and coming. 
In your step, be a believer who does not live as a hypocrite.
The life of hypocrites is not good.
Are you a believer who seeks God with the expectation of finding God in your step?
To find God: 
Seeking God with the character of seeking God in your way, consciously or unconsciously, will not find God.
One seeking God, impressing man, not God, will not find God, and God will say to such, “I do not know you.”
God calls all to seek Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “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.”
One that is not doing according to the word of God is not seeking God diligently.
Seeking God diligently will find God.
Seeking God diligently is to seek Him with all heart and all soul.
The pages of the Bible encourage us to seek God diligently.
A hypocrite is not of God.
A hypocrite is the identity of the wicked one.
Jesus identifies the hypocrite, “Hypocrites! Well, did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me…” (Matthew 15:7-8)  
Jeremiah 12:1-2 states, “Why does the way of the wicked prosper? You have planted them, yes they have taken root;
They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind. Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?” 
Are you a hypocrite, a pretender believer? 
A hypocrite is one whose walk and talk do not match, who knows about the word but does not practice it. 
What one possesses and does not profess is worshipping God in vain.
Strive not to miss before God.
PRAYER:
Ask that the spirit of answering as a believer but living outside of God, as a pretender believer, shall not have a place in your life.
Ask you shall not be a hypocrite, a wicked one in life, and not live a life of waste.

A COSTLY PRICE

FAITH CAPSULE: Responsibility is the price for greatness.

Joshua 1

Live responsibly, seeing in the Word of God.
Living a life of responsibility can be exceedingly costly and laborious, requiring strict discipline.
One that engages it as is described shall excel to the glory of God.
Indeed, responsibility is a price for greatness.
Responsibility is the price to excel for the glory of God.
It is a responsibility to see in the Word of God.
To see in the Word of God will gain unfailing direction.
Navigating in the world of wickness shall not have a place.
An acclaimed believer who does not see in the word of God will live as an unbelieving believer, that is, set to live a life of waste.
Seeing the word of God is rooted in listening to understand and having knowledge, living according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you responsible enough to be seeing in the Word of God?
It is responsible for mediating the word of God.
One who meditates on the word of God day and night is hearing and hearing the word of God to see what God says in His word.
Be responsible, engage in meditating with God, a way of communicating with God.
Joshua 1:8 states, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from 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.”
Responsibility is a choice, not to force on one with no desire to engage in the labour it demands.
Praying before God is a responsibility to locate God.
Responsibility demands watching in prayer.
The word of God repeatedly commands all to watch and pray.
One who is not watching and praying is not in a position to see God, who waits to act for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 records, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Elisha was responsible and waited on God in prayer on behalf of his servant to see the deliverance plan of God over his life, not to become a victim of evil.
2 Kings 6:17 states, “And Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”
It is ignorance of a believer not to hear, see, and do according to the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
As a believer, let it be a way of life, a responsibility to see God with His plan for deliverance and preservation over the life of such.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of responsibility to the glory of God.

THE EVIDENCE

FAITH CAPSULE: Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.

Proverbs 19

Hearing and hearing are not the same as hearing.
Hearing and hearing are to hear and gain understanding.
Hearing and hearing will gain faith.
Romans 10:17 speaks to all, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Hearing and hearing the word of God is crucial to have faith in God.
One that hears repeatedly will gain understanding, which gives a knowing edge.
In John 8:43, Jesus rhetorically questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Hearing repeatedly is evidence of listening to hear and gain understanding.
Are you hearing Him?
Luke 9:35 records the condition to experience the blessing of God: “And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!” Make it a way of life to hear from God.
Hearing Him by listening is the way to be blessed. 
It is impossible to hear His word by listening and not doing His word. 
Jesus is the wisdom of God for all who will accept Him.
He is the instruction that will make the hearer of Him live life abundantly. Jesus confirms, “I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
Evidence of hearing Him is doing as He says.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, instructed at the wedding of Canaan of Galilee with the lack of wine, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 
Hearing Him by listening is the source of fear of God.
Do you give yourself to hear God?
Are you allowing the fear of God to reign and rule your life? 
To fear God is to live life abundantly, the blessing Jesus brought to all. 
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil. 
In life, the fear of God will cause the hearer to abide in satisfaction. 
One with satisfaction will shut out the evil one.
Are you hearing Him enough to be satisfied?
To make hearing from God a way of life is the character of one who fears God, to live life abundantly.
Judas, a disciple of Jesus, was positioned to hear the word day and night, yet disqualified from his calling. 
Judas could not be satisfied but had a lust for money. 
Living life with the spirit of lust will cause anyone to become vulnerable to an evil agenda. 
John 12:4-6 records the lust of Judas: “But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.” (John 12:4-6) 
Judas loves money. 
Judas was not satisfied, demonstrating as one who had not heard enough from God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the fear of God to reign and rule your life.

FIND GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: There is nothing like turning to God to find Him. 

Jeremiah 3

Answering fully to God is to turn to God.
Answering half or not answering God is not complete for God.
God has placed a calling upon all with no exception. 
The salvation plan for all is to answer to the calling of God.
Bible records the calling of God for all. 
2 Timothy 1:9states, “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” 
Answering the calling of God is to turn to God. 
Indeed, God has given a holy calling through Jesus, but today most have turned away from God. 
Without understanding, most turn away from God.
Without understanding, there will be a lack of knowledge. 
Lord declares in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. 
The word of God is the source of understanding God. 
With understanding, there will be fear of God, and not turning from Him.
The truth today is that acclaimed believers have turned away from God.
Turning away from God is a sin.
Are you turning from God?
Romans 3:10-18, all should search their heart to know if the word speaks to you.
“There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God; they have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues, they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 
Romans 3:10-18 records wickedness of this world and rebelliousness before God.
Joshua 22:29 also speaks to all now, not just then, Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day…” 
Turning away from God is rebellion.
Turning to God is answering fully to God, the only God that calls right.
God expects the turning of all to Him with a whole heart. 
Jeremiah 3:10 testifies, “And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.” 
God is a God that none can deceive, and there shall be no deception in turning to Him. 
Let there be nonstop turning to God in the journey of life, giving God His due attention.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to turn to God with all your heart.