FAITH CAPSULE: The way of God is for life.

Seek God to know His way, His direction, not to live a life of waste.
The way of God is not an assumption but an assurance. 
Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Resume the way of God walking with or before Good.
Moses asked for direction without doubt, and not in complaint.
God responded to Moses for asking the way of God, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
Going further this year, live by Isaiah 55:6, “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”
Among the points to give attention to, walking with or walking before is worth.
1. With faith to live by the way of God, is to ask God for the provision of direction in His way, not to fail His calling.
Know that every provision in redemption is only accessible by faith.
Live by the way of God, the word of God!
2. One who works on the ground of believers but walks not in the way (the word) is deceiving oneself.
3. Many claim to be a believer.
Claiming to be a believer and not abiding in His way is a joke, which is ceremonial religion. 
4. Do you have a desire to live by the way of God?
With desire, Moses and Gideon asked for the way of God.
The desire to pursue creates a purpose to be responsible and to walk with or before God.
Responsibility is the price for greatness.
5. Know to walk in the way or before God.
Which one are you?
Telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating are the same feathers, the character of not walking in the way of God, that will prevent one from arriving at a divine assignment.
6. Know to strive for the way of God.
Jesus said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” (Luke 13:24)
Preparation is crucial as a way of life.
7. One not prepared to find God will not encounter the presence of God.
Obedience to God as a way of life, an avenue not to miss His presence.
Silent or loud disobedience will prevent one from gaining heaven.
In the life journey, give attention to the word of God, the way of God, to gain and retain the presence of God. In answering the calling of God, in all endeavors, do not live a life of waste by not arriving at the calling of God.
John 14:6 records, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Ask that God enable you to live by His way, His word.
Prayer for today: Pray to live by the way of God.

THIS NEW SEASON

FAITH CAPSULE: In this new season, let your direction take over.

Exodus 33:12-23

Time belongs to God to live life by it, not by the clock of the world.
It is worthy to thank God for the grace of life this far.
In thanks to God is to pray before God to enable the new season, the time of the year, to live more by the way of God.
The way of God is in the direction of His word.
The word of God is God. (John:1:1)
God magnified His word above His name.
The word of God inhabits the way of God.
Obediently walking with God or walking before Him will not experience falling or failing in the life journey.
One who walks in the way of God lives life by the word of God.
To obediently live by the way of God is not to live a life of waste.
Genesis 5:24 testifies, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 6:9 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”
Genesis 17:1, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
To walk with God is to walk before God, not to live a life of waste.
Abraham walked before God, the character of one who is blameless.
It is one with a desire for God who will experience desire for God.
Evidently, to walk with or before God shall live life for the glory of God, to arrive at a divine assignment for life.
Are you in His way?
A believer should not live in ignorance, but in knowledge.
Know about is not knowing.
Knowing how to live in accordance with God’s way is to live for God.
In His way to lead, with obedience, there is a way to arrive at the calling of God without failing.
God calls all.
The calling of God for all is to live life for the glory of God. (Revelation 4:11)
The calling of God comes with direction.
Without direction for His calling, the called one will not walk by the way of God.
God called Moses, so all are called for different assignments, but all demand direction.
One who answers to the calling of God should not assume but ask to know the way of God.
For example, know how to ask for the way of God.
Moses asked God without doubt, and not in complaint.
God responded to Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
God is a good God who will answer when His children know to ask with understanding.
In the life journey, give attention to the word of God, the way of God, to gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live by His way, His word.

FAITH PRESCRIPTION: The going of God is leading you in His way.

Judges 6

Is God going with you?
In your endeavor, do you know if God will go with you?
In the calling of God over your life, do you care to know if God is going with you at the juncture of your calling?
In His way to lead, with obedience, there is a way to arrive at the calling of God without failing.
Moses needed to know the way, not to fail, alter, or fall.
Moses, despite his experiences, asked God to receive, and he received from God.
He needed to know for sure how God was going to go with him.
Moses asked God, “Then Moses said to the Lord, ‘See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 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.” (Exodus 33:12-13)
Moses asked God without doubt, and not in complaint.
How are you asking God to know how He is going with you?
God responded to the question of Moses, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God is a good God who will answer when His children know how to ask with understanding.
Once, the Israelites were suffering at the hands of the Midianites.
While Gideon was in the business of preparing to hide from the hand of the Midianites, the Angel of the Lord showed up to Gideon, saying, “…The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!”(Judges 6:12)
Gideon responded to the word of God, stating,  “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” (Judges 6:13)
Just like Moses, with understanding, Gideon was not in doubt but was asking with understanding.
Asking with understanding is asking with faith.
With humility, he wanted to know if he was competent enough to be the servant of God, the calling of God.
Gideon was so humble when he responded to the assurance of God, stating,“…O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” (Judges 6:15)
The last response of Gideon prompted God to promise, stating, “…Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.” (Judges 6:16)
What God will not do is, He will not fail to answer one who seeks His way.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to ask with understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: Commitment to the word of God to become great for His glory.

Numbers 32

Meditating is communicating.
Communicating with God is hearing back and forth with God.
Without communication, there is no continuation with God.
Meditation will enable living His way.
Meditating on the word of God is a responsibility before God that will make one great for God.
Lord God knows the importance of giving oneself responsibly to meditating on His word.
After the death of Moses, God emphasized the importance of meditating, stating, “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.”
Meditating on the word of God is the price to be prosperous.
Prosperous to be successful, as stated by God.
Committing to God will lead to greatness.
Commitment to God is to consign oneself to seeking God with all heart, with all soul, with all strength. Seeking God with commitment, failure shall not be a permanent way of life.
Responsibility is to be committed to the promise of God and not be discouraged by inconvenience in the journey of obtaining His promise. The Israelites could not commit to the promise of God but experienced painful consequences.
The Children of Gad and the children of Reuben were convenient to settle on the East side of the Jordan when God wanted them to cross the Jordan and establish them. Numbers 32: 1-7 documented, “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock,  the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,  the country which the Lord defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”  Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.” And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?  Now, why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?”
God promised a land that flows with milk and honey, but the children of Gad and the children of Reuben wanted to settle for land with only milk. Commitment to the word of God, meditating on the word, will focus on being established in the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to become responsible to God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Wrongdoing is a violation before God.

2 Samuel 6

Doing what is good wrongly in the name of God is an error, and it is also a wrongdoing, as it is a deviation from accuracy, akin to a mistake, in action or speech.
Wrongdoing is a moral offense that can lead to sin or sinning, as a way of life.
It is wrong to violate the word of God when there is conscious or unconscious error before God.
Wrongdoing is despising the word of God.
The Bible makes us realize that, “He who despises the word will be destroyed…” (Proverbs 13:13)
Have you in any way violated or currently violating the word of God?
Pray that the grace of God will open your eyes to avoid or come out of conscious or unconscious wrongdoing.
Before God, no excuse for wrongdoing.
Before God, there is no excuse for error.
An error made can be an avenue for termination.
Wrongdoing can lead to error in what is said or what one is doing.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 warns, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?”
Give yourself attention to your way of life and do not be a victim of wrongdoing.
Before God, Adam and Eve committed an error by believing the serpent enough to eat against the command of God, not to eat from a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. They both violated the word of God by their error (a wrongdoing).
When God showed up (just as He will show up to all), both Adam and Eve attempted to justify their action before God by stating, “Then the man said, ‘The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12-13) Their excuses were not enough, and God judged them.
The wrongdoing committed by Adam and Eve exposed man to numerous pains today.
Doing what is good wrongly (that is, engaging the heart with a wrong act) in the name of God is an error with no reasonable excuse that will not excuse one from destruction.
Uzzah engaged his heart with a good act, which led to his destruction.
During the transfer of the Ark of God from the house of Abinadab, Uzzah and Ahio drove the cart.
In the process of moving the Ark of God, Uzzah, out of a good heart, committed an act that terminated his life.
The Bible recorded his error, “And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.’ (Genesis 6:6-7)
The act of Uzzah was an error.

Prayer point: Pray not to become a victim of a life-terminating wrongdoing.