FAITH CAPSULE: To be dwelling and abiding in Him. 

Psalm 15

Dwelling and abiding in Him demands more than quoting the word.
The word of God declares, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). Knowing this scriptural verse and quoting it is not evidence that one is dwelling in the secret place of God or abiding under His shadow. 
To be dwelling and abiding in Him demands more than quoting the word of God but to be constantly living the word of God.
Living the word of God is behaving His word. 
The word of God demands that all be holy 1 Peter 1:15 “…He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 
If living holy is not possible, the word of God would not have demand from all to live holy. 
Are you living the word of God or constantly quoting the word from the head, not from the heart? 
One that quotes from the heart, not by the mouth, shall live by the word of God.
One that quotes: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,” is not the same as dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abiding under His shadow. 
Do you live by the word, or do you live to quote the word? 
Many received the word as a story, not as a revealed secret that makes one dwell and abide in God.  
WHERE IS THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH? 
Psalm 25:14 – “The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.” 
The commands of God and all that it takes to fear God are across the pages of the Bible. 
However, the lifestyles of most people who claim to be readers of the word do not complement the commands and all that it takes to fear God. 
Isaiah 45:19 states, “God have not spoken in secret…” 
God has not spoken in secret, but most do not study to engage His secret and do not dwell in His secret by how they walk, stand, and sit. 
How one walks, stands, or sits testifies to dwelling and abiding in Him.
Psalm 15 identifies the character of those who may dwell in the secret place of the Lord.
He who walks uprightly; he who works righteousness; he who speaks the truth in the heart; he who does not backbite with his tongue; and he who hates what God hates.
Do you desire to dwell and abide in the secret place of God? 
Devote to your desire, and God will commit Himself by depositing in you your desire for Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask for His word to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire to live for God. 

Psalm 27, Ecclesiastes 12

From this moment, let it be for you that you will live life for God.
One who lives for God will gain and retain the presence of God.
To be able to live for God is not just word of mouth but praying with desire.
Often, words are easier said than done.
Determination to execute living life for God can fail.
The determination of Peter not to deny Jesus as he promised Jesus failed him by denying Jesus three times. 
A desire to live for God will provoke God to deposit what it takes not to fail before God.
Have the desire, not just determination, to live for God.
LIVE FOR God
Live for God, avoid the path of sin which destroys.
Follow the word of God to keep you off the path of sin. 
One who follows the word of God does not despise God but takes a position to see God in His doing over faithful one. 
Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, one who despises the word of God will sink into sin. 
With sin, one is not seeking God and will not see God. 
Claiming seeking God but telling lies to deceive and manipulate is taking a position not to see God, to experience His visitation.
Does the word speak to you?
Pray not to live a life of sin.
Live for God more than ever before.
Seeking God in your chosen way is not living for God.
Attending a church building on your own time is not evidence of living for God.
Does that speak to you?
Day after day, being alive is the privilege of God, not your power.
Know that God alone is the giver of life, to live life for His glory. Revelations 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.” 
Who or what are you living life for today?
Know that your existence is for God, the Creator.
Live for God and have no excuse not to live for the glory of God. 
Pray that God will enable you to live life for His glory.
See God in His word to become registered in you to live for God.
2 Timothy 2:15 speaks to all, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. “
Reading the word of God will KNOW ABOUT God.
Studying will know God.
The word of God is God. (John1:1)
In studying, there will be hearing of God, to see God in His word.
Job testifies, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5)
know God by His word, live obediently not to lose the rightful position in God, but to claim the promise for obedience.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength of studying the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Embrace praying and giving yourself to the Word of God.

Acts 12

Prayer is simply making a petition to God. 
Faith is belief with trust and hope in God. 
Faith is belief with trust and hope in God. 
Payer and faith compromise each other. 
Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer as the constant engagement and communication with God.
Faith is what pleases God.
Faith is the evidence of having faith.
Hebrews 11:6 confirms, “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.”
One with prayer constantly is the character of remembering God for what He has done or doing in the life of such.
Isaiah 43:26 records the word of God, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
The word of God encourages all to approach Him in prayer. 
How is your prayer life? Are you a believer who always approaches God in prayer? 
Challenges of this world in the past and today will respond to prayer.
Harassment, mockery, manipulation, and deception are among the representatives of the evil one.  
Any agent that represents the evil one has the goal and agenda to steal, kill, and destroy. 
Any of these evil agents will always show up because they are looking for whom to devour. 
The agents have no limitation on whom to approach, but there is a limitation in operation where prayer prevails. 
Once, harassment was accessible to James, the brother of John, and Peter, the disciples of Jesus. It is written, “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” (Acts 12:1-2) Harassment, an agent of evil, struck in the church against one of the disciples of Jesus. 
Inside or outside of the church, there will always be harassment, and if anyone engages in prayer and the word of God, you will no doubt become an over-comer. 
The evil success in killing James prompted him to advance his mission towards Peter. Acts 12:3, “And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread. So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.” 
After the death of James, Peter became eminent to the disciples. 
Acts 12:5 records, “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.” }
Church woke up to prayer on behalf of Peter, and the agenda of the enemy ceased. 
In the journey of life, agents of evil demand the need for the church to be constantly awake and not wait till the evil one strikes. 
How is your prayer life? 
What about your prayer group? 
Embrace praying and giving yourself to the Word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant and consistent prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: In Him, there is orderliness, and His order is to be in the order of His expectation. 

Matthew 4:12-25

The most important reason for the calling by God is the call to follow Him.
His calling is to make the called one a fisher of men. Jesus called all to follow Him. 
He did not call us to fold up on Him and be a container or assembly where clean fish are being renewed and transferred from one assembly to another. 
Fish caught is not to become consumed for sefl but to become cleansed and live for the glory of God.
When Jesus began His ministry, it was with a call for people to repent because the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. (Matthew 4:17) 
The book of Matthew 4:18-19 records, “And Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, ‘Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.’” 
The same calling that Jesus had placed upon the first, second, and third disciples is the same calling He is placing upon disciples today. 
Have you been called? 
Have you been following Him, or have you been folding upon Him? 
If one can give an account of how many fish one has been enabled by the grace of God to catch, then yes, such must have been following Him. However, if one cannot account for a single fish by His grace, such must have been folding up. 
The most important reason for His calling is to follow Him.
Following Him is to live for His glory. 
There is order in following Him.
God is a God of order. 
In Him, there is orderliness, and His order is to be in the order of His expectation. 
Once, Hezekiah, the King of Judah, was in order with the command of God. 
Later, he placed himself out of order and became sick and near to death. As a result, he consulted Isaiah. 
2 Kings 20:1 records, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to Him, ‘Thus says the LORD: set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live’” 
The point here is that to be out of His calling is to be out of order. 
Also, to be out of order is living a waste of life.
The order of God is not limited to any particular area of life. 
Are you taking steps out of His order into the order of the wicked world?
It is never too late to turn back from the ways out of the ways of God.
Hezekiah saw a glimpse of death, but he turned it around when he returned to the order of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God not to live a life of waste.

FAITH CAPSULE: Distance from God is taking place not to meet the need. 

Psalm 150

Challenging needs is never above the power of God to meet needs.
With challenging needs, do not worry, avoid careless sleep, and keep seeking God.
Do not worry:
Jesus specifically warned against worrying in Matthew 6:25-27, “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?” 
Are you with the burden of meeting challenging needs?
Are you worrying about not worshipping God?
Worrying will prompt one to question God wrongly instead of worshiping God.  
God is a good God to meet the need.
Avoid careless sleep:
One who is asleep will miscalculate the meeting of challenging needs.
Spiritually, to not sleep before God.
One that is asleep before God keeps self at a distance from God.
Psalm 13:3-4 mentions the danger of sleeping, “Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.” 
Are you sleeping spiritually or physically? Be awake before God and not become a victim of lack.
Keep seeking God: 
Are your challenging needs keeping you far from God or close to God? 
In your time of challenges, keep close and not far from God by seeking God. Matthew 6:33-34 encourages, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” 
Are you giving up on seeking God in your challenges? 
Seek God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 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.”  
Seeking God with all heart and soul keeps the focus on God regardless of challenging needs.
The Lost Son was far from God but discovered the need to return to God like the prodigal Son. 
Luke 15:17 states, “When the prodigal son came to himself…” 
The Lost son recognized his distance from his father to repent and return to his father.
Why don’t you rise and begin to cry for the mercy of God to draw you to Himself and not be a victim of wandering into the far from God?
To be far from God is a position to be missing of meeting needs before God. 

Prayer for today: Give thanks for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do.