FAITH CAPSULE: Have determination rooted in the desire to near God.

Psalm 75

God is a good God.
God is near His creation, the character of a caring, perfect God.
Are you near to God?
How far are you from God?
Know that God is near, but all takes a distance from God.
The word of God is God.
The creation of God is His word.
It is glaring that the creations of God that are seeable are His word, the evidence that God is near to all.
Psalm 75:1 buttresses, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
The word of God, His work, and His name are near to all who will acknowledge and live near Him.
God is near to all with the desire to be near to Him.
The key to being near God is to fear God.
Note that the fear of God is His treasure. (Isaiah 33:6)
Fear of God is to near God.
One that walks with God or walks before God is near to God.
Enoch and Noah walked with God, the character of being near to God.
Abram walked before God, evidence to be near God and not to live a life of waste.
Have the desire to draw near to God.
Seek God diligently to find God.
Jeremiah 29:13 states, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
It is those who find God that are near to God.
One who is sinful is far from God because, with sin, no one can reach God.
Romans 3:23 buttresses, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Are you far or near from God?
It is possible to be near God.
If it is impossible to be near God, the word of God would not demand or encourage all to be near God.
Seek God diligently, find God, and draw near God as possible.
Draw near to God, and He will draw to you.
To draw near God is not a mouth talk.
Know to be near God!
It is a blessing to find God, the character of one that is near God.
To find God is not noise-making, quoting scripture verses, or running after anyone in the name of God.
A believer seeking the world in the name of God proves that such is not seeking God diligently to find God.
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.”
God is not far from one who will seek God diligently, giving self to the word of God to continue to live life for God. 
One who seeks God in His way but does not seek in the way of God will not find nor near God.

Prayer for today: Pray for the word of God that it takes to be near God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is His promise.

Exodus 14

Life is a journey.
From January to March is a life journey.
It is a life journey, a great privilege of God, till today.
What accompanies you that you know or not?
The spirit of complaint accompanied the Israelites on their journey of deliverance from the bondage of over 400 years.
Instead of complementing God for their deliverance, they complained recklessly. Exodus 14:11 records their complaint, “Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?” 
Word of God promised with the Promised Land, but the Israelites could not see in the word of God to claim the promise of God.
A failure not to see in the promise of God will not claim the promise of God.
Whatever anyone thinks or says will undoubtedly have a direct effect on such.
The Israelites saw fear, and as a result, they confessed negatively.
Pharaoh failed to deny the freedom of the Israelites, the Red Sea could not hold them down, and the wall of Jericho could not cut their passage to the promise of God.
The complaint denies the Israelites.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
1 Peter 3:10 admonishes all, “He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.”
The compliant ones will easily find God to become a victim of the wrong side of God.
Complaining is a wrongdoing.
God owes no one, but all owe God to thank God for His goodness and mercy.
God is worthy and to be praised and worshiped.
Psalm 150:6 states, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Are you one who gives to God by complementing Him?
Give regard to God for all He has done and all He is doing.
Do not become one that does not give God His due attention.
God responded to the Israelites by sending Moses, ” Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness…” (Numbers 14:28)
PRAYER
Ask that in the privilege of life journey, whatever does not glorify God that you carry (complaint spirit was the baggage of the Israelites) be permanently separated from your life.
A failure not to see in the promise of God will not claim the promise of God. Ask that the inability to see in the word of God shall not have a place in your life. (Abraham, Jonah, and others needed to see in the word of God. It is what you see that you receive to become of you)
Ask God to occupy your mind so you will not be complaining as a way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: To wait on God can be persistent to experience the faithfulness of God. 

Matthew 7:1-12, Luke 18:1-8

To be persistent and seeking God for manifestation is not a sin before God.
God is faithful to fulfill according to His word.
Know God, not only know about God.
Manifestation of expectation yet to be is not the issue of how long of waiting but how far God has brought one.
Waiting on God can be long, but never too much to keep asking from God.
Jesus said, “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 7:7-9) 
God is not a talkative that wastes words. 
Whatever He says He will do is a done deal. 
The psalmist testifies to the word of God, “I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.” (Psalm 138:2) 
God honors His word for one that gives to His word.
The assurance of the word states: “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him? (Matthew 7:9-11)
Have you been asking and not been receiving from Him? 
One should not stop asking.
To stop asking demonstrates a lack of faith.
Do not stop asking in the place of expectation for manifestation.
In the parable, Jesus speaks to be persistent.
Jesus spoke, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”  (Luke 18:2-5) 
Waiting on God with no manifestation is not too late to return to the prayer altar.
Be persistent and see that the Lord is faithful to fulfill according to His word. 
The parable of the persistent widow states, “…men always ought to pray and not lose heart…” 
In times of challenges, it is the time to keep an eye on God and not look away from His creation.
God has brought you this far.
In your expectation, present all to the Lord in prayer and see how the Lord will move with an answer. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding for asking, seeking, and knocking before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE:Living as a foolish one is living a wasted life.

I Samuel 13

What do you say?
Do you communicate there is no God?
Those who say in the heart that there is no God are the ones who speak it from the mouth that there is no God. 
Jesus buttressed, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.” (Matthew 12:34-35) 
It takes a foolish-minded one to take a position as a speaker for a forum that claims there is no God. 
Psalm 14:1 buttressed, “The fool has said in his heart that “there is no God” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.” 
It is always evil to say there is no God. 
Are you one that says there is no God by your actions and not only by speaking it out of the mouth? 
Are you saying there is no God by your verbal communication or body language?
How do you relate with others, communicating that there is no God?
Psalm 14:1 identifies the foolish ones:
Those who are corrupt (Lack of honest practices such as bribery and lack of integrity)
Those who engage in wickedness (revolting and miserable work)
Those who do not do good (they are evil in approach)
Does any of the above sound like you?
As a believer, you cannot afford to live life foolishly. 
A believer should not answer to the wicked world as foolish do by the way of life. 
Proverbs 26:4 warned, “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.” 
In this wicked world, every ungodly act that demands an answer from one must be with wisdom, not as foolish. 
Always live with a godly act to avoid being marked as foolish.
Foolishness is a sin, and sin does not stand before God.
Saul was foolish when he offered the burnt offering that did not belong to his office as a King but belonged to a priest. 
Saul could not wait for Samuel as commanded by Samuel. 
At the arrival of Samuel, Saul gave an excuse for the burnt offering as a result of the late arrival of Samuel. 
For Saul, the impending danger provoked his violation of the command of God (carrying out the burnt offering). 
Samuel responded to foolishness act of Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you.” (I Samuel 13:13) 
Regardless of any reasonable excuse, it is foolish to violate the command of God when responding to the challenges of the wicked world. 
There is no reasonable excuse to justify disobedience to the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled not to live outside of the command of God as a foolish one.

FAITH CAPSULE: The power that belongs to Jesus is the power over all creation. 

Matthew 8:1-13, Matthew 21:1-17

Questioning the authority (Jesus) where He gets His power is an absolute lack of knowledge.
Jesus is Lord! 
Honor belongs to Him; glory belongs to Him. 
Above all, authority (power) belongs to Him.
Psalm 62:11 records, “God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.” 
It is safe to say that authority is undeniable power. 
All authority is with Jesus. 
Jesus confirmed that all authority is with Him. 
Matthew 28:18 states that after His resurrection, He appeared to His disciples and said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” 
All authority is power. 
The power that belongs to Jesus is the power over all creation; it is the power to heal and to deliver; it is the power in His word and the authority that no man can deny.
The authority to cleanse all that is due for cleaning so that God may reign and rule in life belongs to Jesus.
The Bible records how He went to clean the temple at a point in His ministry. 
Jesus overturned the tables of the money.
He drove the changers and all buying and selling.
Jesus cleaned the temple by driving out all the irrelevancies, and He left. Matthew 21:23 states, “Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, ‘By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?’”
The priests and the elders realized there was an authority in place that was not deniable from delivering His agenda.
Jesus Christ is with authority. 
However, to be questioning authority (Jesus) where He gets His authority from is an absolute lack of knowledge.
Are you questioning His authority? 
While Jesus was here on the earth, the chief priests constantly questioned His authority. 
The Bible testifies that “He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Matthew 7:29) 
The teaching of Jesus was with authority, and the majority are yet to recognize Him.
Today, many are still questioning His authority. 
Inside and outside of the Church, His authority is constantly questioned. Are you questioning His authority? 
The word of God says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) 
Are you seeking God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength? 
A failure not to love God with all heart, soul, and strength is evidence of questioning His authority.
The word of God is not a talk active but the testimony of His demonstration yesterday, today, and tomorrow, evidence of power.
The authority is with power that is not questionable.

Prayer for today: Ask God that His authority will reign and rule your life all the days He has given you.