FAITH CAPSULE: What is your character like as a believer or not a believer?

Acts 5:1-11

Is it true of you that deception and telling lies are your character or not?
As an acclaimed believer, what is your character? 
Man can experience deception, but God sees all, and nothing can hide from God. 
As smoke is not separate from burning fire, deceit and telling lies cannot be separated from majority acclaimed believers. 
Who you are before God is not what the people see or assume you that counts
The story of Ananias and Sapphira is evidence of acclaimed believers with the skill of deception and telling lies. 
Acts 5:1-2 records, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also, being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” 
For Ananias and Sapphira, to sell their possession was voluntary without evidence of force on them. 
Ananias and Sapphira acted good of heart, but they were wrong as evidence of deception and telling lies revealed about them. 
Both husband and wife entertained the devil, filled with the devil. 
Ananias and Sapphira’s deception and telling lies became a revelation for Peter to identify the lies of Ananias and Sapphira to respond by speaking, “…Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” (Acts 5:3-4) 
Could it be that Ananias and Sapphira had been lying long before it finally caught up with them, or was it just their first time? 
Telling lies can go on for a long or a short period. 
However, it only takes one day for the truth to prevail over the lies of many years. 
Before God, there is no small or big lie. 
A lie is a lie, evidence of sin. 
Sin offers nothing but death. 
Both Ananias and Sapphira died instantly.
Is it true of you that deception and telling lies are your character?
Deception and telling lies are not accessible to the dwelling of God. 
Also, regularly attending church is not evidence of dwelling in the presence of God. 
Those whose garment is of telling lies absent from the presence of God shall be their portion. 
The book of Psalm 101:7-8stated, “He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence. Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.”
Today come out of deception and telling lies to gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance from the spirit of lie and deception.