FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God delivers and directs. 

1 Samuel 15

Are you opening your heart to the word of God?
The destination of the word of God for all is the heart.
One that does not give heart to the word of God is taking a position for destruction.
King Saul despised the word of God in his heart to experience destruction.
God sent Samuel to tell Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now, therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel, and donkey.’”(1 Samuel 15:1-3) 
Saul did not give his heart to the words of God. 
Saul despised the word of God, and as a result, God rejected him. (1 Samuel 15:10-35)
The word of God that enters the heart is the key to deliverance and direction. 
The word of God delivers: The word of God that entered into the heart of Moses took Israel out of the bondage of over 400 years.
At the time for God to bring the Israelites out of bondage, Moses was reluctant to lead the Israelites. 
God spoke to Moses, “Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.” (Exodus 4:15-17) 
According above verses, the word of deliverance that made Moses God over Aaron eventually gave the Israelites the key to becoming free from the bondage of over four hundred years. 
The word of God is the direction: Unfailing direction is in the word of God that teaches in the way which leads to the expected end of the journey. 
Psalm 32:8 testifies to the instruction of direction, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
With the deliverance of the Israelites from over four hundred years in Egypt, God gave the word of direction to lead the Israelites to Promised Land. 
Exodus 13:17-18 records the direction word of God, “Then it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.”

Prayer for today: Ask for a receptive heart for the word of God.