FAITH CAPSULE: The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God.

Numbers 25 

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, demonstrated the evidence with the zeal for God.
It happened during the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, sinning before God took over their life. 
It happened during the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, sinning before God took over their life. 
The sin provoked the anger and wrath of God when the Israelites joined Baal of Peor.
The zeal for God in Phinehas answered for the deliverance of the Israelites in Numbers 25:6, “…One of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.” 
The point here is that the Israelites were experiencing the wrath of their sin when one of their brethren repeated the same sin against the command of God. 
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, with the zeal for God, responded to the sin in Numbers 25:7-8, “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So, the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.” 
The zeal for God in the life of Phineas was the way of his life.
The zeal for God in Phinehas made him see wrongdoing when he responded with right doing before God for the glory of God.
Today, acclaimed believers look away from wrongdoing in the things of God because they lack the zeal for God to react by doing right in the place of wrong before God.
The Zeal for God made Phinehas rise from among the Israelites against wrongdoing in the congregation. 
The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God to gain uncommon blessing from God as God spoke to Moses, “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel because he was zealous with My zeal among them so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal. Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel’” (Numbers 25:10-13). 
Do you have a zeal for God?
One with the zeal for God will experience the presence of God.
One who does not have the zeal for God will lack the strength of God to answer the calling of God in life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal for God to make you a vessel for His glory and the uplifting of the business of His kingdom.