FAITH CAPSULE: Know to engage the word, meditating on the word of God.
Joshua 1
GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WORD OF GOD
Psalm 143:8 testifies, “Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning. For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk for I lift up my soul to You.” Hearing, observing, and obeying God in the morning will make the difference for the day. Make provision for hearing the word of God first in the morning. Trust and hope in God for daily endeavors.
Give yourself to the word of God to lead you with deliverance.
KNOW TO AVOID SELF DESTRUCTION
Pride is a route to self-destruction.
Pride will deny one not to hear and give ear to the word of God.
Jeremiah 13:15 buttresses, “Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.”
Search yourself to identify what is denying you from giving yourself to the word of God.
Whatever seems right but not the word of God is not right before God. Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Pride is going against the word of God.
BE RESPONSIBLE TO PURSUE GOD
Pursuing God is a responsibility, which is the ability to act on your own without supervision. Pursue God to become godly. Today, acclaimed believers are not conversant in the word of God but conversant in the things of the world, having a form of godliness but lacking the power of God. 2 Timothy 3:5 states, “having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! Be a responsible one to pursue God by living godliness with the evidence of the power of God in your life.
RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE GOD IS THE PRICE OF GREATNESS
The venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines made David inquire about the direction from God. 1 Samuel 23:2 records, “Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”.
David heard from God, “…Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Inquiring from God for unfailing direction is evidence of one responsible before God.
Get to know that responsibility is the price to be great in the hand of God.
Be responsible, seeking the direction of God.
LIVE LIFE FOR THE CALLING OF GOD
The one who obeys the direction of God will be connected to God to arrive at divine assignment in life.
However, answering the calling of God will mount with challenges, but obedience to God will deliver in it all. Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
In the journey of answering the calling of God, stagnation will delay, and mockery will mount to discourage, but the miracle of victory will answer.
Are you called by yourself or called by the world?
Live life for God!
Prayer today: Ask God to enable meditation of His word.