FAITH CAPSULE: It is a great grace that the good of God has brought you this far.
Psalm 145
From the first month of this year to this moment is the grace of God.
God owes no one, but all owe the perfect God.
He is a caring Creator.
Psalm 150:6 admonishes all, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Indeed, everyone standing and not falling from the beginning of the year should praise God at every moment, not just at the breath of life.
Praising and thanking God shall cause a favorable lifting from God.
What He says to one speaks to all.
God deserves praising and thanking Him.
God is a jealous God whose attention is the antidote to jealousy.
God wants all to seek Him diligently.
One who seeks God diligently will find God.
One who does not seek God diligently will not find God.
Proverbs 7:15 encourages, “So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.”
It is the love that you are alive at this time of the year.
John 3:16-17 testifies to the love of God for all, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
The point is that God invested so much in all while all extends so little to Him.
All year long to the moment standing, the Lord God bestows upon you, how much have you extended to Him?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 records, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted.”
At this time of the year, think of living a life to glorify God.
Allow your expectations to change from material gain to walking in the ways of God.
Deuteronomy 5:33 states, “You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.”
Walk more in the ways of God, seeking God first.
Seeking God will no doubt fulfill every one of your desires as the year runs into the coming year.
Live to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:33-34)
A better way to seek God is by praising and thanking God.
Make the moment to be of praising and thanking God.
Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to praise and thank God every moment.