FAITH CAPSULE:Every act that is contrary to the way of God is a wicked way.

Luke 22:1-6, 47-53
 
The word of God admonished us in Proverbs 4:23 “keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Judas Iscariot failed to keep his heart. When you fail to keep your heart with all diligence through Christ Jesus, Satan will enter just as it entered into Judas’ heart. Luke. 22:3 “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” After it entered into Judas’ heart, Judas went his way. He left the sure and the true way. He took to a way that appeared right to him and not right to God. It was the way of his death.
Satan will not announce himself before he enters into any man’s heart. You have to renounce him from entering by keeping your heart diligent.
It is written, “Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.”(Jeremiah 24:7) Do you desire a heart for God? When we devote to having our desire, God will deposit into us our desire. 
Ask God today, to give you a heart that is not accessible by Satan; a heart to know Him and not be a wicked vessel. After Satan entered into Judas, Judas took to a convenient way. The word states, “Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.” (Mark 14:10-11)
Serving God is a commitment when one’s desire for serving with convenience overrides the commitment to serve, Satan will serve one with a convenient way of selling Jesus. When you sell Him you have betrayed Him. Judas sold Jesus and bagged Jesus up with a kiss. Many are still selling Him today. Are you one that is selling Him by the words of your mouth (telling lies)?
As smooth as telling lies could be; as easy as it can be delivered to achieve one’s own purpose, it is a smooth step into wicked ways. Every act that is contrary to the way of God is a wicked way.
Proverbs 15:29 disclosed what is up with the wicked stating, “The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.”  God is still in the business of answering prayer.
 
Prayer for today:Pray the prayer of the righteous as recorded in Psalm 139:23, “Search me O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.