FAITH CAPSULE: Know to seek God diligently, not just seeking Him in your ways.

1 Samuel 17

Among ways to seek God diligently is by keeping His testimonies, to declare Him not to deny Him in the journey of life.
First, to seek God diligently is by giving self to keeping His testimonies. Deuteronomy 6:17 buttresses, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.”
All should be given to the testimonies of God to be blessed by God just like David. 
Know to give self to the testimonies of God to gain His attention and be blessed as promised in Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The testimony of God over the life of David provoked the blessing of God with the victory he had over Goliath. 1 Samuel 17:45-47 documented, “Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
Second, to seek God diligently is to declare for God and not to deny Him.
In life, regardless of the challenge, do not deny God but declare His as your Lord and savior. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, the three friends of Daniel, declare God as a God of deliverance. The three friends could not deny serving God but rejected not serving gods or worship the gold image of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar, with anger, threatened to send the three friends of Daniel into burning fiery fire. The three friends responded to the threat of Nebuchadnezzar, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18) In the burning fiery furnace, the deliverance of God answered for the friends of Daniel.
In this wicked world, listen to the word of God that is the key to live life for the glory of God. 
Know to seek God diligently in His word, worship God and not worry.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to seek Him diligently in all ways of life.