FAITH CAPSULE: At every breath, know to say that God is good.

Jeremiah 1

One who gives regard to His work is acknowledging Him for His work.
Acknowledging God is giving Him attention.
Psalm 28:5 confirms the goodness of knowing by identifying that God is good.
“Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.” (Psalm 28:5)
One who knows the good of God will know to listen to see, to receive in the word of God.
Just like the Israelites and Joshua, the victory for Jeremiah was rooted in the word of God when God said, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:10) 
God spoke to Joshua and Jeremiah, and they listened with understanding to see the manifestation in the spoken word of God. 
To Ezekiel, God spoke: “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.” (Ezekiel 4:15) Ezekiel also listened with understanding; he saw to receive the direction by the word of God.
Every act of hearing (listening) in the word of God is evidence of listening to see, which is the key to gaining understanding.
Are you listening to understand the word of God?
Are you with understanding to see your victory in the word of God just like Joshua, Jeremiah, and many others in the pages of the Bible?
Are you with understanding to see your unfailing direction in the word of God, just like Ezekiel and others in the pages of the Bible?
The word of God is the manual for all. 
Live a life of understanding to see and receive in the word of God.
Jesus is the Word of God. (John 1:1)
John 10:10 records the purpose of the coming Jesus: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” 
Listen to the word of God to see God in Him (the word of God) and live life more abundantly.
John 14:25-27 records the gift of His peace:
“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Every recording of the word of Jesus which sounds in your direction is the source of your peace.
Are you listening to understand and to see in the word of God? 
If you are listening with understanding, you will see and receive as spoken to you.

Prayer for today: Ask to be filled with wisdom and understanding in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: To Him alone to live for His glory.

Psalm 91

Pray that you know how to live for God’s glory.
Living life for God demands that all grow in God’s wisdom and knowledge.
Isaiah 33:6 speaks to all, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Are you growing in the wisdom and knowledge of God, the source of strength, the only way to fear God and be stable in these challenging times?
As a way of life, pray nonstop that God will fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
No one can grow in the wisdom and knowledge of God without an understanding of the fear of God.
One not living life for God is not abiding in Him.
John 8:32 records,“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Those who do not receive the truth are in bondage and not free to be corrected or redirected, not living life for God.
Know to abide in Him and not to live a life of waste.
Those who do not abide in Him are bound to be rebellious, not living life for God. 
Job 24:13 buttresses: “There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths.”
Jesus, the light of God, is the wisdom from God for all. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Allow yourself to hear the rebukes of life; Proverbs 15:31 admonishes, “The ear that hears the rebukes of life will abide among the wise.”
Why not live life before God, for the glory of God?
Living life for God, abiding in Him, is taking a path of light. In John 12:46, Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” 
It is not possible to be answering as a believer and be full of darkness. 
To be full of darkness is empty of the light of God.
Those built by the word of God will live life for God. Acts 20:32 states, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
Pray that God will enable His word to gain entrance into you to build you up to live for His glory.
Live for God and to experience, as Proverbs 6:22 identifies, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Claiming to live life for God by living before God is the character of one who abides in Him.
God is true and the light, not to fall in darkness.

Prayer for today: Pray with understanding to live life before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you a believer with a desire to be built up for God?

Psalm 28

Giving oneself to the word of God will build one up to live for the glory of God.
What one is determined to achieve for God, with desire, may fail to achieve what is desired.
At any point as a believer, do you have the desire to be built up for the glory of God?
God is not a slave master but a saving God.
God will not enforce the mind of desire for Him.
However, God will always visit anyone with desire for Him to deposit what it takes to desire Him.
Are you a believer with a desire to become built up for God?
Every role of one who wants to build for God is documented in the pages of the bible.
Psalm 28:5 records, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.”
Giving regard to the works of God is bound to be built up by God.
Are you one who gives yourself to the works of God?
Evidently, the works of God are the word of God.
One who gives to the word of God shall be built up for God.
Paul admonishes all that the word of God will build one up for the glory of God, stating, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
The word of God is to build one who engages it as a way of life.
Are you unbelieving believers or acclaimed believers giving to the word of God, making noise by quoting the word of God?
One who can seek the word of God and open for the entrance of the word into the heart shall become built up for God.
Give yourself to the word of God to retain and become a build-up for God by the word of God.
Pray that the word of God will gain entrance to build you up in God.
The world has always been a place where evil continually grows.
Genesis 6:5-6 records the evil on earth:“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent[d] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ” (Genesis 6:5-6) 
Living in this wicked world demands continual growth in the things of God, not to be a victim of the world or to live a life of waste.
All believers should know and understand that evil is in the business of upgrading its cunning devices.
As evil devices grow, believers should grow in the word of God.
Apostle Paul admonishes, “we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
Prayer will draw man to grow in the Lord God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled for your growth in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Praising God is a way of life to find God continually.  

Psalm 150

Let praising God be your way of life.
Psalm 150:6 calls for the attention of all to the importance of praising God, stating, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Let your praising God as a way of life be rooted in praising God with understanding.
Praise God with understanding to provoke the hand of God to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 47:7 admonishes, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
Praise God with understanding to demonstrate a mind for God.
David is an example of one with a mind for God, by His way of praising God.
He was praise-full, which testifies to his way of life before God.
Are you praise-full before God?
God raised David, and He identified David over King Saul. God spoke through Samuel, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14)
A man with a heart for God is mindful of God, a position to be lifted by God. 
Praising God is not only singing to God but declaring the awesomeness of God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do. Continuous praising of God is a demonstration of faith.
Praising God with understanding is seeking God diligently.
One who seeks God diligently will find God.
David understands the praising of God to declare what he was doing when praising God: 
“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:4) 
Psalm 145:4 admonishes all that praise declares the acts of God from one generation to another:“One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.” 
God is an awesome God, and whosoever has the understanding to give thanks and praise to God shall experience the decoration of God for good. The Bible records that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (three friends of Daniel) were sentenced to a burning fiery furnace when they refused to bow for a foreign God.
The friends of Daniel responded to the death sentence with a declaration of praise, “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) 
The praise declaration of God will decorate one with deliverance and preservation. The three friends of Daniel praised God in the face of a death sentence over their lives.
Giving oneself to a reasonable sacrifice of praise to God will help one find God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life of praising God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Humility is the character of Jesus.

2 Chronicles 32

Understand and know how to be humble before God.
Anyone with faith will be humble.
One with faith will seek God, which is evidence of being humble before God.
Do you have the faith to seek God?
It is faith that pleases God, and without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6)
One who has faith to seek God pleases God; also, the humble seek to experience the beauty of God. 
Psalm 149:4 records, “For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.”
Have faith; seek God to demonstrate that you are the humble one before God.
Just as faith is to be humble, pride and wickedness are not of the humble one.
Psalm 147:6 records, “The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.”  
In life, what is desirable is what God will deposit.
Why not have a desire to live a life of humility, not of pride, that makes one wicked before God?
The wicked is with the word of God in the mouth but far from the mind. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Proverbs 29:23 records the pride:  “A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
Make it a way of life; do not allow the spirit of being a proud or wicked one that fails before God.
God acknowledges one who is humble before Him.
The case of Hezekiah and his humility before God records: “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord, and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore, wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.” (2 Chronicles 32:24-26)
In the place of being unconscious or conscious of sin before God, with pending challenges of the consequences, turn to God; humble yourself with prayer before God.
Being obedient to live life before God is not possible without being humble in the walk of life.
Jesus, the Lord and Savior, became obedient before God because He humbled Himself.
Philippians 2:8 records, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Before God, there is no legitimate reason not to live life humbly before God, to obey God, to live life for the glory of God.
Be humble to obey God! 

Prayer for today: Ask that the Spirit of God, to live humbly before God, shall have a place in your life.