FAITH CAPSULE: It is the will of God for all His creation to live for His glory.

Exodus 8

It is a responsibility to gain an understanding of why living.
In life, having understanding will determine how far to walk with or before God.
It is how one understands God that determines whether to follow God, living for the glory of God.
Those who walked with God followed God rightly.
Enoch walked with God, with no wrongdoing, until God took him. (Genesis 5:26)
Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations, who walked with God. (Genesis 9:10-11)
Abraham walked before God. (Genesis 17:1)
Walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him.
The word of God points out that walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 confirms, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
How is your walk that God knows?
Walking with God, walking before God, or walking in Him is living for God.
Revelation 4:11 reveals that all His creation lives for Him, exists for Him.
Revelation 4:11 records “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Living for God, existing for God, is following Him, to follow Him, to walk worth for His glory.
Follow God as His disciple.
As His disciple is not to live a life of waste.
Not to follow God as His disciples is disobedience to His word.
Disobedience to the word of God is disregarding God.
Disregard for the word of God is bound to be destroyed and not be built up by God (word of God).
Psalm 28:5 speaks to all, “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.”
Are you giving regard to God in all your ways of life?
Search yourself to know if you are following Him or not following Him.
One who follows wrongly is the same as not following Him.
One set to live for God, called by God, or with the attempt to follow God, is bound to be in a position for the devil with the attempt to deny one following God.
Evidently, where God or what God sets for good is what the devil also intervenes to derail, so as not to live for the glory of God.
What one follows or what is following one consciously or unconsciously is with an agenda to derail, not to arrive at the divine assignment of God.
What follows you, or you follow not to live for the glory of God?
What follows one against the will of one will pose a threat like a slave master.
Like a slave master, what follows will be established by taking away freedom.
One without the ability to free oneself from what is not of God is evil to deny the arrival at serving God as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask against forces that are not of God, that shall not have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The right place to be is in the secret place of God.

Psalm 91

Psalm 27:5 states, “For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.”
Through the pages of the Bible, it is clear that the word of God is His secret.
For example, God created all by His word.
Amos 3:7 records, “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”
His word is His secret for those who do not serve Him.
Those who serve Him are in place to know the secret and live by His secret.
Fear God constantly and consistently to dwell in His secret place.
Psalm 91:1 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Interestingly, anyone who chooses to dwell in the secret place of the Most High?
One who gains a position in the secret place is supposed to become directed and preserved by God.
The word of God is God, and His shadow is of Him.
Know how to become secure under His shadow. 
However, the secret place of the Most High is not a physical place nor as in a church building.
One who fears God has a place in the presence of God. 
Psalm 25:14 admonishes, “The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.”
Know to fear God and gain a dwelling and abiding in the secret of God.Among the blessings of dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God is uncommon protection in the face of confronting challenges. 
To be under the watchful eye of God that is not visible to the naked eye is to be in His secret place. 
Do you fear God indeed and in truth, or do you fear Him just at your mouth? 
What does it mean to fear God? 
To fear the Lord is to love the Lord.  
God wants all to love Him because He is love. 
Deuteronomy 30:6 buttresses,“And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” 
To fear the Lord is to love Him.
To love Him is to live for the glory of God. 
Those who dwell in the fear of God are in His secret place. 
One cannot fear God today and not fear Him tomorrow, the character of dwelling and abiding.
Fear God continually, expecting to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. 
Dwelling in a secret place demands living constantly and consistently in the fear of God. 
Without the fear of the Lord, there will be no abiding in the secret place of the Most High. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to put His fear in your heart so that you may abide under the shadow of the Most High. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Is your mind occupied with doubt?

Mathew 11

Having doubt is evidence of not being positioned to hear and hear the word of God.
What is it that is causing you to have doubt instead of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? 
With doubt, fear rises while faith sinks.  
The Bible identifies the source of faith, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) 
Do not hear the word of God once in a while.
Engage in hearing and hearing by the word of God, and allow faith to rise so that fear will sink and doubt will have no place in you. 
Having fear outside of God is giving oneself to a slave master.
What is it in your mind holding you down?
When fear strikes the mind, there is a need to surrender oneself to faith, thereby gaining freedom from it.
Deny your present situation and location from operating as an agent that causes you to doubt.
John the Baptist doubted Jesus. 
The Bible records, “And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” (Matthew 11:2-3) 
Is there any representative of prison in your life, causing doubt about what Jesus can do? 
John the Baptist, while spending time in prison, doubted Jesus. 
It was John who baptized Jesus. 
Matthew 3:13 records, “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.”  
John the Baptist bears witness of Jesus, “…Behold. The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.”’ (John 1:29-30) 
John also exalted Jesus when he stated, “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.” (John 3:31) 
Despite all that John the Baptist knew about Jesus, he doubted Jesus. 
Remember, you have heard and seen it all; if you hold on to all you know, you will depart from doubt and not dwell in it. 
Jesus responded to the doubt of John, and His word addressed doubts, “…Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Mathew 11:4-6) 
Where there is doubt, faith tends to drown.
Hebrews 11:6 records, “…But without faith, it is impossible to please Him…” 
With faith, declare to your situation that Jesus is Lord and there is nothing He cannot do. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to focus on God so that your faith will not fail.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing to give regard to God is waiting on Him.

Psalm 37

The character of one who gives regard to God, knows to wait on God.
One who gives regard to God believes in God.
In your waiting on God, do you question God?
Questioning in doubt will not yield an answer, but questioning with faith is possible to receive the expected.
Waiting on God is a way out of shame. 
When waiting on God, without looking outside of God, without any iota of doubt, shame shall not have a place in life. 
The Psalmist buttresses, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:3) 
In your waiting, give regard to God, and God will attend to you.
Are you one who is constantly questioning how the wicked ones are excelling? 
Refrain from asking God in doubt, the character of rushing out of the move of God.
Have peace of God when you know how to wait on God.
Psalm 37:7 states, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.” 
One who makes regard to God, waits on God.
Waiting on God is keeping His word and not fretting in the face of any wickedness. 
God is a great defender who delivers those who wait on Him.
Is your crying wearing you out? 
Listen to the testimony of the Psalmist, “I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.” (Psalm 69:3) 
Many wait and waste because of a lack of knowledge of God.
God has never failed, and He shall not when He is waited on Him.
Waiting on God is not a sign of weakness.
Wait on God silently and patiently. 
David testified in Psalm 40: 1-2, “I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth- praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.” 
Waiting for God will grant the grace to walk firmly on any ground and not fall. 
Passing through the trial of waiting will no doubt put a new song in the mouth of one who knows how to wait, giving regard to God.
One with a low place in life and waiting on God is an avenue to come out of low places to high places, where there is no falling.
“Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)
Gain a strong heart by waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will know how to wait on God when challenges present themselves.

FAITH CAPSULE: All should keep in mind not to be a victim of distraction.

Matthew 16

Minding the mind is minding oneself to live life for God.
There is no business before all the creation but to mind the mind to find God.
Finding God is seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
The condition to seek God and find Him is to seek Him diligently with heart and soul, that is, knowing His command in the heart, and live obediently by His command.
One who minds the heart keeps the heart diligently.
Proverbs 4:23 admonishes all, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
Be diligent not to be a victim of the slip of opening the mind to distraction.
Distraction is a route to deny or delay, which can lead to destruction.
All should mind not to be a victim of distraction.
In challenging times, the Israelites confessed to negative evidence of not having faith in God.
Not mind leads to faith-failure.
God responded to the faith-failure through Moses as stated: “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)  
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is evidence of not following Him fully.
As a result of not following God fully, every Israelite who left Egypt above the age of twenty failed to complete their journey to the Promised Land. Are you serving God fully to avoid failure, not to arrive at the promise of God?
Many acclaimed believers, such as prayer intercessors, choir leaders, ushers, Sunday school teachers, and deacons, do not follow Christ fully as the word demands.
Jesus responded to uncommitted believers as stated: “Then Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24)
Are you a committed believer who keeps their mind by following the word of God?
Is there any way for you to hear it better so that you can understand and know that in serving Him, you must keep your mind for God?
Jesus said, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me: and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, he My Father will honor.” (John 12:26)
Give your ear to hear, to have what it takes to keep your mind.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you against any agent of distraction.