FAITH CAPSULE: Disobedience will disposition one in the plan of God.

Deuteronomy 28

God does not look over disobedience that provokes painful consequences.
Obedience to the word of God shall provoke the move of God.
One who hears and heeds the word of God shall see a miracle. 
Acts 8:5-8 records, “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.” 
Philip preached Christ (the Word of God), and many heard him heed to experience the move of God.
With obedience by hearing and heeding, seeing the miracle of the hand of God answers in the life of obedience.
Understanding the blessing of obeying the word of God also demands understanding the consequences of disobedience. 
In life, not hearing and hearing is taking the route of curses. 
The book of Deuteronomy 28:15 records, “But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
No one can deceive God.
James 1:22-23 admonishes, “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.” 
Know that sacrificial service to God is good. 
However, sacrificial service is not enough if hearing and doing the word of God is not a way of life before God.
Attend the word of God to know, “…to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)
Obedience is to believe and do what God says. 
The character of obedience will demonstrate having trust and hope in God.
To obey is like gaining access to the door of blessing as stated, “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God…” (Deuteronomy 28:2) 
One having trust and hope is like having the key to the opening door of blessing. 
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Obedience demands hearing to do the word of God. 
Philippians 4:9 records the importance of hearing and doing as obedience to God, “The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.” Are you obeying God to have the blessing of having the peace of God?
Do not take chances of disobedience.

Prayer for today: Ask that hearing and doing the word of God shall be your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: How responsible are you for the word of God? 

Daniel 1

A life of responsibility does have consequences.
Be responsible!
Responsibility is the price for greatness. 
To be responsible is a choice, not a force. 
One who chooses to be responsible in response to the word of God shall live potentially on the face of the earth. 
Jesus frequently and unswervingly communicated humility through His words and actions throughout His ministry on the face of the earth. 
Jesus demonstrated humility for all to learn.
Humility is a choice to be responsible. 
The word of God points out that with no humility, obeying the word of God becomes impossible. 
Philippians 2:8 buttressed, “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.” 
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, chose to be humbled and responded with obedience. 
Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient to be great for the glory of God.
How responsible are you for the word of God?
Daniel was responsible for the word of God to attain the price of greatness for the glory of God.
Daniel 1:8-9 documents about Daniel, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.”
Daniel lived responsible to gain the favor and goodwill of God before the chief of the eunuchs and throughout his day of captivity.
The responsibility way of Daniel was glaring as he avoided wickedness against the covenant. 
The book of Daniel 11:32 records, “Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery (sweet talk); but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” 
A wicked way of living life is possible to be rooted in irresponsibility.
Why not have the desire to live responsibly before God?
To be built by the word is a direct route to becoming responsible, which is the price of greatness. 
In life, commit to the word of God. 
Apostle Paul admonishes all, “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)
How responsible are you for the word of God? 
Jesus has paid the price. 
Are you doing your part for the price paid by Jesus?
Christianity does not have to be just a noise-maker or one quoting the word of God alone.
Christianity should live by the word with evidence of being responsible before God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live responsibly as a believer of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Following God is serving God and demands forsaking all. 

1Kings 19:11-21, Luke 5:1-11

Who do you follow in your life journey?
Know to follow God alone!
Answering the calling of God is following God.
Following God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God.
At a point in time, four fishermen forsook all and followed Jesus.
In life, to follow in serving God demands forsaking all. 
Elisha followed Elijah in his serving of God. 
The Bible records that Elisha answered the calling to serve when he wholeheartedly followed Elijah. 
Elisha broke with his old life by kissing his father bye and destroying the yoke of oxen, which was his livelihood. (1Kings19:19-21) 
What do you forsake to follow in serving God?  
Four professional fishermen at the right place and time failed to catch fish. 
The four fishermen could not give up until daybreak, yet they caught nothing. 
As they were washing nets to pack for the day with nothing to show for fishing, Jesus showed up, “Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.” (Luke 5:3) 
Despite no success in catching fish, their kindness was intact as they allowed the stranger to use their vessel without any refusal. 
After Jesus finished teaching the multitude, He turned to the fishermen and gave them His word, saying: “…Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)  
In response, professional fishermen lamented about toiling all night with nothing to show forth. 
Are you in any situation where disappointment denies turning to any word of change? 
Have you found yourself on a ground where you lack positive results in the endeavor? 
Listening to hear and see the word of God will often change to become positioned on the route to transformation. 
The fishermen responded to the word of God, to launch out into the deep and let down nets, and were able to catch several fish, “…and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” (Luke 5:6-8)
Is there any area of your life where you have been toiling? 
No matter how long you have been toiling with nothing to show off, God shall bring forth a breakthrough. 
However, listening and seeing God in His word is enough for transformation. 
The fishermen listened and heard the word that terminated their struggle. Give it all to Jesus, and He shall settle you.    

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to sound in your direction to come out of lack.

FAITH CAPSULE: Having God as a friend is not with any risk.  

Genesis 22

Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God. 
Are you one who feels lonely and does not have friends?
Why not give yourself to having God as your friend?
Having God as a friend is not with any risk.
Having God as a friend is possible but is a sacrifice living strictly by the word of God, not the way of the world.
The word of God testifies to God as a friend:
Exodus 33:11, “So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.”
John 15:14, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
John 15:15, “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant, does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
James 2:23, “And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.”
What do you want as a friend?
Today in the wicked world, having the world as a friend is like opening yourself to the activities of the world.
Are you a believer feeling lonely and prompted to have friends?
It is better to be lonely and not have flocks of friends.
Be lonely in your world, to be alone with God in His word.
One with God will mount up not to live a life of waste.
Having a flock of friends, the world, can be a foolish move.
Proverbs 9:6 encourages, “Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.”
With a desire to be a friend of God, ask to live by the command of God. 
John 15:14 states, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.”
Are you one who is willing to put aside all for the command of God over your life?
One who gives self for the command of God is righteous.
Abraham lived life and gave himself to doing the command of God. 
Genesis 12:1 and Genesis 22:2 records the command of God to Abram: “Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.”
Genesis 22:2, “Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Abraham obeyed God with all his heart.
Obedience to the command of God is the key to living life as a friend of God.
It is possible to live life as a friend of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let the word build you to answer to the calling of God.

Jeremiah 1 

Until one builds by the word of God, one cannot answer for divine assignment in life. 
Honestly, search for yourself to identify and know what is building you.
Honestly, search for yourself to identify and know what is building you.
The word of God is power and communicates power.
The power in the word of God will transform anyone who believes in the word of God. 
No one should not compromise the word of God. 
Compromising the word is despising the word.
Are you available to be built by Jesus?
Matthew 16:18 records, “… I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”  
A temple of God not built by His word will not be able to contain what He purposed for your life to carry for His glory. 
Will you allow Him to build you up for His glory? 
He will build His church, and nothing shall prevail against it. 
Do not prevent yourself from being built by the word of God.
In Acts 20:32, Paul admonishes all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified” 
Jesus, the word of God, is the One that builds and gives life abundantly. 
How can the word build you? 
Allow the word to gain to grow you.
Psalm 119:11, Thy word have I treasured in my heart that I May not sin against thee” 
Before Jeremiah could become what the Lord wanted him to be, he gave himself to the word of God that sounded in his direction to build him.
Jeremiah 1:5 records about Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” 
The same word that identified and called Jeremiah out informed him before he was born. 
The word of God caused him to begin to see from where he could not see. The word of God prepared him and positioned him into the center of his divine assignment. The Bible documents the word which built him into boldness: “Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,’ says the LORD.” (Jeremiah 1:8). 
The word guided Jeremiah to be bold, answering his divine assignment for his life. 
Just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel also encountered the word. “And He said to me, ‘Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.’ 
Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him who spoke to me.’” (Ezekiel 2:1-2) 
No one hears God indeed and doubts Him. 
Having doubt is the evidence for not being built by the word. 
Allow the word of God to build you.

Prayer for today: Ask to become built by His word for His glory.