FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have trust but not hope?

Numbers 13

During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel could not trust and hope to see in the word of God to take them to the Promised Land. 
They trusted God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but had no hope of arriving at the plans and promise of God.
At the entrance to Canaan, God asked Moses to send men to spy on Canaan. (Numbers 13)Moses sent out spies to the land of Canaan. 
The spies returned with a report stating: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, the report had no hope rooted in fear. Numbers 13:31-33 states, “But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 
The report of the spy was without trust and hope
Through the Bible, learn, know to trust, and have hope in God for His deliverance.
The lack of trust and hope prompted fear.
Except for Joshua and Caleb, the Israelites complained and confessed negatively before God.
God responded to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “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.”
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises when there is no full attention to the conditions to receive from Him. 
Give full attention to the word of God that provokes the blessing of God for those who trust in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. (Jeremiah 17:7)

Prayer for today: Ask to be trusting and to have hope in God.

FAITH CAPSULE: To walk worthy, living for God should be glaring.

Daniel 6

Are you living for God, walking worthily, but your world cannot see it in you?
Daniel is the evidence that lived a life of preparation by living for God.
Daniel experienced God and could not live a life of waste; he lived for God.
Daniel and his friends were exiles and captive servants rather than traditional domestic slaves.
They were forcibly taken from Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to serve the royal court.
Despite the challenges of life, Daniel lived a life, a kind of preparation to live for God; he walked worthily to gain the attention of God.
It was the desire for God that enabled Daniel to live for God.
WHAT DID DANIEL DO THAT DEMONSTRATED HE PREPARED TO LIVE FOR GOD BY HIS WAY OF LIFE?
Daniel 1:8 records of 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.” 
The record about Daniel is his way to prepare not to live outside of God.
Daniel did not defile himself, the evidence of giving regards to God.
A characteristic of one who gives regards to God is living for God, not becoming a victim of destruction.
Daniel focused on God. He did not defile himself before, but made it a way of living for God.
At one time, when Daniel was under judgment for serving his God.
In the midst of the sentence against him, he demonstrated as a believer of God prepared by way of living for God.
Daniel prepared for God, took time to call on God as a way of one who lives for God, not to be a victim of an untimely death.
Daniel 6:10 states, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
The life of Daniel is the preparation of one who lives life for God, seeking God diligently.
Living for God is seeking Him diligently.
Daniel lived for God and could not be a victim of the wicked world.
The Bible identifies the importance of the description of living for God, to walk worthy of His glory:
Daniel had a purposed heart to walk with God.
Daniel had a custom approach seeking God in prayer (three times a day) that is undeniable.
Living for God was glaring in the life of Daniel.
An unbelieving king identified that Daniel lived for God when the King testified that Daniel served God continually.
By the testimony about Daniel, living for God as a way of life, walking worthy before God, is possible for one who understands the will of God for all.

Prayer for today: Ask God to occupy your life so will live for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life for God will walk worthy to the glory of God.

Colossians 1

Anyone living for God walks worthy before God.
Pray that in the new month God shall enable you to live for God.
To live for God is walking worthy to God.
Are you living for God, walking worthy before God?
Walk worth, living for God.
With desire, backed with determination, ask that God in His mercy enable you to begin to walk worthy for His will be activated in you.
Know how to walk worthy before God.
The prayer of Paul the Apostle testifies to the importance of walking worthily before God.
Colossians 1:9-10 records, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
It is evident in the prayer of Paul the Apostle that to walk worthily demands having a ceaseless prayer.
Also, to be filled with the understanding and knowledge to walk worthy of the Lord.
HOW CAN ANYONE WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING KNOW WHY OR HOW TO LIVE FOR GOD
The word of God makes all know that God created all to EXIST (live) for Him.
Gain the understanding that all are to live (exist) for God.
Revelation 4:11 records to inform all, “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.”
The will of God for all is to exist for His glory, honour, and power.
Lack of understanding will not know and to live (exist) for God.
Are you living for God?
Without understanding, one will not live for God, to see God, to find God.
Living for God by walking worth is like being built, not to live a wasted life or become a victim of the wicked world.
Determination is not enough to walk worthy of God.
For example, Peter derailed from walking worth of God.
When Jesus mentioned to him that he would deny Him he strogly decline that he will not deny Jesus.
Jesus prayed for him that he will not fail.
Peter deny Jesus but the prayer uphold him and was able to gain from the prayer of Jesus.
Peter was restored to live for God as the prayer answered for him.
Pray that the strength of God answers in your praying before Him, so that your prayers shall not cease.
Ask that God fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual.
Ask God to enable you to walk worthily of Him.
Ask God for the understanding to live for God.
Ask that you live with the fear of God, giving regard to God.
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.

Prayer for today: Ask that it be your way of life, to give regards to God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not become a victim of the enticement of the devil. 

Luke 4

To see in the word of God will prompt understanding to know God.
To know God is not to know about God.
All should strive to gain understanding.
Without understanding, one cannot gain knowledge to live for God.
There is a need to understand, to know, and to avoid living a life of sin before God.
Understand and know that with sin, no one can see God.
Romans 3:23 warns about the devastation of sin, stating, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
One short of the glory of God is the evidence of one who is far from God and is set for destruction.
Understand and know how to see in the word of God, not to become a victim of sin that gains entrance into one.
Without seeing in the word of God, enticement will lead to sin.
The enemy of all is the master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.
Jesus experienced the enticement by sin, by Satan, and could not become a failure just as Eve did.
Luke 4:1-4 documents the failure of the devil in his enticement of Jesus: “Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”  
The enticement of the devil could not trap Jesus.
Focusing on every word of God is a key to avoiding sin before God.
Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced enticement of the enemy, no man is above cunning devil with enticement activity to lure man into sin.
King David, a man after the heart of God, could not escape but fell for sin.
Samson was blessed with strength by God, but could not avoid sin in his life.
Samson was a miracle child, born with special instructions from God, but this was not an excuse to escape the device of enticement. 
The Bible documents in Judges 13:5, “For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” 
Samson ended up his life blinded because he could not see the instruction of God to deliver him. 
As strong as Samson was, he became a victim of the enticement of the enemy when he failed to obey according to the Word of God. 

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not become a victim of evil devices.