FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to a warning and not become a victim of the world. 

2 Samuel 11

Doing right wrongly will not receive an answer that is right as the answer.
With no exception, Colossians 1:28 sounded a warning to every man, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” 
Are you one that is taking to the word of God as a warning? 
The word of God is a warning for all to gain understanding and be free not to become a victim of the wickedness of this world.  
In the line of warning, 2 Timothy 2:1-4 states, “You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” 
Are you an acclaimed soldier of Jesus Christ? 
Regardless of title among believers, there is no one with exception from the warning in the word of God.
A good soldier of Jesus Christ carries a mark to be identified by the enemy of God.
A soldier of Jesus Christ should take a careless stand to becoming a victim of the enemy.
Taking a careless stand is letting down guard as a soldier of God. 
Letting down a guard will invite the enemy to bring the war to the soldier front. 
King David, a soldier for God and a leader, lowered his guard for the enemy to strike against him. 
All the victories in the life of King David could not uphold him against an enemy with adultery in front of David.
King David lost the battle against adultery.  
2 Samuel 11:1 records, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.” 
King David was at the right place at the wrong time.
As a prime target of the enemy, there is no room for mistakes that are life-consuming. 
As a believer, you cannot afford to be at the right place at the wrong time.  
The warning word of God is for learning (Romans 15:4) 
Attention to the warning word of God is to identify healing and deliverance from the vices of wickedness under the heaven.
Apostle Paul speaks to all, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10-11) 
Give self to a warning and not become a victim of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask that you increase giving attention to the word of God.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Know God to have a stand before God.

1 Kings 18

For one that knows God, there is nothing wrong with asking for His hand against all agents of confusion, delay, and hindrances militating against your life to become seized just as the prophets of Baal. 
Pray that today, they shall not escape the hand that will seize them, to bring them down just like the prophets of Baal, at the Brook of Kishon. 
Those agents that do not represent God in your life need to become permanently and eternally terminated so they will no longer work against your life. 
Do not spare them, go against them with your weapon (the word of God), invade them, raid them, disable them, unmake them; do not spare them. 
Pray a standing prayer, allow God to work on your behalf, and victory is yours in the name of Jesus.
From this moment, meditate and imagine the occurrence on Mount Carmel, and Brook Kishon shall answer for all that works against your life.
On Mount Carmel, Elijah engaged four hundred and fifty false prophets of Baal in a powerful demonstration. 
In that encounter, Elijah asked the false prophets to call for their god to show power. 
The god of the false prophets failed with no power demonstration of their god. 
When all attempts to call on Baal was exhausted, Elijah placed a call on the God of gods, the only God that answers by fire. 
Without any delay, God answered Elijah, and a consuming fire fell. 
When God showed at the calling of Elijah, Ahab and his entourage saw the move of God in power demonstration. 
1 Kings 18:39 records, “Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”’  
Just like the people on Mount Carmel saw the move of God, and declared, “The Lord is God” have you seen any God that is God?
The God of Elijah and the prophets of Baal are not comparable.
God of Elijah is the Lord God, and there is none to worship but Him. 
Know Him to call on Him just like Elijah.
Victory on Mount Carmel extended to Brook Kishon, and so shall it be for ones that know God. 
Elijah declared an open war against the prophets of Baal. 
1 Kings 18:40, “And Elijah said to them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!’ So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there.”
One that knows God should have a stand before God. 
What is your stand before God that will count before God? 
Have you accepted Him as your only God, the Lord of lords, the eternal Creator, the One that was, that Is, and that will always be? 
Knowing God is not knowing about God.
To know God is the reason for expectation from God that manifests.

Prayer for today: Ask to know God more dearly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Will you do these three to experience the blessing of God?

Psalm 1

Three doings that are certain to position one for the blessing of God are Your walk, your sitting position, and your stand before God.
The identified three doings will demonstrate the faith of one as a believer of God. 
In life, the walk, sit or stand one is engaged shall be identified with such before God.
The walk, sit or stand testifies to the belief of one.
As an acclaimed believer, where one is walking, sitting, or standing will reflect the presence of God.
As an acclaimed believer of God, walking with, sitting together, or standing for shall reflect the fear of God.
Also, as an acclaimed believer, one must be taking to the side of God, living life by the command of God. 
The guidance in the word of God should not be a place for missing outside of God. 
The word of God is perfect to perform the promise of God. “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1) 
A believer seeking counsel from an unbeliever is evidence of taking the wrong path.
The way to redirect the walk before God is to look into the word of God like a mirror.
Meditating on the word of God is like looking in the mirror.
There is delight in the law when meditating on the word of God. (Psalm 1:2) 
Life is a journey, and who you surround yourself with will determine what you get out of life. 
Who or what surrounds you not to be a victim of failure not to arrive at the expected end?
Meditate on the word of God and continue to keep your walk, your sit, or stand in the word of God to arrive at the expected end-of-life journey.
Whose word do you believe? 
Do you believe in the word of God or the world? 
The word of God is a sure counsel that leads walking, sitting, or standing for the glory of God. 
When the counsel of God(meditate on the word of God day and night) begins to cause delight in the life of one that meditates the word of God, such shall not become a waste.
Meditating on the word of God is the right track, not walking, sitting, or standing outside of the ways of God.
Think of it: Man is like a vehicle, and meditating on the word of God day and night can be compared to steering. 
Without steering, stagnation is certain.
With transportation becoming terminated.
Where there is no transportation, the transformation will cease. 
Be encouraged to be blessed by walking, sitting, and standing in the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for that you shall live life by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the word of God as a sacrifice.

Numbers 32

The word of God is consistent for deliverance when it is constantly engaged. 
Joshua is evidence of giving self to the word of God, meditating to experience God in His word. 
After Moses, God commanded Joshua, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)
The word of God points out to Joshua the importance of meditating on the word as the way for Joshua to be successful in his divine assignment. With constant meditation on the word of God, the life of such shall become one with the spirit of faith.
The life of Joshua testifies to experiencing the presence of God by meditating on the word of God.
Paul, the apostle, also bolstered the importance of engaging the word of God in 1 Timothy 4:15, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.” 
It is worth meditating on the word of God.
Meditation is a labor that requires spending day and night giving oneself to the word as a sacrifice. 
Meditation is labor, and labor is a sacrifice. 
A believer that constantly meditates on the word of God day and night shall experience the blessings of meditation.
Meditating on the word of God will make one wholly follow God. 
To wholly follow God is the character of one to be prosperous with success working the works of God. 
To wholly follow is bound to arrive at the promise of God.
Joshua could not fail but arrived at the promise of God. 
Numbers32:11-12 record, “Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’” 
To wholly follow God, the evidence of having a spirit of faith is the testimony of the life of Caleb and Joshua. 
Does it occur to you the importance of constant meditation over the word of God?
Give yourself to the word of God. 
2Timothy 3:16 encourages, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” 
As it was profitable to the men of God in the Bible days, so it is to one with the choice of meditating on the word of God constantly.
Joshua meditates on the word of God.
Paul encourages giving self to meditating on the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the strength of meditating the word of God day and night.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Focus on God for the wisdom to fight your battle.

Judges 7

Jerubbaal (Gideon) was set for war against the Midianites when God spoke to him, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claims glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’” And twenty-two thousands of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.” (Judges 7:1-3) 
In the physical, there is a need to gain strength in numbers to emerge victorious in battle. 
However, the instruction of God to Jerubbaal was to reduce the number of his army. 
Jerubbaal gave himself to the instruction of God, and the number was reduced to more than half, from twenty-two thousand to ten thousand.  
God is a battle warrior and does not share His glory with anyone. 
He called on Jerubbaal after he had cut down the number of his army and said: “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there…” (Judges 7:4) 
Imagine Jerubbaal communicating with friends about how God has been reducing the number. Without a doubt, friends would have wondered and even considered Jerubbaal foolish, spiritually insane, overzealous, and unrealistic. 
Jerubbaal led the people to the water as directed by God to have the number reduced again. 
At the water, God spoke again, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise, everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.” (Judges 7: 5-6). 
In going against the Midianites, one considers assigning men that lapped from water over ones that got on their knees to drink water would have been considered foolish. 
No matter how foolish the direction of God sounds, His preference should always prevail over the best reference of this world.
The number against the Midianites was three hundred men from thirty-two thousand; this is foolishness by human reasoning. 
To man, it is suicidal to go to war after ending up with such a small number. 
Thirty thousand seems to be the right way and not the foolish way. Always remember the word of Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
Jerubbaal did not take the path outside the direction of God but obeyed God without complaint or doubt.
Jerubbaal went with three hundred. 
Are you fighting a battle yet looking for human wisdom to sustain you? 
It does not matter how tough the challenges present, but focusing on God is enough to be victorious.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life in obedience to the direction of God.