FAITH CAPSULE: Feed on the word of God to grow in the things of God.

John 15

The same word that brought forth creation is still the same that builds up those who receive, believe, and abide in the word of God. 
The word of God is Spirit that gives life. 
John 6:63, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.” 
It is worth remembering that the same word that created everything is there to give more than one can imagine. 
One can know and memorize the word.
One can also know and memorize and meditate. 
One that does not know to memorize and meditate is empty and activates power in the word of God. 
Meditation will cause one to observe and do according to what the word of God requires one to do.
Meditation is communicating with God.
In relating with God, there is no substitute.
The word of God is power, and it can never deny itself nor fail, but one can fail by not abiding by the word of God.
The work (creation) of God is in the word of God. (John 1) 
The disciples once asked Jesus, “…What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” (John 6:28) 
Jesus responded, “…This is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (John 6:29)
Again, being believed in the word of God cannot be compromised if one desires to become built by the word of God. 
Just as there is no substitute for food to eat and grow physically, there is no substitute for the word to grow spiritually. 
Jeremiah confirmed that the word is food when he testified, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your word was to me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart…” (Jeremiah 15: 16)
As a believer, how often do you feed on the word of God? 
In life, feeding on the word of God on Sunday alone shall amount to nothing. 
What is it that you are giving your ear? 
Bible admonishes, “Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.” (Jeremiah 13:15) 
Whatever man gives ear to will build man up. 
Also, what one receives will become such. 
God testifies Job as a man that there is none like him on earth, a blameless and upright man, and one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 1:8) Despite the stand of Job before God, he testifies of himself, “I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 41:5) Job points out that the hearing of the word should be the greatest priority and to live life with testimonies that God moves by His word.   

Prayer for today: Ask for the ear that hears the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is always looking for loyal ones.

2 Chronicles 14, 15, 16

Jealously will give respond to attention unfailingly.
God is a God of jealousy.
Exodus 20:5 records the word of God, “…for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.”
An antidote for jealousy is attention.
One with loyalty to the things of God is giving attention to God.
Where is your loyalty to the only One, the only perfect Creator?
Are you rendering your loyalty to the One and only Creator or your possessions?
Power belongs to the One and only Creator. 
Revelation 7:12 states, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and power, and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”
Are you loyal to your Creator? 
Are you faithful or faithless before God?
Every walk is before the One and only Creator, the eternal God.
One can deceive the world, but God cannot.
How is your walk, your testimony of loyalty to God?
Are you loyal to God?
One loyal to God is full of the word of God and is fearful of God.
King Asa of Judah was full of God (faithful and fearful of God) 
Asa was identified for his loyalty to God and did what was right in the eyes of God. 
Bible documents of Asa, “Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God, for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.  
He commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.  
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.” (2 Chronicles 14:1-5) 
Asa sought God and was right before God.
God backed Asa up with His eyes in all areas of his life. 
Later in life, king Asa turned away from God and was identified as disloyal. The turning of Asa away from God made God withdraw His eyes from Asa.
Walking with steadfastness before God is the evidence of faith, the testimony of loyalty to God. 
The eyes of God are always on the loyal ones.
When Asa was loyal to God, the eyes of God were on him.
Psalm 34:15 and 1 Peter 3:12 mentions, “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.”
It is important to note that, just as His eyes are on those who are right before Him, it is against those who are wrong before Him. 
Psalm 34:16, “The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.”
God is always looking for loyal ones.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your walk in loyal to His glory in all your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let the peace of God be your portion.

Exodus 33

In this wicked world, the only way to gain and retain the presence of God is to walk in His way.
The presence of God is His word, His peace that does not fail for one that gives self to His word.
Prayerfully, Moses answered the calling of God in his leading of the Israelites, “…I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” (Exodus 33:13)
God responds to the prayer of Moses, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14)
In the way of God is His presence.
The presence of God inhabits the rest of God.
The character of the rest of God is the peace of God.
In this challenging world of wickedness, a determination is not enough to gain and retain the peace of God.
One that gives self to prayer and the word of God will gain and retain the peace of God.
In the pages of the Bible, some pointers lead to learning in the way of God to gain and retain the peace of God.
Romans 15:4 encourages all, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
Among the documentation of the word to learn, gain and retain the peace of God are:
KNOW THE TRUTH TO GAIN AND RETAIN THE PEACE OF GOD
John 8:31-32 records, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  
The word of God is truth. 
Do you know God or know about God? 
Knowing about is not the same as knowing the truth. 
Knowing the truth builds a believer not to be a liar, deceiver, or manipulator and not run in the place to walk, the evidence of having the peace of God.
Know the truth to fear God and turn to live free for God. 
Dwell, abide in the truth with the character of one with the peace of God.
DISOBEYING GOD WILL TERMINATE A GLORIOUS DESTINY IN LIFE
One with peace of God will not have a reason to disobey God directly or indirectly. 
King Saul repeatedly violated the direction of God in place for his glorious destiny. 
God sent Samuel to Saul to attack and utterly destroy the Amalekites. 
Saul was unwilling but disobeyed God, an act of snubbing God.
King Saul disobeyed God, and he became substituted from the plan of God for his life. (1 Samuel 15) 
Pride and inability to wait on God are the company of iniquity before God, evidence of disobeying God to provoke God to be substituted in the assignment of God. 
Do not give way to disobedience but let the peace of God occupy you. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the peace of God gain and reign your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let prayer be your way continually.

Psalm 140-143

The grace and mercy of God brought you into a new day, week, and month.
Ask God to remember you for His goodness.
God remembered the Israelites in their bondage of over four hundred years to grant them deliverance.
Exodus 2:23-25 records, ” Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
PRAYER
Ask that whatever in your PAST that will not let your PRESENT become established, living life for the glory of God, shall be permanently separated or terminated.
Ask that every loud or silent cry you are rendering before God should gain the attention of God for His divine intervention for you to sing a new song for His glory.
Ask God that God will give His ear to your prayer to remember you with the favor He has toward His people and visit you with His salvation.
Ask God to look upon you and acknowledge you as He acknowledges the Israelites in bondage.
Isaiah 43:26, God said, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”
God is His word that does not return without performance.
God remembered Noah, and the water of trouble subsided.
Genesis 8:1 states, “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.”
PRAYER
Ask that every trouble, as in the trouble water of Noah, having a place in your life, shall subside and not rise again in the name of Jesus.
God remembered Rachel to open her womb. 
Genesis 30:22 records, “Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.”
PRAYER
Ask that every delay or way yet to open shall begin to OPEN for you, to the glory of God over your life.
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF GOD
In your new day, new week, and new month pray for the peace of God.
This month, the Peace of God shall be established in you and continually be activated.
The characters of one with the peace of God are:
To trust and hope in God is with a mind that stays on God, to gain the peace of God.
Isaiah 26:3 confirms, “The peace of God is for those whose minds stay on Him.”
To love the word of God is with the peace of God and not stumble in an unstable world.
Psalm 119:165 records, “Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble.”

Prayer for today: The peace of God that surpasses all understanding shall become your portion. (Philippians 4:7)