FAITH CAPSULE: Understanding and prayer will enable one to fear God.

Jeremiah 32

Anyone who does not live in the fear of God is evidence of a lack of faith, living not to please God.
Hebrews 11:5 testifies, “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death because he pleased God.”
When faith rises, fear of this world is bound to sink.
Do you have faith in pleasing God or living in the fear of the world?
Search yourself to identify if you truly fear God.
Gain the understanding to live by the fear of God.
Many who claim to fear God often exhibit a character marked by telling lies to deceive and manipulate their world.
A believer who claims to fear God, full of the word of God in the mouth but not in the heart, is described as wicked. (Jeremiah 12:1-2)  
Understand with the knowledge to have an edge, fearing God.
Among the ways to gain and grow in the fear of God are: to learn to understand the word of God and to pray that God enable one to fear Him.
BY UNDERSTANDING LEARN.
Having an understanding of learning through hearing the word of God will enable one to fear God.
Deuteronomy 4:10, God said to the Israelites, “I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me…”
Understanding is crucial to fear and live for God.
Jesus, rhetorically, questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
Strive for understanding to fear God all the days He has given you to live.
BY PRAYING BECOME ONE WITH FEAR
With desire, not just determination, pray before God to do what it takes to fear Him.
God answers prayer.
Ask God who gives.
Matthew 7:7 states, God promised, will give, stating, “Ask, and it will be given to you…”
Jeremiah 32:39 records, “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever…”
Ask to be given what it takes to fear God.
One who asks God to fear Him will receive a life that pleases God.
With the desire to fear God, God enables you to increase, living in faith, not in fear of this world. (When faith rises, fear sinks.
Ask for understanding through hearing the word of God, and that you fear God, and become established in His life.
PRAYING FOR UNDERSTANDING IS PRAYING TO KNOW THE FEAR OF GOD.
Hosea 4:6 informs, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
Whatever one lacks, one does not have.
Having knowledge is rooted in having understanding, the key to existing for God (to live in fear of God).
One must walk in understanding to exist for God, to fear God.
Prayer for today: Ask that God give you one heart and one way, that you fear Him forever.

FAITH CAPSULE: The present time is evidence that God is moving you forward.

Psalm 118, Luke 17:11-19

The last moment is in the past.
Last year, last month, and last week are in the past.
The current time is the present.
Coming through the past into the present time is a privilege bestowed by God for you, but not a right for you to boast of knowing how to live life.
To be alive from last month to the present month, from yesterday until today, the present time is evidence that God is moving you forward.
One who does not acknowledge that God is moving one forward is taking the position of an ingrate before God.
An ingrate fails to demonstrate an act of gratitude before God.
The grace of seeing a new day demands turning before God.
It is the grace of God that has brought you this far.
Today, give thanks to God, but do not think that thanks that does not demonstrate a grateful heart before God.
All should always return to thank Him.
Once, Jesus healed ten lepers, but only one returned to Jesus with a grateful heart to give thanks.
Jesus responded to the one with thanksgiving as stated: “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:15-19)
Revisiting God continually with a grateful heart of thanksgiving for yesterday will perfect your today.
Have you been living more comfortably in the past months than in the present month? 
Focus on God, giving God regard, will gain a way where there is no way. Today, let yesterday remain in the past.
It is essential to understand that there is no permanent condition; God can reverse even the most irreversible for all.
Give glory to God for your life today.
In all, the only thing which God cannot do is: GOD CANNOT FAIL.
Know, understand by remembering that your life today is not because of your merit but because of His mercy. Psalm 117:1-2 admonished, “Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! For His merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the LORD endures forever.” The mercy of God was in place for Lot and his family for their deliverance from destruction.
The wife of Lot looked back because she failed to look forward.
Focus on looking forward.
Set your sight on God, who has brought you from the past to the present and the future.

Prayer for today: Ask by giving thanks to God for yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

FAITH CAPSULE: In this new season, pray to grow more in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 5

Waiting on God will know how to live a life of the fear of God.
To fear God from the depth of the heart, not on the tip of the tongue, shall live to the glory of God.
Knowing to fear God is to live for God.
Power belongs to God.
The mercy of God is His power that no one can deny.
The Mercy of God is compassion or forbearance for whomever He has to give and those who fear Him.
Psalm 33:18 records: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” 
With the desire to fear God, have trust and hope in Him, to mark one not to be a victim of evil.
Pray that the fear of God will keep you under His eyes, and from this moment, answer as your time to fear God more.
Understand and know to fear God.
Abraham understood to fear God.
God promised Abraham that He would give him a son.
In his waiting for the promise of God for his son, he learn and understood to fear God.
When he had a son, God commanded him to sacrifice the son to Him.
By the action of Abraham, in response to the command of God, it counted before God as his fear of God.
Genesis 22:12 records the response of God to the unshaking obedience of Abraham, stating, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham learnt to fear God.
Is the fear of God your way of life?
This season, pray to grow in the fear of God.
No one is born with a fear of God, but through learning from the Word of God, it is the way to develop a fear of God.
The bible repeatedly identifies learning to fear God.
Besides learning to fear God, it is praying before God, for a heart to fear Him.
With the desire to fear God, God will deposit what it takes to fear Him.
Are you one with the desire to fear God?
Without fear of God, one cannot serve God.
The word of God that sounds to one, speaks to all.
In Deuteronomy 4:10, God said to the Israelites, “I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
To learn to fear God also requires a heart that is set on God to fear God.
Deuteronomy 5:29 informs all, “Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments…”
Determination is not enough to live by the fear of God.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him.
God wants all to fear Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to grow and live in the fear of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God without patience can be a waste of time.

Engaging patience can be painful, but it is beneficial in all its applications.
In an attempt to find God, when patience is applied, one will gain from God.
Wait on God with patience to gain His attention.
It is never too late to apply patience, waiting on God for the manifestation of expectation.
David, who was after the heart of God, testifies to the importance of waiting on God with patience.
Psalm 40:1 records, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.”
God answered David while he waited on God.
Are you waiting patiently for so long with nothing to show for what you expected?
In waiting patiently, let there be character rooted in faith, as strength to remain waiting for God.
Psalm 37:7 records kinds of character rooted in faith, “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.”
When waiting patiently, exercise more faith to rest in the Lord with no fear of failure.
God is a good God and will not look away from faith exercised.
The consequence of waiting patiently for God will provoke a response from God.
However, with fear in place while waiting on God, failure is inevitable.
King Saul could not wait patiently for God when Samuel told him to wait for the appointed time for the sacrificial offering before the war against the Philistines. I Samuel 13:9-10 records: “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him. So Saul said, ‘Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.’ And he offered the burnt offering. Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came…”
With no patient to wait, King Saul violated the word of God to wait.
Obedience is rooted in faith.
One who exercises obedience will faithfully seek God for His visitation.
To have faith in God is a character with hope, who obeys God to please God.
The Bible describes faith as, “…the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
Do you believe in God?
Abraham lived a life of obedience because he believed in God.
Hebrews 11: 8-10 stated: “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”  With faith, Abraham had faith to wait on the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait on Him in the journey of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Gain understanding of the Word of God.

Psalm 34

To understand the Word of God is to live life for God, not to live a life of waste.
Understanding will enable one to have a knowing edge, not fall where the world falls.
Get to know that the Word of God is God. 
John 1:1 confirms that the Word of God is God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
Understand God in His Word.
Indeed, one with no understanding of the Word of God cannot observe to see God in His Word to fear God, to live life in obedience to God.
The evidence of the lack of understanding of God is that they do not hear the Word of God.
John 8:47, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” 
Search yourself to know if you are of God.
Do you understand God to seek Him?
Psalmist buttresses: “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3)
To fear God is rooted in studying Him to understand and know His Word, the key to all that matters in living life.
One with understanding, knowledge, and wisdom should have a place in one who lives for God.
Firstly, “…But knowledge is easy to him who understands.” (Proverbs 14:6) One with the understanding of God will always have a knowing edge over challenges, and a peace that surpasses all understanding becomes the identity.
Secondly, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding…” (Proverbs 14:33) 
Wisdom is the instruction of God.
1Corinthians 1:30 states, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” 
The wisdom of God in the heart of such is Jesus in the life of such. Meditate on the Word of God day and night to remain in the presence of God.
David had his heart for God, and that qualifies him to teach the fear of God. Psalm 34:11 records “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.”
David knows what it is to have an ear to hear and fear God, which kept him in his challenges.
DO YOU FEAR GOD?
Psalm 34:13-14 identifies four points in one who fears God: 
1. Keep your tongue from evil,
2. Keep your lips from speaking deceit, 
3. Depart from evil and do good,
4. Seek peace and pursue it. 
In this wicked world, one should meditate on what it means to fear God. In the journey of life, Abraham served God because he feared God. Hebrews 11:8 testifies, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.”
Just like Abraham, fear God, give yourself to obey His Word, and strive to retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that listening to gain the understanding to seek God becomes your portion.