FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.

Numbers 14

Complaints of the Israelites set them on a painful journey that denied the promise of God over their life.
Numbers 14:1-4 records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”  
In all their complaint, the negative confession when they reacted to discouraging reports of the spies on the Promised Land caused them not to arrive at the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining about negative confession?
Any complaint will rebel before God.
Complaints and rebellion became the character of the Israelites before God.
As a believer, avoiding complaining before God is rooted in trusting and hoping in God. 
One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 informs, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is evidence of having hope in God.
Do you have faith to wait on God without complaint and not become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoid complaints before God is the discipline to wait for God that acts for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 encourages all, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
A failure to wait on God will complain and become rebellious.
Pharaoh and his chariot could not stop Israelites from coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
The Red Sea failed to deny them to the Promised Land, while the Jericho wall could stop the advance journey to the Promised Land, but the negative complaint and confession stopped the Israelites from getting to the Promised Land.
Numbers 14:28 records the response of God to the complaint of the Israelites: “Say to them, ‘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.” 
Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.
God hears all at all times. 
Stop complaining!

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not be a vessel of complaining before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Is your building in agreement or disagreement?

Acts 12:1-19

The agreement is an act of agreeing; it is a state of being in accord. 
It is accord, compromise, compatibility, consistency, complying, and reconciliation. 
Where the agreement exists, disagreement, dissent, disharmony, discord, disunity, dissimilarity, and divorce do not exist. 
Are you in the fellowship of two, three, or many with the character of agreement or disagreement? 
The roots of disagreement are lying, deception or manipulation. 
The Christian body is not with exemption from having agreement or disagreement. 
Is your fellowship in agreement with the word of God?
Is your fellowship rooted in the direction of God?
Is your fellowship building up like a Tower of Babel? 
When the people began to build the Tower of Babel, there was no agreement rooted in God. 
Building outside the command of the Creator of all is uncompromising, a disagreement with the only Creator. 
At the onset of building the Tower of Babel, the people state, “…Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) 
The people disagree with the word of God by building babel, not agreeing with their Creator. 
God responds to the construction by the people, “…Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” (Genesis 11:6)
What is driving your fellowship to build up before God?
Is your building in agreement or disagreement?
Not counting on God in your fellowship is either engagement or disagreement to build or bring down a gathering fellowship.
Know that there is power in agreement when God is the center of your fellowship.
Jesus testifies to the power of fellowshipping, “…if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19-20) 
The power of agreement is in coming together for the glory of God, not for self-glorification. 
In the name of Jesus, coming together in agreement is the manifestation of power. 
Once, Peter was facing death when the agreement of the fellowship answered for his deliverance.
There was no way out for Peter to escape the hand of Herod. 
The Bible records, “And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.”(Acts 12:6)  
He had deliverance when “…prayer was offered to God for him by the church.” (Acts 12:5) 
The coming together of the church in agreement delivered Peter from an untimely death in the hand of King Herod. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from religion and place you into the reality of Christ.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire, not just determination, to seek God.

Matthew 6

One with the desire to seek God diligently will gain and retain the presence of God.
Let prayer, not just determination but desire that will back one to seek God diligently.
In this wicked world, come out of religion, and give yourself to a commitment to God. 
Commitment to God is seeking God diligently.
How are you seeking God?
What is the purpose of your need to seek God? 
Seek God diligently seeking God is to seek Him first. 
Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Seeking God is the testimony of those who love God.
Proverbs 8:17 confirms, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”
Seek God diligently to be rewarded by God.
Hebrews 11:6 records, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is seeking God diligently to find God as Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God. 
Living life for God will follow the word of God right.
Seeking God being righteous as Isaiah 51:1 states, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” 
Today, give yourself to the word of God, listen consistently, and gain the wisdom and knowledge not to become a victim.  
Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.” 
Seek God diligently, serving God. 
Serving God is following God with no hidden agenda because God knows all. 
The word of God demands and declares what it means to follow God in John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” 
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. 
Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently, to find Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. 
Above all, one that follows God cannot fall into darkness as declared by the word of God that is true. 
John 8:12 confirms, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him.
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of the servant of the Lord.
Serve God by living life for God to gain His promises and not be a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to establish you in serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God to trust and hope in Him.

Psalm 115, Ecclesiastes 12

One that trusts and hope in God shall gain the blessing of God.
Search yourself to know if you truly trust and hope in God.
To trust and hope in God is not of the mouth but rooted in the heart. 
Trust with hope demonstrates by waiting on God without doubt or faltering before God for the manifestation of expectation.
Trust will draw one to call on God by joining a fellowship.
However, when gaining expectation is delayed, confessing negative instead of positive is the testimony of not having hope in God and not being blessed by God.
Jeremiah 17:7 testifies, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Trust and hope in God always, not quoting the word but not demonstrating trust and hope.
Are you one with the trust to ask from God but with no hope to wait and gain expectation?
God is not deceivable by being religious but give yourself to the reality of Christ as the way of life.
To trust and hope in God is a must for one to excel for the glory of God.
To excel for the glory of God is the evidence of one that FEARS God unfailingly by the ways of living life.
Do you fear God to trust and hope in Him?
One that does not fear God does not trust God.
Psalm 115:11 informs all, “You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.”
Without a doubt, fear God to be set in having to trust God.
To trust and hope in God makes it a complete way of life to provoke the blessing of God.
To trust and hope in God is the evidence of one with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.
Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are rooted in one that fears God.
Bible testifies:
Psalm 11:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.”
Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.” 
Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
Proverbs 15:33, “The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility.”
Do you fear God or know to fear God to gain and retain God, claiming the promises of God?
The word of God is complete to completely live life, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Knowing to give self to hearing and hearing the word of God is the only source to fear God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 points out, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”
One cannot fear God to trust and hope in Him.
Fear God, the evidence of having faith in Him.
With desire, prayerfully get to become a believer of the word of God that seek God with trust and hope.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to be seeking God with trust and hope in Him.