FAITH CAPSULE: The truth of God is the way of God for all without exception.

Revelation 22

It is good to know the truth engaging the truth at all times.
Give self to the truth as a way of life, knowing that truth is hardly acceptable.
In this wicked world of lies, the disciples telling lies are so far from God, not living by the truth of God.
Truth is easy to ignore and not popular its way is narrow but not on the broad lane that the majority takes to in the life journey.
The world hangs on deception and manipulation.
In life, not knowing the truth is the same as twisting the truth.
The Bible records: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
Some believers are not free because they do not know or only know about the truth.
Do you know the truth, or do you know about it?
Truth is the way to live life for arrival to the divine assignment of God.
John 14:6 records, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 
The truth of God is the way of God for all without exception.
The truth of God is not friendly in the world of wickedness.
The truth of God does not accommodate the world of lies.
The truth of God is not friendly where telling lies is suitable.
The truth of God is not comfortable where complications and confusion exist.
The truth of God is threatening.
When the truth is steady to expose lies, it will be mistaken for being slow by the world of deception. 
Truth is not for twisting, not accommodating lies to be added or subtracted by the wicked world of evil.
By your word or by your action, are you adding or taking away from the word of God?
Revelation 22:18-19 warns, “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God is telling lies in the place of telling the truth. 
Twisting is evil that should not be part of the way of life in one. 
Deuteronomy 19:19 buttress, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.” 
Acclaimed believers and unbelievers of the word of God are conversant to twist the truth of God, to DECEIVE, to STEAL, to MANIPULATE, to BEAR FALSE WITNESS, and to DEMONSTRATE INCONSISTENCY walking with God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life by the truth of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Focusing on God is enough to gain needs.

Exodus 16

Full attention before God is trust and hope to receive fully from God.
Trust and hope in God is complete to arrive at the plans and promises of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  
Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. Trusting God and having hope will rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites repeatedly demonstrate trust in God but with no hope in God. 
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope for God to meet their needs.
Like the Israelites, are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1).
Philippians 4:19 reminds all, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 
Get to know and understand that it is not always about what you want but gaining needs from God.
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping for God to meet their needs. (Numbers 11:5)
The wants of the Israelites were overriding the provision of their needs for the journey. 
For the Israelites, without trust and hope in God resulted in a complaint. 
Are you focusing on what you want more than how the need has never ceased?
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny all to receive the promise and plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a conversant complainer before God, with no character of complimenting God on every breath of God-given?
The Israelites craved a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. 
God had a plan to meet the need of the Israelites, not their wants,
Exodus 16:16 records, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  
In the direction of God, there was enough to meet the needs of the Israelites.
However, some went above and beyond the word of God to take more than the need. 
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The children of Israel lost as they desired for wants, and they could not recognize the needs provided by God. 
Trusting and hoping in God is enough to gain needs. 
Be patient, look up to God, and know that the provision of God is always on time to meet needs. 
Paul confirms, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to trust and hope to wait on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: To experience the miracle of God, know to PUT OUT the hindrance before you.

Luke 19:1-9, Acts 9:36-43

Multitude/crowd can hinder the miracle of seeing God in the life journey.
Zacchaeus was a tax collector. 
He was short, a stature that was his physical limitation to deny him from inviting Jesus into his home. 
Zacchaeus had the desire to see Jesus.
Zacchaeus ran ahead of the crowd because he wanted to see Jesus. 
He wanted to know Jesus, to see Jesus, because to see is to receive Jesus into his house. 
Zacchaeus decided to run and climb a tree to see and receive Jesus. 
What are your efforts to see, to receive Jesus? 
Your recognition by your pastor, attending church once a week, or sleeping in the church is not enough to overcome the multitude/crowd in the world of today and see Jesus. 
Luke 19:4-6 records the effort of Zacchaeus to deny the multitude from denying him not to see and receive Jesus into his house, “So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.” 
Like Zacchaeus, do not walk but run where you need to go ahead of hindrances that deny seeing and receiving the Lord.
Despite the effort of Zacchaeus to see and receive Jesus, the multitude complained against him to deny Jesus, not to see him criticizing Jesus, saying, “…He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” (Luke 19:7)
Imagine Zacchaeus, a man of short stature, climbing a tree to see and receive Jesus into his house.
What is holding you from seeking God to see and receive Jesus into your life?
The excuse is not excusable not to seek, see and receive Jesus. 
The multitude (crowd) failed to hinder Zacchaeus from seeing and receiving Jesus into his life.
The word of God points out what it takes to put out a multitude: 
PUT OUT THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MULTITUDE/CROWD.
Jesus put out the crowd when He wanted to restore the life of the daughter of Jairus. 
Matthew 9:25 records, “But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.”  
Peter also “PUT-OUT’ the crowd not to deny the miracle of Dorcas.
Acts 9:40 records, “But Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.” 
Study to learn in the word of God to know that putting out the multitude/crowd representing hindrance in life provokes the miracle of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to put out the multitude in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Hear and see in the word of God to engage His calling over your life.

Acts 9

Answer the calling of God by seeing in the word of God.
Consciously or unconsciously, do you know what is holding you from serving in the calling of God over your life?
Have you given yourself to worldly materials or activities that occupy many not to serve God?
What must be in place to come out of holding force that denies serving God? 
TO HEAR AND SEE IN THE WORD OF GOD
The ability to hear and see in the word of God will set one to serve the calling of God.
Saul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul) was going to wreak havoc on the disciples of the Lord in Damascus when he heard and saw in the word of God.
Acts 9:1-5 records, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. [a]It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” 
Saul of Tarsus heard and saw in the word of God to gain knowledge and understanding of Jesus that set him to serve in the calling of God upon his life. 
Saul responds to Jesus: “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:6) 
Saul answered the calling of God and had his name changed from Saul to Paul.
With a new name, Paul received instruction from Jesus that made him serve God.
WHAT MUST BE DONE TO SERVE THE CALLING OF GOD?
One must give self to the prayer of wisdom and knowledge. 
Prayer is like a key for ignition to get motion started.
Praying with understanding will gain a knowing edge to serve God according to His calling. 
Prayerfully, give to the word of: 
Colossians 1:9-10, “…ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
Give yourself to answer the calling of God.
The calling of God is for the called one to live life for the glory of God, not to live a life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give your heart to fear God. 

The word of God that gains enter the heart shall fear God living for God.
God treasures those who fear Him.
Having wisdom and knowledge, the source of stability and the strength of salvation is evidence of fear of God. 
Isaiah 33:6 testifies, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.” God treasures it when one fears Him.
Fear God by your way of living life.
To fear God is taking a position not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 points out the need for all to be living life by the fear of God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
Are you one that keeps the word of God in the head with no space for the word of God in the heart?
In life, let the fear of God become your identity before God. 
The fear of God is the identity of Job before God as God testifies, “there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (Job 2:3)
To fear God in the heart will be pleasing God.
Have a heart of fear for God to shun the evil not to have a place in you.
One that does not fear God does not abide in His command to dwell in the presence of God.
Through the pages of the Bible, word records what will become of those who fear God:
“Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.” (Psalm 33:18)
“The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” (Psalm 34:7-9)
“And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.” (Luke 1:50)
Let the fear of God keep you in the eyes of God.
The desire and determination to fear God without prayer will not work. 
Today, get to understand and know in the promise of God that when you fear God, you will fear none before God to claim the promises of God.
The book of Isiah 41:10 speaks to all, “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Fear God is the will of God for all.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you want to live life in His fear.