FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience to the word of God is to live life for God.

Genesis 22

What kind of a believer are you?
Is it your desire to live for God?
Are you questioning why the promises of God do not have a place in your life?
To claim the promise of God comes with a condition.
With God, the condition to claim His promises demands to live a life of obedience to His command, His word.
Obediently, live life as obedient to the word of God.
In the journey of life, live by the command of God.
Are you living a life of obedience or disobedience?
Obedience to God will drive the obedient one to arrive at the divine assignment, but disobedience will derail not to reach as expected before God.
Abraham lived a life of obedience to the word of God. 
God called him out of his land and his family when he answered obediently God. 
The test of God for Abraham was his obedience in answering the calling to go and sacrifice Isaac, his son. Genesis 22:1-3 records: “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.” 
The obedience of Abraham counted as a faith that positioned him for the divine assignment. (Hebrews 11:8)
Abraham obeyed; he could not fail before God but was able to claim the promises of God for his life. (Hebrews 11:17)
Just like Abraham, all should give themselves to live by the word of God with no excuse not to live by His word.
In the journey of life, there is no reasonable excuse for disobedience to God.
Claiming to be living a life of obedience is easier said than done.
Live a life of obedience before God that sees all ways of life under heaven.
To live a life with the fear of God is encased in the humble and become obedient to God continually.
The word of God will cause tenderness of heart to be a place for humility. 
Without humility, obedience is not possible. 
Philippians 2:8 record the experience of Jesus when He walked through the earth, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The humble ones know to fear God. 
Do you fear God in deed and truth? 
To be lost from the word of God will be disobedient to lose the rightful position in God.

Prayer for today: Pray to Know God, to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: God has brought you this far, and He will see you through all days bestowed on you.

Jeremiah 17

In this season, this day, this week, this month, engage the testimonies of what God has done and doing in life He has given you.
With wisdom, understand with knowledge, abstain from complaining but give yourself to complimenting God. 
Give testimony of what God has done to provoke the visitation of God with His goodness over your life. 
Are you counting on the challenges in the place of complementing God for His goodness and mercy?
In this new day, new month, begin to keep the testimonies of God that enable one to claim the blessings of keeping His testimonies. 
Psalm 119:2-3 testifies, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.” 
Today know and understand that keeping His testimonies will make you seek Him with all your heart but not become a victim as one stranded with thoughts of past challenges.
No believer is immune not experiencing challenges.
Know that challenges will come, affliction will prevail, but the deliverance of God never fails.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.” 
God is faithful to His Word. 
Give self to wisdom and knowledge in the word of God.
Understand that God does not fail in His word.
God meant what He said to do all His promises. 
Without a doubt, when testimonies of God become what one is keeping as a portion, such will do no iniquity and walk in His ways as stated in Psalm 119:2-3. 
In this season, seek the word of God, dwell and abide in His word to experience His promise.
The word of God is perfect and encouraging to those who give themselves to the word of God. 
In looking back to where you have started and where you are, can you claim to have sincerely embarked and engaged yourself in doing good and not evil? 
It can never be too much to be doing good; neither can it be too late to reap the fruitfulness of doing good. 
Be encouraged in the word of God to be doing good while ignoring the wickedness of the wicked world.
Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.”  
The word of God never fails and will never be late for manifestation.
All should remember that the privilege of God is the reason to have life.
God has brought you this far, and He will see you through all days bestowed on you.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and knowledge to continually dwell and abide in the word of God.

Faith Capsule: Living life by the word of God is abiding in Him.

Psalm 91

One that stands in God abides in Jesus.
Abide is to continue in a relationship yielding with submission to God.
To abide in Jesus is demanded from acclaimed believers in God.
“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.” (John 8:31) 
Claiming to be a believer and not abide in Him is ceremonial religion.
A failure to abide in Him is a passage to living life in darkness. 
Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” (John 12:46)
The word of God is not a story but a secret to engaging not to live a life of waste.
Pray to abide in the word of God.
Think of it for a moment, does your way of life demonstrate the word of Jesus? 
Failure to abide in Jesus is the evidence of pride which is the agent of failure.
What does it mean to abide in Jesus?
1 John 3:24, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this, we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” 
To keep the commands of God is to love. 
Galatians 5:14 admonishes all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Romans 13:8 also states, “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Living life by the word of God is abiding in Him.
What happens when one does not abide in Him?
A choice not to abide in the light consciously or unconsciously is to walk in the darkness. 
God is light.
John 1:1-5 records the message, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” 
Those who do not abide in Him are rebellious and do not know the ways of God to set themselves for destruction.
Job 24:13 records, “There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths.” 
Jesus is the wisdom from God to all that will give themselves to the word of God.
A failure to abide in Him is a passage to living life in darkness. 
In John 12:46, Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” 
It is not possible to be answering as an acclaimed believer and be full of darkness. 
To be full of darkness is abiding in darkness. 
Come out of the darkness of the world to settle yourself in the word of God.
It is safe to abide in the word of God, the presence of God.
Psalm 91:1 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a victim of not abiding in the word of God.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Be wise, and learn to live by looking into the word of God as a mirror.

Isaiah 40

Looking into the word of God as a mirror will dress or readdress one that makes approaching the word of God a mirror to engage life journey.
Four things to learn from looking in the word of God that will make one not live a life of waste and not become a victim of a wicked world are:
DO NOT BE STAGNATED, BE UPGRADED CONTINUALLY
Isaiah 40:31 admonishes the importance of waiting on God, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” When you observe yourself not progressing as expected, or walking instead of running, know that your upgrading is not in place. Gain in the word of God not to be stagnated as a victim of the wicked world. 
The word of God is the strength of God, live life by the word of God.
AVOID COMPLAINTS BEFORE GOD
Exodus 15:23-24 records, “Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”  
The complaint of the Israelites against Moses was an indirect complaint toward God.
The Israelites could not count on the blessing of God that brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
If one can count the blessings of God for life given by God, there should be no place for complaining about where one is or located in the journey of life.
Avoid complaints! 
WAIT ON THE TIME OF GOD
Waiting on God is timeless. 
Waiting for the intervention of God can take a long or short time as God permits more than expected by one waiting before God.
The waiting that takes “Mr. A” a short time before God is possible for “Mr. B” a long time to get an answer from God. 
David testifies, “I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.” (Psalm 40:1) 
Wait on God, know that time belongs to God but not man.
Be patient when waiting on God.
KNOW TO HIDE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGE
Claiming to be a believer does not excuse one not to HIDE in a challenging situation. 
Jesus, the Lord, and savior, demonstrated a need to know to hide from challenges. 
John 8:59 records, “Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. “ 
Once Jesus needed to hide in his depart where there was a need for Him to hide,“…These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.” (John 12:36)
Be wise, and learn to live by looking into the word of God as a mirror for dressing up not to become a victim in the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is true to deliver in times of troubling challenge.

Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 records, “To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.”  
Time gives every engagement a meaningful approach and adds value to the steps taken in life.
Indeed, there is a time for everything in life. 
Make a move at the right time not to fail but to experience the deliverance of God. 
As an acclaimed believer amid challenging trouble that has destroyed the line which separates right and wrong, there is a time to act: There is a time to be quiet, and a time to speak out loud; a time to be defensive and a time to go on the offensive. 
Today might be your day to go on the offensive against all troubling forces that do not represent God but evil work against your life.
Take time before God to gain and retain the presence of God, to experience His intervention.
David sought God to go on the offensive against a time of trouble in His life. 
Psalm 138:7 records, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.”
Psalm 143:11, “Revive me, O Lord, for Your name’s sake! For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.”
David could not be quiet but requested against troubling challenges of his life.
Ask God to pluck you from any company representing wickedness militating or agitating your life. 
He is a living God with hands that can redeem you. 
Ask that the same hand that delivered the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt shall answer for you. 
Exodus 3:20 testifies the hand of God, “So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.”
In a challenging time, prayer is the weapon for a believer of God to go on the offensive against all troubling forces that do not represent God but evil.
God is true to deliver in times of troubling challenge.
Trust and hope in the word of God.
Psalm 34:19 testifies, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
One living by the word of God is on the right track before God as a righteous.
In the face of challenging trouble, make the right time before God that does not fail.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength of praying in times of challenging forces shall be your portion.