FAITH CAPSULE: To obey the word of God is to gain the presence of God.

Jonah 1, 2

Obedient to the word of God is doing according to the word of God.
The word of God is God. Doing according to the word of God is doing what God wants all to do. 
Doing what God wants all to do is walking with Him. 
The character of one that looks up to God continually is obedient to God.
It is easy to say you are walking with God, but unconsciously not knowing that you are far away by your way of living life. 
Jonah, a prophet of God, looked away from the word of God. 
Jonah walked away from the presence of God.
To walk away from God (to be disobedient to His word) is stepping into self-destruction.
Jonah 1:1-3 records, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”
Jonah, because of his sin of disobedience, his distance from God, positioned him to settle in an undesired life.
Jonah disobeyed God. It was a sin before God, and his sin made to become a tenant inside a GREAT FISH. The sin of Jonah SWALLOWED him.
The Bible identifies the prayer for deliverance by Jonah.
*HE CRIED OUT TO GOD BECAUSE OF HIS AFFLICTION (and God answered him)
*HE REPENTS AND PROMISED TO LOOK BACK TO GOD (to turn back and do as word asked him to do)  
*HE MADE A VOW TO SACRIFICE TO GOD. (JONAH 2:9, “But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.”) He vowed to give a sacrifice thanksgiving to God.
Giving thanks before the manifestation of expectation is a sacrificial thanks.
Psalm 50:14-15 records, “Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High. Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
PRAYER
Ask that God will have mercy over your conscious and unconscious disobedient that set you away from His presence.
Ask that God will give heed to the cries of your heart (God gave heed to the cries of Jonah for salvation from destruction.
Ask that God will enable you to be looking up to Him continually and not look away from His word.
Ask that whatever makes a man look away from His word of deliverance and preservation shall not have a place in your life.
Ask by thanking God for His deliverance from the consequence of your disobedience. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Does the word demand your attention?

Matthew 6

DO NOT DISREGARD GOD
Isaiah 5:12 records, “…But they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands.”  Does the word speak to you? 
One that disregards the word of God does not regard God and will rebel against God consciously or unconsciously, which is the evidence of not knowing God and not considers God. One that does not give regard to God is as one that is laden (loaded, burdened) with iniquity (sin, evildoers). One that disregards God has forsaken God, to provoke God and such become backward. Avoid backwardness to be your portion.
YOUR CONFESSION MATTERS FOR YOUR DELIVERANCE
Take charge to confess positively.
Understanding is the ability to listen carefully and be in charge of what comes out of the mouth. Truly understanding is a wellspring of life to one who has it. (Proverbs 16:22) Are you considering the importance of listening ability and not live as a potential fool? Bible warns, “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.” (Proverbs 18:7) Evidently, by the word of God, the mouth can indeed lead to destruction, but understanding can lead one mouth out not to experience destruction. Gain understanding not to be a fool!
DO NOT DISREGARD GOD
Isaiah 5:12 records, “…But they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands.”  Does the word speak to you? 
One that disregards the word of God does not regard God and will rebel against God consciously or unconsciously, which is the evidence of not knowing God and not considers God. One that does not give regard to God is as one that is laden (loaded, burdened) with iniquity (sin, evildoers). One that disregards God has forsaken God, to provoke God and such become backward. Avoid backwardness to be your portion.
ALWAYS GATHER IN TOGETHERNESS
Are you gathering but not together? Matthew 18:19-20 records the word of Jesus, “…For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”  Believers gather in the name of God, but they are not together, deceiving the world as if they are together. Husband and wife, children with the parent, all live together but not together. Does the word speak with truth in your ear? Unfailingly, failure answers to not gathering together. 
The power of agreement is in coming together for the glory of God, not for self-glorification. Give regard to the word of God! 
WORSHIP GOD DO NOT WORRY
Jesus came to take away worrying, but the enemy is here to place all to remain in worrying. Worship, do not worry. Philippians 4:19 encourages, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 
God is more than capable and shall supply all your needs. 
He alone is the Almighty God, and nothing is impossible for Him to do.
The word does not promise the supply of needs based on your power or strength, but needs shall be in place for you according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Live life for God!

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: God created all to serve Him.

Exodus 3

God created man to serve Him. He is a jealous God, and the antidote for jealous is attention. All should give attention to God by serving God diligently but not staying away from Him continually.
God said in Exodus 7:16, “And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!” Exodus 8:1, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” Serving God is to be seeking God, one that seeks God will be seeing Him in His word. 
Among ways of serving God are: Living life to please Him; to be separated from sin; to be praying to God continually.
Serving Him is to be living life to please Him but not pleasing the world. Enoch pleased God as Hebrews 11:5-6 records, “By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Serving God is seeking God.” 
Please God to reap the reward of pleasing God. Proverbs 16:7 records, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 
Serving God is to be separated from sin because, with sin, no man can see God. 
3 John 1:11, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” Sin is not of God, not serving God.
Serving God is seeking God in prayer continually to maintain constant communication with God. Daniel lives a life of praying as his custom since his early days. (Daniel 6:10) 
When Daniel was in the den of lions, King Darius, that does not know God called out to Daniel as Daniel 6:20 records, “And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
Daniel served God prayerfully, praying continually before God, and no evil could touch his life. Serve God to live life to the glory of God.
Be honest to yourself before God by Living life to please Him; to be separated from sin; to be praying to God continually.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know and live a life of seeking Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you are an unbelieving believer or believing believer?

Matthew 5

Today, there are unbelieving believers, and some are answering as believing believers.
Who are you, and what kind of a believer are you?
Think about this: How can it be that food coming out of the kitchen with salt should be tasteless?
Jesus said in Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”. 
A kitchen with salt and produces tasteless and unacceptable food is evidence that salt has lost its flavor. 
The salt that is not effective has lost its purpose. 
Such salt becomes waste and is due to be thrown away. 
According to Jesus, a thrown-away salt becomes an underfoot material. 
As an acclaimed believer, are you living as a salt of the earth?
What kind of salt are you? 
Are you one that is bold in quoting the word of God without Godly character to back your quotation or claim as a believer? 
Search yourself, think of it to question and answer if you are the salt of the earth.
Believers of the word are to be salt that seasons their world with godly and acceptable contributions.
What kind of a believer are you?
Think about this: You are to be a light that brightens up your world that identifies you as a light that terminates darkness.
Matthew 5:14-15 identifies what light to be, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” 
Jesus does not suggest but identified that you are light.
Live life as the light of God, pointing out for all to live life for the glory of God. 
The majority today is answering as a believer but deceiving, not knowing that God sees all.
Live life as a preserving agent, as the light of God according to the word of God.
Be a believer in the depth of your heart, to live life by the word of God that is true. 
Today, there is an unbelieving believer, and some are answering as believing believers.
An unbelieving believer knows about God.
An unbelieving believer can be conversant in the word of God but not live life by the word of God.
The majority of the acclaimed believer confesses as a believer but not live life by the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Are you a believer in truth to the heart, or are you an unbelieving believer whose act is in the mouth but not rooted in the heart?
Believing God is not only in the confession with the mouth but seeking God diligently. 

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to live life as a believer. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to be waiting on God.

Psalm 139

Commitment to God, counting on Him is strictly self-disciple to be waiting on Him.

Waiting on God is counting on God, the only God you SHOULD commit yourself to in this wicked world of self-centeredness. John 2:24 warns, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men.”
When you count on man is as committing yourself to man.
God alone that you commit yourself will prompt one for you, to only count on for your purpose to achieve. Commit to God, and anyone He sends to count for meeting your need is not to be count on such but on God.
Ask that you shall be waiting on Him alone at all times.
Knowing to wait on God will not live a life of waste but live life for the glory of God.
God is a good God.
Waiting on God will experience that God is the unchanging changer that reverses irreversible.
God is God that remembers with favor and visits with salvation.
Without a doubt, God is not a careless God that blesses one that does not do according to His word. Those that do as the word of God commands will experience the blessing of God.
Are you expecting the blessing of God that is yet to manifest in your life?
How long have you been looking up to receive from God that is not yet in place for you? 
For you, this week or month of the year that you are yet to experience expectation is never too late for God to locate you.
Wait on God that you will know about how far He has brought you in life, not how long you are yet to arrive at your desired destination.
Wait on God in trust and hope He, alone rules, the affairs of all. 
Are you walking in line with God to provoke His blessing over your life?
Waiting on God is asking from God. 
Ask from God to search you, to know your ways, to correct and lead you.
David, a man after the heart of God, knew to wait on God by asking: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
Waiting on God will always lead to an unfailing direction of God.
The way to have the rest of God is in waiting on Him, and not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
Going astray is rooted in the heart. 
Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss in the way of God. 
God is a good God, and to end in an astray way is not of God but the evidence not to wait on God. 
God is a God of time and process. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. 
The time of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to be waiting on Him continually.