FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire for the character of the word of God.

Isaiah 55

One with understanding in the word of God will identify the distinctive characters of the word of God to desire in the life of one.
AMONG THE CHARACTERS OF THE WORD OF GOD TO KNOW 
THE WORD OF GOD IS MOVE-ABLE 
Among the characters of the word of God, to work with God, to experience the presence of God is to understand and know that the word of God is a living word that is not stagnated but moveable.
The living word of God will move to locate whomever God chooses to give direction in the journey of life.
For example, the word of God moves to locate Jonah for direction.
Jonah 1:1-2 records the movement of the word of God, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” The word of God that is moveable went to locate Jonah.
Jeremiah, at several times for direction, with attention, to see in the unseeable situation, the word of God moves to locate Jeremiah, “the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.” (Jeremiah 1:11-12)
The living word of God does not stagnate but moved to call Jonah for direction, to call on Jeremiah to see the unseeable situation to move forward, not to be a failure in the assignment of God over their life. 
THE WORD OF GOD IS WITH CHARACTER NOT TO FAIL
God does not lie, and definitely, His word does not fail. Isaiah 55:11 confirms, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” It is the character of the word of God not to return void to God without accomplishment for God.
Are you with understanding to call, to remind God for the promises in His word?
The word of God is the work of His hand. 
All the work of His hand has never failed. With understanding, to remind God that does not forget will experience the stretch-out hand of God. 
God encourages all, “Thus says the Lord, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.” (Isaiah 45:11) 
With understanding, always know to remember to command the word of God that does not fail. The only thing that God cannot do is that He cannot fail.
Through the pages of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation records characters of the word of God. 
Give yourself to the word of God to mark your life, excelling for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask for the enablement of God that you will live life by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life for the glory of God to answer who you are.

Mark 8

Are you one that cannot identify or define who you are?
Jesus, our Lord, and savior sought the answer in His question from His disciples, “who do men say that I am” (Mark 8:27) 
The question by Jesus was not to evaluate Himself but, it is a lesson for all to be aware of who they are.    
On a serious note, who are you? 
Are you a believer or, are you an acclaimed believer? 
Are you a man that is mouth full of the word of God with an empty heart of the word of God?  
Does your life reflect Christ? 
Are you a Bible that people can read or an acclaimed Bible that is not readable before anyone? 
Man is deceivable, but no one can deceive God. 
Many are with promotion, with titles inside and outside the church but not promoted before God. 
There are self-acclaimed with titles such as prophet, apostles but cannot answer who they are. 
Today, forget about your titles, live life for God, engaging tasks that matter before God.
The individual should be able to answer the question as stated: “Who are you” All should know who they are before God. 
One with deception to the neighbor, the family, or the world can lure deceptively but, God cannot be a victim of deception devices. 
Without a doubt, the walk, the stand, and where one sits are a pointer of who one is like before God.
Who are you in all endeavors?
Psalm 1:1 record, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1) When the word of God declares blessing, it is established in heaven and on earth. 
It is how one walks, sits, and stands by the standard of God is blessed just as declared by the word of God. 
Life is a journey, and who you surround yourself with shall determine what you get out of life. 
Think, on a serious note, who are you? 
Whose word do you believe? 
Are you living life by the word of God or the word of this world? 
The word of God is an assurance to lead man to be walking, sitting, or standing for the name of God if one will turn back to the wicked world. Assurance and reliance on God will bring delight in the life of one live life by the word of God.
Meditating on the law (word of God) is the avenue not to walk outside the way of God. The Psalmist identifies the blessing of walking, sitting, and standing in line with God stating, “He shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:3)
Get to know who you are.

Prayer for today: Pray that God enables you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Seek God, not take His hand for granted. 

Daniel 3

Among things to do in life to seek God diligently instead of taking God for granted are:

TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY IS OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORD
The life of obedience to the word of God is a sacrifice consistent, costly, and not cheap. 
A sacrifice that takes self away from self to give all to God is obedient to seek God diligently.
One that fears God is living life obediently to God. Exodus 19:5 records, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” 
Are you taking God for granted, not living life by His command?
Desire to live life for God, ask Him to enable you.
Abraham lived life for the glory of God obediently, and God recognized his obedience.
Genesis 22:12 records the testimony of the word of God towards Abraham, “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 could not take God for granted but obeyed God, lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY IS TO ABIDE IN HIS WORD
Understanding and knowledge will know that the word of God is not to be taking for granted.
The word of God is a shield, to abide and to dwell in, not to become a victim of the wicked world. 
The word of Jesus confirms, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:7) Taking the word of God for granted will live life outside of the word of God to miss out on the power of God that will keep and deliver one. The Word of God is God, and all should give themselves to the promise of God to have an abiding place in Him.
TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY IS TO DECLARE BUT NOT TO DENY HIM AS GOD.
Regardless of challenges, do not deny God but declare Him worthy and able in every way of living life.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abdel-Negro, declare God as the God of deliverance and could not deny serving God but rejected serving gods, the gold image of Nebuchadnezzar saying, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God, whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18)In the burning fiery furnace, the salvation of God answered the three friends with deliverance. 
Experiencing the declaration of God is seeking God diligently to be delivered by God and not to become a victim of evil. 

Prayer for today: Pray not to be taking God for granted but to be seeking Him diligently. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Ignoring the word of God equals subbing God.

1 Samuel 15

Snubbing God can be a character of pride: 
It is pride that denies man not to hear and give ear to do by the word of God. Jeremiah 13:15 buttresses, “Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.” 
Search yourself to identify what is denying you to do the word of God by giving yourself to a route of self-destruction. 
With pride is snubbing God to engage what seems right, but not what God commands is not right before God.
Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Pride is not of God but the identity of walking against what is right before God. Pride is self-destruction.
Snubbing God is not waiting on God: 
A failure to wait on God is seeking outside of God.
One that does not remember God does not wait on God for His promise. Hebrews 13:5 states the word of God, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He, Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Remember always that God will not forsake you, wait on Him.
A failure to wait on God results from not remembering the works of God that are rooted in His word. Psalm 106:13-14 testifies, “… soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” 
In life, one that does not remember God will not give regard to consider the works of God. 
Does that speak of you? 
Are you disregarding the works of God?
Isaiah 5:12-13 records, “The harp and the strings, the tambourine, and the flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore, my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”  
The Israelites repeatedly snubbed the works of God, so God substituted the Promised Land for a wilderness journey of forty years. (Numbers14) 
Gain an understanding to know giving attention to God, to disregard snubbing God?
Mark it in your journey of life that your conscious or unconscious iniquity is before God, an act of snubbing God. 
Walking against the word of God by engaging iniquity will have no place to hide before God. Job testifies in Job 34:22, “There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” 
Jonah is an example that snubbed God and could not hide from God when he walked against the direction of God. 
God called him to go to Nineveh, but he flees to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. (Jonah 1:1-3)
Jonah snubbed God and exposed to painful consequences, spending time outside of the presence of God, in the belly of fish for three days. 
Do not substitute the direction of God all the days of your life.
Learn not to snub God consistently!

Prayer for today: Pray against the spirit of snub in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: One that seeks God is going to find God.

Isaiah 54

John 12:26 identifies serving God, “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.” 
If seeking God to find God is not possible, God would not have asked for seeking Him.
God is true to seek Him, follow Him diligently, and find Him.
David is an example that followed God with his heart, and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8) 
Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness by His word? 
Obedience to the word of God will walk the way of righteousness.
Obeying the word of God is seeking diligently to keep self in God as a treasure to God. Exodus 19:5 confirms, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” 
With faith, it is possible to obey the word of God, seeking God diligently to please God. (Hebrews 11:6)
Among ways of seeking God are:
TO COME OUT OF WICKEDNESS 
One that lives right is not wicked to seek and find God.
The wicked one does not live by the word of God.
Are you walking according to His word of direction that leads against the wickedness of this world?
GOD will judge the wicked world at His appointed time. 
Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 warns, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.” To walk in the word of God is the evidence of fear for God, to come out wickedness. Fear God to seeking God.
TAKE A STAND TO CLAIM THE HERITAGE OF SERVANTS OF THE LORD
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of one that follows the word of God as the servant of the Lord.
One that is not a mouthful servant of God will inherit from God as an obedient before God. Isaiah 54:17 records, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.” 
Heritage of God belongs to one that gives self to God. Paul, the apostle admonishes all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
Like a seed, sow yourself in the word of God to seek God diligently. 
In all your ways, follow God to be standing in His word.
Seek God diligently to please Him and be rewarded to see Him.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek God diligently.