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SERVE WITH UNDERSTANDING

Devotions

FAITH MAIL: Are you with limited understanding to serve God right?

Numbers 14

A believer of God must serve and worship God with understanding.
As an acclaimed believer, are you serving God with all your heart, with all soul, and with all strength?
To serve God wrongly comes with a costly consequence. 
Uzzah served God with good intentions but lost his life. The attempt of Uzzah to keep the Ark of God from falling took away his life. His act of serving was against the Word of God that forbids anyone from touching the Ark of God. The Bible records, “Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.” (2 Samuel 6:7) Uzzah failed to serve God to become terminated untimely. 
When the Israelites were coming out of the bondage of Egypt for over four hundred years, God required them to serve Him; however, their service was incomplete. The failure of the Israelites in times of challenges was their faith failure before God. In their challenging times, they confessed negatives by murmuring against God. 
God responded to Israelites’ faith-failure through Moses as stated: “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. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)   
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is the evidence of not following Him fully. 
As a result of not following God fully, every Israelite that left Egypt above the age of twenty failed not to complete their journey to the Promised Land. 
Are you serving God fully to avoid a failure to arrive at the promise of God? 
With your desire to serve God, what is holding you back from serving God acceptably? Jesus responds to believers, “Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24) 
Are you with limited understanding to serve God right?
Are you with a commitment to serve God?
Serving God demands to follow Him fully. Jesus admonishes, “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.” (John 12:26) 
With understanding, serve God not to become terminated.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will serve God with understanding.

DILIGENT MIND

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: A diligent mind will not conform to the world.

Romans 12

The sound and clear warning by Paul the Apostle, in Romans 12:2, states, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Conformity can be action or behavior in correspondence with current customs, rules, or styles. 
The apostle Paul warns all not to conform to this world. Unfortunately, the warning is falling onto deaf ears among the acclaimed believers. Conformity to this world is thriving even among the acclaimed believers, not just unbelievers of the world. 
What is it about this world? 
The ruler of this world is the wicked one, the liar and the destroyer, the devil himself. 
The devil engineers falling it was the evil one that led Adam and Eve into disobedience that kicked them out of where God had placed them, the Garden of Eden. 
It is a warning for believers and unbelievers of the word not to conform to this world.
To be conformed to this world is rooted in the mind of man.
Today, how is your mind? 
Without a doubt, the mind is the battleground where the enemy wants to take over, but keep the mind diligent by engaging in constant renew by the word of God. 
Among ways renewing of the mind is based on commitment and constantly meditating on the word of God. 
The evil, the father of lies, goes around looking for some to devour. 
Evil is an active, constant, and consistent evil doing. 
Always keep the mind away from pride that all evil branches.
Self-centeredness, stubbornness, rebellion are among that branches out of pride. Isaiah 26:3 admonishes, “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in you.” 
Make it a way of life by keeping the mind stay on God.
The calling of God is not a confirmation of getting to the expected end but an indication that God wants you to get to His calling over your life.
In all calling of God, with answering, there will always be an undoubtedly evil challenge with an attempt to deny the arrival of the called one to an expected end. However, in the calling by God, God does not fail to back the called up if the called will back off from every ground that does not glorify God. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 is an encouragement in the calling of God as verse states, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
In all, challenges will come, but God will deliver in all. (Psalm 34:19) 
Have you received the calling of God or the calling of the world? 
With your desire and prayer before God, the grace of God shall enable you to arrive at the calling of God over your life. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to become a victim to conform to the wicked world.

WHO ARE YOU

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: A liar is nothing but a twister of the truth of God.

Acts 5

Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God can be lying in the place of telling the truth.
Twisting the truth is evil that needs to be avoided, not to be part of the way of life.
Deuteronomy 19:19 warns, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
Put away lies the identity of the evil.
By your action and your word, are you responsible for twisting the truth of God?
Avoid being ignoring or not intervene to correct lies that are not true. An adage states, “Tell the truth and let the enemy be ashamed.” 
As a believer, there is no excuse to avoid or not to deny liars that you know.
Are you an acclaimed believer of the word of God but twisting the truth of God?
By telling lies, God is not deceived-able at all times.
Give yourself to the word of God to attain perfection in Christ Jesus as
Colossians 1:28 buttress, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” 
Search for yourself to determine your stand before God.
Refrain from twisting the truth of God as your ways for self-defense while engaging in wrongdoing.
One engaging in twisting the truth of God will become convinced that lying can make a way where there is no way. 
Do you know that twisting the truth of God is the evidence of taking distance from God?
Twisting the truth of God will keep one far from God, to become set for evil. Psalm 56:5 testifies, “All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.” 
Are you one with no means of controlling yourself from unwarranted talking that is a route of twisting the word of God? 
Are you with the impression that God is in your twisting agenda? Romans 3:5-8 documents that twisting the truth does not stand before God at all times, “But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.”
Embracing lies is also twisting the truth of God, positioning self for destruction. Do not embrace lies as your way of life, which is the character twisting the truth that will come to light to experience exceeding pain. 

Prayer for today: Pray not to live life as a liar.

AUGUST 2021 FAITH MAIL

Monthly Newsletter

AUGUST 2021 LORD GOD ENABLE MY ENDEAVORS

The name you give to your week or month is with the expectation of what the week or month will answer for you.
With the knowledge and understanding of God is to consciously, consistently call your week or month by what you want to see in your life.
For example, call the new month to answer as your month of God “Enable all my endeavors.”
Determination is not enough to experience the name given to your new month, but with prayer constantly, there will be a manifestation of expectation for the new month.
Ask from God, confessing consistently that: August 2021 is your month of God enabling all your endeavors for His glory. 
Asking to be enabled is to be empowered, equipped, approved, or allowed by God.
Ask from God for your expectation consistently.
God is good. All the help from God is in place for all that know that praying with understanding before God will get an answer.
Take note, the help of God is in the word of God.
Think of it, one that is enabled (empowered, equipped, approved) by the word of God is asking for what is in place to gain, to excel, for the glory of God.
The word of God, the enabler, is to heal, deliver, and preserve when established in the life of one. 
Deuteronomy 32:39 records, “Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.” 
Psalm 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
Jeremiah 17:14″Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.” Jeremiah asked for deliverance before God. 
Why not give yourself to praying the word of God continually, to be enabled in all endeavors? Acts 6:4 admonishes, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
This month, praying to be enabled by God will engage the help in place not to become wasted.
PRAYING THE WORD
PRAYER POINT
ASK that God will enable you to continually look into His word and not to be looking into a scattered world of challenges.
Samuel, the prophet of God, commanded Saul to wait for seven days for the burnt offering against the Philistines. 
King Saul failed before God when his people scattered, and he looked into the challenges which compelled him to disobey the command of God. (1Samuel 13:11-13) In the presence of God, there is no reasonable excuse for disobedience. Ask that God will enable you against disobedience to His word.
Looking into the world is the evidence of having a commit outside of God into the scattered world. Psalm 37:5 warns, “Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.” 
John 2:24, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.”
ASK that the word of God will enable you to turn you away from the world into His word, not to become a victim of the scattered and evil world.
ASK that your commitment to God shall not experience wavering in every area of your life.
The lack of commitment to the word of God will experience distraction. Distraction will lead to the derailment, an avenue to become denied. King Saul was distracted, derailed, to miss the presence of God in his life as King.
ASK that the word of God will locate you, for His word be established in you as your enabler, not to be distracted to become derailed, to fall in the calling of God.
One that is committed to the word is one ENABLED by God in all endeavors.
The creative word of God brought all creation in the beginning. 
It is the word of God that brought dead Lazarus out of the grave.
When Jesus arrived at the grave of Lazarus, He commanded for the move of stone, but the world around Him questioned His attempt reminding Him that Lazarus is dead to the point of the stench for four days with no hope to rise. Jesus reacted to bring back Lazarus to rise from death, “He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” (John 11:43-44)
ASK that the power of God, the word of God that brought Lazarus out of death, will answer for your deliverance.
ASK that you shall not die but will live life to the glory of God.
From this month, continually pray that the word of God shall enable you in all your endeavor. 

WALK-IN ORDER

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Walking in order of God is obedience to God.

2 Samuel 6

God is a good and gracious God that will not void His word, and neither shall there be any excuse for anyone to violate His word. The order in place for the ark of God was without exception. God had warned all His people, not to the ark of God.
At the time of transporting the ark of God to Jerusalem, at a threshing floor (a place for processing grain), Uzzah reached out and touched the ark. It was unintentional of Uzzah to touch the ark, but the word of God is with the intention for man to keep orderliness in the word of God.
Out of the order of God is to be placed in the death penalty for anyone that touches the holy object of the tabernacle of God (Numbers 4:15) 
In the word of God, there is always a condition to achieve His promise.
Word of God stands to perform with perfection when there is obedience without violation. 
The Word of God does not return void to God, so why not give self to the word of God with no violation?
Isaiah 55:11 buttresses, “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.”  Disobedience to the word of God will not excuse destruction as the consequence of disobedience. 
Are you obeying or disobeying the word of God?
Proverbs 13:13 warns all, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
God as a merciful God is no excuse for sin against Him. Uzzah lived in the days of law does not allow him to sin, and living in the days of His grace is no excuse to be living a life of disobedience to the word of God. 
The book of Roman 6:1 questions, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” The direction of God is His order. Living outside of God is living in disorder which is a way of death and eternal damnation.
Moses, a giant in the hand of God, was with no excuse for his disobedience before GOD.
Disobedience is with a consequence before God. Once Moses received an orderly direction from God but delivered it in disorder. Numbers 20:8 records the word of God disobedient by Moses, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus, you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” Moses went and struck instead of speaking to the rock. He took the order of God in his hand to call them rebels.
One that is out of the order of God is out of the ordination of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will keep you from disobedience to His word.