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KNOW YOURSELF

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know yourself in the Lord.

Exodus 4

Do you know yourself in the Lord? 
If you know yourself the Lord, you will know what the Lord has deposited in you. Knowing yourself in the Lord will determine how far you go in answering the calling of God over your life. 
Get to know yourself in the Lord. 
Psalm 49:20 states, “A man who is in honor yet does not understand is like the beasts that perish.” The lack of understanding denies answering to the calling of God in life. 
Do you know what the Lord deposits in you? Give yourself to God to know yourself in Him. 
When it was time for God to raise a giant among the giants that glorify His name, there will be no excuse for no one that does not know him or herself from answering to the calling of God.
Truly, confusion or lack of understanding is always with an attempt to deny the answering to the calling of God.
Moses is an example of one that does not know himself in the Lord.
When Moses escaped from Egypt because he killed an Egyptian in favor of an Israelite, God located him for his calling to point out what he does not know.
God will call no one for an assignment without empowering man.
At the time He called Moses, Moses does not know himself. 
Exodus 4:2-4 records, “So the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” 
He said, “A rod.” And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),”   Moses had a rod and not know himself in the Lord to see the rod as a power of God he carries.
Get to know yourself in the Lord!
A rod of God in hand is the power of God at hand. 
Moses did not know himself in the Lord for him to engage the assignment until the Lord shows Him.
Today, know that the calling of God does have a specific fitting rod in your hand.  
Unlike the twelve disciples of Jesus, Apostle Paul did not walk with Jesus on the face of the earth, but he knew himself in the Lord more than any of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Paul testifies, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (1 Corinthians 15:10) 
Just like Paul, know who you are in the grace of God, not to live a wasted life but live in the center of the assignment of God over your life.
Get to know yourself in the Lord and take off in the direction of your calling.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of God not be in vain over you.

EASTER CELEBRATION IS CONTINUAL!

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you making noise of Easter celebration but yet living as a deceiver?

Luke 24

Easter celebration without knowledge and understanding is mere religion and not a continual celebration of the reality of Christ, His sacrifice for all.
Easter celebration of Jesus is every day knowing that Jesus has risen!
Living the testimony that Jesus has risen is keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 admonishes all to keep the testimonies of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
With knowledge and understanding, Keep the testimonies that Jesus has risen!
Mark 9:31 records the teaching of Jesus, “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third
day.”  
Jesus experienced mockery. He was scourged and was spit on, killed but raised on the third day. (Mark 10:14) The experience of Jesus is the reason for the Easter celebration.
Easter celebration should be continual as the way of life. With understanding, it should be the testimony of living life for the glory of God, the evidence of acknowledging the goodness of God that is in place for all to accept Jesus not to become a victim of sin.
Are you an acclaimed believer or an unbelieving believer that does not live the testimony of the Easter celebration?
The identities of not living a life of the Easter celebration non-stop are: mocking the name of Jesus and denying Him to betray Him.
Are you betraying Jesus by denying Him? 
Peter blatantly denied Jesus three times to avoid suffering with Him. Acclaimed believers identify with Jesus, but none wants to suffer with Him or suffer just like He did. 
Are you making noise as a believer but yet living as a deceiver? Let deception not be your way of life because God sees it all! 
With humiliation, Jesus carried the cross, went to the grave, and arise from the grave on the third day so that all will cross over with Him not to fall and fail to miss heaven. 
The account of His humiliation is not to provoke emotional sobering but invoke engaging the reality of Christ. 
How are you observing the humility of Christ Jesus?
Without humility, there is no way one can become obedient to the Word of God. Today, gain the understanding that “…He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
Live life in obedience to God!
Know to believe the Living Word of God.
A believer should get it clear that the Easter celebration is a moment of celebrating the One that came and is here to elevate all.
Easter is the continual celebration for the goodness of God over the life of all.
Rejoice Jesus has risen!

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

APRIL 2021 FAITH MAIL

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EASTER CELEBRATION IS CONTINUAL

Celebrating Jesus at all times is worth it. 
Celebrating Jesus demands understand not to be celebrating religiously or in waste.
In all the ways of life, when understanding is in place, knowledge will deliver for the celebrant of Jesus to have an edge as a winner in this wicked world.
Are you celebrating Jesus with understanding or celebrating Jesus in the bondage of a religion that does not count before God? 
Jesus is the unconditional love of God for all, and that is the reason to celebrate Jesus with no condition but love.
Consider your celebration of Jesus:
At every time of celebration, joy is the expression that becomes glaring. 
Celebrating Jesus cannot be hidden.
Celebrating Jesus should be constant and continuous.
Celebrating Jesus should not be limited to a particular time or season of life.
Easter celebration without knowledge and understanding is mere religion and not a continual celebration of the reality of Christ, His sacrifice for all.
Easter celebration of Jesus is every day knowing that Jesus has risen!
Living the testimony that Jesus has risen is keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 admonishes all to keep the testimonies of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
With knowledge and understanding, Keep the testimonies that Jesus has risen!
Mark 9:31 records the teaching of Jesus, “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third
day.”  
Jesus experienced mockery. He was scourged and was spit on, killed but raised on the third day. (Mark 10:14) The experience of Jesus is the reason for the Easter celebration.
Easter celebration should be continual as the way of life. With understanding, it should be the testimony of living life for the glory of God, the evidence of acknowledging the goodness of God that is in place for all to accept Jesus not to become a victim of sin.
Are you an acclaimed believer or an unbelieving believer that does not live the testimony of the Easter celebration?
The identities of not living a life of the Easter celebration non-stop are: mocking the name of Jesus and denying Him to betray Him.
Are you betraying Jesus by denying Him? 
Peter blatantly denied Jesus three times to avoid suffering with Him. Acclaimed believers identify with Jesus, but none wants to suffer with Him or suffer just like He did. 
Are you making noise as a believer but yet living as a deceiver? Let deception not be your way of life because God sees it all! 
With humiliation, Jesus carried the cross, went to the grave, and arise from the grave on the third day so that all will cross over with Him not to fall and fail to miss heaven. 
The account of His humiliation is not to provoke emotional sobering but invoke engaging the reality of Christ. 
How are you observing the humility of Christ Jesus?
Without humility, there is no way one can become obedient to the Word of God. Today, gain the understanding that “…He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
Live life in obedience to God!
Know to believe the Living Word of God.
As an acclaimed believer in the Living Word of God, have you been reducing or increasing in keeping your distance to the living Word of God? Keeping your distance away from the Living Word of God will keep you away from standing in Him. Inability to stand in the Word will cause you to deny and betray Him. 
A believer should get it clear that the Easter celebration is a moment of celebrating the One that came and is here to elevate all. In Him, there was no fault, but He was arrested and bounded, all forsook Him and fled.
Easter is the continual celebration for the goodness of God over the life of all.
One that takes to the testimony that Jesus is alive, the reason for the Easter celebration is set not to miss heaven.
Rejoice Jesus has risen!  

MARCH 2021 FAITH MAIL

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KNOW TO ASK FOR THE PEACE OF GOD

Are you claiming trust in God but not with hope?
Claiming trust in God without having hope in God is not enough to claim the blessing of God. Jeremiah 17:7 confirms, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
One that trusts and has hope in the Lord God is the one who trusts with hope in God, and his mind stays on God.
The promise of God to bless is undeniable for one that does according to the word of God. 
Do you trust, hope with the mind that stays on God?
A promise of God for trusting and having hope, with the mind that stays on God will gain the peace of God. Isaiah 26:3 confirms, “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You Because he trusts in You.”
The character of having trust, having hope with the mind stays on God is one with zealous for God.
Phinehas was with zeal for God. It happened that while the Israelites were in Acacia Grove in their journey to the Promised Land, they committed harlotry with the women of Moab. It was a sin that arouses the anger of God against the Israelites. Numbers 25:6-9 records, “And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. 9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.”
Phinehas had zealous for God by his demonstration of a faithful act not to compromise with the sin of his brethren in the presence of God.
God responded to the zealous of Phinehas in Numbers 25:12-13, “…Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God…’”  God is the benevolent rewarder of those with Zeal for Him. 
Are you zealous for God or zealous for the world and its activities?
It is not possible to have the zeal of God and miss the peace of God.
Also, in the absence of the peace of God, there will be anxiety in making a decision.
Anxiousness will deny or delay acting out for the glory of God.
Word of God encourages against anxiousness to enable the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Philippians 4:6-7 admonishes all, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Phineas, son of Eleazer, is an example in the pages of the Bible that received the blessing of peace of God after acting out against the sin of his brethren before God.
If you are zealous for God, the peace of God will occupy you.
Are you one with trust, hope, the mind, and zeal for God?
Today, know let Jesus occupy you. Revelation 3:20 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” 
Prayerfully, ask for the zeal of God to become your way of life.
Pray by: 
Ask God for His voice to sound in your direction, that you hear and to do, to His glory.
Ask that the word of God occupy you, to establish in you that His peace takes over the life He has given you. 
Ask that the boldness and character like that of Phinehas become in your life. 

AVOID FAITH FAILURE

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Be humble, not to be a vessel of faith failure.

2 Chronicles 7

To be humble will enable to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure.
To know God will be humble not to be a vessel of faith failure. 
Are you humble?
A humble one is with a low estimate of the importance of self.
God pays attention to how all conduct themselves in the journey of life. 
James 4:10 testifies that God pays attention to humble ones, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” 
One that is humble is one with meek.
Bible identifies the meek ones:
Psalm 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. “
God is consistent and committed to His promise as 2 Chronicles 7:14 records the promise of God for humble ones, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you humble and glaring by your way of life?
With the desire, will you give yourself to become humble, to claim the promises of God over the life of one that is humble?
Are you considering the way to be humble in this challenging trouble and not become a vessel of faith failure? 
Philippians 2:3-8 identifies numbers of way to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 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 way to live life for the glory of God is to be a humble one.
Jesus, our Lord, and savior humbled Himself and obedient to the point of death on the cross. What stops you not to become humbled, living life for the glory of God?
Numbers in the Bible were humbled to walk with God. 
Paul was humbled.
Moses was humbled, Numbers 12:3 testifies, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” 
Make it your way of life to be humbled, keeping eyes on God, and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become humble before Him.