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.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know and understand to deny distraction. 

Job 2

Distraction can lead to a misplacement not to arrive at the divine assignment.
Distraction can be a denial agent against anyone from walking in the word of God not to answer fully to the calling of God.
Distraction can also be a force to deny a man from having faith to see God.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest one as an agent of evil.
For example, during the challenges of Job, it was his wife with an attempt to distract Job but, she failed. Bible records distraction of the wife of Job, “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Job resisted the device of distraction from his wife when he responded: “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) 
Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your way of life?
Know and understand to deny distraction from close ones and ones of the distance.
Deny distraction, remain focus on your way of life, not become a victim of the evil of this world.
Claiming to have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior does not exempt you from encountering distraction, but watch and pray not to become a victim of distraction.
Many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but the agents of distraction are in place to deny the attention of focusing on God to live life for God. 
Does that sound like you?
If you have received Jesus into your life, stand still by looking up to God to avoid distraction, not to become derailed from dwelling and abiding in the presence of God.
Martha was a victim of distraction. 
When Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, she could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain a position in the presence of Jesus. Luke 10:38-40 records, “Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’” 
Just like Martha, have you welcomed Jesus into your house and become distracted? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but distraction denied her from the presence of Jesus.  
Who or what is your distraction? 
In the challenging time of today, deny distraction, focus on God alone. 
Do not become a victim of distraction to experience evil occurrences over your life.
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device of the enemy to derail victims from arrival at the assignment of God.
There is no one with exception from distraction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to watch and pray against distraction in your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you answering to any title that is in line with the assignment of God?

Acts 19:1-20

What is your title before God?
Answering titles in the place of engaging tasks is a responsibility that counts before God.
Answering titles, in the business of God, demands giving yourself to God, not impressing the world because God is watching all with no exception.
Answering the title of your choice but not of God is self-deception. 
One with self-deception will be conversant to telling lies, to deceive and manipulate the world.
Are you answering to title for what God did not call you to be?
The Bible records the story of Apostle Paul answering the calling of God, with the title as Apostle of God.
The documentation of Paul compares his calling by God to the Jewish exorcists that call themselves and not by God. Acts 19:11-17 records, “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also, there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.” 
Are you assuming a title to take up an assignment before God but not living life with a task, pleasing God?
The written word of God is for learning to understand and know to navigate this wicked world, to live life for the glory of God. 
Learn to know the documentation of itinerant Jewish exorcists that gave themselves to answer the title that is not of God.
Are you seeking God or seeking a man with the title?
What is your title? 
Are you self-appointed one with titles such as Apostle, Prophet, or Pastor, parading as one that is answering to the calling of God?
You need no man to help you for deceiving yourself with a title.
Do not live life like the itinerant Jewish with the experience of mockery that exposed them as a deceiver of their world.
Give yourself to the given task of God in your life, not just answering to your choice of the title.
Come out of religion and give yourself to the reality of Christ. 
The judgment of God is not asleep but will come at His appointed time.
Live right, engage the task of God that is more important than the assigned title you answer.
Your engaged task counts more than title before God!

Prayer for today:  Ask that God fill you with the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to live life for His glory.