FAITH CAPSULE: By faith is to fear God and know the truth.

John 14

Faith is to fear God and be free by living life for the glory of God. 
Word of God is the source of God and documents every reason to know God with fear. 
God is an awesome God, to fear God is to love Him for His goodness and mercy.
Get to know God, fear Him, and be FREE. 
The word of God is God. John 1:1 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Many, the majority of acclaimed believers claim to KNOW ABOUT the word of God, quotes the word of God, or sings the word of God but not FREE. 
The word of Jesus to the Jews that believed in His time also speaks to acclaim believers of today, “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) 
Are you an acclaim believer that is free by the truth?
Can you search for yourself if you KNOW ABOUT God or you KNOW God? 
If you are one that quotes or sings word of God with no evidence of the word of God in your way of life, you are the testimony of one that only KNOWS ABOUT God but not KNOWS God.
Knowing about the word of God is not knowing God, not knowing the TRUTH.
Jesus is the TRUTH of God as John 14:6 states, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 
It is important to KNOW the truth, the word of God, for one to be free in this wicked world.
Knowing the truth is the evidence of having faith.
Do you have faith?
Have faith, to become faithful as one that is rooted in KNOWING the WORD of God.
The source of having FAITH, to become faithful is hearing and hearing by the Word of God. One with a desire to live life by the Word of God must be in a position to be seeking God in His word. Romans 10:17 declares, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  To be hearing and hearing the word of God is the coming of faith, but when there is no hearing, and hearing faith will depart from one.
Are you hearing, and hearing by the word of God to KNOW GOD and be FAITHFUL?
DESCRIBING FAITH
The source of FAITH is the living WORD of God.
Faith is the living power that produces a living proof in the life of one that is faithful.
Faith is a spiritual power but not a philosophy or ideology. 
Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
Have faith by giving yourself to the word of God, fear God, and be FREE in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to give yourself to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you taking God for granted, not doing as commanded in His word?

Deuteronomy 11

Living life is not a right, but it is the privilege of God to be alive.
Are you taking God for granted, for His gift of life you have? 
Know and understand that all are created by God for all to be living life for His glory. Revelations 4:11 declares, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.” One that is not living life for the glory of God, such is taking God for granted. 
Are you with excuses not to be living for the glory of God?
In your service to God, are you pleasing yourself but displeasing God? Take note that God is a long-suffering God, and it is not a license for any man not to be living life for God as His creation. 
Stop taking God for granted, live life for God by lifting your hands as submission with the expectation reaching to God. 
Continually, living life for God is to remain connected with God.
God is a good God that is worth for all, to be living life for His glory.
Seeking God diligently with all heart and with all soul is to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 speaks to all, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  
Among ways to live life for God, seeking God diligently instead of you taking God for granted is seeking God diligently obediently to his word
Living life to obey the word of God is a sacrifice that is consistent, costly, and not cheap. A sacrifice that takes self away from self to give all to God, seeking God diligently, is obedient. 
One that is living life obediently to the word of God fears God, is undoubtedly a treasure 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 doing as commanded in His word?
Abraham lived life for the glory of God. Abraham could not withhold from the command of God but did as commanded by God, and God recognized the obedient of Abraham.  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.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to take Him for granted.

FAITH CAPSULE: Following is not a one time or an on and off action.  

Luke 5:1-32

Jesus was teaching when He stated, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21) 
Does that sound like you? 
The will of Father is to serve by following God in His word fully.
Is it your desire to serve God by following Jesus fully? 
To follow Him fully (to serve God) demands to be steadfast.
One who is self-full cannot be word full. 
Following is not a one time or an on and off action. 
Following the word demands to be steadfast, to be fixed in direction, or to be firm in purpose. 
To be steadfast in following the living word of God is not a self-satisfying engagement, and one who is self-full cannot be possibly steadfast. 
King David realized the importance and the need for one to be steadfast when he called on God in Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
A steadfast spirit is what caused Caleb and Joshua to follow God fully. Caleb and Joshua refused to flow with the crowd confessing negative against the word of God that promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. They followed the word of God in the face of Moses and all the people positively. By their positive confession, God declared, “My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.” (Numbers 14:24) Following the commanding word of God follows God fully.
At the time of the calling of Elisha through Elijah, “…He left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, ‘Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.’ And he said to him, ‘Go back again, for what have I done to you?’ 
So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” (1 King 19:20-21) 
Elisha left all behind when he answered the calling of God. 
In answering, Elisha demonstrated steadfastness. He emptied himself by getting rid of all that could have held him back. 
Elisha used his oxen’s equipment as a boiler for the slaughtered oxen. Elisha followed the calling of God steadfastly. 
Whatever man cannot forsake for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven is what will become a forsaken one to become a qualified candidate for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Be steadfast in following fully, and God will reward you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you for a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking God by His word will not fail to locate God.

Exodus 19, Psalm 47

Sanctification before the sacrifice is the evidence of understanding and knowledge to locate God without failure. 
When God sent Samuel to go and anoint, to separate David as a living sacrifice, He sent him with a message for Jesse, “…I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.’ Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.” (1 Samuel 16:5) In this message, it is clear that sanctification (consecration, dedication) comes before sacrifice. 
Also, once, the children of Israel were to present themselves before God, “So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.’” (Exodus 19:14-15), Throughout the Bible, sanctification always have come before sacrifice. Samuel and Moses called for sanctification before the sacrifice before God.
With understanding and knowledge, let sanctification be in place before sacrifice to assess or provoke the hand of God in your favor. 
Are you with a devotion mind to surrender before God?
That is, are you with sanctification with the mind of sacrifice before God?
Seek God with a dedication (sanctification) expecting your sacrifice (surrender) to become acceptable.
For example, sacrificial praise that is rooted in sanctification will position one to gain the presence of God.
What kind of praise have you been rendering to God when you come before him?
Psalm 47:7 admonishes all about praising God, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” 
Understanding to know sacrificial praise that is rooted in devotion (sanctification) before God will gain the presence of God. 
Praising God should not necessarily be in noise-making; praising God should not be an entertaining man; praising God does not have to be in self-pride but lifting the name of God. 
If believers confess with sincere and genuine hearts (the act of dedication before God) sacrificial praising, will locate the presence of God. 
God inhabits the praises of His people. 
When God is in your sacrificial praises, your enemies will become ambushed, and victory will become your portion. 
Who should praise God? 
Without any exemption, all should sing praises to God while having a life. The Psalmist said so, “I will sing praises to the Lord while I have my being.” (Psalm 146:2) 
In several pages of the Bible, those who fear Him should praise Him. Praise Him with the voice of joy, harp, and melody; praise Him among the people or in your secret closet. Psalm 34:1states, “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Praising Him all the time will raise you to Him. 
Live life by the word of God to gain His presence in all your ways.

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding of God be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: How are you walking, standing, or sitting before God?

Psalm 1, 2

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…” 
How are you walking, standing, or sitting before God that is watching you?
The word of God admonishes all:
Walking:
Walking in the way of righteousness should not be walking in the counsel of the ungodly. 
Ungodly do not accept God but aligns with sinful, with wickedness and not conforming to religious tenets. 
Ungodly will counsel or lead man to live a life that does not consider right doing before God.
Who is your counsel in your journey of life? When a believer begins to receive counsel from ungodly one, walking astray from blessings of God becomes inevitable.
Do not walk in the counsel of ungodly that will direct you outside the path of God. Proverbs 3:6 admonishes, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” 
With the desire to experience the blessing of God, listen to the word of God as a warning. Take your counsel seriously to set you up for the glory of God.
Stand:
Standing in the path of the sinner is taking to the same position as a sinner. When a believer begins to endure or tolerate the act of wicked way of life, it becomes evidence of such to be a believer that is not living right before God.
Standing in the path of righteousness will stand-out, upholding the way of life that glorifies the name of God.
When the heart of man stands in awe of the word of God, gaining the blessing of the way of righteousness becomes the portion of man.
Is your standing found with an association that only progresses the testimony of God? 
Are you taking a stand that depends and rests on God in the face of challenging trouble?
As a believer, the word of God demands to ponder what to stand for in the path of life. It is clear that the ways of man are not hidden before God the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all paths. (Proverbs 5:21)
Sitting:
Sitting in the seat of scornful will eventually embrace the evil way of life. One with faith, with the fear of God, is to hate evil acts not having the seat of evil doing that is hidden from all but not hidden from God. 
A believer that takes a sitting position in the way of righteousness must hate evil. Proverbs states, “…the fear of the Lord is to hate evil…” (Proverbs 8:13) The believer must not compromise the journey of life by sitting on a seat that is not acceptable to God.
The blessings of God are obtainable by your walk, stand, and sit before God, as stated above. 
By the word of God, it is worthy to live life as a true believer that keeps to the way of God at all times. Do not live a life of waste, give yourself to the word of God, and not compromise the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to do His word.