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HEART TO FEAR GOD

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Give the heart to fear God.

Psalm 34

Living life in the fear of God is taking a position not to fail in the journey of life.
To fear God is rooted in giving attention to God’s word by inclining ear, keeping God’s word in the depth of heart not just in the head.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 identifies the importance to live life in the fear of God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
Are you one that keeps the word of God in the head with no space for the word of God in the heart?
It is the will of God for all to fear God and know to train children to live life in the fear of God.
Is it your desire to fear God and to train your children, the fear of God?
Deuteronomy 4:10 admonishes all, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
Know and understand to fear God in every way of life, it is the conclusion of the whole matter.
The word of God that speaks to one speaks to all to fear God for the ways of living life as Job 28:28 records, “…And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding…” Jeremiah 10:7, “Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You. “
Who will not fear God? 
One that does not fear God will not abide in His command, to dwell in the presence of God.
Word identifies what it means to be in the presence of God with those who fear God: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.” (Psalm 33:18)
“The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” (Psalm 34:7-9)
“And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.” (Luke 1:50)
Let the fear of God keep you under the eyes of God.
Your determination to fear God is the desire that can disappoint you because it is not the power of God. In life, in the place of determination, it is only the prayer before God (power of God) that will not disappoint.
Imagine Peter’s relationship with Jesus, with his determination not to disappoint Jesus but denied Jesus, the evidence of failure determination. Jesus prayed against Peter’s failure, “…But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail…” (Luke 22:32) 
Give yourself to prayer, that the fear of God becomes established in your hearts not to depart from God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you want to live life in the fear of God.

JANUARY 2020 FAITH-MAIL

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2020 THE YEAR OF KEEPING GOD’S TESTIMONIES

The word of God is His command, His statutes, and His testimonies for all man.
Living God-given life, keeping the testimonies of God will provoke the blessings of God.
One with desires of the blessing of God should diligently keep the testimonies of God. The word of God speaks to all, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy 6:17)
Is it your desire to experience the blessings of God in these coming days, New Year? 
Keeping the testimonies of God is seeking God to receive the blessings of God.
What you keep in the word of God (testimony of God) will keep you and become of you as the blessings of God.
Psalm 119:2 encourages, “Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The promise of God does not return to God void.
Live life by the word of God that does not return void.
This season of yours, regardless of your challenges, you will gain God’s attention by keeping His testimonies, and will not become a victim of a wicked world.
One with understanding and knowledge to be confessing, speaking to the year as, “the year of keeping God’s testimony” shall not fail but will experience the blessing of God.
Calling your year “the year of keeping God’s testimony” will keep your focus, meditating testimonies of God, to do according to God’s word not to be a failure in the year journey.
Keeping the testimonies of God also extends to addressing negative challenges as a positive challenge to call for God’s intervention.
For example, David’s keeping of God’s testimony over his life encouraged him to fight Goliath and provoked the blessing of God for him to win and became the leader of his people.
David’s testimony of God that provoked the blessing of God’s victory for David records, “Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!” (1 Samuel 17:37) David kept the testimonies of God over his life, he confesses positively against negative, to fight the Goliath, ignoring discouragement not to fight.
The testimony of God’s deliverance for David at his battle against Goliath was the blessing of victory for David over Goliath.
God promises that the BLESSED ones are those who KEEP His testimonies.
In the journey of a new year, continually call the year as, the year of keeping God’s testimony, to remind you to do right before God with the expectation of God’s blessing.
Also, just like David, when you keep God’s testimonies to remember in the face of confronting challenges, expect God’s visitation for His blessing of victory over confronting challenges in your life, to the glory of God.
Call 2020 as your year of keeping God’s testimonies, His blessings will not fail. 
Keeping the testimonies of God will be meditating the word of God.
Meditating the word God continually is communicating with God not to miss His presence.
The word of God identifies keeping His testimonies in Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Keeping God’s testimonies by meditating on His word is set to gain the blessing of God’s success.
In the journey of life, the year 2020, give self to testimonies of God by meditating on His word continually.
The Bible identifies some happenings the result of meditating the word of God:
Psalm 77:6, “… I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.”
Psalm 77:12, “I will also meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your deeds.”
Psalm 145:5, “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works.”
1 Timothy 4:15, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”
The word of God is God.
The word of God is His command, is His statutes, is His testimonies and one that will live life by keeping the word of God, meditating the word of God will experience the blessings of God.
Keep the testimonies of God to experience the blessing of God.

QUESTION WITH FAITH

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: For God’s calling, are you questioning His calling without faith?
God called Abraham, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:2) God asked for Abraham’s only son, whom he loves, to be used for a burnt offering.
Abraham did not question the calling of God for his son.
Are you questioning the calling of God?
Questioning God’s calling with faith can be acceptable before God but questioning God’s calling with doubt is not acceptable before God.
For example, with faith, Samuel questioned God’s calling when he was sent by God, to go and anoint David as King when Saul was the king of the people. 
1Samuel 16:2-3 records Samuel’s question and God’s response, “But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.” 
God answered Samuel’s question.
Without faith, are you questioning God’s calling over your life?
Abraham did not question the calling of God but answered fully to God’s calling over his life.
The Bible records, “Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.” (Genesis 22:4)
Abraham did not complain over the calling of God in his life.
The Israelites did not question the calling of God to the Promised Land but failed because of their complaint.
The Israelites’ complaint converted eleven days’ journey to forty years journey. The book of Deuteronomy 1:2-3 testifies, “It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them.” 
Questioning God without faith or complaining before God can be rooted in careless thought or talking. 
The Bible records against talking carelessly, “…let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” (James 1:19) Careless talking can lead to complaining before God.
Abraham kept his cool and focused on God’s command. It must have been a difficult and challenging journey for him yet he kept on going through without complaint. 
Abraham gave a reasonable sacrifice to God. 
Abraham released Isaac unto God in each step of his response to God’s command.
Abraham demonstrated that he loved God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his strength. 
God declared Abraham as one who feared Him.  
In the journey of life, the calling of God, there is a beginning and end. When God calls you, answer obediently with trust and hope to arrive at God’s calling, just like Abraham.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you a heart of faith in all your thought and action.

AVOID NOT TO KNOW GOD

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Among the reasons why you do not know God.

Hebrews 11

Among the reasons why you do not know God but only know about God is the lack of understanding and not believe Him.
Lack of Understanding:
A failure of giving attention will result in a listening disability. Jesus questioned and answered why lack of understanding, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
It is not possible to understand what or who you do not know. The world is too busy for self, and not to give attention to God. One that gives attention to God will listen to gain understanding, to know God for who He is. He is a good God, the One that reverses irreversible.
Forgetting attributes of God:
Forgetting attributes of God, not being thought about Him will not know God. Deuteronomy 4:5-6 buttresses, “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. 6 Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding…” One that is not exposed to learn about God will not give attention to understand the attributes of God enough to know God.
Truth is not appealing:
Truth is not popular, is not acceptable to the world. It is not possible to know what is not accepted, not believed. John 8:45-47 records Jesus’ word that speaks the truth about not knowing God, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore, you do not hear, because you are not of God.” One that does not accept truth to believe does not know God that is true.
You must know God to come out of the religion of this wicked world.
To know God is rooted in the living word of God, written for understanding if any will give self to study the word of God.
To study the word of God is a sacrifice with the cost of labor.
To know God is seeking God diligently, to please Him and to find God as promised, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6)
You must know God, knowing about God is not enough to excuse before God to escape the consequence that is set with lasting pain.
Know God, come out of religion to live life for the glory of God.
You must know God the truth to know and be free.

Prayer for today: Ask God to make you know Him more.

ALL SHOULD KNOW

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: What stops you from keeping the testimonies of God?

Deuteronomy 6

The testimonies of God are the proofs of God.
The testimonies of God are the evidence of His word.
Among reasons to keep the testimonies of God is to know Him in His word.
All man should know to trust and hope in Him, to claim His blessing.
Jeremiah 17:7 points out, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” To trust and not hope is rooted in the lack of knowledge, and it does not complete to claim His blessing.
All should know the testimony of God to fight for all that will know to stay in peace. Exodus 14:14 makes it known as stated: “The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”
All should know that God thinks about all. He is a precious God that cares to think of all. Psalm 139:17 records, “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!” 
Jeremiah 29:11 buttresses, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” 
Testimony one does not know to keep will not position one to claim the blessings of keeping His testimony.
All should know that God is mindful of all. In Psalm 8:4, King David questioned with faith before God, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” Keep the testimony that God is mindful of all to claim His blessing.
All should know that God is the rock and refuge.
Psalm 62:6-8 testifies, “He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory; The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.”
All should know that God is always with us.
Matthew 28:20 records, “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Keep the testimony of God, to Know God, as the blessing of His assurance.
All should know that God is not a partial God.
One that keeps His testimonies is qualified to claim His blessing. Romans 2:11 encourages all saying, “For there is no partiality with God.” 
Remember, the testimonies of God are the proofs of God.
The testimonies of God are the evidence of His word.
What is denying you from giving yourself to keeping the testimonies of God?

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding, keeping His testimonies.