FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the Word, the wisdom from God.

Psalm 8

Are you spending time on the word of God to gain understanding with knowledge in the journey of life?
When there is a lack of knowledge and understanding in the Word of God, failure in the walk of life becomes inevitable. 
The Word of God is for all to hear, receive, and believe to experience victory over the challenges of the wicked world. 
Jesus is the wisdom, the Word of God, the instruction for all. 1Corinthians 1:30 communicates to all, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…”
Give self to wisdom from God!
The Word of God heals and delivers man from destruction (Psalms 107:20).
The Word of God gives life abundantly to one that will receive and believe in God’s word. 
Unfortunately, many are without the ability to understand the Word due to worldly living and unending chores; some of which include:
· Being too busy, having no time to study the Word of God.
· Preferring to take care of the activities of this world before giving self to the things of God.
· Having a dislike for the word of God that is the truth to accept.
. Living a worldly life is taking the word of God as foolishness 
Will you consider the Word of God as the evidence of His wonders?
It is important to understand and know that the Word of God is the key to retain the presence of God. 
Once in God’s word with Moses, it becomes glaring that the word of God is the presence of God. (God’s way is in His Word; God’s Word is His presence. (Exodus 33:13-14) 
Having an understanding and knowledge in the Word of God is also the source of God’s revelation for getting a clear and unfailing direction in the journey of life). 
Will you come out of all that is keeping you away from the word of God, the wonder of God?
What a wonderful God we serve!
A wonderful God made man wonderfully with honor. 
One with the lack of knowledge and understanding of God’s wonder will set self to perish. The Psalmist said, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.” (Psalm 49:20) The one that knows and understands the wonder of God will know what it means to have been made with honor by God. The Psalmist testifies to the glory of God in His creation of man, “God is mindful of man; man is the one that God pays a visit to; man is made a little lower than the angels; man is crowned with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:4-5) The Psalmist further states, “God made man to have dominion over the works of His hands; all things were made to be under the feet of man.” (Psalm 8:6-7) Gain understanding and knowledge that God invests much into a man’s life and He deserves man’s attention to be living life by His word.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life for God by following Him in His word.

Ecclesiastes 8

Seeking God diligently is following God in His way, living life to please God and be counted for His reward.
Among ways of seeking God by following Him are:
BE AWAKE SPIRITUALLY BEFORE GOD
Are you awake spiritually, living life by the word of God?
The wicked world demands to be awake seeking God diligently and not be asleep spiritually. One that is not living for God is sleeping before God spiritually.
Jesus’ parable is an everyday truth with a spiritual application, it is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning in His parable of sleeping in the place of serving God. Matthew 13:25-30 records, “…but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn.” 
The above parable of Jesus reveals that sleeping will displace following God with the wicked to gain entrance into man’s life. Every time one is sleeping before God will position man to be FAR from GOD that is not FAR to all.
Sleeping before God cannot possibly follow God, living for God.
TO COME OUT OF WICKEDNESS is living right to seek God diligently. It is important to know that the wickedness is continual, walking outside of God’s word. One that is walking outside of God’s word will walk in line with the evil activities of the wicked world.
GOD will judge the wicked world at His appointed time. 
Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 warned, “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.” Seeking God diligently will follow God continually not to be counted with the wicked world at the appointed time of God’s judgment.
Like a seed, sow self in God by seeking God diligently. Follow God to be standing in God.
Seek God diligently is following God by His word to please God and be rewarded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that your step be rooted in His word, to follow Him all the days of life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: With faith, it is possible to obey God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Psalm 91

The standard to seek God is seeking God diligently.
Seek God diligently to please God but not seeking God by mouth. 
To Seek God diligently is rooted in faith. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “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.” 
Seeking God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him and Him in one’s life. Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “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.” 
Will you seek God diligently?
In this wicked world, for your benefit, not deceiving yourself seek God diligently dwell and abide in God. Psalm 91:1-3 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” 
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God being righteous as word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1) The wickedness of this word demands to be wise by listening to the word of God and not follow the dictates of one’s heart.
Seeking God diligently is serving God with no hidden agenda before God.  John 12:26 identifies what it means to serve 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 all to seek Him diligently, to find Him by following Him. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true, seek Him diligently to 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 in His word? 
Obeying God’s word is seeking diligently to keep self in God as His treasure. 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 God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to be seeking Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Desire for the word of God to established in your life.

John 1:1-18

The word of God is God. John 1:1-2 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
The word of God you carry is the evidence of God in you.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
The word of God that enters will give light and understanding not to become a victim of this wicked world of darkness. Psalm 119:130 buttresses, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
God sent His word to heal and to deliver as Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
The word of God is near for man, but man is far from the word of God, occupied by the world. Why not give yourself to the word of God?
God magnifies His word above all His name and Bible records, “…For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.” (Psalm 138:2)
At all times, the word of God does not return to Him void. 
Isaiah 55:11 records, “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.”
The word of God is power for all to live life for the glory of God. 
Hebrews 4:12 testifies, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
The word of God will build one, to inherit among the sanctity of God.
Acts 20:32 records, “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”
To fear God is to hear and learn in the word of God.
The word of God speaks to all in Deuteronomy 4:10, “…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…”
Among the ways of giving self to the word of God to be established in one’s life is meditating the word of God day and night as Joshua 1:8 records, “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.”
Give yourself to the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will locate you to become established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you complaining to confess negatively before God?

Numbers 14:1-38

Complaining in the journey of life does not have a place before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God will not be committed to God, to deny arrival at the destination in the journey of life.
Are you complaining before God? 
Do not complain, it is the expression of dissatisfaction with God that will position one for a painful journey of life.
One thing God cannot do is: He cannot fail!
In every way of life, complaint, the expression of dissatisfaction with a negative confession is not acceptable before God. The word of God warned: “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:6)
The written word of God is a manual of life, to lead with direction to arrive at the destination of the journey of life.
Importantly, give self to the word of God, not to look away from God’s word which is the evidence of taking distance from God.
It was the complaint against God that set the Israelites for a painful journey of life.
The Bible records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:1-4) 
The Israelites’ complaint before God was a negative confession when they reacted to the spy’s discouraging report that was against the Promised Land for the Israelites. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining to confess negatively before God?
One with the complaint will rebel before God.
The Israelites at the coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years’ complaint and rebel before God.
As a believer, avoiding compliant before God is rooted in trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God as Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is the evidence of having hope in God.
Complaints with negative confession should be avoided in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask from God not to become a victim of complaining.