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GOD’S HONOR IS UPON YOU

FAITH CAPSULE: God made man wonderful with honor.

Psalm 8, 103

Are you one with God’s honor upon your life and not know?
Without understand and knowledge, one will live life as with no honor and be reduce as an ordinary one.
Lion’s understanding and knowledge as an animal with honor, like a King in the jungle, will not give up and be reduced to join a goat to be feeding on grass in time of lack as goat feeds on grass.
With understanding, get to know that you are with honor, by God’s doing.
God is a perfect God.
God is a wonderful God in the creation of His hand.
God made man wonderful with honor.
When a man lacks knowledge, and understanding of God’s wonder, a man undoubtedly set 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 who knows and understands the wonder of God in His creation of man will know what it means to be an honor. 
The Psalmist testified to the glory of God in His creation of man by stating: “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 stated: “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) Consider that all God has done and invested into a man, demands a man to agree that God made all to be His wonderful creation. God, having bestowed so much upon every single man is not wrong to have so much expectation from all His creation to obey His words of command. 
Just as if all God has done for man is not enough, He went further to put several daily benefits for a man in place. King David testified to God’s daily benefits, “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation!” (Psalm 68:19) King David agreed that blessing the name of God should be rooted in understanding and not just by mouth. David went further in Psalm 103 to identify the daily benefits of God for man: “He forgives all our iniquities; heal our diseases; redeems life from destruction; crowns us with lovingkindness and tender mercies and satisfy our mouth with good things.” (Psalm 103:1-5) The daily benefits are evident in our life daily if there are knowledge and understanding to appreciate God as we live before Him.
The point here is that all need to understand and know that in the Word of God, a man is wonderfully made and daily loaded with benefits. Whenever you are praising and blessing His Holy name, let it be rooted in understanding.
Understand and know that creates you with honor.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God be activated for you to live life for God’s glory.

ATTENTION!

FAITH CAPSULE: There is no substitute for obeying the word of God. 

Matthew 7:24-29, James 1:21-27

The only way to obey the word of God is by giving self to hearing and doing the word of God.
So many hear the word but almost none are doing the word of God. 
So many quotes the word of God but not carry the word in the heart but on the head. 
So many congregate in the name of God to hear the word but not to do the word of God.
Are you a hearer of the word of God that constantly does the word?
The word of God stated as regard to hearing and doing the word, “The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9) 
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.” (James 1:22-23)
A believer who is constantly disobedient to the word of God is like a car speeding in the dark with its headlights turned off.
Does that sound like you? 
It will only take one moment for the driver to have his life set up for evil occurrences.
How long would a driver continue to drive in the dark without the headlights on? Such that continues driving wrong is not giving attention to the word of God which is the light to navigate safely in this wicked world. 
God is a merciful and jealous God who desires constant attention from His creation, Exodus 34:14, “For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” To gain the attention of a jealous God requires sincere and consistent obedience before His holy name. It does not matter who you are in the Lord, neither does it matter what role you play in the Kingdom of God’s business, If obedience is not in place, walking with the Lord shall not be possible. 
Jesus’ mother and brothers received a warning that could have denied them their access to Him, “Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd. And it was told Him by some, who said, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You. But He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”(Luke 8:19-21) Do you desire to see Him when you look for Him just as His mother and brothers went to look for Him, or do you want to continue to ignore Him? 
There is a need to look for Him by calling on Him and making way to Him through consistent obedience to His word. 
There is no substitute for obeying the word of God. 
Every believer needs to observe the word of God by hearing and doing the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask in your prayer to become a hearer and be a doer of the word of God.

AVOID PRAYER HINDER

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you holding a list of unforgiving? 

Matthew 6:5-15, Mark 11:20-26

Are you one that claims not to have sinned before God?
The word of God states, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) Indeed, with sin, no man can reach God.
Jesus came for the forgiveness of our sins before God. 
Colossians 1:14 records, “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” For a man to claim the grace of forgiveness, man must know to forgive others.
Are you forgiving others?
Word of God warns against not forgiving, “But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:15)
Are you holding a list of unforgiving? 
With the spirit of unforgiving, praying will not fly to God.
Disciples of Jesus approached Him to teach them how to pray. His teaching, He states, “And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.” (Luke 11:4) It is clear that before the debt of sin can be forgiven by God, one must have been able to forgive others. 
Unforgiving others is a prayer hindering spirit. 
An unforgiving one is engaging a position of the unfulfilled mission of answering to the calling of God.
A major hindrance to an acclaimed believer’s prayer is the inability to forgive others. 
The word of God emphasized the issue of forgiveness, “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him that your Father in heaven may also forgive your trespasses.” (Mark 11:25) 
A believer that cannot stand in prayer will not prevail. 
God wants all to be constant and consistent in forgiving those who are indebted to one. 
Are you with expectations for prayer to be answered?
As expected of prayer manifestation, know and become one that forgives others. 
The issue of giving self to forgiving others is just a reminder that might give way for miracle expectations. 
Today, you have to forgive certain in your life to allow the open door of a miracle. 
Today, allow an answer for a long-awaited breakthrough becomes your portion.
Allow God to work on your behalf by letting unforgiving spirit bow to a forgiving spirit. 
Praying with a forgiving spirit is a mountain-moving prayer. 
God cannot be deceived He sees our hearts. Proverbs 20:27 stated, “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.” We cannot go to God with a claim of forgiving while the layer of unforgiving exists in the inner depth of the heart. 
Forgive and not become a victim of failure. 
Jesus warns, “But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”(Mark 11:26) 
God is true to His word when He said that with sin, no one can see Him.
Today, come out of living a life of unforgiving but live life to become a forgiving believer to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to bring you out of the spirit that is holding down as an unforgiving one.

GOD’S WORD IS HIS COMMAND

FAITH CAPSULE: Faith failure is a failure when not specifically in response to God’s command.

Numbers 20:1-13

The word of God is not a suggestion but a command that must be obeyed.
The word of God is not for a decoration to be despised but to be declared.
The word of God is for man to be engaged with diligence, continually.
In the word of God, there is healing, deliverance, preservation for any man that will give self to the word of God.
The word of God is the truth of God, for all not to despise God.
To despise the word of God will lead to destruction. The book of Proverbs 13:13 warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”
The word of God is His command.
At all times, there is no reasonable excuse to disobey God’s word (His command).
A failure to disobey the word of God is a choice that comes with a consequence. 
Any attempt to obey God in our way is a clear avenue to self-destruction, the evidence of one that despises God. 
God gave a word of direction to Moses, the ordained overseer of the Israelites at the deliverance from the bondage of over four hundred. The Bible records, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”(Numbers 20:7) The word of God to Moses was not a suggestion, but a command from God.
In response to God, Moses chose to despise the word of God, the promise of God over his life. 
Breaking the word of God is the choice to disobey God and not hallow God. In the life of a journey, failing to hallow God is an avenue not to get to God’s divine assignment.
Moses, a giant in the hand of God, reduced his fulfillment and could not enter the Promised Land which God promised the children of Israel.
Be specific in your response to God’s command.
God commanded Moses to provide water for the children of Israel by speaking to the rock but Moses made his own choice to struck the rock, against God’s command.
Moses did right in the wrong way. Water came forth but he fell short of complying with God’s command. The Bible states, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, ‘because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.’’(Numbers 20:11-12) Moses was not specific to God’s command when he struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock.

Prayer for today: Ask God that your faith will not fail.

OCTOBER 2019 FAITH-MAIL

GIVE SELF TO GOD’S WORD

The word of God is the living word, the word of God is His presence.The word of God testifies that: 
The word of God does not sleep.
The word of God is not stagnated. 
The word of God is always near to all, regardless of how one takes a distance from God because of one’s sin.
The word of God, the living word of God will always come to give direction to one that is opened to receive God’s direction.
Bible testifies in Psalm 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”  God, by His word, will come to deliver all that will receive His word as His presence.
John 10:10 states about His coming to deliver, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus, the living word of God is here, by His testimony above, He said, “…I have come…”
When the word God comes to you with direction for your deliverance, to live life abundantly, will you allow the word to ENTER you?
A failure for the entrance of God’s word will not set one for deliverance.
Bible records what happens when the word of God enters:
“When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things” (Proverbs 2:10-12) The word of God that enters shall depositWisdom, knowledge, and understanding to set one to excel, living life for the glory of God.
Psalm 119:130 also testifies, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
Are you a simple one that is living life as a believer of God?
Simple on can be a believer of God’s word as Proverbs 14:15 states, 
“The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps.”
When the word of God comes, it becomes one’s choice to open self for the living word of God.
Will you allow the living word of God’s entrance into your life?
Many hear without listening ability to know and live life by the living word of God, but turned to tell lies in the name of God, which is wrong before God.
Telling lies before God is adding or taking away from God’s word as Revelation 22:18-19 states, “If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” 
Consciously or unconsciously, a liar before God will add or take away from God’s word.
A liar does not call for justice; a liar gives self to empty words, to do evils. Isaiah 59:4said it, “No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.”
Are you a liar?
A liar that quotes God’s word wrongly by adding or taking away from God’s word will not be able to claim the promise of God in His word. 
For example, one quoting, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper…” is not complete, but takes away from God’s word which will deny not to receive the promise of God.
One must give self to the word of God as the Bible records, not to be denied but to receive the promise in God’s word as Isaiah 54:17records, “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.”
When adding or taking out of God’s word, receiving God’s promise in His word is not possible. 
One that takes or add to God’s word, does not give self to God’s word and not answers as God’s servant.
One’s world can represent a stage of confusion when not giving self to the word of God.
One’s that pleases self by not doing right by the word of God in the place of giving self to please God is with a lack of understanding before God.
Give self to the word of God continually, to build you up and live life in the truthful of the word of God.