FAITH CAPSULE: Sow your self for God by your way of living life.

John 10

It is worthy to ask self, what have I done for Jesus lately?
What have you been giving back to Jesus?
Do you owe God for the sake of Jesus?
The main reason why Jesus was given to all is for all to inherit eternal life.
Every step that you are taking to inherit eternal life is exactly what you are doing to give self back to Jesus.
Do you believe in God?
All acclaimed believer should walk in His righteousness, living obediently to His command as giving back to Jesus.
Living life should be serving God.
What are you giving back to the Living God that gives life?
With understanding comes to sow self for God by serving Him.
It is true that what a man sows are what a man will surely reap.
In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of perfection.
Any man that sows the seed of lie will reap the fruit of being deceived.
A true believer of God should know Him and not be living life as a liar.
Word of God admonished, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (1John2:4-6)
God invests so much in the life of all but the majority extends so little in return to God.
Today, what do you sow before God?
Be mindful and know that there is nothing that passes outside of God that sees all under heaven.
What kind of seeds are you sowing?
At reaping time, prayer time might have expired and too late to avoid the consequences of failure to sow right before God. It is now that prayer must be activated against the only THIEF with the agenda to kill and deny all from God’s abundance. The word of God makes all to know that, “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. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep” (John 10:10-11)
Celebrating Jesus should not be seasonal but should be of continuous engagement. A Seasonal celebration of Jesus will not count as a way to sow self for God.
Living life to the glory of God will provoke the hand of God in the life of a believer.
God creates all for His glory as stated in Revelation 4:11, “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.”
What are you created for?
It is your new turnaround to sow self for God, live life for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s hand to draw you near for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Complaint will complicate the journey of life.

Numbers 14

A complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction.
A character of a complaint, expression of dissatisfaction will position one for a painful journey of life.
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 [a]excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:6)
The written word of God is a manual to lead all man for a glorious journey of life.
A failure to look away from God’s word is 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 in reaction to the spy’s report of the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29)
With God, there is no place for complaint with a negative confession but a painful consequence.
What is your complaint with negative confession before God?
In the journey of life, with a complaint, complicated with pain will answer as a company.
Addition to a complaint is rebellion.
The Israelites at the coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years’ complaint marked them as rebellious before God.
As a believer, avoiding compliant before God is to be discipline trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall be blessed regardless of a challenging situation. Jeremiah 17:7 stated the importance of trusting and hoping, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting and no doubt is the evidence of having hope in God.
Are you trusting and having hope on God, by remaining focus on God with no complaint and negative confession not to become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoiding complaint before God is the discipline to wait, knowing that God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4, encourages all, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Every failure to wait on God will result in compliant with a negative confession.
Complaint with negative confession should be avoided in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to order your thoughts for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not embrace covetousness which is a sin to deny one from God’s presence.

Joshua 7

The character of a covetous one is a greedy, acquisitive one with a strong desire for, especially material possessions. Covetous implies inordinate desire often for another’s possessions.
Covetousness is rooted in the lack of contentment.
One with covetousness is in sin against the word of God, the evidence of the lack of fear for God.
The Bible records, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17)
Covetousness will stand against one from going forward in the journey of life.
What is it that is hindering you consciously or unconsciously from going forward in your journey of life?
Covetousness is a sin to deny one from obtaining promises in the word of God.
The obedience of the Israelites to God’s word was the reason for their victories over their enemies while their sin of covetousness was the cause of their loss against the people of Ai with lesser might of military.
The Israelites assumed victory against the people of Ai, not knowing that their sin was before God, to deny them victory.
Are you with sin that is enough to deny your victory where victory should not become a victim of being defeated?
The falling of the Israelites was the result of their sin of covetousness before God that prompted Joshua to go before God as stated, “And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought these people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!” (Joshua 7:7)
Joshua did not know that sin was their fall but was curious why their past situations were better than their present challenge.
Are you one with a feeling that your past is better than your present?
It could be that God has departed from you just as He departed from the Israelites due to their sin of covetousness.
On behalf of the Israelites, Joshua pleaded before God when God told him about Achan’s sin of covetousness. Achan’s indiscipline is in covetousness, his disobedient before God which counted against all the Israelites.
Achan transgressed God’s command was rooted in deception. (Joshua 7:10-11)
The sin of covetousness brought the Israelites down, not able to stand before their enemies but turned their backs before their enemies.
In your challenging battle, are you turning your back before your enemies?
As an acclaimed believer that answers as an overcomer in times of challenge, what is it that is overwhelming you?
Consistently, obediently engage the word of God that does not fail.
The obedience to God’s word yesterday will not count for disobedience of today.
The Israelites’ victories in the past were the result of obedience while defeats suffered later was the disobedience which denied them victory over the people of Ai.
In your journey of life, do not embrace covetousness which is a sin to deny one from God’s presence.

Prayer for today: Ask against covetousness in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Inquiring from God is the evidence of one that is after God’s heart.

1 Samuel 30
King David was a man of war from an early age. God identified David as a man after His heart.
When Goliath, the Philistine stood between the Israelites and peace it was David that terminated Goliath’s life.
David was in position number of times to unsettled the arch enemy (Philistines) of the Israelites.
David was wise-full of God’s move, the evidence of him as one that is mindful of God.
David was anointed to be king, years before he actually became the king. Despite his wisdom and knowledge, he did not upset the plan of God to force his way to the throne but gave himself to God’s appointed time.
How often have you diverted yourself from God’s plan because of your timing outside of God’s time?
David was in the position to kill the reigning king (Saul) so many times when Saul was with an attempt to kill him.
Yet David did not take Saul’s life but waited for God’s appointed time to become the King after Saul.
With wisdom and knowledge, he chose to run and hide from cave to cave, wilderness to wilderness, and from one priest to another.
It is worthy to learn from David’s wisdom and knowledge to be inquiring from God before his move. At a time when King Saul was after his life, David wanted to keep his father and mother safe as stated: “Then David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.” So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.” (1 Samuel 22:3)
David also inquired from God before going after the Amalekites that burned the city, took captive wives, sons, and daughters of his men. Bible records, “David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail to recover all.” (1 Samuel 30:8)
David disallowed his glorious past from replacing his reliance on God for direction.
David inquired as he “…attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all.” (1 Samuel 30:17-19)
Inquiring from God is the evidence of one that is after God’s heart, it is one with faith that knows to take a position to attain great exploit for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of continual inquiring for reliance on God for direction.

Faith Capsule: Have you been running away from God’s calling?

Acts 9

When it is God’s time to arrest any man for a calling assignment, there is not going to be anywhere to run or hide from God.
Have you been running away from God’s calling?
Regardless of how long you have been running from God, there is nowhere to hide from God.
To run or hide from God’s assignment can be working against the work of God.
Saul (Apostle Paul) was ran against the work of God.
Saul was going against believers to persecute them when God arrested him. The Bible records, Saul’s agenda, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”(Acts 9:1-2)
Saul (Apostle Paul) purposed evil but God disposed of his evil agenda when he came under the arrest of Jesus.
Saul took to a dark avenue against God but God showed up with light for his arrest.
He was arrested by a shining light. Acts 9:3 records, “As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.” The light of God around Saul exposed him to arrest him, his ears and eyes were open to God’s calling.
Saul could not run or hide but responded to the light of God as stated: “And he said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ Then the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’” So he trembling and astonished said, ‘Lord, what do you want me to do?’ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.’”  (Acts 9:5-6)
The arresting light of God re-routed Saul’s lifetime journey.
Saul had his name changed from Saul to Paul.
Above all, the light which arrested Saul empowered him to live his remaining life under unfailing light of God.
With the light on him, he could not misstep in the calling of God upon his life. Paul’s life could not be stopped by darkness.
The light that brought Saul out from darkness gave him new spiritual eyesight.
The light became Paul’s compass as he operated heaven on earth through all his life.
Are you running from God’s calling? With God’s light, there is no darkness to deny light from exposing one that is running or hiding from God. Now is time for you to stop running from God’s calling upon your life.
God will back you up when He calls you. Be encouraged by the word of 1 Thessalonians 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s light to shine on you that you may fully answer His calling upon your life.