FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to seeking God diligently to find God.

Isaiah 51

All which man need is in seeking God diligently. Matthew 6:33 pointed out, “…But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” In this wicked world, seek God by serving God to dwell and abide in God.  Psalm 91:1-3 buttressed, “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.” As a believer, not an unbeliever, it is a secret to seek God by dwelling and abiding in Almighty God.
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God.
Seeking God diligently is following righteousness as pointed in Isaiah 51:1, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” With today’s world of wickedness, it is wise for one to listen and to give self to God’s word. One that is not giving ear to hear will not gain an understanding of Him. Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.”
Seeking God diligently is serving Him. Serving God is also following Him with no hidden agenda because He knows all man. Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow Him. John 12:26, “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.”
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently for finding Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word which will not lie. John 8:12 confirmed, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him. David was a man like us and sought-after God. 1 Kings 14:8 testified, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only    what was right in My eyes.” Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness in His word? Unchanging changer God, yesterday, today and forever once warned against not seeking to follow Him in 1 Kings 9:6-7, “But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.” Think and search who or what you have set before your way of living life outside of living life, following God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to move on you, to seek Him diligently in this season.

FAITH CAPSULE: REST SOLUTION not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is all man’s solution to navigate this wicked world.

2 Chronicles 1

With understanding celebrate every day as the world celebrates every new year. Ignorant makes a destitute of a believer celebrating one year as a thousand year. 2 Peter 3:8 stated, “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” Come out of religion into religion with Christ reality. Celebrate New Day as you celebrate New Year!
Listen, with understanding, celebrate every God-given day just as the way you are celebrating a New Year. A New Year that will count by God must be a thousand years as stated above. Do not be one with world religion celebrating God-given day glamorously once a year.
Are you celebrating New Year with New Year resolution? In this wicked world, give self a REST RESOLUTION. The Wicked world demands REST SOLUTION. Rest solution for all man is in the word of God if one will study, understand and know the word of God. Isaiah 33:6 buttressed, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Without a doubt, REST SOLUTION not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is all man’s solution to navigate this wicked world without becoming a victim. Gaining understanding for wisdom and knowledge in the word of God is stability, strength to persevere and have fear for God.
A true believer of God must come out of self-deception to give self for understanding in the word of God for wisdom and knowledge which is the means for stability in this wicked world. Understanding, wisdom, and knowledge are the Spirit of God that cannot fail in the life of one with the Spirit of God. (Exodus 31:3)
Understanding of King Solomon’s case is the testimony to have the desire for stability with wisdom and knowledge: “Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge these great people of Yours? Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king—wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like.” (2 Chronicles 1:10-12)
For your REST SOLUTION in every given New Day, with understanding, fear God which is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge to understand God. (Proverbs 9:10)
Every God-given day demands understanding, wisdom, and knowledge that is hidden in Christ and not be a victim of this wicked world. Daily all man should give self to Christ to prayerfully and gain REST SOLUTION by asking to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Prayer for today: Ask for wisdom and spiritual understanding in the word of God to be ordering your step daily.

FAITH CAPSULE: This far, fear God!

Psalm 64

Thus, this far, your living life this far is God’s doing. Think of it! Living life this far is not a right but great privilege of God. Are you acknowledging God’s privilege over your life? The glamorous celebration of God’s gift in one season is not acknowledging God but arousing self’s emotion. However, this far is time to reflect and to allow the fear of God to take charge of your life. Fear God which brought you this far.
To fear God is to live the life of fulfillment to the glory of God.
It is important to fear God as recorded in the pages of the Bible.
Learn and know or to remind self of the fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
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, and that they may teach their children.”
Job 28:28, “…And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding…”
To fear God is abiding in Him and not depart from Him.
Jeremiah 32:40 buttressed, “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.”
Are you serving God with no understanding? Serving God is to fear Him. Psalm 2:11, “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.”
Living life in the promises of God demands to fear God.
Psalm 25:12-14, “Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses. He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth. The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.”
Psalm 33:18 “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.”
Psalm 34:7-9 “The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORDis 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.”
Let the fear of God keep you under the eyes of God.
Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.”
This far, fear God!
Revelation 2:10 said it all, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer.” Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
Why not allow the fear of God become your priority?
This far, let the fear of God become you compass to arrive at God’s divine agenda for your life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His fear to take over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: In giving thanks to God is getting attention from God.

Psalm 136

Give God the sacrifice of thanksgiving continually to seek God diligently. Giving thanks is not a thinking engagement. Giving thanks is rooted in faith, appreciating God for what He has done, what He is doing and all He will do. Giving God thanksgiving, praising God continually lines together and cannot be separated. Psalm 100:4 recorded, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”
God is a God of jealousy while giving Him attention is what pleases Him to give back His attention. In giving thanks to God is getting attention from God.
King David’s successful to return the ark of God to his city prompted thanksgiving to God. The thanksgiving of King David stated, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!” (1Chronicles 16:8-9) King David’s thanksgiving called upon God and made known God’s deed. Thanksgiving of King David is recorded for our learning to gain understanding about what it means to give self to the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. Giving thanks to God is not a casual engagement. With understanding, giving reasonable thanks to God demands continual doing.
Jesus’ encounter with ten lepers pointed out that God awaits all man’s thanksgiving at all time. When Jesus healed ten lepers, only one of the lepers returned to give thanks to Jesus. Jesus reacted to one leper’s thanksgiving, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:15-19)
Giving thanks to God is a reasonable sacrifice, it is a good doing before God.
Psalm 92:1-2 stated, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High” Thanking and praising God is an act of declaring His goodness at all time. The Psalmist stated when to declare His thanks, to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night.”
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle. Volumes and pages of a book will never be enough to identify what thanking and praising God is doing.
Giving God the sacrifice of thanks is giving self to seeking God diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with heart of seeking Him with thanks giving diligently.