FAITH CAPSULE: Praising God is not entertainment to impress a man.

Psalm 100, 1 Samuel 13

Aftermath or upshot of the celebration of the gift of God, it is you to give God the gift of sacrificial such as praise, diligently. Praising God with understanding is giving self to God as a reasonable sacrifice before God, to seek God diligently. The Bible recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” (Psalm 47:7) In life, understanding of all doing is the way to get the manifestation of expectation. Praising God should be rooted in the heart but not pretending praising before any man. Praising God is placing God gloriously high. Praising God is not entertainment to impress a man but a vehicle to enter and locate God for His presence. Psalm 100:4 recorded, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…” There is nothing to be compared to entering God’s presence like praise worship which is sacrificing God diligently.
Praising God is not a display of talent before God, but a way of gaining a place in the presence of God. Psalm 22:3 buttressed, “But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.” Give self to praising God with understanding to gain His presence.
Praising God with self-consciousness is understanding and knowledge to come out of self to give praise to God. Psalm 69:30 stated, “I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.” Giving self to praising God is seeking God diligently with expectation to be raised by God. King David sought God diligently, his praising of God was evident before God when he was bringing the ark of God back to his city. Bible records David’s praise, “Then David danced[g] before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord…” (2 Samuel 6:14-16)
God raised David, and He identified David over King Saul. God spoke through Samuel, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”  (1 Samuel 13;14) A man of heart praising God is a man of praising God just like King David.
Praising God is not only in singing to God but can be a time of declaration of God’s awesomeness for what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do. Continuous praising God is a demonstration of faith that God cannot be limited in what He can do in the life of one that seek Him diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask for praising God diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to give back to God for His gift to all.

2 Samuel 24

Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation not to miss eternal life. Romans 6:23 buttressed, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” God gave us Jesus, besides celebrating the gift of God what is it that you are giving back to God? Celebrating the birth of Jesus is not enough to be counted as giving back to God. What have you been giving back or what are you giving back to God for giving Jesus for you and all?  It is a right doing to be celebrating the birth of Jesus in all season but celebrating His birth in one season is evidence of doing what is right to do in a wrong way. What is the aftermath of your glamorous celebration of the birth of God’s gift in your life? Celebration seasonal is not a license to make eternal life. With the understanding of God’s gift, one will gain eternal life.
What is the aftermath of your glamorous celebration of the birth of God’s gift in your life? Celebration seasonal is not a license to make eternal life. With the understanding of God’s gift, one will gain eternal life.
What are the demands of understanding to gain eternal life?
Sacrifice before God in all season is the understanding that will provoke wisdom and knowledge for all man not to be a victim of wicked world.
A reasonable sacrifice is an acceptable sacrifice which counts for all man before God. Reasonable sacrifice is the evidence of faithfulness. With faithfulness one access one to God with expectation for manifestation. Reasonable sacrifice before God is costly and not cheap. King David testified the need to give costly sacrifice to God instead of accepting free materials for sacrifice from Araunah before God. Bible recorded, “Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.” So, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” (2 Samuel 24:24) Give God a reasonable sacrifice of gift which is costly.
The sacrifice before God, to gain His attention is costly before God which demands seeking God diligently. Deuteronomy 4:29 states it, “…seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” The word of God also requires from man to seek first the kingdom of God, His righteousness and all shall be added all things to those who seek diligently. (Matthew 6:33)
The sacrifice to seek God diligently demands giving self to God in all season, not in a season.
How do we give-self to seeking diligently?
Praising God, Thanksgiving, meditating His word and to believing in His word.
God gave His beloved Son to all, and He deserves the best of the gift from all.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s hand upon self to give self back to God for His gift over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him today?

Luke 2:1-35
Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation. He is here for man’s deliverance and preservation if all man will engage Him, to unwrap Him as God’s gift.
Through the Bible, it is almost impossible to find any name in the Bible that does not answer to its meaning.
Here are some identified names which answered to a meaningful life: Joshua–God is Salvation; Samson–Strong; Delilah–Delicate; Josiah–Jehovah supports; and Samuel–Asked of God; Emmanuel—God with us. However, Jesus’ name answered and still answers as Immanuel. His name is power to deliver and preserve those who know to call in His name.
In this season of celebration, celebrate Him as the Lord and Savior and not as Santa from the North Pole. Jesus is the reason for the season. Get to know Jesus today. Jesus is –Yahweh saves, Immanuel–God with us, Light of the World–One who brings hope and gives guidance, Son of David–One who brings in the Kingdom, Chief Shepherd–Gives guidance and protection, Chief Cornerstone–A sure foundation of life, Firstborn from the Dead–Leads us into resurrection, and Word–Eternal God who ultimately reveals God. Identify with His name as evidence for knowing Him and owe no man or force an apology for knowing Him.
The celebration of the birth of Jesus is not with the understanding of His coming by His believers. Do you know the reason why you are celebrating the birth of Jesus? Jesus’s birth is His coming for all.
Jesus stated the reason for His coming, “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.” (John 10:10) Where there is a lack of understanding of His coming there will be no reason to believe.
The gift of God for all is His love offering for all. Word recorded in 1John 4:9, “In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” Jesus is the love of God for all. 1 John 5:1 speaks to all man, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” It is worthy that from this day, all man should know to unwrap God’s gift to man, as all man’s evidence to accepted God’s gift.  It is time to respond to God’s gift by accepting the love of God and abide in Him.
What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him?
Pay your attention to the truth that celebrating Jesus unpleasingly is a possible unacceptable celebration. With Faith, God is pleased with all man. Faith is the reason to Celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding for the reason of Jesus as His gift for all.

FAITH CAPSULE: The celebration of Jesus with understanding counts before God.

1 John 4

Jesus is coming for all creation at the appointed time of God, as a result, with understanding celebrate Jesus in all seasons, not in one season. Unfortunately, celebrating the birth of Jesus is colorful everywhere but lack understanding among celebrants. When there is understanding knowledge will be in place. Understanding of celebrating Jesus is the celebration that counts before God. The word of God buttressed praising (celebrating) before God with understanding. (Psalm 47:7)
Are you with an understanding of why celebrating Jesus?
The celebration of Jesus should always be at all season but not once in a year.
The celebration of Jesus should be with the understanding that He is the meaningful Gift of God for all man. It is written, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) The verse is to provoke the understand which count before God.
The celebration of Jesus is a secret but a story to ones with the lack of understanding and knowledge.
In this season, gain this understanding: “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” (1 Corinthians 1:30) “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.” (Isaiah 33:6) Knowing the above verses, evidently, one with Jesus the wisdom of God, knowledge shall be with the stability of times.
Are you with an understanding of why celebrating Jesus?
Ones celebrating Jesus should be with the identity as God’s people, but unfortunately, such one’s lack knowledge. The word of God declared in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” Ones, with the lack of knowledge, are with the celebration which does not count before God.
Sincerely, do you know about Him?
Those who know about Him do not believe and know Him. The celebration of Jesus without keeping His word is celebrating with the error which does not count before God. 1 John 2:5 buttressed, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.” Are you of God? Is your celebration confessing you know God that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God?
Giving gift without God is celebrating as one that knows about God but not knows God. Giving the gift of God is giving with love. God is love!
1 John 4:7 says, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
The celebration of Jesus must come with love, at all season of celebration that counts before God. Come out of religion into religion with Christ reality.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your heart of understanding in this season for all seasons.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is the love of God not the lobbying for love with the gift that counts before God.

John 4:1-42

Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is a lobby to gain attention. In this season, at all season give out the love of God as a gift. Man, that is giving out love which is the gift of God is to gain from God.
Are you giving out the gift of love? It is those who know to embrace the gift of God that know to give out with God’s love. Jesus is the indescribable gift of God for all man.  He is not the gift of God to be purchased with money!
Search your self in all your lobbying with a gift to gain man’s attention instead of God’s attention. All the gift that matters to God is to embrace and give out the love of God.
One that does not love God will not give out love which counts before God. To love God is to fear God which is the will of God for all man. With the fear of God is to be in God. Ecclesiastes 12:13 admonished us stating, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandment, for this is man’s all.”
The love of God and the fear of God is living a life consistent to obey His commandments. Is your running around for a gift to dispose of it with God’s love?
Apostle Paul points it out that the purpose of God’s command is to love God. He stated, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” (1Timothy 1:5-6) Paul was not talking about the love that flows from the tips of lips. Paul was talking about the love which counts before God. It is the love of God not the lobbying for love with the gift that counts before God.
Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is engaging religion without Christ but a mere tradition. It is important to know that the gift of God can not be purchased with money!
Jesus gave so much for all man to understand and know it that He is the gift of God for all man.
Jesus’ self-introduction to the woman of Samaria also speaks to all man today. Jesus wants us to know Him when He said, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10) Jesus is the GIFT of God for all man. It is time to come out of religion, embrace religion with Christ.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to have His way in your life.