FAITH CAPSULE: God gave all to man, and all man should give back to God.

1 John 4

The gift of God for all man is perfect. In the gift of God, there is no expiration date in the gift of God but must be received. A failure not to receive God’s gift is not to unwrapped God’s gift. In the journey of life, do not become wasted but unwrap and engage God’s gift.
Do you know the gift of God which is near you or you only know about the gift of God?
At this time of the year, lack of knowledge ride over the life of many around, looking and seeking for an expire-able gift to impress or satisfy the world that is around one.
Why is it that you cannot give self to God’s gift?
What is the gift of God to all man?
Salvation through Jesus Christ is the gift of God all man. Romans 6:23-24, ” But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Do you know the gift of God or you only know about the gift of God to all man?
Bible recorded Jesus’ self-introduction to the woman of Samaria which does not know Him, “…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.
Which kind of expensive or cheap gift are you chasing after to lay hands for impressing families or friends? Why not decide for giving the GIFT of God that is free to give out to your world?
Do you know the GIFT of God for you? GIFT of God is near and not far from man but not knowing the GIFT of God is man’s ignorance not unwrapping GIFT of God.
Often, man is decorated by the GIFT of God but not declaring the GIFT of God. God is not evidence in the way of man’s life.
Salvation through Jesus Christ is a gift from God if one will open self to the love of God.
The salvation of God is like a vehicle while the driver is be a believer of God. For example, the Israelites came out of the bondage of Egypt was God’s salvation, but they are unbelieving as the driver could not deliver them to God’s Promised Land.
The gift of God is the love of God for all man. This season is the reason that we should give God our love. 1 John 4:7-8 buttressed, “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.” God gave all to man, and all man should give back to God.

Prayer for today: Ask God’s mercy to live life by giving self to His Gift.

FAITH CAPSULE: What a man sow is what a man will reap

Proverbs 14

–Mercy of God is attainable when we trust God and cry out to Him
The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5). Trusting God to meet our need is a way of living by God’s word, looking up to God. Looking up to God is keeping eyes on Him. God will have His mercy on ones that look up to Him. The Psalmist buttressed, “Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God until He has mercy on us” (Psalm 123:2).
Looking up to God with the voice of cry can be a way of gaining mercy from God. Word testified, “And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” (Luke 17:13) God is merciful.
-Mercy is attainable when we ask God for forgiveness
Every time we sin and ask God for forgiveness, it is God’s mercy that we receive in return. It is written, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5). Among character of God is mercy. Calling on God to ask for forgiveness of sin will provoke forgiveness of sin by merciful of God. Just like other pages of the Bible, Proverbs 28:13 testified, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsake them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). Seek diligently to attain God’s mercy by confessing your sin.
-Mercy is attainable when we do good.
Anyone that devises evil will get evil in return while he that does good gets good in return. Once, Haman devised evil against the Jews, but Esther’s response to Mordecai’s guidance led Esther to receive privilege before King which denied Haman’s evil devise. Bible recorded, “Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.” (Esther 8:3) Esther devised good, and mercy answered on behalf of all her people (Jews). The Word of God in Proverbs, which states, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. (Proverbs 14:22) is true.
Mercy is obtainable according to what is sown.
A wise saying states that what a man sow is what a man will reap
Indeed, as close as banana and plantain look alike, one cannot sow banana and reap plantain. What a man sow is what a man will reap. Hosea 10:12 buttressed the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.”
Before God, with no exception, a man will always be responsible for his or her giving and taking in every area of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you seeking Him for lining life in obtaining His mercy.

FAITH CAPSULE: Mercy is attainable when our life aligns with the word of God.

Romans 9

Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God.
Mercy means God is compassionate or kind forbearance that never runs out.
Mercy means loyal love; it is the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God.
Only God renders mercy unto man unfailingly.
The mercy of God, not our merit, is the reason God answers.
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation for the release of His mercy.
God declared and was testified of in Romans 9:14-16, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
With God’s mercy in place for His creation, nothing under heaven is powerful enough to displace it from overcoming the challenges of the world.
AMONG WAYS OF PROVOKING GOD TO OBTAIN HIS MERCY ARE:
Mercy is attainable when our life aligns with the word of God.
When we live our life according to the word of God and do His will, God will always grant us His mercy. Joseph’s life was the evidence of one that lived according to the word of God and did God’s will. Every time there was an incident that could tempt him to violate the word of God, he did not. In one instance, he denied the offer to sleep with his master’s wife by claiming, “…How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9) Joseph’s reaction to his master’s wife provoked God’s mercy for Joseph. The Bible went further to state, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21).
Mercy is attainable when we love God
Demonstration of our love for God will always provoke the mercy of God.  The Bible makes us realize that loving God is keeping His commandments (John 14:15).
Using Joseph’s example above, we will notice that he kept God’s commandment by forbidding adultery when he fled away from sleeping with his master’s wife. Joseph loved God to obtain the mercy of God.
Mercy is attainable when we ask or plead for His mercy.
God testified that there is none like Job on the earth; a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil (Job 1:9). The character of Job does not excuse him from a position of begging for God’s mercy when he stated, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). God’s testimony about Job could not qualify him for God’s mercy without pleading for God’s mercy.  Psalmist asked for God’s mercy saying, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). Mercy belongs to God to give His mercy as He pleases to.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you seeking Him for lining life in obtaining His mercy.

FAITH CAPSULE: God’s calling over one’s life is not negotiate-able for one’s preference type before God.

Psalm 105

God has a calling for all man with a different assignment.
God created all for His purpose, for His glory.
God’s word confirmed that our Lord God is worthy to receive glory and honor and power. He created all things to exist. (Revelations 4:11) Whatever God calls you for, or when He calls you for His purpose, to send you will mark you as a candidate for His blessing.
The calling of God does not come without challenges (challenges that are enough to cause the calling of man to crumble comes along with calling) Regardless of challenges, there is the promise of God to see one through in His calling. The word of God promised in 1Thessalonian 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” What or when God calls for you and you invite doubt the agent of limitation is erecting a roadblock for your miracle. Deny doubt!
In the type of God’s calling over one’s life is not within one to decide or negotiate for one’s preference type of God’s calling to answer before God. God is the Creator of all and sees before or beyond all our journey in life. In all of God’s calling, there is a plan of God to set one up to arrive at the center of divine assignment if called one will focus on His faithfulness.
When God calls, there will be no prior arrangement; there be no announcement before calling; there be no baggage to hinder or slow one down. Above all, God’s calling will break one before the manifestation of God’s blessing.
In the calling of God, Joseph, in his journey of answering to God he was broken before the manifestation of God’s blessing over his life.
Joseph answered God’s calling over his life without knowing the journey of God’s calling ahead of his life.
At age 17, Joseph’s answering to Jacob (his father) was the route for the path to his center of divine assignment.
Jacob said, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14) The answering to Jacob led Joseph into the journey of God’s divine assignment without preparation before entering of his God’s calling.
The book of Psalm 105:17-22 shed light on the truth that Joseph’s journey was his answer to God’s calling. Psalm 105:17-22, “He sent a man before them Joseph who was sold as a slave.” They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. “Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.” Joseph at 17 years could not see his beloved father Jacob until 30 years of age. Joseph, from a priced slave, became prime minister.

Prayer for today: Ask God for God’s established hand upon your life to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you a seasonal believer decorated with the world?

2 Timothy 4

The gift of God for man is not seasonal but for all season. The gift of God for man is permanent meaning that His gift is irrevocable. Jesus’ introduced Himself to the woman of Samaria which does not know Him, “…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. Romans 6:23 buttressed, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Jesus is the gift of God that is to be unwrapped, received by all man. All man that receive the Gift of God should be living life for God, seeking God diligently. One that receives and unwrapped the gift of God for self is one that seeks Him diligently.
How are you living life for God? Are you well rooted in God like and stand for God like a well-rooted tree with fruit which is ready to produce for God in all seasons?
God’s gift to all man is with God’s expectation for all man to receive and be in the position of giving back to God. Jesus the creator of the fig tree expected fruit, but the fig tree was with no fruit for its creator in all season. Bible recorded, “Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response, Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again…” (Mark 11:12-14)
The fig tree was decorated with leaves but could not declare fruit for its creator.
Are you a decorated believer like a fig tree with no fruits for God?
Seasonally available fruit before God like a fig tree is not acceptable for all man before God. Word of God warned against the seasonal believer as stated, “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” (2 Timothy 4:2) Before God, a seasonal believer is not complete living life for God. A seasonal believer is lack of knowledge, does not know God.
Are you a seasonal believer that is decorated with the world but not decorated by God’s
word? Do not deceive self but give self to God. Live life for God, seek Him diligently and fear God to obey Him according to His word.
Come out of religion with no Christ is embracing God’s gift in all season.

Prayer for today: Ask and seek God to give you one heart and one way, that you may fear in all the days He has given you.