FAITH CAPSULE: Be connected with the understanding of God to retain His presence.

Psalm 34

The Word of God is God. 

John 1:1 confirms that the Word of God is God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
Are you with understanding to know God in His Word?
Indeed, one with no understanding of the Word of God cannot observe to see God in His Word, to fear God, to live life in obedience to God.
The evidence of the lack of understanding of God is that one does not hear the Word of God.
John 8:47, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” Search yourself to know if you are of God.
Do you understand God to seek Him?
Psalmist buttresses: “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3)
To fear God is studying Him to understand and know His Word, the key to all that matters in living life.
With understanding, knowledge, and wisdom, one will have a place before God.
Firstly, “…But knowledge is easy to him who understands.” (Proverbs 14:6) One with the understanding of God will always have a knowing edge over challenges, and a peace that surpasses all understanding becomes the identity.
Secondly, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding…” (Proverbs 14:33) 
Wisdom is the instruction of God.1Corinthians 1:30 states, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” The wisdom of God in the heart of man is Jesus in the life of man. Meditate on the Word of God Day and night to remain in the presence of God.
God identifies David as having a heart for God.
David, a man after the heart of God, teaches the fear of the Lord when he states, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.” (Psalm 34:11) David knows what it is to have an ear to hear and fear God that kept him in his challenges.
DO YOU FEAR GOD?
Psalm 34:13-14 identifies four points in one who fears God: 
1. Keep your tongue from evil,
2. Keep your lips from speaking deceit, 
3. Depart from evil and do good,
4. Seek peace and pursue it. 
In this wicked world, one should meditate on what it means to fear God. Abraham served God because he feared God. Hebrews 11:8 testifies, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.”
Just like Abraham, fear God, give yourself to obey His Word to retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to listen and gain understanding to seek God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is a good God. It is a must to fear God when living life for His glory.

Deuteronomy 10

By faith is to be-living (believe) the word of God for the glory of God.
Believing by the word of God is not by the mouth.
What does God want from all? 
Deuteronomy 10:12 identifies the answers: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves Him, and serves God diligently.
Do you fear God? 
Seek God diligently with all your heart and with all your soul to walk in His ways. God spoke to the Israelites, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 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.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40) 
God wants from all is to fear Him.
God is a good God. It is a must to fear God when living life for His glory.
To fear will lead to loving God and being obedient to His word. 1 Samuel 12:14 admonishes, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.” Have the desire that the fear of God will reign and rule your life. 
Do you have faith? 
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Without faith, it is not possible to fear or love God.
Do not just have faith but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Get to know and understand as a faithful one. 
Pray with a desire to be what God calls all men to be when He made you.
What does God want from all?  
Psalm 139:14 of David testifies, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently, and is bold and character in the ways of life.
Be faithful with fear and love to live as fearfully and wonderfully created by God. 
Today, come out of self-deception and pay attention by listening to the word of God. Live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience to God is seeking Him diligently.

Genesis 22

It is reasonable for all to know, understand, and be mindful of the truth that God alone created all to live life for His glory and honor.
Revelation 4:11 records, “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.” 
There is no reasonable excuse for anyone not to live life for the glory and honor of God but to take God for granted. 
In your service to God, are you pleasing yourself but displeasing God? Knowing God as a long-suffering God without living life for His glory is not a license for any man not to be living life for the glory of God. 
Living for God by lifting your hands in submission should be with the expectation of reaching God. 
Live for God to remain connected with God as a way of life.
God is a good God; He is worthy.
All should seek God diligently with all heart and with all soul to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 speaks to all, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  What do we do to live life for God when seeking God diligently instead of taking God for granted?
1. TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY is obedience to HIS WORD
Exodus 19:5 recorded, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” 
The Old Testament records the obedience of the Israelites. 
The New Testament records the benefit of the demonstration of the disciples of Jesus.Luke 5:4-6 states, “When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless, at Your word, I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.” 
Obedience is seeking God to live for His glory. Disciples of Jesus obeyed to be enabled to live life for God as a fisher of men.
2. TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY will fear God, not to withhold from His word.
Abraham lived life for the glory of God. Abraham could not withhold from the command of God.
God recognized the obedience of Abraham to His word and said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12)
Abraham could not take God for granted but lived for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, what kind of a believer are you?

Isaiah 37

Claiming or answering as a believer, can you search to tell the kind of believer you are?
There are unbelieving believers, and also there are believing believers.
Who are you?
Unbelieving believers are conversant in the word of God
They carry the word of God in their mouths but not in their hearts.
Unbelieving believers can be identified by a character not Christ-like, not living by the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Today, with a desire to live life for God, ask that God will enable you to begin to live life by the word of God, to live life for the glory of God, and not to live a life of waste. 
Prayer is the rod of a believing believer that prays with understanding for deliverance and preservation to excel to the glory of God.
Ask for the mercy of God to enable you with the strength of prayer continually before Him.
King Sennacherib of Assyria went against King Hezekiah; it was the prayer that brought down the Assyrians.
Hezekiah sent for Isaiah.
Isaiah 37:6-8 records the response to Hezekiah,” And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”  
Hezekiah was prayerful against the Assyrians when he concluded his prayer before God as stated, “Now, therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord, You alone.” (Isaiah 37:29)
God answered the prayer of Hezekiah.(Isaiah 37:21)
Ask that what represents the Assyrians against your destiny be terminated.
Also, the blasphemers against you shall fall and not rise again.
Ask that every threat against your life shall be shattered and not stand against you.
Answering or living life as a believing believer is not an excuse from praying continually.
The word of Paul the apostle encourages in Acts 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
As a believer, let praying before God be a central place in your life continually.
Hezekiah was sick when God sent Isaiah to reveal the cause of his sickness and his near death.
Isaiah 38:1 states, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.”
Hezekiah did not hesitate with an excuse but responded to the message of the Lord in Isaiah 38:2, “Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord.” 
Prayer of deliverance before God is not an excuse for all.

Prayer for today:  Ask God to enable you with strength on the prayer altar.

FAITH CAPSULE: Understand and know the help in the word of God.

Psalm 107

Understanding how to claim and experience the help of God.
The number of challenges that mount against you is not beyond Go.
Without doubt, God shall deliver you if you give heed to the word of God.
The word of God is for deliverance and preservation.
Understand and know how to engage the word of God in helpful ways.
Psalm 107:20 encourages the deliverance that the word of God carries, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Are you expecting God for healing, a breakthrough from being broken down, or having a way where there is no way? 
Before God, there is no difficulty to experience possibility where there is an impossibility.
The word of God is the power of God to deliver anyone who will listen to hear the word of God.
Listening with understanding will see in the word of God.
To see in the word of God will be able to receive the saying in the word of God.
For you with the word of God: Paying attention to the word of God is listening to hear, to see, to
receive, and will become of you.
The word of God is the power of God not to be ignored by a believer in God. 
Help of God, from God by God, is unfailing to gain when engaged with trust and hope in God.
Often, a believer’s ignorance makes one destitute of such.
Disobedience is a rampart device of the devil to sway man, particularly a believer, that gives self to a way that seems right in the place of living by the way in the word of God that is certain to deliver. 
Proverbs 14:12 warns all, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
The way of God will deliver when heard in the life of one who hears the word of God.
Whose word are you giving yourself to in this wicked world?
Is it the word of whom you count on that you give yourself?
Pay attention and know that the one you count on is the same one you commit. 
Count on the word of God to gain His help, the character of hope.
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, could not commit Himself to any man because He knows all. 
John 2:24 testifies, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men.”
Understand and know that the help for all is in place by God, in His word, since the time of His creation.
Why are you looking out for help outside of God?
God is the Almighty God, and by His hand, He will not look away from those who seek Him in His help.  
Know that the help of God is here!

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to give yourself to His word continually.