FAITH CAPSULE: Know God to understand and follow fully.

Numbers 14

It is the will of God for all to live for Him.
Do you know that it is the will of God?
Without understanding, there is no knowing.
Lack of understanding of God means not knowing God, but may only know about God.
The lack of understanding in serving God does not serve God according to God.
All are created to serve God.
The reason to be living is serving God.
A believer in God must serve and worship God with understanding.
As an acclaimed believer, are you serving God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength?
To serve God wrongly comes with a costly consequence. 
Uzzah served God with good intentions but lost his life.
The attempt of Uzzah to keep the Ark of God from falling took away his life.
His act of serving was against the Word of God that forbids anyone from touching the Ark of God.
The Bible records, “Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.” (2 Samuel 6:7) 
Uzzah failed in serving God.
The utmost for the Israelites coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years was to go and serve God.
At their coming out of the bondage, God required them to serve Him; however, their service was incomplete.
Faith-failure was the bane of the Israelites.
In their challenging times, they confessed negatives by murmuring against God. 
God responded to Israelites’ faith-failure through Moses as stated: “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)   
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is evidence of not following Him fully. 
Are you serving God fully to avoid a failure to arrive at the promise of God? 
With your desire to serve God, what is holding you back from serving God acceptably?
Jesus responds to believers, “Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24) 
Are you with a limited understanding to serve God?
Do you commit to serve God?
Serving God demands following Him fully.
Jesus admonishes, “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.” (John 12:26) 
With understanding, serve God so that you will not be terminated.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will serve God with understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not conform to the world invested in evil.

Romans 12

 A diligent mind will not conform to the world.
Apostle Paul warns, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God is.” (Romans 12:2)
What can you think that you are conforming to that is not of God?
Conformity can be action or behavior in correspondence with current customs, rules, or styles. 
The apostle Paul warns all not to conform to this world.
Conformity to this world is thriving even among the acclaimed believers, not just unbelievers of the world. 
What is it about this world? 
The ruler of this world is the wicked one, the liar and the destroyer, the devil himself. 
The devil engineered the fall; it was the evil one who led Adam and Eve into disobedience that kicked them out of where God had placed them, the Garden of Eden. 
It is a warning for believers and unbelievers of the word not to conform to this world.
To be conformed to this world is rooted in the mind of man.
Today, how is your mind? 
Without a doubt, the mind is the battleground where the enemy operates.
Avoid the enemy from occupying your mind by renewing your mind with the word of God. 
One way of renewing the mind is commitment and constantly meditating on the word of God. 
Be committed to God, meditating on the word of God to deny evil from the heart.
The evil, the father of lies, goes around looking for someone to devour. 
Evil is an active, constant, and consistent evil-doing. 
Always keep the mind away from pride, from which all evil branches.
Self-centeredness, stubbornness, and rebellion are among the branches out of pride. 
Isaiah 26:3 admonishes, “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in You.” 
Make it a way of life by keeping the mind stayed on God.
The calling of God is not a confirmation of getting to the expected end but an indication that God wants you to get to His calling over your life.
In all the callings of God, with answering, there will always be an undoubtedly evil challenge with an attempt to deny the arrival of the called one to an expected end.
God does not fail to back the called up if the called will back off from every ground that does not glorify God. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 is an encouragement in the calling of God, stating, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
In all, challenges will come, but God will deliver in all. (Psalm 34:19) 
Have you received the calling of God or the calling of the world? 
With your desire and prayer before God, the grace of God shall enable you to arrive at the calling of God over your life. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to become a victim of the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: By telling lies, God is not deceived at all times.

Acts 5

A liar is nothing but a twister of the truth of God.
Twisting the word of God is adding to or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God can be lying in the place of telling the truth.
Twisting the truth is evil that needs to be avoided, not to be part of the way of life.
Deuteronomy 19:19 warns, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
Put away lies; the identity of the evil.
By your actions and your word, are you responsible for twisting the truth of God?
Avoid ignoring or not intervening to correct lies that are not true.
An adage states, “Tell the truth and let the enemy be ashamed.” 
As a believer, there is no excuse to avoid or not deny liars that you know.
Are you an acclaimed believer of the word of God but twisting the truth of God?
By telling lies, God is not deceived at all times.
Give yourself to the word of God to attain perfection in Christ Jesus as
Colossians 1:28 buttresses,“Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” 
Search for yourself to determine your stand before God.
Refrain from twisting God’s truth as your way of self-defense while engaging in wrongdoing.
One engaging in twisting the truth of God will become convinced that lying can make a way where there is no way. 
Do you know that twisting the truth of God is evidence of taking distance from God?
Twisting the truth of God will keep one far from God, to become set for evil. Psalm 56:5 testifies,“All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.” 
Are you one with no means of controlling yourself from unwarranted talking that is a route of twisting the word of God? 
Are you with the impression that God is in your twisting agenda? 
Romans 3:5-8 documents that twisting the truth does not stand before God at all times, “But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.”
Embracing lies is also twisting the truth of God, positioning oneself for destruction.
Do not embrace lies as your way of life, which is the character that twists the truth that will come to light to experience exceeding pain. 

Prayer for today: Pray not to live life as a liar.

FAITH CAPSULE: Disobedience has a consequence before God.

2 Samuel 6

God is a good and gracious God.
God will not void His word, and neither shall there be any excuse for anyone to violate His word.
The order in place for the ark of God was without exception.
God warned not to touch the ark of God.
At the time of transporting the ark of God to Jerusalem, at a threshing floor (a place for processing grain), Uzzah reached out to prevent the fall of the ark.
It was unintentional of Uzzah to touch the ark, but the word of God is with the intention for man to keep orderliness in the word of God.
It is a death penalty for anyone who touches the holy object of the tabernacle of God (Numbers 4:15) 
In the word of God, there is always a condition to achieve His promise.
Word of God stands to perform with perfection when there is obedience without violation. 
The Word of God does not return void to God; gain understanding of God to avoid self-destruction.
Isaiah 55:11 buttresses, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
Disobedience to the word of God will not excuse destruction as the consequence of disobedience. 
Are you obeying or disobeying the word of God?
Proverbs 13:13 warns all, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
God as a merciful God is no excuse for sin against Him.
Uzzah lived in the days of the law does not allow him to sin, and living in the days of His grace is no excuse to be living a life of disobedience to the word of God. 
The book of Roman 6:1questions, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”
The direction of God is His order. Living outside of God is living in disorder.
Moses, a giant in the hand of God, had no reasonable excuse for his disobedience before God.
Disobedience has a consequence before God.
Once, Moses received an orderly direction but disobeyed God.Numbers 20:8 records the word of God disobedient by Moses, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus, you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” 
Moses went and struck instead of speaking to the rock.
He took the order of God in his hand to call them rebels.
One that is out of the order of God is out of the ordination of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will keep you from disobedience to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is for your benefit to know, understand, and ask before God.

Luke 11:1-23

Understand God in His word so as not to pray amiss.
In your prayer, ask God to enable you to live by the will of God.
Pray for the will of God over your life.
The will of God is His plans or thoughts concerning the life which He has given to His creation.
God confirms in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” 
Revelation 4:11 records the thoughts of God towards His creation: 
“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.” 
It is the will of God for all His creation to exist for His glory.
God is worthy!
Glory and honor belong to God.
Power belongs to God alone.
God meant what He said, and He will do what He says He will do. 
God is a good God with good thoughts toward His children. 
The good thoughts of God are not in the assembly line but already in place.
It is for your benefit to know, understand, and be asking for the will of God in your life.
Jesus encourages, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9) 
He did not say beg because you do not beg for what has been in place for you. But with the evidence of having a desire for the will of God, you ask, seek, and knock to receive from Him. 
Asking is praying or calling on God through the name of Jesus Christ. Asking sometimes requires consistency or persistence, but the bottom line is that children will have to ask before receiving. 
Prayer does not have to be in multitudes of words nor colorful words. 
Prayer is not limited to time or location. 
Prayer does not have to be in repetition.
Prayer can be loud or quiet, but engage in fervent prayer.
A prayer encased in the word of God is a powerful prayer that moves mountains.
Faith has its source in the Word of God, and through the Bible, mountains could not resist, but the prayer of faith moves mountains. 
Do you carry the word of God? 
In your prayer, the word that you carry will answer as fire to burn off the agenda forces before you to the glory of God. 
Jeremiah 23:29 confirms, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord…”
The word of God is fire.
With the knowledge and understanding in the word of God, know to ask and not fail to receive, not to miss manifestation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to seek to live by His will.