FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the truth, He came for truth, and He lived truthfully.

John 14

Do you know the truth?
Truth is nothing but true.
Truth does not deceive nor manipulate.
Truth will not tell lies, and telling lies is not in alignment with it.
One in distance to truth is close to missing in the way of life.
How are you responding to the truth that comes your way daily?
Truth will teach and lead when it is accepted.
Do you know the truth?
Jesus introduced Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”(John 14:6)
Jesus is the truth, He came for truth, and He lived truthfully.
He was, and He is still the truth and cannot fail.Without doubt, if the world chooses to stand against His truth, He is more than able to overcome.
All should live in truth.
If living in truth is impossible, God would not have demanded living truthfully in this wicked world.
Jesus is the truth.
Living in truth is living in the way of God.
Jesus came to life and led the way for God.
The way of God is not the way of the wicked world, but He has come to lead all into His ways. The truth of the matter is that truth is threatening; Jesus was a threat because of His truth.
Truth is threatening.
Truthfully, Jacob’s love for Joseph was more than his love for his brothers, and it was not a sin. Jacob’s truth about his love for Jacob was not a secret; it was not a lie or an evil agenda, but the brothers could not accommodate the truth.
Genesis 37:4 records, “… when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.”
When Joseph had a dream about his brothers, he told the truth and the way in his dream. The truth about the dream will position Joseph as the head of the whole family without exception.
Joseph revealed the truth about his dream, but his brothers responded, stating,“…Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.”(Genesis 37:8)
The truth about the dream prompted his brothers to reject Joseph and eventually sell him into slavery.
Truthfully, according to his dream, he became the head of his family.
In this wicked world, any attempt to have truth covered or eliminated will only last for a period before truth takes over.
Jesus speaks to all, as He spoke to Jews who believed Him, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”(John 8:31-32)
Accept truth, let it teach and lead you.

Prayer for today: Ask that the truth of God reign and rule your life.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Have the choice not to give in to worry rooted in fear.

John 10:10

Make it a way of life to look up to God, the creator of all.
Being worried and troubled in the face of a challenge is the result of not looking up to God.
Are you beholding your challenge?
Exodus 14:10-12 documents the issue of fear by the Israelites, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The Israelites knew that God would deliver, but they gave in to fear. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled, instead of worshipping God to have the peace of God. 
To be worrying in the place of worshipping is always the root of negative confession.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews.
John 20:19 records, “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.”
While they were locked in fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
Looking up to Jesus as Lord and Savior, one shall experience that He is always around to uphold.    
Faith in Jesus for His peace to reign. 
After Jesus had spoken peace into His disciples, their eyes of the mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion that He carries. 
John 20:20 records, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  
The disciples looked up to Jesus when they heard His word to come out of fear. 
Do you know that Jesus carries a mark on your behalf?
The devil is the author of fear. John 10:10 records the encouraging word of Jesus, for all not to worry, not to give in to fear, “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. “
It is a choice not to give in to worry rooted in fear.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live in the boldness and character that is in Jesus. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Come out of the bondage of sin, Jesus has paid to be free.

John 14

Without understanding God, one will lack knowledge of living for God.
The will of God is to exist for His glory.
The will of God is for all to exist to give Him glory, honor, and power.
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.”
When there is no understanding, there will be no power to strive and know not to live a life of obedience before God.
The life of one in obedience to God is not a vessel of disobedience before God, and it is not in bondage to sin.
The bondage of sin takes away life, but Jesus came to give life abundantly.
Jesus paid the price by going to the cross for the sinners.
All should be obedient to the word of God, living life for God, not a life of sin.
Sin is the character of evil to kill and destroy.
Jesus said He is here to give life abundantly.
John 10:10 encourages, “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.”
Choose against the slave of sin.
Jesus has paid on the cross, shed His blood, and resurrected after His death by crucifixion.
Jesus triumphed over death.
Live life for God, come out of the bondage of sin, Jesus has paid to be free.
Make it a way of life, not to live in bondage to sin.
All should live a life reflecting the price paid on the cross by Jesus, reminding all not to live a life of sin.
Celebrating the price paid on the cross for all not to be victims of sin, but to take life abundantly, Jesus brought.
It is worthy to give regard to God for the price paid to bring all out of the bondage of sin.
Living a life not of bondage to sin, giving regard to God as a way of life, to be filled by the word of God, not the world of sin.
One that is not free is in bondage.
John 8:43 informs, “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
One who knows the truth will be free and not be a victim of bondage.
Meditating on the word of God, the way, the truth of God, is bound to be free from the bondage of sin.
John 14:6 identifies the only way not to live a life of bondage, stating, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Know the truth, not about so as not to be a slave of sin.

Prayer for today: Ask for the power of the resurrection of Jesus to answer in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Let the month answer as the month to come out of the bondage of sin.

Romans 9

Pray to come out of the bondage of sin.
As the grace of God has brought you this far, He is more than able to see you through the coming months and years in the name of Jesus.
Living life day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year is a great privilege of God.
God alone creates all, and has not contracted anyone to help Him in the creation of anything.
God creates all for His glory, honour, and power.
Are you one with the idea of how your creation was outside of God as your creator?
Prophet Jeremiah testifies to the evidence, the understanding of God as the creator of all, stating, “Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
Understand and know that God creates all.
Knowing God is to live for His glory, honor, and power.
Not to live for God is living against His word.
Living against the word of God is sin, not giving regard to the word of God.
Sin and sinning are a bondage, a way not to live for God.
Sin and sinning are not of God but to set one away from God.
Sin walks in the opposite direction of God.
A failure to do as commanded by the word of God is sin.
With sin, no man can reach God.
Giving an excuse in place of disobedience will not avoid the consequence of disobedience.
Sin is with no excuse for the consequence.
For your sin, are you counting on excuses before God?
Romans 3:23 admonishes, “…all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
To become short of the glory of God is not to access the presence of God.
It is bondage when sin and sinning become a way of life.
There is no excuse for sin before God.
Title or role engaged before God will not count but bring painful consequences to the sinner, a disobedient to the word of God.
Answering as a believer or holding a title, making sin a way of life will prompt the consequences of God. 
The mercy of God answers for deliverance from the bondage of sin, you know and do not know in your life.
The mercy of God is not the evidence of one who knows to do right.
Romans 9:15 records the word of God to Moses about His mercy, stating, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Are you conscious of life of sin and sinning as a way of life?
To lack understanding to live for God will not have the knowledge to excel in the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to live a life of sin.