FAITH CAPSULE: Sin is sin with no excuse for the consequence of sin.

Genesis 3

For your sin, are you counting on excuses before 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 sin with no excuse for the consequence of sin.
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.
Is sin and sinning your way of life?
There is no legitimate excuse for one with sin before God.
Adam and Eve violated the word of God, and there was no reasonable excuse for their sin. 
Adam did not ask God for a helper when God created Eve as his helper. Genesis 2:20-22 confirms,“…But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” 
The sin of Adam was rooted in the disobedience of Eve, but it was not a legitimate excuse before God.
Genesis 3:9-13 documents that God called on Adam for his sin and his excuse for sin: “Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, ‘Where are you? So, he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. “And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
The sin of Adam does not have a reasonable excuse before God, but provoked the consequence of sin over Adam.
Are you living a life of sin and sinning and counting on excuses before God? 
Be warned, know, and understand that sin and sinning are not excusable 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.
As a temple of God, are you taking care of the temple of God? 
The word of God records, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). Answering as a believer, making sin a way of life, does not stop the consequences of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you not to be a vessel of sin and sinning.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you assuming the ability to hide from God?

Proverbs 4

God alone creates all.
No one can hide from God in all ways of life.
How can a creature hide from the creator?
Jeremiah 1:5 said it all, “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.”
Are you assuming the ability to hide from God?
Search and know how to live for God to gain and retain the hand of God in your life.
No heart that can hide from God.
It is the heart of all that presents one before God. 
Every heart does not hide before God, who sees all about the doing of the heart.
Genesis 6:5 testifies how the heart of all exposes the wickedness before God. “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” 
Keep in mind that no one can precisely see what another heart is doing.
Jeremiah 17:9 testifies, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The Bible points out that the heart is where the rise and fall begin. 
Satan makes the heart a target, a launching pad to attack. 
Judas spent time with Jesus, yet his heart made him available as a playground for Satan. 
The book of Luke 22:3-4 states,“Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” 
Satan went after the heart of Judas to establish his plan of betraying Jesus. 
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks and gains a position in the heart.
Peter was close to Jesus and could also have been a victim of the devil. Once, Jesus said to him, “…Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:31-32) 
The only proven target for the enemy to strike is the heart. 
Ananias and Sapphira sell their possession to buttress the fellowship but lie about the proceedings, “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land for yourself? (Acts 5:3)
Evil doing is the business of Satan, and he has taken the hearts of all as a target. 
The word encourages, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Meditate on the word of God to disengage Satan from the heart. 
Keep the heart diligently from evil by meditating on the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for enablement to keep the heart diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: In this wicked world, keep focus on God by leaning on the hand of God

Daniel 1

In this wicked world, do not allow the challenges before you to become your focus, to deny your focus on God for His hand of deliverance.
Know to remain focused on God as a way of life in the wicked world.
As a result of the fact that your expectation of the past did not manifest, know that it is never too late for the manifestation in the coming days.
In this wicked world, keep focus on God by leaning on the hand of God, which is not short for intervention.
God is a merciful God who does not sleep or slumber.
God does not overlook His children but shall respond at His appointed time.
Time is in the hands of God, but only the clock can be turned back and forward by man.
Keep eyes on God for His hand that is not short.
Isaiah 50:2 records the question of God stating,“Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver?”
Isaiah 59:1 also records the testimony of the hand of God, stating, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save…”
The hand of God is worth keeping eyes on God without ceasing.
The wickedness of the world cannot stop the deliverance in the hand of God.
Through the pages of the Bible, there are deliverances of God that are not beyond His hand.
At a young age, Daniel, the wicked of the world, placed him in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar for destruction, but the hand of God intervened for his deliverance.
Daniel refused to deny his focus on God while in captivity.
At one point, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” (Daniel 1:8)
As a captive, challenges before Danial could not set him up against his God but positioned him for promotion from level to level.
What is your stubborn challenge in the past month?
This day, be encouraged, be assured in the hand of God that is not short. It is the same hand of God that delivered Daniel that will also deliver and preserve those who keep their eyes on Him, in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Daniel faced challenges, but the hand of God was not short for Daniel.
Daniel gained promotion, but the challenges could not overtake his life.
Daniel ended up in the den of lions.
The lion received a promotion to receive fresh meat (life of Daniel), but had no appetite to feast on Daniel as the fresh meat.
The life of Daniel was in the hands of God for his deliverance from untimely death.

Prayer for today: Ask for the agents of evil in your life to become food for lions.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be humble in your ways of life to live obediently to God.

Philippians 2

Giving regard to God as a way of life is not to live a life of waste.
Live a humble life.
Understand God to live life for His glory.
One who understands God knows God.
Give regard to God and be humbled in His presence.
To be humble will enable one to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure.
A humble person is often one with a low estimate of their own importance.
God pays attention to how all conduct themselves in the journey of life. 
James 4:10 testifies that God pays attention to humble ones, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” 
One who is humble is meek.
The Bible identifies the meek ones:
Psalm 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “
God is consistent and committed to His promise as 2 Chronicles 7:14 records the promise of God for humble ones, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you humble and glaring by your way of life?
With the desire, will you give yourself to become humble, to claim the promises of God over the life of one who is humble?
Are you considering how to remain humble in this challenging time and not become a vessel of faith failure? 
Philippians 2:3-8 identifies several ways to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
Be humble in your ways of life to gain the attention of God.
Jesus humbled Himself and was obedient to the point of death on the cross.
Moses was humbled, Numbers 12:3 testifies, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” 
Make it your way of life to be humbled, keep your eyes on God, and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become humble before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Are you one about God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?

Genesis 39, Esther 2:1-18

Giving regard to God in every possible way is the effort of seeking Him diligently, to find Him.
One who understands God knows Him.
One with no understanding of God certainly does not know God.
To understand Him is to listen to God.
Give regard to God, and He will remember you.
God remembers with favor.
Psalmist prayed, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.” (Psalm 106:4)
Favor is what makes the difference in every journey of life. 
When God pours out His Favor, one shall live life for the glory of God.
The favor of God is with the grace which God freely grants. 
God for yesterday is still the God of today and tomorrow, having mercy on whom He chose to have mercy on.
Are you one about God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?
By your way of life, do you rightly deserve the favor of God?
God is merciful, and if you sincerely desire His favor, He will deposit His favor over your life.
Esther experienced the visitation of God not because she was perfect in her way of life.
Esther was an orphan raised by her uncle after her father and mother had passed away.
While at the palace of King Ahasuerus, Esther experienced God.
The failure of Queen Vashti was the gain for Esther.
Queen Vashti lost it when she dishonored King Ahasuerus, the door to favor for Esther to become the queen.
Today, pray that a door of favor will open for you.
Esther experienced favor to be chosen among many women to become the queen in place of Queen Vashti. 
Esther 2:9 documents the channel of the favor Esther, “Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.”
In your challenge, are you seeking the favor of any man or woman?
Esther did not need additional help because God was operating on her behalf. 
When the favor of God is in place, all that it takes to meet every need will be in place. What you thought was a need shall become available for you. 
Favor is not your merit; it is God working on your behalf. 
Favor has no age barrier or any form of discrimination.
Only God alone has the power to grant what He desires in the life of any as He desires.
It is never too late for you to be blessed and highly favored because He is a faithful God.
Are you with the expectation of the favor of God?

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to walk with Him.