FAITH CAPSULE: What do you see and transfer to the heart for further implementation? 

2 Samuel 11, 12

Sinning is an act that is formed in our hearts, whether is acted upon or not. The Bible warned in the book of Proverbs, “Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it springs the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) The warning does not need further interpretation, other than to let us know that our hearts demand a somber protection from evil filtrations. Jesus taught that murderer begins in the heart. When thought to commit murderer is sustained in the heart it becomes a sin before it becomes an act. During the same teaching, He also mentioned that adultery becomes a sin in the heart before reality outside of the heart. Jesus said in Matthew 5:27-28, “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” What are you looking at? What do you see and transfer to the heart for further implementation? David, a man after God’s own heart committed a grave sin when he saw and transferred what he saw to the heart for further implementation. It was recorded about David, “Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:2-5) Evidently, what David saw was processed in his heart. He could not keep his heart from what he saw in Bathsheba but went to further action that cost him a great deal in life. The word of God cannot be broken and He means what He has commanded us not to do. It doesn’t matter what others think or say about you, because God only goes by what is in our hearts. It is written…“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…” (2 Chronicles 16:9) The verse is a confirmation of the truth that God see what the heart carries.

Prayer for today: Ask God for grace that will allow you to keep your heart diligent and true to Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God that cannot be broken broke them all in the wilderness.

Numbers 14, Joshua 5

The children of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt into the Promise Land were filled with miracles. Despite the manifestations of miracle, they did not travel far when they began to complicate their breakthrough with complains and negative confessions. The journey of eleven days was converted to be journey of forty years. Constant and consistent complaining led to acts of rebellion directed onto God through Moses. The Bible recorded that after they went to spy on the land that God promised to give them, they came back announcing “…we are not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we.” (Numbers 13:31) The statement is an indirect way of calling God a liar. It was rebellious and it moved God to reject them. Complaining and rebellion is sin unto God. God did not overlook their sin but responded, “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. But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.”(Numbers 14:28-31) The Lord reproached the children of Israel for their acts of rebellion towards His promises. The word of God that cannot be broken broke them all in the wilderness. All who left Egypt got left in the wilderness, when they died the younger generation took over. Through Joshua, God commanded circumcision for their children. After their circumcision, God sent Joshua to them saying, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.” (Joshua 5:9) Their Complaints, led to rebellious acts, which was a demonstration of rejecting God. Evidently they became reproached before God. As a vessel of reproach, promise could not be released, they were repositioned from bondage to wilderness and eventually they were replaced by their children. God in His goodness and mercy, through circumcision, rolled away their reproach and they ate from the fruit of the Promised Land. Stop complaining; take off to your Gilgal.

Prayer for today: O Lord, My creator, cause me not to miss my Gilgal. Let reproached be rolled away from me.

FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever your eyes feed on, your heart will live on.

Judges 14

Jesus was teaching the multitude when He stated, “Blessed are the pure in the heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8) By virtue of the word of God, it is safe to say that one of the highways to heaven is keeping your heart from evil. The book of Proverbs talks about how to keep heart from evil, “Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) A heart that is kept with diligence will be pure. To be pure in heart is to be righteous. To be righteous will identify a believer as one with integrity. A believer with Integrity is one who is undiminished in having and living the life of Christ. Living life honestly by the word of God and not living life deceitfully is turning back to God for a pure heart. The pure in the heart are not wicked and they will see God. Taking control of the things that you expose yourself to is one the ways that you can engage to keep your heart pure. Jesus called the eye the lamp of the body in Matthew 6:2, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” Whatever your eyes feed on, your heart live on. For a heart to be well kept you need keep your eyes away from activities that could pollute the heart and keep it from being pure. What you see determines what your heart receives. What you receive then determines what you become. Why not take control of your eyes by constantly redirecting it to what is good? Every challenge in the life of Samson started when he saw a woman. The Bible recoded in Judges 14:1-3, “Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.” In the seeing of Samson, disobedience came from his heart against the parents. When disobedience takes root in the heart, purity is erased from the heart. Position your self for blessing and not pollute your eye with bad.

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you and enable you to hear and see good things in your ways.

FAITH CAPSULE: When God place His call upon your life you will have to answer to what must be done

Acts 9:1-19

Have you answered to what must be done for you to enter into God’s divine assignment for your life or you are waiting on God for what must be done? As a believer do you know what must be done for you to fulfill your divine assignment? Going and coming to fellowships on weekdays or Sundays will not substitute for any believer’s divine assignment. Through the Bible, every man that answered to the calling of divine assignment was able to answer to what must be done. The difference between believers who are serving to the fulfillment of their calling is their answering to what must be done. However, either you are a believer or not, when God place His call upon your life you will have to answer to what must be done to fulfill your divine assignment. It was recorded of Saul of Tarsus, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (Acts 9:1-4) Saul of Tarsus was on his way to wreck havoc on the disciples of the Lord in Damascus when he encountered what must be done for him to live the fulfillment of his destiny in Christ Jesus. After Saul’s response to the light that shone on him and brought him down to the ground, he asked who the Lord is and Jesus responded by introducing Himself. In Saul’s response to Jesus’ introduction, it is recorded in Acts 9:6, “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Saul received instruction about what must be done. Also, Saul’s name was changed for good to Paul and from the moment of receiving instruction, Paul began to move in the direction of God’s assignment for his life. Determination is not what will help; but the grace of God is what will get you into your divine assignment. The Word of God promises that “He will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go and He will guide you with His eye” (Psalm 32:8).What must be done in your life will get you to where you must be in the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you to locate what must be done to serve the Lord in deed and in truth.

FAITH CAPSULE:He is not a slave master but a Saving Master.

Micah 2, 3

Absolutely there is no word that is strong enough to describe the awesomeness of God. He pardons iniquity, and does not retain His anger forever. He delights in mercy; He is compassionate; He casts all our sins into depth of sea. God is a covenant keeping God. Amos 3:7 describes Him, “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” God revealed to Micah what will happen in the latter days, Micah 4:1-5, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it. Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and rebuke strong nations afar off; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken…”” What more can God do for us so that we know we have a God who truly cares for us. The birth of Jesus was not hidden when He revealed through some of His servants in the Bible. He revealed to Micah about the coming of Jesus long before Jesus was born, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.” (Micah 5:2) Have you received and believed Him? A failure not receive or believe in him is a passage to the ways of his enemies. Nahum 1:2-3 described God’s wrath on His enemies, “God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies; the LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way…” He is a good God. He is not a slave master but a Saving Master. God does not run out of mercies but by disobedience, we often run out on the mercies which He has in place for us.

Prayer for today:  Ask our Lord God to deposit His fear in your heart so that you will not depart from Him.