2026-10-14

KEY TO GAIN

FAITH CAPSULE: Seeing in the word of God is the key to gaining in the word of God.

Proverbs 4

What does the word of God say?
Proverbs 4:20-23 records, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”
The word of God says that attention to the word shall not depart from seeing it, to become of such.
Make it a way of life to see in the word of God.
What you see, you receive, and become of yours.
When God promises, see you will take a position to receive the promise.
Have you heard in the word of God and not seen in His word to position yourself to claim the promise?
God promised the Israelites a land that flows with milk and honey (Promised Land). 
At a point in time, during their journey from the bondage of over four hundred years, they chose to dwell too long at Horeb instead of going forward to claim the land that flows with milk and honey.
As a result of the Israelites dwelling too long, God sent Moses to the Israelites, “The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land…” (Deuteronomy 1:6-8)   
Seeing in the word of God is the key to gaining in the word of God.
There was a need for the Israelites to see in the promise of God that the Promised Land was for them already.
The Israelites could not see as commanded by God. 
Are you acting like the Israelite, not seeing in the word of God that moves you to claim His promise but remain stagnated?
Having faith in God is the ability to see in the word of God.
One who hears the word of God will not be a victim of stagnation but move forward to claim the promise in the word of God.
The ability to see what God says is a direct effect of possessing His promise.
It is interesting how promises of God for His children in the pages of the Bible are well laid while His children languish, not see and possess those promises.
As a believer, consciously see in the promises of God the act of provoking force that will generate a move in the direction of possessing the promise of God.  

Prayer for today: Ask to become enabled to see in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What you desire before God is what He will deposit in you.

Psalm 14

Do not stop to pray for reasons before God.
When your prayer focuses on living for God, it shall become established.
Know to seek first about the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:33 states,“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Ask before God is seeking, searching to gain from God according to His word.
ASK FOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD TO OCCUPY YOU.
Know to ask for the reason carrying the presence of God.
God is a saving master, not a slave master.
What you desire before God is what He will deposit in you.
Let your desire set before God to occupy you.
What is your desire that is as good as asking for the presence of God to occupy the life He has given you?
With the occupation of God in your life continually, fully experiencing God becomes your portion.
Proverbs 6:22 records what to experience when God occupies you.
“When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
PRAYER
Ask that your desire for God (the presence of God)occupies you continually so that you become full of God’s presence.
Askthat thelead of God over you in all your endeavors shall be continual.
Ask that in all your sleep, the occupation of God in your life shall answer against forces that locate one in sleep, and no evil shall have a place in you.
AskGod to enable you to hear when He speaks to you.
Take a position of one that knows God, to become occupied by the presence of God.
Ask that the presence of God occupy you to live for His glory.
IT IS UNDERSTANDING, WITH A DESIRE TO ASK FOR GOD TO OCCUPY
Mark, understand that your desire to be occupied by God shall be provoked and manifested.
Asking to be occupied by the presence of God, not to impress your world.
Pray with understanding to gain the attention of God.
The understanding that Jesus is the Lamb of God.
Revelation 21:23 states, “The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”
Jesus is the Lamb of God, the light of God.
Have the desire to be occupied by the glory of God.
God shall enter anyone who opens for Him. 
Revelation 3:20 states,“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
PRAYER
Ask to be occupied by the presence of God that you will live for His glory.
Ask that you be a vessel of God occupied with light and not be a victim of the darkness of this wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Ask God to take over your mind

Psalm 14

Have the understanding to exercise a knowing edge.
Two points to be encouraged are paying attention to and backed with prayer not to become a victim of ignorance in the wicked world.
Ignorance makes a destitute of a believer.
FOOLISHNESS OF A FOOL HAS CONSEQUENCES BEFORE GOD
Among ways of living wasted is living as foolish, consciously or unconsciously.
It is worthy to pray against not to live as foolish.
Living life outside of the word of God is ignoring God, the character of a foolish one.
Psalm 14:1-2 records, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Action, thought, or communication outside of the word of God is evidence of foolishness. 
Pharaoh is an example of a blatant fool.
The actions and ways of Pharao in response to the Israelites ignored the message of God through Moses. 
God said, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness.” (Exodus 7:16)
Foolishly, Pharaoh ignored God to bury his people in the Red Sea.
Be wise, and live by the word of God. 
PRAYER
Ask God to take over your mind so as not to live foolishly.
Praythat in all your thoughts and actions, you will not entertain foolishness against the word of God.
Pray not to act foolishly (like Pharaoh acted against the Israelites) by denying the word of God in any way of life.
KNOW AND LIVE TO COMMIT TO GOD ALONE!
God alone is available for all to live a life of commitment to Him.
Looking away from God is not committed to God.
No one can engage one eye to the world and the other eye up to God in His word with the expectation to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 37:5 advises,“Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” 
The wife of Lot looked away from God, an act of no commitment to God.
Lack of commitment to God is open to self-destruction.
The Bible records that Jesus did not exempt disciples and none He committed to.
John 2:24 warns,“But Jesus did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men.” 
Know to walk along with man, but be committed to God alone.
PRAYER
Pray that your desire for the spirit of God, which enables commitment to God continually, shall be your way of life.
Askthat in all your looking up to God, distractions that lead to failure shall become your portion.
Ask not to be a victim of commitment to the evil world. 
Ask that this year, the leading of God over your life have a place in you so as not to become a victim of destruction like the wife of Lot.
God answers prayer. Open your mouth to pray from the depths of your heart.

2026-10-11

WILLING TO SERVE GOD?

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?

Exodus 3

Seeking God is the purpose of finding Him.
Seeking God demands seeking Him in His way, not seeking God in the way of such.
There is understanding in place for one to seek God and find Him.
Jeremiah 29:13 records,“And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
How the heart set for God will find Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “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.”
When you seek God, make it a way of life, seeking God to find Him.
Seeking God will serve God.
Are you serving God to find Him or serving Him to impress your world?
God creates all to serve Him.
God is the only creator and wants to be glorified and honored.
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.”
God is waiting for His creation to seek Him diligently, denying hindrances of the wicked world.
God is jealous that He wants nothing but for all to be free and serve Him.
What does it mean to serve God? 
To serve God demands all seek Him diligently and set their mind on things where God is above.
The book of Colossians 3:1-2 clearly states, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”
Seeking God will come with the challenges of this world.
Among the reasons not to seek God diligently are:
-One that is yet to be dead in their trespasses will not rise to serve God.
-Inability to put off the body of the sins of the flesh.
-Setting the mind on worldly things more than things above will not serve God diligently.
There is no excuse for taking one’s mind off God’s things to avoid missing God’s presence.
Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?
Have you separated yourself from worldly things you once walked with as a way of life? 
The word requires all to put to death members on the earth, such as fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 
The members on earth will bring the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Colossians 3:6-7)
The word also points directly for all to put off: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of our mouth, do not lie to one another. (Colossians 3:8-10)
Be renewed in knowledge according to the word of God. 
Serve God diligently to experience the power of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him and seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Crying to God is a way to gain His attention.

.Mark 10:46-52

Crying out to God will gain the attention of God.
Do not shy to cry out for the attention of God.
Know that crying out to God is not evidence of weakness but communication with God.
The Israelites cried out to God,“Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.” (Exodus 2:23)
After the bondage of over four hundred years, the cry of the children of Israel provoked the attention of heaven for their deliverance.
God is a prayer answering God, and it could be that the children of Israel did not realize that they were in bondage until the King of Egypt died. Nevertheless, their cry out to God brought them out of bondage.
Jonah needed to cry out to God due to his self-created challenge rooted in disobedience.
Jonah 2:1-2 records, “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me.  “Out of the belly of Sheol, I cried, and You heard my voice.”
Jonah, a prophet of God, put himself into affliction when he disobeyed the command of God.
God called on Jonah, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD…” (Jonah 1:2-3)
Is there any disobedience in your path of life that can cause pain?
God listened and heard Jonah despite his disobedience. Will you cry by opening your mouth wide for the mercy of God due to your disobedience of God’s calling?
Crying to God is a way to gain His attention.
David, a man after God, cried out to God for His attention in the face of his challenge.
David testified,“In my distress, I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.” (Psalm 18:6)
Cry out to God in times of distress.
God was not a partial God to deny the crying of blind Bartimaeus.
Mark 10:47-48 records Bartimaeus crying out, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
The blind man Bartimaeus cried out to Jesus.
At his crying, there was no one in place to keep him quiet.
Do not be quiet to be denied from gaining the attention of God for your deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God not to be a victim and not to gain the attention of God.