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NEED TO KNOW GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: There is a need to know God, to be able to walk with God.

Psalm 34

Know God and know the truth.
The character of knowing God knows the truth to be free.
John 8:32 states, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Do not settle for knowing about God.
Knowing God, the truth of God walks with God to be free, living life for the glory of God. 
Determination is not enough to qualify one as walking with God.
A desire (not just determination) to walk with God shall provoke God to deposit what it takes to walk with Him.  
Get to know God in His word, walk with God, and stay close to God more than ever before.
The challenging time is now.
One who is right by walking with God does not have an excuse not to have challenges but shall experience the deliverance of God in it all.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
God has walked people through challenging times they have never experienced before.
God, the unchanging that changes stagnation to motion for good, is still on the throne to walk those who walk with Him through the place of challenges.
Get the understanding that things will never be what they were.
Put aside anything that would keep you from walking with God, not to see, and hear from God, continually.
What you hear from God is for you with the understanding but makes no sense to others outside you.
In walking with God, what one hears is what one will see. Also, it is what one sees that one will receive to become such.
Noah walked with God, he heard to be obedient to God to ignore others.
Prayerfully walk with, before Him, in Him because the best and the worst time is now, but all will live the time to experience that God alone is the unchanging changer, the only God that reverses the irreversible.
With desire, prayerfully ask for enablement to walk with God.
Enoch walked with God to have a healthy 365 years and had sons and daughters.
Enoch did not die a sudden or untimely death as God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Noah walked with God at a time of corruption and destruction. 
Noah walked with God to find grace before God. 
Genesis 6:9-10 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons…” 
Abraham walked before God when God called him out to walk before Him. (Genesis 17:1) 
Abraham walked with God by walking before God, to be blameless and possess the promises of God for his life.
Walking with God is walking for God, also in Him.
WALKING IN HIM
The word of God points out that walking with God, before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 states, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
Have you believed and received God into your life?
Know God, not knowing about God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to walk with God.

REST IN THE WORD

FAITH CAPSULE: Gain rest in the word of God.

2 Chronicles 1

Live for God to gain His rest.
Know to celebrate every day to the glory of God.
Ignorance makes a destitute believer celebrate only when happy.
Celebrating joy is incomparable to celebrating happiness.
Know God to calculate the move of God for every moment in life. 
2 Peter 3:8 states, “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” 
Come out of religion into religion with the of Christ. 
Celebrate every moment that God has given you.
Listen with understanding, and celebrate every God-given day, not as you wait to celebrate a New Year. 
How are you celebrating every moment before God?
Celebrate God by praising Him at every breath, every moment!
In this wicked world, give yourself to the rest of God.
The wicked world demands the rest of God in the word of God. 
Gain rest in the word of God, not to live a life of waste.
The word of God heals and delivers from destruction.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
The word of God is an undoubted solution for all situations.
Live every moment, continually give yourself to the word of God, the perfect rest solution.
Without a doubt, rest rooted in the word of God will give one rest to stand and not fail in the wicked world.
Wisdom and knowledge give to the rest of God.
Understanding the case of King Solomon is the testimony to the desire for stability with wisdom and knowledge: “Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge these great people of Yours? Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king—wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like.” (2 Chronicles 1:10-12)
To gain the rest of God at every moment, understand the fear of God, the beginning of wisdom and knowledge to understand God. (Proverbs 9:10)
Every God-given day demands understanding, wisdom, and knowledge hidden in Christ, not to be a victim of this wicked world. 
Daily, all should give themselves to Christ to prayerfully gain rest from God by asking to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to gain in the word of God as a solution for rest.

GOD IS TRUE

FAITH CAPSULE: Every promise in the word of God will not fail.

God is a good God. His goodness is His blessing.
Living life for God is the undeniable condition required by God for one to claim and gain the promises of God.
Every promise in the word of God does not void.
Isaiah 55:10-11 records, “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 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.”  
The promises of God are in His word.
One with knowledge and understanding of the word of God is a condition for man to claim and gain His promise.
Every promise in the word of God will not fail.
Clearly, through the pages of the Bible, claiming the promises of God comes with a condition (doing according to the word of God).
For example, Exodus 19:5 records, “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
Hear the word of God and do as commanded to gain His promise.
Deuteronomy 6:17 also buttresses, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.”
The verses above identified the condition to claim and gain the promise of God:
Is your way of living life going to deliver the promise of God in your life?
Word of God promises, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Live life for God, know to ask, seek, and knock to provoke what to gain.
In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of perfection. 
Live life as one who knows God because anything short of the truth of God is living a life of a lie.
Living for God is sowing self in God and keeping His commandments. The word states, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (1 John 2:4-6)
One with work before God but without walking in Him is not enough.
Living before God demonstrates believing, but walking before God is behaving in the word of God, the character of living for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life for God.

TO FIND GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently.

Isaiah 51

To find God is to seek God diligently.
The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently to please God but not seek God by mouth. 
To please God is rooted in faith. 
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
To seek God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him.
One that finds God will have God in such.
To seek God diligently is identified in Deuteronomy 4:29, which records, “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.” 
Will you seek God diligently?
In this wicked world, for your benefit, do not be deceived, seek God diligently dwell, and abide in God. Psalm 91:1-3 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” 
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God being righteous as the word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1)
The wickedness of this word demands becoming wise by listening to the word of God.
Listening to God will not follow the dictates of the heart.
Listening to God will be awake with strength.
Righteousness is listening to God and seeking God diligently to find God.
Seek God diligently which is serving God with no hidden agenda before God.  
John 12:26 identifies what it means to serve God, “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.” 
In serving God there is a need to seek God diligently.
One that follows God can not possibly walk in darkness as declared by the word of God in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true.
Live to seek Him diligently to find Him.
David is an example of one who followed God with his heart and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8)
With the desire to seek God diligently, follow His righteousness in His word. 
Have faith, to possibly obey the word of God, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you be able to seek God diligently.

GOD IS HIS WORD

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire for the Word of God established in your life.

John 1:1-18

What one does not understand will not answer to having a knowing edge in a challenging life?
Understand to have a knowing edge in all areas of life, the Word of God is God.
John 1:1-3 records understanding: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”
Without any further description, the Word of God is God.
The Word of God is light. (Psalm 119:130)
When the Word of God gains entrance into life, it gives understanding.
Jeremiah 23:29 also identifies the reason for engaging the Word of God, stating, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
The Word of God is crucial to engage as a way of life.
Psalm 138:2 God magnified His word above His name, evidence of the importance of giving self to the Word of God.
Psalm 107:20 records God sent His word for healing, deliverance, and preservation.
How much understanding one possesses will excel to the glory of God.
The Word of God is a food that needs to be found and consumed.
Jeremiah 15:16 testifies, “Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, o Lord God of hosts.”
Are you feeding on the word enough to build you up for His glory?
In Acts 20:32, Apostle Paul admonishes all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
Give yourself to the Word of God that will build you up.
One that the word build-up is not breakable by the force of the world.
One built by the Word of God and doing according to the Word of God will dwell and abide in the secret of God.
To dwell but not abide in the secret of God does not qualify to gain the promise of God.
The prayer of all should be asking for the strength of God to enable living by the Word of God.
The minute of the word prayed can deliver the greatest manifestation.
Remember the mustard seed?
Matthew 13:31-32 records, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, 32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Prayer for today: Praying a minute word of God with understanding, as a custom of prayer time, a great result is undeniable.