FAITH CAPSULE: Do not build outside of God.

Genesis 11:1-9, Psalm 24 

God is not maneuverable.
One who wants to maneuver God is looking away from God, seeking outside of God, and presenting oneself as waiting on God.
God is not deceivable.
Without doubt, creation cannot maneuver God, the Creator.
If you are surviving by telling lies to deceive or manipulate your world, know that God, the Creator, sees it all and at His appointed time will expose you.
All should watch it and know that telling lies can build one up for years.
One who builds by telling lies will be brought down by telling lies.
All that lies built up will be brought down by truth as the Lord lives.
One can maneuver the world with lies, but not the Creator, the God of all.
Isaiah 40:28 records, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.”
The one and only Perfect God does have the fullness of the world in His hand. 
The Bible states, “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.” (Psalm 24:1)
Under heaven and above, no one is in a position to outmaneuver God. 
However, when the building is outside of God, it becomes an effort to outmaneuver the only Perfect Creator.
The building of the Tower of Babel was not in line with God.
The builders of the Tower of Babel were agents in the attempt to maneuver God.
The agents are bound to fail.
One that builds outside of God is not focusing on God. 
Genesis 11:4 records, “And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
When there is no focus on God, self-centeredness will fail.
Are you looking away from God? 
The people who attempted to construct the tower of Babel failed to consider that God is in control.
The land and its fullness belong to God. 
God does not tolerate selfishness because it operates in opposition to God.
Self-centeredness represents arrogance and pride.
God saw where the people were coming from, and He knew where they were going with the Tower of Babel.
The act of self-centeredness will go against God.
Genesis 11:7-8 states, “Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So, the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”   
Stop building outside of God.
Do not become a victim of the attempt to maneuver God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live life for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing to wait on God is rooted in knowing God.

Romans 15

Personalize the Word of God as your personal mail from God.
Wait on God as a way of life.
Knowing to wait on God is rooted in knowing God.
One who knows the word of God knows God.
Keep in mind that the word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The word of God is His command.
His word is His direction.
God, in His goodness and mercy, sent His word for deliverance and preservation. (Psalm 107:20)
God magnifies His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2)
It is wise to engage the word of God personally.
Personalize the word of God as it is for you alone.
The word of God is His documentation for all to learn, to gain understanding, knowledge, and to live life according to the will of God.
Romans 15:4 enlightens all, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” 
Engage the word of God as faith-mail.
Faith-mail is rooted in the written word of God for dealing with the daily challenges of life.
With the Word of God believed and received as Faith-Mail addressed to one, from God, to personalize to keep at heart, it will make one full of faith. 
Faithful will know to confess the word of faith when faced with the ups and downs of life. 
Engage the word of God to become exposed to God. 
In this challenging world, skim through the book and expose yourself to engage the word of God.
It is the level of faith that will determine how God responds. 
Keep your heart occupied with the word of God to live life for God.
King Saul could not live for God, a life of disobedience to God.
The disobedience of Saul opened the way for David to enter the calling of God.
Acts 13:22  records “…I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.”  
Indeed, David set himself to seek after the heart of God. 
Thus, God said I have found in David, a man after my own heart. 
In David’s words, he spoke not from his head to impress a man but spoke from his heart by stating that, “I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.” (Psalm 16:8)
Personalize the Word of God as personal mail sent by God to you for your healing and deliverance.  
Personalize the word of God to be identified in the word of God,
This day, begin to set the word of God before yourself to live life by faith (Habakkuk 2:4); to walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7); to watch, stand fast in the faith (1 Corinthians 16:13); to have a purified heart (Acts 15:9).
To receive the word of God personally is to grow in faith and to gain deliverance and preservation.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to receive His word into your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing God or knowing about God is not the same.

Philippians 4

Know God to remain steadfast in the Lord.
To know God is not just knowing about Him.
The difference between knowing about God and knowing God is:Knowing about God:
One who knows about God only reads about God, but does not live by the word of God.
One who knows about God is not living in the fullness of God.
One limitation of the knowledge is the same as a lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6 states, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”
One who lacks knowledge is prone to be heartless toward the word of God.
Knowing God
One with the knowledge of God is with the character of studying the word of God.
One who gives to studying will gain the ability to become steadfast in the things of God.
It is a self-deception claiming to be a believer but just knowing about God and not knowing God.
Do you know God?
Do you know God to be steadfast with God and have faith to walk with God?
The journey of the Israelites was an example of a lack of steadfastness and unfaithfulness to God.  
Psalm 78:37 records, “For their heart was not steadfast with Him, nor were they faithful in His covenant.”
Knowing God is to remain steadfast in the Lord.
Meditating on the word of God day and night is evidence of being steadfast in the Lord.
Meditating day and night will help one to gain and retain the presence of God. 
God did not hide the secret of meditation when He approached Joshua, after the death of Moses. 
Joshua 1:8-9 records, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” 
Get to know God steadfastly, learn to retain the presence of God, and become a candidate for doing exploits to the glory of God.
Retaining the presence of God is the avenue to carry out great exploits, knowing God. 
Are you one who knows about God?
Knowing about God will not move anyone far in this wicked world.
In this wicked world, knowing God will mark one to live life for the glory of God. 
Know God to live without doubt about the goodness of God.
In this wicked world, put aside every logic or philosophy to believe that there is God.
God is the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, with no reason to prove Himself.
The goodness and mercy of God are with the testimonies of God that speak loudly to one who will hear Him.
Make it clear that knowing about God is not the same as knowing God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the renewal of steadfastness for Him in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to live in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 10

One who knows about God will not know God for His expectation from His creation.
Do you know God for what He wants from you?

What God says to one speaks to all.
Deuteronomy 10:12 identifies what God requires from all, not just from the Israelites, stating: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Fear God, walk in His ways, love, and serve God diligently.
Do you fear God? 
Psalm 96:4 informs all why to fear God: “For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.”
To fear God will be able to keep His command.
Deuteronomy 6:2 records, “that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you,”
To fear God is to do according to His command.
Hebrews 11:7 states, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household”
One who fears God will seek God diligently with all heart and with all soul to walk in His ways.
God specifically demands to fear Him, speaking, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40) 
God wants from all is to fear Him, to be able to live for the glory of God.
God is a good God.
To fear will love God to be obedient to His word. 1 Samuel 12:14 admonishes, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.” Have the desire that the fear of God reign and rule your life. 
Do you have faith? 
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Without faith, it is not possible to fear or love God.
Do not just have faith, but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Psalm 139:14 of David testifies, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently to live for God.

Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Enticement is the music of temptation.

2 Samuel 11

The devil is the architect of enticement.
Enticement is a cunning device of the devil with no respect for anyone, sparing no one.
The devil will engage its victim with enticement to distract and destroy.
Enticement and temptation are the same.
Know and not dance to the sound of enticement but remain focused on the word of God.
Enticement lures victims away from the point of focus.
The temptation is not sin, but falling for temptation will cause a man to sink into sin.
King David did not accidentally fall for the sin of sexual immorality, which he committed with Bathsheba (the wife of Uriah). It was through seeing (which is the anchor of enticement) that King David entrap himself into sin.
2 Samuel 11:2  records, “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.”
David, at the right place at the wrong time, trapped himself with sin.
David fell for sin when he saw a woman bathing.
David could not resist the temptation of sin but went on to inquire about a woman belonging to another man.
Getting carried away by enticement will lead to a deadly avenue of sinning before God.
David was identified as a man of the heart of God, but could not avoid sin.
No one should trust themselves against the devices of the devil but trust and hope in deliverance and preservation of God.
The enemy of all is the master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.
When Jesus had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. 
Matthew 4: 3-4 records, “Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, ‘If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
Temptation will fail when enticement is ignored.
Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced the enticement of the enemy, no man is above the cunning enticement of the enemy.
Which of your needs is leading you to become a victim of the enticement of the devil?
Give to the word of God to deny the tempter.
Take to the admonition of Paul as stated in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” 
Abstain from seeing in the wicked world; take to the Word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God not to expire over your life to become a victim of the enemy.