FAITH CAPSULE: See God in His word that is His promise.

Genesis 13

The word of God is God.
One in a position to hear the word of God should activate oneself to see in the word of God.
The word of God is His promise.
Among the evidence of looking up to God by seeing in his word, shall be to be settled in the promises in the word of God.
When God makes a promise, those who fail to see in the word of God shall miss out on His promise.
Has God promised and not delivered?
The word of God does not fail to deliver.
Isaiah 55:11 records the unfailing promise of God, “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.”
Waiting on God is seeking with patience, the character of seeking God diligently.
Seeking God diligently in His word is looking up and seeing in Him to live life for His glory, to be in the center of His divine assignment.
God commanded Abraham to look in the direction of nothing but to trust and hope for the manifestation from God. Bible recorded:  And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your [c]descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.” (Genesis 13:14-17)
Abraham heard the word of God to see the promise of God.
Abram was able to look in the word of God to see land for children while he was yet to have a child in his life.
After the word of God that sounded in the direction of Abram, he rose and walked in the promise of God as evidence of the faithfulness of God.
The word of God commanded Abram to hold on to faith, to have children when he was past the age for children.
God spoke to Abram: “And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, This one shall  not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.” Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” (Genesis 15:4-5)
The belief of Abram is the evidence of his righteousness.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to see God in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: With listening ability, one is to gain understanding.

Ezekiel 3

Wait on the word of God, understanding God, in His word, will live for God.
The destination of the word that sounds in the direction of all is the heart,
while the conveyance is the ear to hear.
It is hearing and hearing that will enable one to understand.
God spoke to Ezekiel, “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears” (Ezekiel 3:10).
Every time there is a hearing of the word of God, the heart ought to work in tandem with the ears to receive the word of God.
Hearing sound from within earshot or from a distance may not be the same as listening with the ear and, ultimately, receiving into the heart.
God always wants to talk to His creation that will give attention.
When God wanted to speak to Moses, Moses was “busy” taking care of the flock.
Being busy is a common feature of every moment that makes listening and receiving from the word of God practically impossible.
The attention of Moses was the evidence to listen to God. (Exodus 3:2)
The word or information that passes from one individual to another is not the same as the word that enters and finds a place in the heart.
On every occasion the word of God enters, it ought to produce like a seed planted on the good ground and produce fruit in multi-fold.
The evidence of hearing with the ear and receiving it into the heart was glaring in the assignment of Ezekiel, as documented in the pages of the Bible.
Ezekiel testified that when the Lord spoke to him, he heard a thunderous voice.
Hearing “a thunderous voice” was an indication to receive into the heart.
The testimony of Ezekiel is evidence that when any man hears from God, there will be no denial of having heard from God.
Ezekiel testified, “…I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: ‘Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!” I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thunderous noise.  So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days” (Ezekiel 3:12-15).
In this testimony, Ezekiel received from God and lived for the glory of God.
The word that came to him lifted him and took him away to the center of the assignment of God.
In life, understanding is rooted in the ability to listen.
Hearing from God is upholding the communication to live for God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to carry you and set you for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience is like sowing good before God.

Genesis 27

In your new season, sow good to gain the attention of God.
A new season is a new beginning; allow the newness of God to answer for you with His grace to overtake your life.
In the past year, what does not represent God, that did not glorify God in your life, shall become permanently separated from having a place in your life as you engage the journey of a new beginning.
In a new season, sow good before God.
What one sows that produces good seed will gain the attention of God.
One who sows the seed of a lie will reap the fruit of deception.
It is worthy to live life as one who knows God because anything short of that is living a life of a lie.
Live life for God.
Know that it is the will of God to exist for Him.
God invests in all to live for His glory; however, creation extends so little to Him.
Working and not walking with God will not go far with God.
What is the best way to keep walking in line before God?
Leviticus 18:4 stated, “You shall observe My judgment and keep My ordinances, to walk in them. I am the Lord your God.”
To observe is to see, in the word of God, to receive and become living by the word of God.
Obedience to God is like one sowing good to reap good.
The son of Isaac (Esau) disobeyed his father by his violation of the word of God, which states, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12).
The Bible recorded the violation of Esau: “When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.” (Genesis 26:34-35)
Esau married against the direction of his father and mother.
The act of disobedience of Esau activated grief in the minds of his parents.
Despite the disobedience of Esau before his father (Isaac), he was called by His father, saying to him, “Now, therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.” (Genesis 27:3-4)
Isaac spoke to Esau with an assignment that was supposed to bless Esau.
The disobedience of Esau denied him the blessings of his father when Rebekah (mother of Esau and Jacob) re-assigned the blessing in place for Esau to Jacob.
Nothing can certainly change to reap good for sowing wrongly.

Prayer for today: Ask to live a life of obedience to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Allow God to enter you and be retained in you.

Jude

This new season, know how to gain and retain the presence of God.
The presence of God is in the word of God.
In the Word of God is His direction.
In the word of God is His promise.
In the Word of God is His healing.
God sent His word to heal and deliver.
Psalm 107:20 informs, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Why not gain and retain the presence of God?
The word of God is God.
All with the desire to gain and retain the presence of God should give regard to the word of God as a way of life.
Psalm 138:2 records that, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
Gain and retain the word of God.
Hearing the word of God constantly to gain and retain His word shall live life for the glory of God.
Obedience to the word of God is a sacrifice.
Sacrifice is to live by the word of God with commitment, not when or how convenient or not.
Sacrificially, it is not convenient but a must to give to the word of God.
Sacrifice before God entails waiting on God to gain acceptance from God.
God is not a slave master to force on anyone, but a saving master for deliverance and preservation.
Disobedience to the word of God will expose one to the forces of the enemy.
Wait on God to gain and retain His presence.
Know that God is waiting on all with desire for the entrance of Him to one who knows how to wait for the entrance of God.
Revelations 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
Do you have ears to hear the knocking of God to gain entrance into your life?
One who waits for God will recognize His knocking to open the entrance for God.
Knowing God is not the same as knowing about God.
The majority, particularly acclaimed believers of God, ones that live life in the building in the name of the church, only know about God but do not know God.
Many are conversant in quoting the word of God, yet far from God that is near to all, at all times.
The majority only know about God but do not know God.
Without a doubt, one cannot love God and not know God.
How can a man know God and not love God?
Knowing God starts by listening to His word.
Listening to the word of God is the ability to gain and retain His presence.
Listening to the word of God will gain understanding and become a building for God.

Prayer for Today: Pray that God will enable you to gain and retain His presence in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: To exist for God is to live life for the glory of God.

Romans 3

The will of God is for all to exist for Him.
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.”
Existing for God is giving Him glory and honour.
To give Him glory and honour is seeking Him with all the heart and soul.
One who seeks God with heart and soul is characterized by waiting on God.
One who waits on God knows God, not just knows about God.
One who seeks God to wait on His word does not despise His word but will take a position to see God in His word and not despise Him.
Despising the word will set one up for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) In life, despising God will plunge one into sin.
With sin, such is not seeking God diligently to find God.
One who waits on God abstains from telling lies.
It is not possible to claim to seek God diligently while telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating others.
God despises lies, deception, and manipulation, but what do you embrace?
Telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating man is a sin before God.
Before God, there is no reasonable excuse for telling lies, deceiving, and manipulating, claiming to be for God.
In all areas of life, nothing is hidden from God because He hears and sees all.
Seek God diligently, waiting on God to come out of sin, abhor iniquity. Claiming to wait on God while doing wrong does have consequences before God.
Matthew 7:21-23 records, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”
Sin is not seeking God but getting exposed to the devil.
No one waits on God to give acceptable glory to God with lies hidden as truth, which is not of God.
Word of Paul speaks about sin as deception of truth: “For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.” (Romans 3:7-8)
Live for God, exist for His glory, be truthful with no deception, come out of sin, and seek God diligently.
Are you aware of your sin that is stumbling you to seek God, to wait on God?
If there is any, repent for your redemption before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for forgiveness of conscious sin or unconscious sin in your life.