FAITH CAPSULE: Know to serve God not in your way.

1kings 12

Elevation to a leadership position is not with authorization to eliminate the people.
Know that every position of leadership is not to stress out the people but to lead by serving the people first. 
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, made it clear by example and in His word when He said, “And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:27-28) 
Inside or outside of gathering as the church, your elevation to a leadership position is not an authorization to stress the people but to serve the people. 
Rehoboam became elevated in his mind when he became king after his father, King Solomon. 
He was approached by the whole assembly of Israel saying, “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” (1 Kings 12:4) 
With wisdom, Rehoboam responded when he asked the assembly of Israel to come back in three days. 
It is always wise to delay responding to a request when short of an answer. 
Rehoboam did well by going on to inquire rather than responding with a negative response that could affect his position of leading the people. Rehoboam consulted the elders, “And they spoke to him, saying, ‘If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.’”(1 Kings 12:7) 
Have you been promoted to a higher position to serve and become served for a better result? 
It is better to learn from the word of God how to be a server before being served as one who is leading. 
Rehoboam did not receive the advice of the elders well when he turned to consult the young men who grew with him. 
Rehoboam received wrong advice stating, “…speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us’—thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s waist! 11 And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’” (1Kings 12:10-11) Rehoboam rejected the advice from the elders to give himself to the advice of the young one. 
The response of Rehoboam was a fall from when he started his reign through to the end of his reign. 
If you will lead by Jesus’ example and not take the route of Rehoboam, it shall be well with you. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding to serve God by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Engaging any act rooted in the heart that is wrong before God is an error.

2 Samuel 6

Doing what is good wrongly in the name of God is an error.
Error is a deviation from accuracy, a mistake, as in action or speech. 
Error is the condition of believing what is wrong. 
Error is a moral offense, wrongdoing, or sin. 
It is an error to violate the word of God, and it can be a conscious or unconscious error before God. 
Error is despising the word of God. 
Proverbs 13:13 records, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”  
Have you violated or in the process of violating the word of God? 
Before God, there is no excuse for error. 
Before God, Adam and Eve committed an error by believing the serpent enough to eat against the command of God not to eat from a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. 
They both violated the word of God by their error (a wrongdoing). 
When God showed up (just as He will show up on all ), Adam and Eve attempted to justify their action before God by stating, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12-13) 
Their excuses engaged by Adam and Eve were not enough before God to avoid the consequences of sin. 
The error committed by Adam and Eve exposes all to numerous pains today.
Doing what is good wrongly (the heart with a wrong act) in the name of God is an error with no reasonable excuse for deliverance from destruction. 
Uzzah engaged his heart with a good act that led to his destruction.
During the transfer of the Ark of God from the house of Abinadab, Uzzah, and Ahio drove the cart. 
While driving the ark, Uzzah, out of a good heart, committed an act for his life-terminating error. 
Genesis 6:6-7 records the error of Uzzah, “And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.’ 
The bible called the act of Uzzah a good heart committed an error. 
Uzzah despised the word of God.
Numbers 4:15 states, “And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die.” 
Despising the word of God is positioning the self for destruction. 

Prayer point: Ask for the mercy of God to enable your eyes to open to avoid or come out of conscious or unconscious error.

FAITH CAPSULE: God perfects in reversing evil for good. 

Exodus 1  

The enemy cannot be more powerful. 
God, the Alpha, and Omega, the only One that is before the beginning and beyond time, is described by the Psalmist, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God is already at sit as King in charge and capable of frustrating every flood of the wicked with the agenda to deny, derail, or disrupt steps of all the life journey. 
Moses was born at an appointed time, and there was nothing the enemy could have possibly done to frustrate or disrupt him from where God was taking him. 
Joseph the Dreamer had no better way for him to get to the center of his divine assignment than the way of empty dry pit, slavery, and prison. 
It does not matter who you shared your dream with, wicked or no wicked God who called you will set you apart for his purpose, and He will see you through.
Moses was born at a time when Pharaoh made a law to kill every male child born by the Israelites. 
The Bible documents, “So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river…” (Exodus 1:22). When Moses was born, the mother hid him for three months, “But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.” (Exodus 2:3) 
Interestingly, Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses in the water. 
The daughter of Pharaoh saved Moses in the water.
Moses grew up in the palace of Pharaoh, where the law was to kill every male Hebrew child.
God is a perfect God, and power belongs to God. 
God preserves and directs the affairs of all to lead one to divine assignment.
The enemy will attempt to terminate your journey but always remember that the enemy cannot be more powerful than God.
God perfects in reversing evil for good. 
Philippians 4:6 encourages, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” 
Jesus gave a word of deliverance, “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)  
When it looks like the Pharaoh of today is close to you, there is no better choice to take to Jesus.
The word of God is for all to understand that the enemy cannot be more powerful. 
Moses got to the center of his divine assignment, and anyone with eyes on God shall not be a victim of evil assignment.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of strength to focus on the promises of the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Praising and thanking God shall give access to a favorable lifting.

Psalm 145 

What God says to one speaks to all. 
God spoke to the children of Israel, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord…” (Jeremiah 29:11-14) 
God wants peace for all; He wants a hopeful future for all; He wants attention by communicating with all; He wants all to seek him diligently.
Out of His goodness and mercy, He sent His son so that what He wants for all shall become established.
John 3:16-17 records, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”   
The point is that God invested so much in all, but all extend less to God.
After many years of privileged life which the Lord God bestows upon you, how much have you extended to Him?
This season, a time God has given you, how are you living for God?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 states, “To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted.”  
All should be occupied by thinking of living life to glorify God. 
Allow your expectations to change from material gain to walking in the ways of God. 
Deuteronomy 5:33 states, “You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.” 
Walk in all the ways of the command of God, seeking God first. 
Seeking God will no doubt fulfill the desires.
Jesus buttress when He said, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:33-34) 
A better way to seek God is in praising Him to glorify Him and thanking Him to magnify Him. 
Let your moments be in constant thanksgiving. 
Give thanks to God for all things and in all things, He is doing to experience favorable uplifting.  

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled giving thanksgiving to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Observing and doing the word will experience the action of God.

Joshua 1 

Observing the word of God by seeing to do according to what the word said will see God in action.
One meditating on the word of God is with the character observing with heart diligence. 
Seek God with your heart diligently!
Obey to observe, observe to see in the word. 
The word you observe and see determines what becomes of you. 
Proverbs 4:20-21 states, “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.” 
Do not let the word depart from our eyes. 
To see in the word is to keep the word in the heart. 
Moses admonished the children of Israel, “But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.” (Deuteronomy 28:15) 
The Lord also spoke to Joshua to meditate on His word day and night when He stated, “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.” (Joshua 1:8) When meditation is carefully engaged, understanding its application in every step of life shall become established.
Why not take the time to observe the word of the living God before taking your daily steps on your life journey? 
All that is needed to make headway in the daily journey is in the Living word of God. 
Meditation is trusting God to instruct and teach us in our daily walk.
A word is not enough to describe what meditation on the word of God is about. 
Meditating the word of God is having an open line of communication with God. 
Meditation is what keeps the heart diligently seeking God.
Meditation is praying all day long. If it is not a prayer, the psalmist would not have stated, “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.” (Psalm 64:1)
Meditating the word of God is the source of connecting with an undeniable understanding of the things of God. 
Psalm 49:3 buttresses meditation, “My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.”  
Meditation is the source of maintaining joy in the Lord. Psalm 1:2 buttresses, “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”
Meditate to observe and do according to the word, experiencing the action of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant and consistent meditation of the word of God as commanded by God.