FAITH CAPSULE: Do not look away from His calling.

Genesis 19:1-26

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. 
Revelation 4:11 buttresses, “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.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
He alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days. 
1 Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” 
God alone is above and beyond all.
Psalmist said it right, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God will make and un-make, and He alone is the unchanging changer, the only one that reverses the irreversible. 
No one creates self. 
The journey of life is the calling of God. 
The calling of God is a divine assignment that will come as a process for His purpose over the life of the called one. 
With the calling of God, one that is not connected to God continually with concentration is building for failure for the calling of God. 
In the calling of God, dwell and abide in His direction, the evidence of concentrating on His calling.
God has a calling for all, with a different assignment. 
God created all for His purpose, for His glory. 
The word of God confirms that our Lord God is worthy to receive glory, honor, and power. 
He created all things to exist for His glory. (Revelations 4:11) 
Whatever God calls you for, or when He calls you for His purpose, to send you will mark you as a candidate for His blessing. 
The calling of God will break the called one, but without doubt, the blessing of God will answer for the obedient.
His breaking comes along with His blessing. (Jesus broke and blessed the bread of life) 
In the time of His calling, He will never leave you broken if you answer to His calling faithfully.
The called one should not look away from His help. 
When God called Lot and his family for salvation, the wife of Lot looked outside of the direction of God for her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God does not come without challenges (challenges that are enough to crumble the called are not with exception for all the called ones)
Regardless of challenges, there is the promise of God to see one through in His calling. 
The word of God promised in 1 Thessalonian 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 
What or when God calls you, do not invite the agent of doubt with the capacity to erect a roadblock for your miracle. 
God is a caring and saving God who is not a slave master. 
Allow His calling to take over your life.
Deny doubt!

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to answer fully to His calling.

FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.

2 Samuel 6

A lack of knowledge and understanding is the state of being ignorant.
In life, ignorance makes destitute of a believer.
God alone is the creator of all.
God sees heaven and earth, and no one can successfully hide from God.
Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.
The lack of knowledge and understanding is engaging in a journey of self-destruction.
Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed, for lack of knowledge.”
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge that makes a believer destitute. Among believers, doing right in a wrong way or doing wrong instead of doing right before God is rampant. Romans 10:3 states, “For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Set yourself before God:
Study to know God and not be an ignorant believer.
Always do right and know there is no excuse for ignorance before God.
Taking the doings of God for granted is not acceptable or counts for ignorant.
Do not take God for granted.
Taking God for granted is disobedient to His word.
The word of God located Abraham asking for the sacrifice of his one and only child.
The word of God speaks to Abraham, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12) 
Abraham obeyed God, not withholding against the word of God that located Him.
Answering Abraham to God’s command is the character of seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 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.” 
Abraham found God.
One who seeks God with all heart and soul is seeking God diligently.
Abraham could not take God for granted but obeyed God and lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Are you taking God for granted?
The life of Uzzah is the evidence of ignorance with no excuse before God.
Uzzah made a wrong choice in an attempt to save the ark from falling.
When returning the Ark of God back to Jerusalem, Uzzah violated touching the Ark of God.
Uzzah was ignorant to touch the Ark of God for the termination of his life.
2 Samuel 6:6-8 documents, “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 ignorance of Uzzah terminated his untimely death.
There is no excuse to experience wrongdoing before.

Prayer for today: Ask not to become a victim of ignorance before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Without exception, all should love their neighbor as self.

1 Corinthians 13

Anyone without loving is not with God and taken a distance from God.
Are loving others as commanded by God?
Paul the apostle stated the importance of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 
The word of Apostle Paul identifies that demonstrating the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, reaching out to the needy, and making oneself available when or where there is a need, but without having love, is empty, and nothing counts before God. 
To love is commanded by God.
Preaching love and not living by loving others is not complete before God.
Jesus meant what He said, “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?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”(Matthew 7:22-23) 
Are you obedient to self-selected but not with obedience to all of the commands of God?
It is possible to be deceived or lie in the presence of God manipulating brethren, but God can see the heart of all. 
The apostle Paul also describes what love is about, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”(1 Corinthians 13:4-7) 
If believers consider the description of what love is as Apostle Paul identifies, the world will turn round for the better.
To love as commanded by God must be in truth and deed.
To love is not impossible, but love as God expects from all.
God is a good God; He did not command for what is impossible to obey. 
One that loves as commanded by God will count before God as one that fully obeys God as Galatians 5:14 speaks to all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Always know for yourself if you love as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of obedience to the command of God, avoiding a life of waste.

FAITH CAPSULE: HOW MUCH ARE WE GIVING TO SLEEP IN THIS 

Matthew 25

Challenges are mounting with evidence of believers sleeping the way it pleases acclaimed believers.
God is not talkative but actively truthful in His word.
God is coming to judge the world, if ready or not, at His appointed time.
Sleeping in the place to be awake is a sleep of death and shall not be your portion.
The Parable of Ten Virgins is a secret, not just an allegorical story, to point out what is to come on the appointed judgment of God over the word.
SLEEPING
Matthew 25:1-3 documents, “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.
11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 “Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
The majority answered that believers are flooding in the name of God as they please, sleeping or awake. 
Also, they are equipped with things of God or not.
The ten virgins in the parable are composed of five wise equipped with lamps and oil, while the five foolish with no oil for lamps.
As the bridegroom delayed (but not to deny) all, slumbered and slept.
Which speaks to you? 
A wise one or a foolish one?
The bridegroom arrived at his appointed time.
All woke up, but the foolish one had no oil, pleading to get from the wise with oil.
As the foolish went to buy, the bridegroom entered for those ready to go for the wedding.
The foolish called out to be allowed into the wedding but disallowed.
The foolish were not PREPARED, not READY for the bridegroom’s arrival.
How are you waiting for God?
Sleeping of carelessness is not giving regard to God to live a wasted life.
Every standard living life should be prepared, ready for the return of God, not to miss heaven.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to be shut out to miss His presence.

FAITH CAPSULE: The way to live life for the glory of God is to be humble.

2 Chronicles 7

Being humble will enable one to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure.
One knowing God will be humble, not be a vessel of faith failure. 
Are you humble?
A humble one is with a low estimate of the importance of self.
God pays attention to how all conduct themselves in the life journey. 
James 4:10 testifies that God pays attention to humble ones, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” 
One who is humble is one with a meek spirit.
The Bible identifies the meek ones:
Psalm 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. “
God is consistent and committed to His promise as 2 Chronicles 7:14 records the promise of God for humble ones, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you humble and glaring by your way of life?
With the desire, give yourself to become humble, to claim the promises of God over the life of the humble one.
Be humble in this challenging trouble and not become a vessel of faith failure. 
Philippians 2:3-8 identifies several ways to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The way to live life for the glory of God is to be humble.
Jesus, our Lord and Savior, humbled Himself and was obedient to the point of death on the cross. 
What stops you from becoming humbled and living life for the glory of God?
Numbers of people in the Bible were humbled to walk with God. 
Paul was humbled.
Moses was humbled, and Numbers 12:3 testifies, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” 
Make it your way of life to be humbled, keep your eyes on God, and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become humble before Him.