FAITH CAPSULE: His testimonies are worthy of mediation.

Psalm 119:1-48

God is the perfect creator. 
In the beginning, God created by His word. 
Genesis 1:1-3 testifies, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” 
God created by speaking His word. 
The creation of God by the word of God is the testimony of God. 
Without a doubt, the testimony of the Lord God is sure, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7)
In keeping by meditating on the testimonies of God, there is a blessing, rejoicing, riches, and counseling that keeps one from shame.
Are you constantly meditating on testimonies of God? 
The Psalmist confessed testimonies:
Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies…”
Psalm 119:14, I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches.” 
Psalm 119: 24, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.” 
Psalm 119:46, I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.” 
The testimonies of God are all His doings, all He has done, the things He is doing, and the evidence of what He can do. 
His testimonies are worthy of mediation. 
In life, keeping the testimonies of God is getting to the expected end. 
The Israelites could not keep to the promise of God by meditating on it.
The Israelites could not meditate on the testimony of God as a vessel to the Promise Land. 
Repeated complaints of the Israelites in the place of meditating denied numbers of Israelites from stepping on the Promised Land. 
God responded to the complaint of the Israelites in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
God showed them great things and mighty signs in Egypt and on their way out of Egypt. 
The signs and wonders of God are His testimonies. 
Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies?
Meditating on the testimonies of God will provoke faith in journeying to the promise of God.
Hebrew 11:6 buttresses the exploits of meditating testimonies of God, “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.” 
Meditate on the testimonies of God; please God and your journey shall be pleasant.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to keep His testimony to provoke your faith in Him.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Hear, see, and receive to become what the word says.  

Proverbs 4
This new month, with desire, pray to be hearing and seeing in the word of God, and what you see shall become of you.
The statement of Job is encouraging, testifying, 
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” (Job 42:5) 
What one hears in the word of God is what one sees to receive and become of such.
Do you hear and see in the word of God to experience the manifestation of the word?
Proverbs 4:21 speaks to all, “Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.” 
Hear, see, and receive to become what the word says.  
Ask to always see in the word constantly.
God has brought you this far.
It is not how long challenges persist or resist but how far God has brought you. 
God deserves thanks from all continually.
Give thanks to God for all things.
Gratitude is a feeling of being grateful or thankful. 
Among the identities of a thankful one is contentment. 
Regardless of your situation, are you giving thanks to God always?
Ephesians 5:20 encourages: Give thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Giving thanks to God for all situations will have all things work together for good, to the glory of God. (Romans 8:28)
Know that God loves all. 
God is mindful of His creation. 
God creates all to live life for His glory. (Revelation 4:11)
Give Him thanks for His goodness and mercy that have brought you this far in life.
Ask that the goodness and mercy of God shall not expire over your life in the name of Jesus.
Challenges that persist resists should not deny one from thanking God.
Know to trust with hope in God.
Trusting God should not be limited to when there is no challenge. 
Job, during his days of unimaginable challenges, declares, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” (Job 13:15) 
If Job can trust God during his challenges, what prevents all from trusting God? 
Are your challenges more than what Job experienced?
God will not overlook you in your challenges.
Trust with hope to provoke the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 encourages, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
Ask God to enable you to trust and have hope in Him.
Trusting and hoping in God is the character of one that seeks God diligently.
Seeking God with all heart and all soul is the evidence of seeking God diligently, and such will find God.
One seeking God with diligence is the one that pleases God to gain and retain His reward.
This season, seek God in His word to see Him, to live life for God. 
Seek God diligently, thanking Him for all things, the evidence of having faith.
One with faith will please God to find Him.
To find God is to see Him in His word, to receive from God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will live life to the glory of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny. 

1 Samuel 15

Twisting truth is a blatant lie. 
Twisting truth is evil.
Deuteronomy 19:19 responds to lying as evil by stating, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
One will twist the truth to deceive, steal, and bear witness to the act of demonstrating inconsistency in the word of God. 
Twisting truth is a choice of living for the father of lies. 
John 8:42-47 records the word of Jesus, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear because you are not of God.” 
Twisting truth is evidence of not listening to the truth but paying attention to lying.
Twisting truth is evidence of accepting the devil as a father.
Twisting truth is doing the will of the devil.
Twisting truth does not have a stand before God. 
To have a stand before God positions one in the place of power of God. The standing of Elija before God was rooted in not twisting the truth. 
1 King 17:1-2 records the stand of Elijah before God, “And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” 
When the word of God does have a place in one, it becomes possible for one to claim to stand in the word, just as Elijah took a stand and commanded rain to stop for three years and a half. 
One that does not twist truth stands in place of pleasing God. 
Twisting truth is evidence of not believing God, not hearing God.
Twisting truth yields spinning (turning) truth. 
Attempting self-defense provokes spinning the truth. 
The problem is that when one twists often, such becomes convinced that lying is the right way. 
Spinning truth also leads to too much talking and leads more to lies. 
Saul defended by spinning (twisting) the truth. 
Saul was with the word of God to destroy Agag but spare Agag. (1 Samuel 15) 
Twisting, spinning truth made Saul incur a curse that rejected him from being king. 
Avoid twisting truth; do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of lying, spinning the truth of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What does your name stand for?

1 Samuel 1

Give a meaningful positive name to the child. 
What are you called that you answer to?
Is your name affecting your world positively?
Through the Bible, the testimony of the life of many is the evidence of the name answers to.
For example, Shiphrah and Puah lived their name to affect their world positively. 
Shiphrah means Beautiful One.
Puah means Splendid One. 
When Pharaoh attempted to reduce the male children of the Israelites at birth, he commanded midwives named Shiphrah and Puah, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” (Exodus 1:16) 
Beautiful and Splendid woman disappointed Pharaoh and did not answer as an agent of the killer of the sons of Hebrew women.
What is it about your name that is affecting your world positively?
Hannah named her son Samuel meaning, “…because I have asked for him from the Lord.” (1 Samuel 1:20) 
After years of barrenness, God answered her, and she named her child Samuel. 
The name Samuel is one answered by God. 
Samuel greatly affected his world positively as a prophet of God. 
As a child, he was in a position when the word of God was rare. 
Samuel touched his people as the Bible testifies, “So Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the Lord.” (1 Samuel 3:19-20) 
The name of Samuel answered to the glory of God.
What does your name stand for? 
Bible records, “And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” (Acts 4:36-37)
The word of God is a purpose of encouragement but not storytelling with no meaning to affect life.
Joses did not live as a vessel of discouragement to the body of believers yesterday and tomorrow.
Have you ever asked yourself what your name means?”
Search for the meaning of your name to determine if there is a need to change your name to live a positive life. 
The name, Jabez, means pain.
Jabez prayed for a change of his name. 
1 Chronicle 4:9-10 records, “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.” 
In life, ask for a name that will positively affect your generation to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for a meaningful and positive name.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you answering to the name of God, lying, and deceiving your world? 

Psalm 91

Many are prophesy-lying with no truth of God.
Many claims Jesus does not know Jesus but knows about Jesus. 
So many answering to self-named or man named as a pastor, bishop, prophets, apostles are posturing, rising in the place of every corridor of the church. 
Many are speaking from the head, claiming speaking tongue with no truth.
Many are prophesy-lying to be prophesying in the name of God.
Indeed, not knowing Jesus encourages many to continue lying in the name of Jesus.
Jesus warns, “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. 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 7:21-23)
Boldface liars, a bogus self-acclaimed answer as the man of God, wretched, despicable full of gimmick knows self and God knows them. 
To be Telling lies in the name of God is nothing but evil. 
God is not asleep, He sees evil work, and His judgment will come. 
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 buttresses, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” 
Are you answering to the name of God, lying, and deceiving your world? 
It is an evil way of telling lies. 
Are you a vulnerable victim in the hand of a self-acclaimed man of God lying around?
Choosing to become ignorant in the hand of wicked liars, a self-acclaimed man of God is not an excuse for deliverance as a victim. 
The word of God speaks to be free from the evil ones stating, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) 
The word of Jesus speaks to all. 
In this wicked world, abide in the secret of the word of God. 
Psalm 91:1-2 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High 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.” 
The word of God is deliverance and preservation to hide in it.
Trust and hope in God, not in man. 

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of telling lies or becoming a victim of liars.