FAITH CAPSULE: Dwelling in God is to know God.

1 John 3

Do you desire to dwell in the presence of God?
The desire to dwell in the presence of God demands to amend ways and doings. 
All that amends their way will walk in the knowledge of the will of God. Colossians 1:9-11 record prayer, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.” 
The prayer of Paul the apostle is worth constant meditation for all that desire to dwell in the presence of God. 
Walking in the word of God is doing the will of God. 
To know God is to be living in God.
Having been in the church for a long or having the ability to memorize and be conversant in quoting the word is not evidence of knowing God. 
Many know about God but do not know God to keep His word. 1 John 2:3 buttresses, “Now by this, we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments.”  
Talking about the commandment of God is not evidence of knowing God but keeping His commandment is evidence of knowing Him. 
1 John 2:4-6 states, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 
The word of God is truth. 
God does not lie, and He will not look away from the manifestation of His word. 
In this world of challenge, there is no better place to abide but in the word of God. 
Determination is not what will make one dwell in the word.
Peter determined not to deny Jesus, but he denied Christ three times. 
However, the prayer of Jesus delivered Peter not to become a victim of denying Christ. Luke 22:32 records the prayer of Jesus for Peter, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”  When there is a desire to dwell in God, God will deposit what it takes. 
Word buttresses, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in Him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” (1 John 3:24) 

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Faith Capsule: Indeed, to despise the command of God is evidence of a lack of fear for God.

Romans 6

God is a God of order.
The word of God is to obey.
His commands are not negotiable. 
Have you been commanded but not obeyed? 
It does not matter who you are, but it does matter not to despise the word of God. 
To despise His word is to be destroyed. 
Proverbs 13:13 buttresses, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
To despise the word of God is a lack of fear for God. 
Moses despised the word of God and could not step on the Promised Land. 
There is no excuse to despise the command of God. 
Moses experienced the consequence of his error when he despised the word of God.
Numbers 20:7-8 record, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”  
Moses was to obey the command of God to give water to the children of Israel, but he despised the word of God.
Acting outside of the word of God is despising the word of God.
Numbers 20:11 states, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.” 
Before Moses struck the rock, he called the children of Israel name that was not in the direction of God.
The disobedient move of Moses did not settle well with God.
God responds to Moses and Aaron, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:12) 
The life journey ended up in the wilderness for Moses when he struck a rock instead of speaking as commanded by God. 
Simple disobedience denied Moses from getting to the Promised Land, and his pleading before God for his disobedience could make God reverse His judgment towards Moses. 
Indeed, to despise the command of God is evidence of a lack of fear for God.
For all, living in the time of dispensation of grace is not a reason to despise His command.
Jesus indeed paid it all for all on the Calvary. 
However, the word questions all, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”(Romans 6:1-2) 
The sin of Moses is enough for all to learn not to despise the command of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you not to become a victim of disobedience.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to keeping the word of God to experience miracles encased in His word.

Psalm 119:1-40

It is possible to receive teaching in the word of God and not keep gaining in the word of God.
Without a doubt, to gain an understanding of the word of God and to become disciplined as His disciple. 
The Psalmist states, “Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end.” (Psalm 119:33) 
Keeping the word of God is keeping self to God. 
Keeping the word of God is keeping up with God and not becoming out of track to arrive at the divine assignment.
Keeping the word of God demands keeping self in God diligently. 
A failure not to keep oneself in Him is keeping self out of the way of God into self ways.
God told Joshua to keep Him diligently by meditating on His word day and night. 
The word of God is His command, His precepts to keep diligently. 
Deuteronomy 6:17 buttresses, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.” 
The word of God is His precepts. Psalm 119:4 states, “You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.”
With no excuse, all should know to keep the word of God and be in the keeping of God.
Keep the world of God not to be far from God.
The evidence of doing as the word of God requires is keeping the word of God.
Deuteronomy 30:14 states, “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.”
Blessed is encased in keeping His testimonies. 
Those who seek Him with all heart will have no reason to seek help outside of God. 
Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
Doubt can delay, deny and set one up for destruction. 
However, keeping the word of God keep a believer outside of doubt. Doubt is evidence of a lack of faith. Matthew 14:3, “And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
David inquired about the word of God, and he took a stand in the promise of God.
2 Samuel 5:19 recorded, “So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” And the Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
Listening to the word of God is evidence of hearing and hearing God. Listening to the word of God is the way to have faith in God.
Romans 10:17 testifies, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Prayer for today: Ask God for enablement to keep and live by His word. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire, not just the determination to serve God.

Psalm 27

It is a good choice, the right one to serve God. 
Responsibility is all that the right choice demands.
Determination with desire shall set one to serve God reasonably to experience the blessings of serving God. 
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a church-going believer or a true believer in God? 
With desire is to know God and live life for God.
One that desires to live for God will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is encased in fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “…fear God by keeping His commandments, “for this is man’s all”. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”  
Fear God, keep His commandments to desire to seek Him reasonably.
1 Samuel 12:24 advises fearing God and serving Him wholeheartedly, “Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Without any doubt, the desire for God should be in the heart.
Every desire for devotion to God will provoke one to be deposited in the presence of God. 
Are you with the desire to seek God without an iota of doubt?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great and is doing things that should provoke the desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the acts rooted in the heart of all.
Once He corrected Samuel concerning Jesse’s son, Eliab, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7). And before this incident, it was without doubt that, David’s heart was what God saw before Samuel declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God sought David and saw the desires of his heart for Him.
King David knew what was best to desire of the Lord when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4) 
From today, the desire from the depth of my heart to serve God shall provoke enablement by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy for you to live a life serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Possibly, answer the question for yourself.

Philippians 2

Is it possible that your selfishness has closed you not to be mindful of God and not know Him as the evidence of living life as a foolish one?
To live life, do not be fooled because it is foolish to say there is no God. 
A selfish heart that is not mindful of God is bound to be far from God. Proverbs 14:1 identifies, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.”
As self-minded, such is not with the fear of God, to become self-displaced from God, the automatic route into the path of eternal damnation.
Without any compromise, the will of God for all is to fear God. 
No one is born into this world with the knowledge to fear God.
The knowledge to fear God comes from learning the word of God. 
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 informs all, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” 
To live a life with the fear of God is the character to be humble and obedient to God continually.
The word of God will cause tenderness of heart to be a place for humility. 
Without humility, obedience is not possible. 
Philippians 2:8 records that Jesus “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The humble will fear God. 
How would selfish-minded, one with selfish ambition as in selfishness, self-centeredness that is not of God, shall know to fear God? 
Do you fear God in deed and truth? 
To be lost from the word of God will be disobedient to lose the rightful position in God.
Pray to find and Know God, to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 identifies what it takes to find God, “…seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Do not be deceived but fear God from the depth of your heart.
Today, search for yourself to know your stand before God.
The way one lives life is a testimony of character, the evidence of selfishness or set for not being mindful of God.
Come out of selfishness, and live life to reflect the mindset of God.
It is not right to live a life of selfishness.
Selfishness can be unconscious for self-destruction.
Live life for God, not for yourself.

Prayer for today: Pray before God to enable you to live life for His glory.