FAITH CAPSULE: Evil is wicked, and wicked is evil. 

Proverbs 6

Are you with a heart of evil?
Is your heart occupied with wickedness?
Genesis 6:5 records, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” 
The only perfect creation of heaven and earth sees the wicked heart of all. 
The call on God by the Psalmist testifies to the evil of the heart. 
Psalm 140:1-2 records: Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts…”  The book of Proverbs 6:14 added to how the heart operates: “Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord.” 
Evil and wickedness are the same as birds of the same feather. 
Evil is wicked, and wicked is evil. 
As an acclaimed believer or unbeliever, what is your heart like before God?
Are you with a heart of evil or wicked?
God sees the heart of all.
The word of God encourages all to Keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23) 
Without a doubt, keep the word of God in your heart and set not to fall in the line of evil.
God declares the wickedness of man and hearts as only evil at all times (continually).
God sees wickedness with evil continually in the heart of man.
Commit to God to avoid not to become of evil. 
The book of John 2:24-25 buttresses, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men” 
Who are you committed to with your heart? 
Will you keep your heart diligently and avoid being continually evil?
God is always in charge and knows every heart. 
The word of God to Jeremiah is evidence of the knowledge of God. 
God speaks to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5) 
The above statement speaks to the truth that no man under heaven was born by accident, and no one is outside the knowledge of God about all.
Avoid not being one with a heart of wickedness.
Avoid commitment to a man whose every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 
Are you looking outside God to become what God has not made you be?
Live life for God, do not look away from God and let the word of God occupy your heart, not be wicked heart.
Focus on God and let all evil not be your way of life.
Keep your heart diligent and be for God and not be continually evil.

Prayer for today: Open your mouth, lift your voice, and ask God for deliverance and not to be a vessel of evil.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not give up the expectation of your manifestation too early.

Psalm 121

Engage a new day by lifting your eyes to God.
Let it be your way of life to be lifting your eyes to God, the evidence of having faith in God.
God is with good thoughts for all. 
God testifies in His word, “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.”(Jeremiah 29:11)
God is of good thoughts with no iota of evil towards His creation. God is God that remembers with favor and visits with salvation.  
Genesis 8:1 testifies: “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.”  
As a believer, be assured that you are already on fertile land regardless of evil plantations in this wicked world.
Make a way of life, lifting your eyes to God regardless of any challenge. 
Lifting eyes to God is not convenient, but it is a commitment that demands no interruption. 
Lifting eyes to God is evidence of knowing to wait on God. 
The Psalmist testifies, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD Who made heaven and earth.”(Psalm 121:1-2) 
The testimony of the Psalmist is a revelation it is worthy of meditation for expectation. 
Are you looking to God for help, or are you looking up because others are looking up?
Psalm 34:5 buttresses, “They looked up unto Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.” 
Lifting eyes to God at this time of challenges is the assurance that emptiness shall not be your portion. 
It is too early to give up the expectation of your manifestation but keep lifting your eyes to God.
Why do you look to and away from God? 
There is only one God, and He is the One that is above all. 
The Word of God encourages, “Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:22)
Without a doubt, looking up to God is a thoughtful and mindful approach.
When Jacob was on his way from Laban, he wrestled with an angel, and Genesis 32:30 testifies, “So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” The testimony of Jacob is saying that one that looks up to God, preservation over such in life journey is safe.
Anyone that will know to be lifting eyes to God shall excel to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to live to the fulfillment of your destiny to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God does the planning; we do the preparing. 

Matthew 25:1-13

Seeking God is a plan of wanting to see God, but preparation is to seek God diligently to see Him.
The values you have to see God is the evidence rooted in your act and behavior.
In seeking God to find God is “What you do is what you believe; everything else is just religious talk.” 
The wise virgins value the invitation and adjust their behavior accordingly to be ready. 
They are women who have pure hearts, cultivate goodness, and guard their speech. 
They are righteous and have faith. 
In the parable, faithful waiting involves preparation and readiness, not planning and predicting.
The teaching encased ten virgins of Jesus points to being ignored by the world.
Are you preparing and ready?
Are you planning and predicting? 
Ten virgins waited.
Five virgins prepared.
Five virgins only had a plan.
Five virgins who got shut out represent irresponsible ones not prepared.
Preparation is to be calling upon God by and seeking Him diligently.
Preparation is not seeking Him how one way but having a relationship with God. 
Throughout the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches people about living and growing in a relationship with God. 
Jesus stresses that being spiritually alive means not just knowing religious information or being with a denomination but doing what Jesus teaches regarding love for God and neighbor.
The biblical truth is this: God does the planning; we do the preparing.
Jeremiah 29:11 informs us what God says: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
In Genesis 12, God told Abram to begin a journey and didn’t even tell him where he was going. 
Abram couldn’t plan the itinerary but prepared by telling his family, wrapping up business details, packing his tent, and setting out. 
The Exodus from Egypt is a story of prayer and preparation. 
God planned the Exodus, but no person could. 
No one would have written the story God did, and Moses didn’t get to see the whole plan ahead of time. 
The Israelites prepared by marking their doors, taking everything they could carry, eating fast food, and waiting for the word to move out. 
John the Baptist preached: “Prepare the way of the Lord.” He didn’t say, “Plan the way of the Lord.”
Are you planning in the place of preparing before God?
Proverbs 19: 21 informs all: There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
It is the wisdom and character of one that lives by the word of God (believer) to prepare in the place of the plan. 
All are limited to planning the future, much of what happens, but to give to prepare in watching and praying.
The biblical approach to the future involves prayer and preparation more than prediction and planning.

Prayer for today: 
Ask that seeking God in preparation be meaningful and be established in your way of living life before Him. (Seeking God diligently)
Ask that none of your plans shall offset the place of your preparation before God.
Ask that the plan of God for your life shall stand all the days he has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to listen and to see the direction in the Word of God.

Joshua 6

John 1:1 records to make it known to all that, in the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
The Word of God is sent for man to behold God in His Word.
The ability to listen to God in His Word will make one behold (see) God for direction, to live life for His glory.
The Word of God is God. 
Without a doubt, when one listens to the Word of God, one must behold (see) the Word of God and be built up with boldness and character.
In the Word of God, there is a direction not to fail. 
For example, Joshua needed to behold (see) the Word of God to gain boldness and character to win over Jericho. 
Jericho posed as an enemy to stop the Israelites from advancing to the Promised Land. 
Joshua 6:1-2 records the calling of Joshua to see (to behold) in the Word of God, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.”  
Until you see what the Word of God speaks to you, you cannot receive what you see to become of you.
Joshua listened to behold (see) direction in the Word of God as he gained character and boldness to become the winner over Jericho. 
God wants all to see in Him (His Word) to engage His direction, not to be a failure. 
Are you seeking direction by listening to the Word of God to gain boldness and character in the face of challenges? 
Jacob was to engage in a journey, his course of running away from his brother, and he needed boldness and charter to drive him through.
God responded to the need of Jacob when He commanded him to behold (see) in His Word saying stating “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” (Genesis 28:15) 
From today, listen to see (behold) in the Word of God, obtain boldness and character, having trust and hope in God.
To behold (see) in the Word of God, one shall replace fear with a faith rooted in boldness and character gained in the Word of God.
God magnifies His Word above His name. (Psalm 138:2) 
The Word of God is worthy to deliver; His Word is mighty and will preserve one that beholds the Word of God.
Do you listen to God?
Listen to see in the Word of God, and gain boldness and character to be a winner for the glory of God.
God is power; God that delivered Israelites is still in the business of deliverance and preservation if one will take a position that one sees (behold) God in His Word.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to always see in His direction, not to be a failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.

1 Samuel 13

Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels one to attain what the heart wants. 
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or a believer with sincerity for God? 
What you desire is what you seek. 
One that desires to live in heaven on the heart will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. 
Jesus declares, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
The whole matter that counts and works perfectly is to fear God and keep His commandments, for this is all that counts. 
God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God and to keep His command fulfill the desire to seek God. 
1 Samuel 12:24 states, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great things, and He is doing more for all.
God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart of all. 
God once corrected Samuel in his attempt to make the brother of David the king, “Do not look at his appearance or 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) 
Without doubt, the heart of David is what God saw when His word declares, “…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) 
David sought God, and He saw the desire of David.
God knows that his heart is for His name.
What do you desire? 
The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.
Anyone with a desire for God is in the heart, and God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him to be decorated by His presence. 
King David knows what is best to desire when he said, “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)
As an acclaimed believer, think if you sincerely desire the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask for the desire for God to become rooted in your heart.