FAITH CAPSULE: Praising God is a way of life to find God continually.  

Psalm 150

Let praising God be your way of life.
Psalm 150:6 calls for the attention of all to the importance of praising God, stating, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Let your praising God as a way of life be rooted in praising God with understanding.
Praise God with understanding to provoke the hand of God to gain the presence of God.
Psalm 47:7 admonishes, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
Praise God with understanding to demonstrate a mind for God.
David is an example of one with a mind for God, by His way of praising God.
He was praise-full, which testifies to his way of life before God.
Are you praise-full before God?
God raised David, and He identified David over King Saul. God spoke through Samuel, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14)
A man with a heart for God is mindful of God, a position to be lifted by God. 
Praising God is not only singing to God but declaring the awesomeness of God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do. Continuous praising of God is a demonstration of faith.
Praising God with understanding is seeking God diligently.
One who seeks God diligently will find God.
David understands the praising of God to declare what he was doing when praising God: 
“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:4) 
Psalm 145:4 admonishes all that praise declares the acts of God from one generation to another:“One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.” 
God is an awesome God, and whosoever has the understanding to give thanks and praise to God shall experience the decoration of God for good. The Bible records that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (three friends of Daniel) were sentenced to a burning fiery furnace when they refused to bow for a foreign God.
The friends of Daniel responded to the death sentence with a declaration of praise, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18) 
The praise declaration of God will decorate one with deliverance and preservation. The three friends of Daniel praised God in the face of a death sentence over their lives.
Giving oneself to a reasonable sacrifice of praise to God will help one find God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life of praising God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Humility is the character of Jesus.

2 Chronicles 32

Understand and know how to be humble before God.
Anyone with faith will be humble.
One with faith will seek God, which is evidence of being humble before God.
Do you have the faith to seek God?
It is faith that pleases God, and without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6)
One who has faith to seek God pleases God; also, the humble seek to experience the beauty of God. 
Psalm 149:4 records, “For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.”
Have faith; seek God to demonstrate that you are the humble one before God.
Just as faith is to be humble, pride and wickedness are not of the humble one.
Psalm 147:6 records, “The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.”  
In life, what is desirable is what God will deposit.
Why not have a desire to live a life of humility, not of pride, that makes one wicked before God?
The wicked is with the word of God in the mouth but far from the mind. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Proverbs 29:23 records the pride:  “A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
Make it a way of life; do not allow the spirit of being a proud or wicked one that fails before God.
God acknowledges one who is humble before Him.
The case of Hezekiah and his humility before God records: “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord, and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore, wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.” (2 Chronicles 32:24-26)
In the place of being unconscious or conscious of sin before God, with pending challenges of the consequences, turn to God; humble yourself with prayer before God.
Being obedient to live life before God is not possible without being humble in the walk of life.
Jesus, the Lord and Savior, became obedient before God because He humbled Himself.
Philippians 2:8 records, “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.”
Before God, there is no legitimate reason not to live life humbly before God, to obey God, to live life for the glory of God.
Be humble to obey God! 

Prayer for today: Ask that the Spirit of God, to live humbly before God, shall have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Why not have a mind for God?

Psalm 8

 Have the desire to be mindful of God.
Many claim to be believers but are not true; they do not know that a believer is one with a mind for God.
Do you have a mind for God that is after the heart of God?
Are you heedful or attentive to God as a way of living life?
Yes or no, are you?
Before answering as a believer, think and search yourself to see if you are mindful of God.
Without having the mind of God, one cannot answer as a believer.
All are blinded in mind, not knowing that the majority of minds are blinded.  2Corinthians 4:4 points out, “whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”
The majority are not mindful of God but empty of God. 
To be empty of God is to be occupied by the world.
Are you mindful of the word of God (God) or mindful of the world?
God is mindful of anyone who opens up for the entrance of God.
God testifies to David in 1 Samuel 13:14 that David is a man after His own heart, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart…”
God continually looks for one who is mindful of Him.
David, a man after the mind of God, knows to ask God why God is mindful of man inPsalm 8:4, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? “
To have a mind of God is not by determination but by desire. Know to ask that God will enable you by depositing in you His word to be mindful of Him. 
Hebrews 8:10-12 states, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” God wants all to be mindful of Him. 
Have the desire to be mindful of God.
Let prayer not cease; ask to be enabled.
PRAYER:
Ask that God will put His word (law) in your mind, as He promised the Israelites, and stamp it on your heart to live life as His own in all the days of life He has given you.
Ask that the mind of God shall put you in a position of having His mercy continually in the life journey, so that your unrighteousness and sins shall not be remembered before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: A believer should be living by the Word.

John 8

One who answers as a believer should know what it means to be a believer.
A believer should be living by the Word.
One who is not living by the Word of God shall be living by the world.
Do you know how to live by the Word of God?
Many know about God, but how many know Him?
Many claim to be a believer but do not walk in the way of God.
Be one who lives by the Word of God to walk in the light of God.
Jesus speaks to all in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
It is not possible to follow God without knowing Him.
In John 8:14, Jesus testifies, “…I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.”
Jesus points out that one who does not know God will not know Him. (John 8:19)
One who does not know Jesus will not follow Him and will not abide in Him. Jesus also said that those who do not believe Him will die in sin. (John 8:24)
John 8:31-32 records Jesus: “If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
To know Him is to believe in Him, know Him to abide in Him, and be free indeed. 
To follow Jesus is to abide in Him; the evidence of believing in Him.
The world of wickedness does not like the truth.
In John 8:45, Jesus said, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
The Word of God is the truth. Hearing the truth will lead you to abide, follow, believe, and do according to the Word of God.
John 8:47 records, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Without doubt, Jesus warns emphatically to all, “Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word, he shall never see death.”(John 8:51)
Be living by the Word of God, answering as a believer.
The Word of God identifies what becomes a believer of God in truth:
Mark 5:36 records the words of Jesus, “…Do not be afraid; only believe.” 
Mark 9:23: “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 11:24 records, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
John 3:15 records, “Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Many know about God, but how many know Him?
It is those who know God, not just those who know about Him, who stand to claim the Word of God as a believer.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will know how to live life as a believer in God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you conscious of wicked acts in you?

Psalm 73

Who are the wicked?
Jeremiah must be curious about the act of wickedness.
Jeremiah speaks before God, “Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit…” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
The wicked world.
Jeremiah does not know better than God.
Wickedness is before God, who sees all things.
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.”
God creates all and knows all.
There is nothing hidden from God.
God is God and the only God who judges all at His appointed time.
God will not execute against the wicked speedily, but at His appointed time.
God sees that wickedness is continual.
Do you wonder why wickedness is continual?
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 states, “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.”
God alone is God and will not be intimidated to judge out of His appointed time. 
Are you walking in the word of God or walking in the wickedness of the world? 
What is your mind before God?
Are you living a life of a wicked one consciously or unconsciously?
God knows the wicked one whether one denies or accepts being one.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 states, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” 
Can you identify whether you are wicked or not wicked? 
Psalm 73 identifies some glaring wicked heart:  
Pride serves as their necklace.
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge with abundance.
They have more than a heart could wish.
They increase in riches.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily (arrogantly)
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Are you living outside of God?
It is wickedness to live outside of God.
Today, come out of wicked ways to avoid the sentence of God against evil work. 
Keep your heart diligently, so as not to become a wicked one before God.
The judgment of God does not sleep but is alive at His appointed time. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the fear of God become your way of life.