FAITH CAPSULE: Understanding and knowledge will gain wisdom and the presence of God.

Psalm 8

Are you spending time on the Word of God to gain understanding with knowledge in life?
When there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of the Word of God, failure in the walk of life becomes inevitable. 
The Word of God is for all to hear, receive, and believe to experience victory over the challenges of the wicked world. 
Jesus is wisdom, the Word of God, and the instruction for all. 1Corinthians 1:30 communicates to all, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…”
Give self to wisdom from God!
The Word of God heals and delivers from destruction (Psalms 107:20). 
The Word of God gives life abundantly to one that will receive and believe the Word of God.
Worldly life and unending chores, including other activities, denies understanding and knowledge.
Among such are:
· Being too busy, having no time to study the Word of God.
· Preferring to take care of the activities of this world before giving self to the things of God.
· Having a dislike for the Word of God does not accept the truth.
. Living a worldly life is taking the Word of God as foolishness 
Will you consider the Word of God as the evidence of His wonders?
Understand and know that the Word of God is the key to the presence of God. 
The Word of God visiting Moses is the glaring presence of God with Moses. (The way of God is in His Word; His presence. (Exodus 33:13-14) 
Understanding and knowledge of the Word of God are having the revelation getting a clear and unfailing direction in life journey. 
Come out of all that is keeping you away from the Word of God, the wonder of God?
What a wonderful God we serve!
Wonderful God made man wonderfully with honor. 
One with a lack of knowledge and understanding of the wonder of God sets to become perish.
The Psalmist said, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.” (Psalm 49:20) 
The one with understanding and knowledge of the wonders of God will know what it means to have been made with honor by God. 
The Psalmist testifies to the glory of God in His creation of man, “God is mindful of man; man is the one that God pays a visit to; man is made a little lower than the angels; man is crowned with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:4-5) 
The Psalmist further states, “God made man to have dominion over the works of His hands; all things were made to be under the feet of man.” (Psalm 8:6-7) 
Gain understanding and knowledge that God invests much into the life of all, and He deserves attention from all living life for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to gain understanding and knowledge, to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you complaining to prompt negative confession before God?

Numbers 14:1-38

The word of God is His promise that delivers to one that lives by His word.
To live by the word of God demands commitment.
Without a commitment to the word of God, one shall give to complaining.
One that complains will confess negative, experience negative results, to become denied in the promise of God.
Complaining does not have a place before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God shall arrive outside of the plans of God.
Consciously or unconsciously, are you complaining before God? 
Complain is the expression of dissatisfaction with God, the avenue to experience a painful life journey, to fail and not pass.
One thing God cannot do is: He cannot fail!
In every way of life, a complaint or the expression of dissatisfaction with a negative confession is not acceptable before God. 
The word of God warns: “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:6)
The written word of God is a manual of life, to lead with direction to arrive at the destination of the life journey.
Importantly, give self to the word of God, not to look away from God, the evidence of taking distance from God.
The complaint before God is against God that set the Israelites on a painful life journey.
The Bible records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:1-4) 
The complaint of the Israelites prompted negative confession as they reacted to the discouraging report by the spies. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining, confessing negatively before God?
One with the complaint will rebel before God.
The Israelites complain before God after their deliverance from over four hundred years of bondage.
The complaint testifies to them as rebellious before God.
As a believer, avoiding complaining before God is rooted in trusting and hoping in God. 
One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God as Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is evidence of having hope in God.
Do not complain to avoid negative confession before God.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus hides in the word of God.

Luke 4

The word of God is in the record for all.
All should learn, living life by the word of God, to the glory of God.
The word of God is like a manual for instruction for all to engage and not fail before God.
The word of God is like a mirror for looking into a dress or readdress not to become a victim of evil.
Romans 15:4 records, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
Are you giving yourself to the word of God to live life for God not to live a life of waste?
Do not be exposed to the world by not giving yourself to the word of God.
Jesus is Lord did not expose Himself to the devil when He made the word of God His hiding place.
The Bible records that, after fasting for forty days of Jesus, the devil approached Jesus three times to tempt Jesus, at first the devil said, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” (Luke 4:3) 
Jesus hides in the word of God.
Jesus responds to the devil: “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’” (Luke 4:4) 
The demonstration of hiding in the word of God is for all to learn.
Jesus does not need to hide.
Understanding and knowledge gained in the documentation of the hiding of Jesus in the word of God is the way not to become a victim of a wicked world.
The first documentation of the three temptations attempt of Satan against Jesus failed just as the other two temptations failed.
Jesus hides in the word of God, quoting against Satan.
The Bible records how Jesus hides physically, not because there is no way for Him to avoid Satan but for all to know and understand that hiding is not evidence of weakness but wisdom.
Jesus also demonstrated physical hiding in the face of wicked agenda: “Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” (John 8:59)
Keeping to the word of God will keep one from untimely termination by evil agenda. 
Are you a simple believer or a prudent one?
Provers 14:15 speaks to all, “The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps.”
With understanding, “A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.” (Proverbs 22:3)
Keep the word of God (testimonies of God) diligently not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Jesus hides, and all should know to hide.

Prayer for today: Ask to give entrance for the word of God to live life by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Personalize the Word of God to become activated in life.

Romans 15

The word of God is the documentation for all to learn.
Learning shall gain understanding by knowing to live life according to the will of God.
Romans 15:4 enlightens all, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” 
This Faith-mail is rooted in the Word of God for walking through life challenges. 
When the Word of God is believed and received as Faith-Mail addressed to one, from God, to personalize to keep at heart, it will make one full of faith. 
Faithful will know to confess the word of faith when faced with the ups and downs of life. 
Through the pages of this book are letters rooted in the Word of God. 
In this challenging world, skim through the book Faith mail, and expose yourself to engaging the word of God. The Word of God is God, the All-Knowing, and knows the heart and faith of all. 
The faith of one will determine how God responds. 
Keep your heart, be occupied by the Word of God, to live life by the will of God.
King Saul could not live by the will of God. 
The unlawful sacrifice of king Saul made God reveal His mind about David, “…I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” (Acts 13:22) 
Indeed, David set himself to seek after the heart of God. 
God testified to have found in David after His own heart. 
David spoke from his heart by stating, “I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.” (Psalm 16:8)
David personalizes God.
Personalize the Word of God to become activated in life.
Psalm 107:20 confirms, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
It is worthy to receive the Word of God as a faith mail sent to keep one, deliver one, and preserve one from destruction. 
On this day, begin to set the word of God before yourself to live life by faith (Habakkuk 2:4); to walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7); to watch, stand fast in the faith (1 Corinthians 16:13); to have purified heart (Acts 15:9).
To receive the Word of God personally as faith-mail for deliverance and preservation will allow God to lead in the path of life.
The journey of life demands faithfulness to keep one abiding in the presence of God. 
Reasonably, all should allow the word of God in life to walk after the Lord.
One that fears God keeps His command and knows to obey His voice.

Prayer for today: Ask to understand, knowing to be receiving the word of God into your life.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Are you living life to please God? 

Psalm 5

A man that truly knows God and pleases God is not wicked. 
Knowing God will result in growth in faith.
One with faith will live life to please God.
Are you living life to please God?
The word declares that without faith, God is not pleased.
Hebrews 11:6 states, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him…” 
Living a life that does not please God will not retain the presence of God. A man that truly knows God and pleases God is not wicked.
David identifies the character of God, “For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.” (Psalm 5:4) Wicked way of life does not please God; it is evil and does not retain the presence of God.
David, a man after the heart of God (1 Samuel 13: 14) points out what wickedness is about in Psalm 5: 
The boastful is wicked and shall not stand before God (The boastful shall not stand in Your sight Psalm 5:5) 
One with iniquity is wicked (You hate all workers of iniquity Psalm 5:5)
Falsehood (untruth) speakers are wicked ones that turn the glory of God to shame (Psalm 4:2); (You shall destroy those who speak falsehood Psalm 5:6) 
Bloodthirsty and deceitful are wicked before God.  (Psalm 5:6)
Psalm 5:9 further identifies wickedness:
Wicked ones do not have faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is destruction; the wicked do have the throat of an open tomb; wicked tongue flatters; wicked ones, with all their transgressions, have rebelled against God.
Is there any trace of wickedness in your life?
Jeremiah 12:1-2 also pointed out clearly who the wicked ones are:
“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. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” 
Knowing about God in the mouth is the route of a wicked one.
To know God is near to God with a place for God in the heart and not far from God.
Do you know God or know about God?
Are you religious before God?
Strive to come out of religion into the reality of God. 
Be spotless to live for God. 
God calls for all to be holy and without blemish. 
Give self to the word of James 1:21 as stated, “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” 
Wickedness is filthy (dirty) and does not have a place before God. 
Avoid being wicked, but allow the word of God to be rooted in you.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable living life that pleases God.