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THE PLACE OF WICKED

FAITH CAPSULE: The heart is the place for the wicked to establish.

Psalm 73

The place of wickedness is in the heart that is wickedness has its seat in the heart.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 made it known that the heart is the seat (center) of the wicked, “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.” 
The deceitful heart is the heart of wickedness that is the identity of the believer or unbeliever.
It is certain all are deceived, but not God.
Can you search if you are wicked? 
The acclaimed believer should not be with a wicked heart.
Psalm 73 identifies what the heart of a wicked one is like:  
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 an acclaimed believer with a head full of the word of God but empty in the heart where wickedness occupies?
In these wicked days, the sentence of God will answer with speed because God sees it all.
Are your ways rooted in wickedness?
The activity of the wicked is to do evil.
Genesis 6:4 records the word of God about the wicked, “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.”
Are you questioning the acts of the wicked ones?
God pays attention to the acts of the evil-doing, and God sees all.
Are you wicked?
The way of the wicked can appear better and glamorous. 
However, none should focus on the acts of the wicked ones but focus on God continually, with a mind that stays on God.
Only God is the judge, and all should allow God to judge as He pleases.
There is no judge but God.
Are you observing the activities of the wicked world, or are you a part of the wickedness of the world?
To you, does it appear as if wicked doing will last forever?
God sees it all, and appointed time will respond to the wicked ones and their activities under the heaven.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 speaks warning for a heart that is wise not to engage evil, “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.”
All should make amends not to be of wickedness. 
God sees it all.

Prayer for today: Ask against having a place for wickedness in the heart.

HEAR TO SEE

FAITH CAPSULE: Hear and see in the word of God that sounds in your direction.

Jeremiah 1:1-16

The word of God is alive and active.
The documentation of the crucifixion of Jesus is clear to see what Jesus went through in the challenging world as the producer of the movie called The Passion of Christ presented in action.
After the producer must have read or heard the word, he produced the movie as if he was present at the time of Jesus.
To hear and see in the word of God will know to do before God.
It is not enough to hear the word when the picture of what the word says does not take root in the heart.
God wants us to hear and see when He speaks to us.
Have you been studying (not just reading) but not able to gain an understanding of the word of God? 
Genesis 1:3-4 records, “…God said, “let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good…”  
If God can see in His spoken word, definitely God expects all to see in His word. 
For all the creation of God, until there is an ability to hear and see in His living word, none will be able to receive from His word.
All that Jeremiah needed to resume his divine assignment was to see in the word of God; otherwise, he would have missed the calling of his life. “Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:9-10) Jeremiah received the word of God and was able to see the purpose and plan of his life. 
The word of God you carry to the heart is the word you see as the power of God to bring about manifestation to the glory of God.
Moses did not move in the direction of God for His life until he was able to turn aside and see in the word of God. Exodus 3:3-4 records, “Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:3-4) 
Moses heard and saw in the word of direction to engage his divine assignment to the glory of God. 
The word you hear and keep to the heart you will do.
Proverbs 4:20-21 admonishes all, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.”
Give ear to hear, to see in the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to begin to see whenever the word of God sounds in your direction. 

LET MY PEOPLE GO!

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.

Exodus 10

Know to pray about the message of God through Moses for Pharao of Egypt.
In Egypt, Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go and serve God. 
God sent word through Moses, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.” (Exodus 5:1)
All are to live life for God, to exist for His glory. (Revelations 4:11)
What is it representing Egypt, Pharaoh that you know or do not know?
What is holding you down not to be serving God?
Physically, spiritually or emotionally, what is denying, delaying with an attempt to delete you not to exist for God?
PRAYER
Ask against all that represents Egypt or Pharaoh over your life shall begin to experience the stretch-out hand of God for your deliverance, that you live life for God.
When Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go and SERVE God, EAST WIND answered against Pharaoh and all over his land to bring LOCUST to overtake all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:12-14records, Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land—all that the hail has left.” 13 So Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.” 
God is the same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
God is not a partial God. (Romans 2:11)
PRAYER
Ask that the same east wind that brought the locust over the land of Egypt for the Israelites to gain their motion to serve God should answer for you to let go and serve God for the glory of God.
Every cloud that is not of God will confuse and activate one not to gain and retain motion in God.
Any cloud, which is not of God over our life shall clear off in the name of Jesus.
Stagnation will answer with motion, and confusion is converted to continuation walking with God, before God, in Him.
When it was time for the Israelites to go and serve God, it was the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire that answered for them.
Exodus 13:21-22 records, “And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. 22 He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.”
PRAYER
Ask that pillar of cloud, pillar of fire, by the day and night, shall take charge your life.

CHALLENGES OF LIFE

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you worried about the life challenges of life?

Psalm 34, 123, 

Worrying is not of God, but challenges provoke worrying.
Get to know God, consider not how long your challenges resist, persist, but God shall deliver in it all.
Mark it that it is not how long your challenges persist or resist but how far God has brought you.
Worrying is the evidence of doubt, the weapon used by the devil to contaminate or terminate the testimony of a believer of God.
Jesus warns in Matthew 6:25, “Do not worry about your life…”
Are you worrying for any reason despite the warning against not worrying?
Did you create yourself?
No one creates the self. 
If you believe, let the creator take charge of all that pertains to life. 
Jesus said, do not worry about YOUR LIFE.
Worrying is the spirit against God.
Worrying is the way of calling God a liar, looking away from God to live life with no regard for God.
A worrying believer worshiping God is like one that directs one eye away from God to the world while keeping the second eye up to God.
Without a doubt, no soul can keep an eye on a different source of solution at the same time to overcome the solution.
Always know to be keeping eyes up to God alone. 
The Psalmist encourages in Psalm 123:1, “Unto You, I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens.”
Ask to be enabled to look up to God always.
Worrying instead of worshipping God does not change challenges for the better. 
Worrying in the place of worshipping shall be a force that will sink faith for worried one to become disconnected from God.
Worrying is not worshiping God.
Not worshipping God is not seeking God.
Not seeking God is taking a position not to see God in His word.
Worrying is a spirit that is not of God but to have a position in the life of a believer to become denied, delayed, for destruction.
To be worrying is taking a distance from God.
With distance from God, one will become occupied by worrying.
Where worrying settles, it builds up to fear.
Knowing to wait on God cannot become a victim of worrying.
David could wait on not become a victim of worrying.
Psalm 23:4 testifies, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
One with fear encased in worrying will make the wrong decision and could be running in the place of walking or walking instead of running.
David walked in the valley of death as worrying could not activate fear.
As David could not become a victim of worrying in the valley of the shadow of death is no excuse for anyone with or without the title before God not to become a victim of worrying.
Before God, ask that all the spirit that is not of God, that is of worrying, be converted for you to be worshipping God.
Worship but not worry!

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength and character to be worshipping God. 

DO YOU KNOW?

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know what you must do to move forward in the calling of God?

Acts 9

In the journey of life, one must live life by the word God, the direction of God.
The direction in the word of God will not fail when obediently engaged.
The word of God in Isaiah 55:11 encourages, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” 
The direction in the word of God will guide with deliverance and preservation.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
Give yourself to the word of God. 
The word of God you hear and certainly do will correct you to uphold you for the glory of God.
The word of God that sounded for Paul upholds him for the glory of God. 
Saul of Tarsus (Paul the apostle) was on his journey to wreak havoc on the disciples of the Lord Jesus in Damascus when the word of God located him.
Acts 9:3-4 records the encounter of Saul, “As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
Saul questioned the voice that sounded his name, and Jesus introduced Himself to him. 
The bible records, “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:6)
Saul heard from the Lord Jesus to know what he must do.
Do you know what you must do to move forward in the calling of God?
Have you been hearing the word but not do?
Matthew 7:26 records the word of Jesus that speaks to all, “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish…” 
Saul heard and did according to the word of God that sounds in his direction.
The name of Saul changed to Paul.
At the moment of receiving instruction, Paul began to move in the direction of the calling for his life. 
Determination is not enough to answer to the calling of God, but with prayer, one will engage the direction in the word of God.
The word of God promises that “He will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go and He will guide you with His eye” (Psalm 32:8)
What to do in your life will get you to where you must be in the Lord. 
In every word that sounds in your direction, hear and do to live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to hear and do according to His word.