FAITH CAPSULE: Know what you carry to know the calling of God over you.

Exodus 4

Do you know yourself in the Lord? 
If you know yourself in the Lord, you will know what the Lord has deposited in you. Knowing yourself in the Lord will determine how far you go in answering the calling of God over your life. 
Get to know yourself in the Lord.
One that does know self before God shall not understand the move of God. 
Psalm 49:20 states, “A man who is in honor yet does not understand is like the beasts that perish.” The lack of understanding denies answering the calling of God in life. 
Do you know what the Lord deposits in you?
When God wants to raise a giant that will glorify His name, there will be no excuse for no one that does not know self in Him. 
Lack of understanding is always an attempt to deny the answering to the calling of God.
Moses does not know himself in the Lord at the time of the calling over his life.
God located Moses to point out what he carries to answer His calling.
God will call no one for an assignment without empowering such.
Exodus 4:2-4 records the calling of Moses, “So the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” 
He said, “A rod.” And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),”   Moses had a rod and not know himself in the Lord not able to see the rod as a power of God he carries.
Get to know yourself in the Lord!
A rod of God in hand is the power of God at hand. 
Moses did not know himself in the Lord for him to engage the assignment until the Lord showed Him. 
Today, know that the calling of God does have a specific fitting rod in your hand.  
Unlike the twelve disciples of Jesus, Apostle Paul did not walk with Jesus on the face of the earth, but he knew himself in the Lord more than any of the twelve disciples of Jesus. 
Paul testifies, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (1 Corinthians 15:10) 
Like Paul, know who you are in the grace of God, not to live a wasted life but live in the center of the assignment of God over your life.
Get to know yourself in the Lord, and live life for God to excel for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled not to be a failure before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you feeding on in life?

Jeremiah 15

The majority of acclaimed believers talk the word but do not walk the word of God.
Are you empty or full of the word of God or full of the world?
One that feeds on the word of God will talk and walk by the word of God as one that lives life for God, the evidence feeding on the word of God, not full of the world. 
God does not listen to empty talk. 
Job buttress in Job 35:13, “Surely God does not listen to empty talk, nor will the Almighty regard it.” 
Ask to be enabled to live for God.
Who can afford to live life as an empty one?
When one becomes empty, the wicked occupies such. 
Matthew12: 43-45 records the consequence of being empty and not occupied by the word of God, “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
The devourer of all looks to occupy one that is empty of the word of God.
All should remain continually fed on the word of God to be full of the presence of God.
Daily, what do you feed on to fill you?
Whatever one feeds on is what such carries and does not become empty. 
Know to feed on the word of God.
One that is empty will always have an empty talk because one cannot give out what one does not carry on the inside. 
What are you feeding on to occupy your life?
The word of God is like food.
Job 23:12 testifies, “I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” Without a doubt, the word of God should feed on as food. 
Jeremiah 15:16 states, “Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.”
The word of God is like food to feed on continually without an excuse not to feed.
Are you empty or full of the word of God or full of the world?
One that feeds on the word of God will talk and walk by the Word of God to produce the evidence as a believer, living life for God.
One with no testimony of living life for God is with evidence of not feeding on the word of God. 
Feed on the word of God, not the world.
Do not be empty not to become opened for the wicked of the world.
Do not forsake the word of God but continually engage the word of God as a necessity. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to feed on the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Repent your sin to gain and retain the presence of God. 

2 Samuel 11, 12:1-25

Obedience to the word of God does not despise God but takes a position to find God. 
Despising the word of God will set one for self-destruction. (Proverbs 13:13) 
In life, despising the word of God is a destination to become sink into sin. 
With sin, one is not seeking God to find God. 
The Case of the sin of David and Hezekiah is a testimony of what sin adds or takes away while alive:
King David saw and sent for Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. 
The Bible records, “…and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:4-5)
David was a man after the heart of God but did wrong in his attempt to cover up his sin with Bathsheba, sending Uriah (husband of Bathsheba) to the front of war to get him killed. (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God will not overlook the sin of anyone regardless of the past good act before God. 
Before God, the only way to come out of sin is to repent. 
The sin of King David before God called for Prophet Nathan to rebuke David as he responded with repentance. 
2 Samuel 12:13 records the repentance of David, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.  
Repentance will bring forth redemption.
The repentance of David before God granted Him the mercy of God. 
God did not withdraw His spirit from David and not cut off His word from him. 
The word of God speaks to all, “Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.” (Proverbs 1:23) All need to learn from turning away from sin to God to gain the presence of God. 
David was rebuked, turned to repent and retain the hand of God over his life. 
Hezekiah was sick with the mark to die when the word of God rebuked him through Prophet Isaiah, stating “…thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’” (Isaiah 38:1) 
The bible records the repentance of Hezekiah, “Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD.” (Isaiah 1:2) 
David, Hezekiah repented at the rebuke of Isaiah, the prophet of God, and the word of God gave life to Hezekiah in the place of death.
What stops you from turning away from sin to God.?
With sin, no one will gain the presence of God. 
Come out of sin, and live life by the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a sin-free life.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is no reasonable excuse before God. 

2 Samuel 12

With sin, no one accesses the presence of God. 
Is sin and sinning your way of life?
For sin, do not assume the mercy of God but repent before God.
Sin and sinning are not acceptable or excusable before God.
Through the Bible pages, no one lives life above sin and sinning against God by violating the word of God.
There is no acclaimed believer or one with a title that gets away with sin or sinning before God without consequence.
Eve made Adam sin before God.
Before God, Adam had a reasonable excuse for his sin. The excuse states, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)  
Before God, there is no excuse to sin. 
Disobedient before God is a path of sinning.
Eve and Adam sinned before God, and they received a measured painful consequence from God.
None is excusable from the consequence of sin before God.
Imagine God testifies David as a man after His heart, and with his sin, there was no excuse from the consequences of his sin.
Act 13:22 records the testimony of God, “And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.”
King David sinned before God when he violated the wife of Uriah and set Uriah up for his death.
After the killing of Uriah, God sent Prophet Nathan to David, pointing out the sin of David and the consequences of his sin before God.
2 Samuel 12:7-12 records, “Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’”
Before God, there is none that is above the consequence of sin. 
David repented before God, but the consequence followed through over his life of David.

Prayer for today: Ask against sinning before God in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Nothing is hide-able before God.  

Proverbs 4

No heart that can hide from God that can see all.
It is the heart of all that presents one before God. 
Every heart does not hide before God, who sees all about the doing of all the heart.
Genesis 6:5 testifies how the heart of all exposes the wickedness before God. “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 heart of one is not open for another to see, but only God can see and know what transpires in the heart of all.
Jeremiah 17:9 testifies, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The Bible points out that the heart is where the rise and fall begin. 
Satan makes the heart target as a launching pad to attack. 
Judas spent time with Jesus, yet his heart made him available as a playground for Satan. 
The book of Luke 22:3-4 states, “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” 
Satan went after the heart of Judas to establish his plan of betraying Jesus. 
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks the heart not kept.
Peter was close to Jesus and could also have been a victim of the devil. Once Jesus said to him, “…Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:31-32) 
The only proven target for the enemy to strike is the heart. 
Ananias and Sapphira sell their possession to buttress the fellowship but lied about the proceedings, “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land for yourself? (Acts 5:3)
Evil doing is the business of Satan, and he has taken the heart of all as a target. 
However, the heart that is not reachable by Satan is the heart with constant engagement to the word of God by meditating on the word of God. 
The word encourages, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Meditate on the word of God to disengage Satan from the heart. 
King David, a man after the heart of God, carelessly, not diligently kept his heart when he set his eyes to lay with Uriah, the wife(Bathsheba) of Hittite.
David set Uriah for death. 
David sin against God 
Keep the heart diligently from evil by meditating on the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for enablement to be keeping the heart diligently.