FAITH CAPSULE: Give regard to God, and know to avoid captivity.

Psalm 145

Know God to fear God, and give regard to God more than ever. 
Know God that is able and in place to deliver in all challenges. 
Give regard to God that gives possibility over impossibility.
Giving regard to God is rooted in knowledge not to become a victim of captivity.
It is not possible to stop growing in the knowledge of God.
Knowing God is a continual and never be an end in knowing God.
Do you know God not just to know about God?
Get to know God and gain knowledge having an edge in ways of life.
One with the lack of knowledge is with an assurance to enter in the way that leads to captivity. 
Isaiah 5:13 confirms, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
Without a doubt, the act of knowing is the way out of captivity. 
For example, giving regard to the work of God is with consideration for His works and not misplacing knowledge of God that keeps one from captivity. 
In life, Isaiah 5:12 clearly states the reason why the lack of knowledge drives to captivity, “…But they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands.”  
Psalmist also confirms that a failure not to give regard to the work of God destroys as it states, “Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.” (Psalm 28:5) 
Give regards to God, know to avoid captivity, the way of destruction, and not be built for God.
Giving regard to God is consciously paying attention to the operation of the hand of God. 
Meditating on the word of God is the meditation of the word of God that creates all His work. 
Meditation is not memorizing the word of God in the head. 
Meditation is learning laboriously in the heart day and night to establish continual communication with God. 
As a desire for the knowledge to be regarding the work of God and not be a victim of captivity, allow mediation of the word of God to become your way of living life.
Regarding the word of God is looking closely or attentively to observe steadily, to hold in awe (reverence, fear, wonder, respect) to look upon or consider in a specified way.
Give regards to the wondrous works of God that declare His name near to all.
Psalm 75:1 testifies, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” 
Why not begin to give regard to the works of His hand to gain and maintain the fear of God that keeps one from any form of captivity? 
Give regard to God more than ever, and gain the knowledge not to become a victim of the challenges of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to be giving regard to Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?

Exodus 16

Without having trust and hope in God is not complete to arrive at the plans and promises of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  
Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. 
Trusting God and having hope in God makes man rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but stopped trusting that is moving without hope in God to meet their needs.
Are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist testifies, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). 
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the desire for want by the Israelites overtook their need.
One focusing on wants before God instead of gaining needs is set for self-destruction.
Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?
The desires of the Israelites for wanting that lack turned them to the complaint before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is an act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny one from receiving the promised plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a vessel of complaining before God, or one with the character of complimenting God at every breath of life that He is giving you?
The Israelites craved a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. 
God had a plan to meet the need of the Israelites.
Exodus 16:16 records, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  
The direction of God to meet the need was enough, but the Israelites focused on wanting to violate the command of God by taking portions more than directed.
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The want of the Israelites more than their need could not help them but lost.
One with faith in God for His goodness, such will trust with hope in God to gain enough more than one wants. 
In all waiting to seek God, be patient, look up to God, and know that the provision of God is always on time to meet needs.
Paul confirms, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to trust and hope to wait on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The Israelites were mixed-up with the multitude and could not arrive at the promise of God.

The multitude is a crowd, a state of many.
A journey with the many is bound not to arrive at the calling by God. Matthew 20:16 admonishes, “…For many are called, but few chosen.” 
There is a tendency to be crowded, not to see or rise over challenges to derail the called one.
The crowd in life can be a hindrance.
The calling of the Israelites to the Promised Land was delayed, derailed to deny because they mixed with a multitude that was not of God. 
Exodus 12:38 records, “A mixed multitude went up with them…”  
Pray against accompanying yourself with the crowd.
What role is the multitude/crowd doing in your life? 
Multitude could be a hindrance.
If a multitude is allowed in life, it will deny one from getting to where the LORD has destined for one to be. 
The Israelites exposed themselves to the multitude that denied them not to arrive at the destiny of God for their life.
When a mix-up with the multitude is allowed in life, confusion is bound to experience failure. 
Where there is a mix-up with the multitude, disorderliness shall predominate.
In the place of a mix-up with the multitude, confusion, mistake, and misunderstanding will be in place.
As an acclaimed believer, are you searching for yourself to identify the multitude in your life?
For the Israelites, at the onset of the journey to freedom, Exodus 12:38 said, “A mixed multitude went up with them…”  
God did not call the Israelites to go with the multitude, but they went with them, and the consequence led them to destruction.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the damage of the mixed-up multitudes that went with the Israelites, ” Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” 
The Israelites were mixed-up, confused, confessed negativity before God, and could not arrive at the Promised Land. 
Numbers 14:27-29 records the cause of the Israelites before God, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.” 
What is it that is confusing you to be confessing negative in the place of positive before God? 
The Israelites were mixed-up with the multitude and could not arrive at the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not become a victim of the multitude.

FAITH CAPSULE: God alone is the only unchanging changer that reverses the irreversible. 

Psalm 34

Genesis 5:2 records, “He created them male and female, and blessed them…”
God alone created all!
With understanding, know that God alone is the only unchanging changer that reverses the irreversible and has brought you this far.
Praise and thank belong to God for He have brought you thus far.
Affliction can be a challenge to discourage not waiting on God for deliverance. 
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19) 
Despite your challenges, do right before God.
God creates all to reverse irreversible.
Good God that is consistent in His mercy will not fail in His goodness that is merciful towards one that consistently seeks His intervention.
In times of challenges, who do you call on?
Who do you remember to call on besides the merciful God?
Psalm 20:7 records, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Prayerfully, give self to calling on God by His exalted name alone (Psalm 148:13), remind Him by His magnified word that is above all His name (Psalm 138:2) 
With understanding, know that the word of God does not return to Him void (Isiah 55:11). 
Remind God to contend with Him faithfully (not in doubt) as Isaiah 43:6 encourages, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”  
Know God to call Him with the understanding gained in His word.
It is not too much but possible and worthy to call Him at every breath as a prescription to have life. 
Psalm 150:6 prescribes, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
With the desire to experience the presence of God, it is never too much or not impossible to praise God with every breath. 
The word of God encourages everything with breath to praise the Lord.  
Praising God is worshipping God.
Worshiping God can be thanking, praying, singing, and living life by the word of God.
Live life for God at every breath.
Are you calling on Him with doubt, not knowing if He answers you?
Have faith, and know that God hears you.
The word of Psalm 94:9 encourages, “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?” 
Prayerfully, call on God without a doubt.
God is a good God, and He is merciful to call on.
God will speak except one is not hearing Him.
God knows best and does have the reason to do as it pleases over all of His creation. 
God is a merciful God!
If you have been calling on God and yet no answer, keep faith to keep on waiting to hear for His calling.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to be waiting on Him at all times.

FAITH CAPSULE: The life journey demands to walk before God to gain His presence.

1 Samuel 15

Life is a journey.
In the journey of life, it is worthy to walk before God.
Enoch walked with God to have a healthy 365 years and had sons and daughters.
Enoch did not die a sudden or untimely death as God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Noah walked with God at a time of corruption and destruction. 
Noah walked with God to find grace before God. 
Genesis 6:9-10 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons…” 
Abraham walked before God when God called him out to walk before Him. (Genesis 17:1) 
Abraham walked before God to be blameless to gain the promises of God.
Walking with God is walking before God also to walk in Him.
The word of God points out that walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 states, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
How is your walk with God, before God, or walking in Him?
Life is a journey, do right and not just know about God.
King David knew God the evidence that he walked before God to become recognized as “a man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
King Saul could not walk with God.
King Saul disobeyed God. 
1 Samuel 15:1-3 records the disobedience of King Saul: “Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now, therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” 
Saul walked in his way and did not walk before God. 
I Samuel 15:7-9 records, “Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.” 
Walking with God is pleasing God, but disobedience to God does not please God.
Failure to walk before God shall experience rejection by God.
Samuel delivered the consequence of the disobedient of Saul before God,“…Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” (1 Samuel 15:26) 
A life journey is worth walking before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your walk before Him.