FAITH CAPSULE: Did God call you for what you are answering?

Acts 19:11-41

Answering the title of your choice but not of God is self-deception. 
Deceiving yourself or others is telling lies to manipulate the world.
It is a risky business to be answering what God did not call one in His assignment.
The Bible records the story of Apostle Paul answering the calling of God, with the title as Apostle of God, healing the sick, calling out the evil spirit in the life of many. 
The Bible also records some Jewish exorcists that took it upon themselves to answer out of the calling of God. Acts 19:11-17 records, “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also, there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.” 
Are you assuming a title or taking up an assignment, not of God?
The written word of God is for our learning to understand and know to navigate this wicked world, to live life for the glory of God. Learn from the story of itinerant Jewish exorcists that gave themselves to answer the title that is not the calling of God.
Are you seeking God or seeking a man with titles for God?
Are you with passion or hunger to be answering titles in the business of God but not called by God, mocking your respective world?
What is your title? 
Are you self-appointed or man-appointed Apostle, Prophet, or Pastor, parading as in answer to the calling of God?
You need no man to help you to deceive yourself.
Also, you will need no man to stop you from deceiving your world.
Stop yourself from deceiving your world.
Give yourself to the given task of God in your life, not just answering to the title.
Come out of religion and give yourself to the reality of Christ. 
The judgment of God is not asleep but will come at His appointed time.
Live right, engage the tasks of God, not give yourself to the assigned title to you by any man.
Your task will count before God, not your title.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life according to the calling of God.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Be repaired for God to occupy.

2 Chronicles 29:1-11

To gain and retain the presence of God is to open and be cleaned up for God to occupy, and such will live life for the glory of God.
The action to open the temple by King Hezekiah depicts what it means for all to be opened for God to occupy.
2Chronicles 29:1-3 records, “Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.” 
When Hezekiah became king, the first and foremost he did was to open and repair the temple of God.
The opening and reparation of the temple of God counted for him as right doing.
Hezekiah was right in the sight of the Lord.
An open and repaired house of God is prepared and well-kept for the occupation of the presence of God.
Are you an acclaimed believer?
Are you opened, repaired, and prepared for God to occupy you? 
Or, are you yet to be opened but open-able for God to gain entrance into your life?
Revelation 3:20 records what Jesus will do when you are open for Him to occupy your life, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20) 
What is holding you not to open for God into your life?
Hezekiah opened the door and called for reparation.
Prayerfully, with desire, open up for the Lord to occupy your life.
Make it a priority to study and learn that you are the temple of God and need to be opened for God to have a place in your life.
Many assume but are not open for God and have no space, lack reparation, and are not ready for God.
Some are open for religious purposes.
Are you open to the religious purpose or for reality with Christ?
Hezekiah did not open up to play religion; he brought the qualified to work inside the temple. 
2 Chronicles 29:5, “And he said to them: Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place.” 
Are you open to the entrance of God into your life?
If you are yet to open for Jesus to occupy you, get to know that it is time to have the door open so He can come into you, to sanctify you by His Word. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become open that He will occupy your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is the power of God.

Hebrews 4

What the word of God is about is identified in the Old Testament also in the New Testament.
Deuteronomy 4:2 warns, “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
Are you taking away or adding to the word of God? 
Hebrews 4:12 introduces what the word of God is about for all, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
Give yourself to know the word of God that is magnified by God as Psalm 138:2 states, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
The word of God is the power of God over any force or any activity of darkness. Psalm 105 points out, “He sent darkness, and made it dark, and they did not rebel against His word.” 
The word of God is power for healing and deliverance. 
Psalm 107:20 made it known, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Calling on God by His word, God shall intervene.
God will not fail to send His magnified word against challenges.
Are you full of the word of God?
One that is full of the word of God will not be quiet but know to call for the magnified word of God in times of challenge.
Once, Jesus, with His disciples, had an encounter with a troubling wind and sea as He traveled on the sea. 
The Bible records, “Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So, the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:23-27)
Jesus spoke the word to calm the troubling wind and sea.
As a believer of the word of God, in the troubling challenge, speak the word of God that delivers and preserves from evil agenda. 
Listen, power belongs to the word of God to rebuke and to calm any challenge that ravages your world. 
Give yourself to the word of God that will build you to give you abundant life.
The word of God speaks to all.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to gain entrance into you.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that you hold on to, against the word of God?

Genesis 6

The word of God builds.
To whom the word of God locates, receives, and believes the word of God with obedience shall be build-up for the glory of God.
One that does not give regard to the word of God that disobeys the word of God will not be build-up by the word of God.
Psalm 28:5 records, “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.”
Noah moved by the command of God, and without a doubt, he did not question God. 
Noah received and believed the command of God to build an ark that served him as a vehicle against a flood of destruction. 
The word of God testifies the obedience of Noah, “Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.” (Genesis 6:22) What is it that you hold on to, against the word of God?
Why not give yourself to the word of God that will build you up? 
Obedience to the word of God by Noah was his build-up against the flood of destruction.
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul identifies what it takes to become built up, “So now brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace which is able to build you up and give your inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32) 
Will you allow the word of God to build you and your household?
Engaging the word of God with heart shall prompt one to be living by the word of God.
Meditating the word of God is a way to see the word of God and live as a believer.
Joshua 1:8 encourages, “This book of law shall not depart your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” 
One that does not obey the word of God will not build up but will take a position to falter, fail or fall in the journey of life. 
Noah heard to see, receive and become of the word of God.
By the word of God, Noah and his family could not become a victim of the flood of destruction.
Are you giving attention to the word of God or the world?
Allow the word of God into your life, respond as commanded by God to gain the light of God against the darkness that is not of God.
Psalm 119:130 says, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” 
Hear, see, receive to become a vessel of obedience to God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God shall occupy you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Listening, giving attention will attain understanding. 

Listening is giving attention, and attention is listening.
Proverbs 4:1 testifies to the importance of attention to have the understanding saying, “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding” (Proverbs 4:1)
Jesus also questions and answered about understanding and listening, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
With listening comes understanding to know God, the truth to live for the glory of God.
Listen, with understanding, know that Jesus is the word of God. John 1:1 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Understand that Jesu, the word of God, is the truth when He says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) 
One that does not listen to understand the word of God, the truth of God, cannot believe and will not know God as John 8:45 confirms, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”  
Think of it, how can you know God that you do not know to believe?
In life, it is not possible to know God that you do not understand but to only know about God.
Do you know God, or do you know about God?
The majority of acclaimed believers that do not know the truth of God do not know God. 
One that does not know the truth, the word of God, is not free.
John 8:42 confirms, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” know the truth of God to be free from the wickedness of the world, living free by the word of God.
In this world, listening disability not to understand and know the truth of God is rooted in not having time for God.
Will you give attention to the word of God, to enter you as the light of God? 
Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” One with no light of God shall continually experience the challenges of the world of darkness and not experience free, navigating through the world of darkness.
With understanding, know the truth of God, do not be one that suppresses the truth of God, which is the righteousness of God. 
Romans 1:18 warns, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
Let the desire for God become your portion.
Get the understanding that will enable you not to live a life of waste but to live a life of worshiping God, the purpose He creates all for His pleasure.

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall fill you with spiritual understanding.