FAITH CAPSULE: The foolish one does not fear God.

Genesis 3

Despising the word of God is dishonoring God.
The book of Proverbs 13:13 cautions, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
Are you despising the word of God, the lack of fear of God? 
Foolishness is the identity of lack of fear of God.
The Psalmist states, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” They are corrupt, they have done more abominable work, there is none who does good.” (Psalm 14:1) 
The foolishness of one is in the heart with the demonstration as a fool is an act.
The foolish one does not fear God.
David is an example with no room in his heart for foolishness but full of fear for God. 
The fear of God in the heart of David restrained his act not to kill King Saul, the king of God for the Israelites.
The way of the life of David qualifies him a lesson for all to know the fear of God. 
In Psalm 34, David spoke out, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” (Psalm 34:11) Are you a true believer that listens to hear and to become one with an understanding of the fear of God?
Psalm 34:13-14 of David identifies four points to learn and know the fear of God: Keep your tongue from evil, keep your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 
One that will learn from the word of David will know to live life as a God-fearing man. 
Adam and Eve had a better excuse by wanting to be excused by God for their disobedience to the word of God. 
The excuse of Adam and Eve was not excusable before God. 
Adam and Eve ate from the tree that God commanded not to eat. 
God approached Adam asking, “…Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11) 
Adam responds to God with an excuse that was inexcusable before God.
The excuse of Adam states, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12) 
Are you excusing your disobedience before God, or are you repenting before God for your forgiveness? 
Disobeying the word of God is despising the word of God. 
Disobeying God is foolishness. 
Foolishness is conscious or unconscious of saying there is no God. 
How can one not obey the Almighty creator, the only God that creates all? 
How can one look around and not look up to see the sky among His creation and not know that indeed God is near and to be fear? 
Psalm 75:1 buttress, “…For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.” With God, no excuse is excusable for sin.
To fear God is good because it keeps one not to depart from God. 
One that fully obeys God by fearing God, He will preserve such fully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your heart for obedience, with fear before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fervent prayer is intensely passionate prayer. 

Psalm 64

Earnest prayer is to ask from God with the character of waiting on God to experience manifestation.
Earnest prayer can be effective and be a fervent prayer that prevails for a believer. 
Fervent prayer is intensely passionate prayer. 
Earnest prayer is a serious intention, a purpose rooted in having an understanding of what to pray.
The prayer of Elijah was with an earnest approach.
James 5:16-18 describes the quality of the prayer of Elijah, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”
The prayer of Elijah was to address a need.
With prayer, are you addressing a need with no intense passion, with no serious intention? 
It is time to address a need with a fervent, earnest prayer as Elijah did.
Meditating prayer will work as a fervent quality prayer and earnest before God. 
Meditating prayer shall be by asking, by communicating with God, before God day and night. 
Without a doubt, praying word before God day and night is labor to gain the attention of God. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually by meditating prayer of deliverance and preservation.
Praying with your expectation for the manifestation, adapt to the way of David by meditating as: “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows-bitter words.” (Psalm 64:1-3) 
Meditation is not memorization. 
By meditating on your prayer, God shall give the attention of God for your deliverance and preservation. 
Meditating the word of God answered for Moses and Joshua as their compass for navigation through the wilderness journey. 
Meditating your prayer of deliverance and preservation before God will bring forth manifestation. 
In the life of a believer, when faith sinks, fear will rise to take place. 
Fear does not announce itself before it invades its victims. 
Fear knows no discrimination. 
The David prayer of meditation was against fear when he states, “Preserve me from the fear of the enemy.” 
Fear belongs to the devil as a tool.
The devil is the author of the wicked world all day and night.
Giving yourself to God, meditating day and night against the devil is the solution to quell the fear. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually to meditating word of prayer against fear, and your deliverance and preservation shall come to be.  

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with fervent effective earnest prayer for your deliverance and preservation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Count on God for your victory.

2 Chronicles 20

Praising God with understanding is a weapon for victory. 
Praising God will deliver victory than multitude in the face of battle. 
The multitude is not with assurance for victory. 
Are you counting on multitude for your victory in battle? 
Is it high numbers that have risen against you in battle?
Once, King Jehoshaphat of Judah had to confront a battle that he could not encounter. Jehoshaphat received a message of fear, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is EnGedi). And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.” (2 Chronicles 20:2-3) 
The fear of the wicked world drove Jehoshaphat to seek God for deliverance from the multitude before him.
Who are you seeking for your deliverance from the wicked of your word?
The daily journey is a battleground. 
The daily battle comes with a multitude that can be powerful to engage but, with God, victory is certain. Without a doubt, seeking God with trust and hope will provoke God to battle on your behalf. 
Jehoshaphat feared God, sought God instead of seeking a multitude to fight his battle.
2 Chronicles 20:17 records the message for him to fight, “You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD is with you.” (2 Chronicles 20:17)
In the face of battle, with the fear for God, victory is in place to the glory of God.
2 Chronicles 20:21-22 records the plans of Jehoshaphat in God, against the enemy, “And when he had consulted with people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: Praise the LORD For His mercy endures forever. Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.” 
For Jehoshaphat, taking a position was to engage praise with understanding before God. 
Praising God with understanding brings man to the presence of God, where victory becomes undeniable. 
Jehoshaphat gained confidence by standing still as he prepared his people for the battle.
Jehoshaphat, seeking God with fear, gained an undeniable victory. 
The daily battle will come but plan to gain and maintain the presence of God will deliver. He is God that enthroned in the praises of His people. Psalm 22:3 buttresses, “But you are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.” Praise Him, and let victory become yours today. Get the understanding to be praising God as Psalm 47:7 records, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with understanding to seek unfailingly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you disregarding the calling of God?

Numbers 20

The Word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The command is His way.
The command of God, the way of God, the Word of God is His presence.
Are you giving yourself to the presence of God to occupy you?
Know to give yourself to the Word of God, be careful keeping to the ways of God.
Proverbs 19:16 admonishes, “He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die.”  
Give to the way of God that will guide you to arrive at the expected end without failure or destruction. 
Is it your ways that you are keeping instead of His ways? 
It is worthy not to look over the word of God as His command in every step of life. 
Jonah chose to look over the word of God, a careless choice to disobey God.
Jonah 1:1-3 documents, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of God, made his choice over the choice of God.
Jonah was careless for the word of God as he stumbled to a position of self-destruction. 
Regardless of any challenging situation, the business of Jonah was to answer as commanded by God.
Are you disregarding the calling of God?
1Thessalonian 5:24 warns, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
God called Moses out to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
Moses was careless not to be careful to the word of God. 
Moses reacted to the rebellious act of the children of Israel towards God instead of letting God be God against the wrong of the Israelites.
Moses took it upon himself to strike the rock instead of speaking to the rock for water. 
Before God, no excuse for wrongdoing before God.
There was no excuse for Moses before God when he took to his word above the word of God. 
God responded to Moses, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:12)
Do not be careless before God, be concerned, and not be corrupted in responding to the calling of God.
Disallow your concern; allow the command of God established. Regardless of who you are before God, remain careful consistently attend to God fully.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live life by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: This month, occupy me, Lord God.

Joshua 1

Matthew 7:7-9 records the encouraging word of God for one with a desire to gain from God, to retain the presence of God, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
What is your desire that is good as asking for the presence of God to occupy the life He has given you?
With a desire, ask to be occupied by the presence of God. 
PRAY BEFORE GOD:
From this moment, through the new month, the days God bestowed upon you, ask for the presence of God to occupy you.
God is a prayer-answering, a caring father.
Revelation 3:20 records the caring of God wanting to enter, to occupy anyone with the desire for His presence, “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.”
Are you with a desire to be occupied by God?
Psalm 119:130 identifies one with a desire to be occupied by the presence of God shall experience the entrance of God into the life of such states, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
God is light. (1John 1:5)
Ask from God to occupy you that His presence shall take over your life from this moment.
Proverbs 6:22 records what to experience when one is occupied by the presence of God, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Know God, a position to be occupied by the presence of God.
One that knows to gain and maintain communication with God meditates continually, keeping the presence of God day and night.
God told Joshua, “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Joshua 1:5)
God with one is the evidence of one that carries the presence of God.
Word of God testifies that He was with Moses.
Moses meditates the word of God day and night. Like Moses, Joshua also receives a command to meditate, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from 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.” (Joshua 1:8)
In this new month, are you with the desire to be occupied by the presence of God?

Prayer for today: Pray to give self to meditating the word of God, doing according to the word of God.