FAITH CAPSULE:  Praise God with understanding to provoke His hand.

The manner of praising God matters as the mark of being mindful of God by David. He was praise-full that testifies his way of life before God.
Are you praise-full before God?
God raised David, and He identified David over King Saul. God spoke through Samuel, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14) A man with the heart of praising God is mindful of God, a position to become lifted by God. 
Praising God is not only in singing to God but declaring the awesomeness of God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do. Continuous praising God is a demonstration of faith. It is seeking God diligently that gains the attention of God.
David declares what he was doing with praising God: 
“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:4) 
Psalm 145:4 admonishes all that praise declares the acts of God from one generation to another, “One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.” 
God is an awesome God, and whosoever with the understanding to give thanks and praise to God shall experience the decoration of God for good. The Bible records that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego (three friends of Daniel) were sentenced to a burning fiery furnace fire when they refused to bow for a foreign God. The friends of Daniel responded to the death sentence with a praise declaration, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18) 
The praise declaration of God will decorate one with deliverance and preservation. The three friends of Daniel praised God to experience the decoration of God with deliverance from an untimely death.
Giving self to a reasonable sacrifice of praise to God is seeking God diligently to provoke the victory from God. 
King Jehoshaphat, with understanding, engaged praise before God to provoke victory over enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:21-22 states, “And when he had consulted with the 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.”  
The documentation of praising God to gain victory testifies that God will not fail when one praises God with understanding.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life of praising God.

FAITH CAPSULE: In your way of life, are you humble before God?

2 Chronicles 32

Among ways to be humble are identified through the pages of the Bible.
WITH FAITH IS TO BE HUMBLE
One with faith will seek God the evidence of being humble before God.
Do you have the faith to seek God?
It is faith that pleases God, and without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6)
One with faith to seek God pleases God also is the humble such to experience the beauty of God. Psalm 149:4 records, “For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.”
Have faith, seek God to demonstrate as the humble one before God.
PRIDE AND WICKED IS OF EVIL NOT OF HUMBLE ONE
Psalm 147:6 records, “The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.”  In life, what is desirable is what God will deposit. Why not have a desire to live a life of humble not of pride, that makes one wicked before God?
The wicked is with the word of God in the mouth but far from the mind. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Proverbs 29:23 records about the pride,  “A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
Make it a way of life not to be a victim of being a pride or wicked one that fails before God as a humble one.
God acknowledges one that is humble before Him.
The case of Hezekiah and his humility before God records: “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord, and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore, wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.” (2 Chronicles 32:24-26)
In the place of unconscious or conscious of sin before God, with pending challenges of the consequence, turn to God, humble yourself with prayer before God.
Obedient to live life before God is not possible without being humble in the walk of life.
Jesus, the Lord, and savior became obedient before God because He humbles Himself.
Philippians 2:8 records, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Before God, there is no legitimate reason not to live life humbly before God to obey God, to live life for the glory of God.
Be humble to obey God! 

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life for God not to be a waste in the journey of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Engage the following to be mindful of God.

1 Samuel 23

MEDITATE THE WORD OF GOD CONTINUALLY
Meditating the word of God is communicating with God day and night to gain and retain the presence of God.
After the death of Moses, God spoke to Joshua, pointing out the success for him is rooted in meditating His word continually.
Joshua 1:7-8, “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 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.”
Meditating the word of God Day and night is bound to be mindful of God.
One that is mindful of God shall prosper in life and experience success in the journey of life to the glory of God.
TO ALWAYS INQUIRE BEFORE GOD 
Inquiring is an approach to asking questions, making discoveries for what is not known, to gain understanding and knowledge.
One that is quick in inquiring before God lives as one after the mind of God.
Inquiring from God in faith, not in doubt, is the evidence one after the heart of God.
One that inquires with faith is not with doubt that acknowledges God with the mind.
When the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, David and his people have to fight the Philistines.
Without a doubt, David needed to inquire from God if to go against the Philistines. 1 Samuel 23:2-3 records, “David, inquired of the lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah. But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? The answer from God for David was encouraged to go to war but, his surroundings (his people) were a discouragement. 
David was with faith not to assume going to war against the Philistine.
1 Samuel 23:4 records, “Then David inquired of the Lord once again. And the Lord answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah. For I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
David could not assume, could not be discouraged but repeatedly asked from God with no doubt.
One that gives self to the word of God shall be built in faith and be mindful of God. 
In this wicked world, be mindful of God, give yourself to prayer and the word of God continually, not live a life of waste.
Be mindful of God!

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to be meditating before Him day and night, and you will not be occupied by the affairs of the word, to deny you from meditating, to become mindful of Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire to be mindful of God.

Psalm 8

Many acclaims to be a BELIEVER but not true, not know that a believer is with the mind for God.
Do you have a mind for God that is after the heart of God?
Are you heedful or attentive to God as a way of living life?
Yes or no, are you?
Before answering as a believer, think, search yourself if you are indeed one that is mindful of God.
Without having the mind of God, one cannot answer as a believer.
All are with the mind but not knowing that the majority mind is blinded yet claiming wrongly as a believer. 2Corinthians 4:4 points out, “whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”
The majority are not mindful of God but empty of God. 
To be empty of God is occupied by the world to be blinded and not believe.
Are you mindful of the word of God (God) or mindful of the world?
God is mindful of anyone mindful of Him.
God testifies David in 1 Samuel 13:14 that David is a man after His own heart, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart…”
God continually looks for one that is mindful of Him.
David, a man after the mind of God, knows to ask from God why God is mindful of man in Psalm 8:4, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? “
To have a mind of God is not by determination but by desire. Know to ask that God will enable you by depositing in you with His word to be mindful of Him. 
Hebrews 8:10-12 states, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” God wants all to be mindful of Him. 
Have the desire to be mindful of God, pray, without ceasing, ask to be enabled.

PRAYER:

Ask that God will put His word (law) in your mind as He promised the Israelites and to stamp them on your heart to live life as His own in all the days of life He has given you.

Ask that the mind for God shall make you be in a position of having His mercy continually in the life journey that your unrighteous and sins shall not remember before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Many answers as a believer but, not know God to be living by the word of God.

John 8

Many know about God, but how many know Him?
Jesus speaks to all in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
It is not possible to follow God and not know Him.
In John 8:14, Jesus testifies, “…I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.”
Jesus points out that one that does not know God will not know Him. (John 8:19)
One that does not know Jesus will not follow Him and not abide in Him. Jesus also said that the ones that do not believe Him will die in sin. (John 8:24)
John 8:31-32 records the word of Jesus, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
To know Him is to believe in Him, know Him to abide in Him, and be free indeed. 
To follow Jesus is to abide in Him the evidence to believe in Him.
Jesus also declares that they did not UNDERSTAND Him is rooted in not LISTENING to Him. John 8:43 records, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Having a listening disability is the key not to UNDERSTAND JESUS.
Jesus speaks the truth, but the truth is bitter that is not acceptable from Him. 
The world of wicked does not like the truth.
In John 8:45, Jesus said, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
The word of God is the truth. Hearing the truth will abide, follow, believe and do according to the word of God.
John 8:47 records, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Without doubt, Jesus warns emphatically to all, “Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”(John 8:51)
know and understand to give yourself to the word of God the evidence of one that knows God, not just know about God.
Be living by the word of God answering as a believer.
The word of God identifies what becomes a believer of God in truth:
Mark 5:36 records the word of Jesus, “…Do not be afraid; only believe.” 
Mark 9:23, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 11:24 records, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
John 3:15 records, “whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Many know about God, but how many know Him?
It is those who know God, not just know about that stands to claim the word of Gods as a believer.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will know to live life as a believer of God.