FAITH CAPSULE: What do you desire? 

Psalm 27

The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.
If you have a desire for God in your heart, God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him and become decorated by His presence in your life. 
King David knows what is best to desire when he said, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
As an acclaimed believer, search for yourself to know if you have the desire for God.
Let your desire be of seeking God.
Seeking God leads to serving Him. 
Are you serving God fully?
Are you serving God for your material gain?
Search yourself to identify how you are serving God.
Serve God diligently the evidence of fear for Him.
Apostle Paul encourages, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1)
With understanding, know to serve God sacrificially and let your serving God be acceptable before God alone. 
It is costly to serve God sacrificially, not at the convenience but demands commitment. 
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Will you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great things, doing more, which is the reason to have the desire for God, with heart. 
God only sees and moves by the action rooted in the heart of all. 
God saw Samuel with his attempt to make the brother of David as the king and spoke to him: “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 
Without doubt, the heart of David is what God saw when His word declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God saw the desire of David. 
What do you desire? 
The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.
If you have a desire for God in your heart, God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him and become decorated by His presence in your life. 
Do not serve God casually but serve God by following God fully as Jesus requests: “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me…” 
Following Jesus means putting all away to follow Him is evidence of having a desire to serve God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to live life with a desire for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The question for self.

Philippians 2

Is it possible that your selfishness has closed you not to be mindful of God and not know Him the evidence of living life as a foolish one?
To live life, do not be fooled because it is foolish to say there is no God. 
A selfish heart that is not mindful of God is bound to be far from God. Proverbs 14:1 identifies, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.”
As self-minded, such is not with the fear of God, to become self displaced from God, the automatic route into the path of eternal damnation.
Without any compromise, the will of God for all is to fear God. 
No one is born to this world with the knowledge to fear God.
The knowledge to fear God comes from learning in the word of God. 
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 informs all, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” 
To live a life with the fear of God is encased in the humble and become obedient to God continually.
The word of God will cause tenderness of heart to be a place for humility. 
Without humility, obedience is not possible. Philippians 2:8 records of Jesus, “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
The humble will fear God. 
How would selfish-minded, one with selfish ambition as in selfishness, self-centeredness that is not of God shall know to fear God? 
Do you fear God indeed and in truth? 
To be lost from the word of God will be disobedient to lose the rightful position in God.
Pray to Know God, to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 identifies what it takes to find God, “…seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Do not be deceived but fear God from the depth of your heart.
Today, search for yourself to know your stand the way you live life. 
Living a life that is all about you is evidence of selfishness and not being mindful of God.
Come out of selfishness, live life to reflect the mindset on God.
It is not right to live a life of selfishness.
Selfishness can be unconscious for self-destruction.
Live life for God, not for yourself.

Prayer for today: Pray before God to enable you to live a life for His glory. 

Faith Capsule: How are you running before God?

Jonah 1

Running from God is running against God.
Whichever way to run is not possible to run outside of God.
Anyone that is running from the calling of God is with a plan to hide from God.
There is no running that is beyond the reach of God.
The running of Jonah and Apostle Paul was not beyond the reach of God.
Jonah was in an attempt to run away from the calling of God.
Hiding from God is with lack of understanding not to dwell and abide in the secret place of God.
The secret place of God is in the word of God, for healing, deliverance, and preservation for one that believes to receives the word of God. Psalm 107:20 confirms, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
Why not appreciate the word of God and know not to run against the word of God when it sounds in your direction?
Are you ignoring the word of God?
Are you running away from the word of God by going in the opposite direction of God?
Jonah is a prophet of God that disregards the word of God to go in the opposite direction of God.
Jonah disobeyed God by going from the presence of God.
Jonah 1:1-3 documents the act of disobedient of Jonah before God, ” Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 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.”
By running away from God, taking a step from God shall displace one from the presence of God.
Search yourself to identify where you are going against God.
There is no excuse for disobeying the word of God, but repentance for disobedience will count before God.
Are you running against the word of God by going in the opposite direction of God?
The running away from the word of God landed Jonah in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 
Jonah cried out to God with repentance, and God answered with deliverance.
Jonah returned to God from running away. 
With running from God or running against the work of God, there will be no place to hide.
At the appointed time, God shall catch up with running runners from His calling or that is against His work.
Are you a runner that is not running for God?
Jonah attempted to run from the calling of God.
Stop running from God.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: What is your character before God? 

Daniel 1

Who are you before God?
God is the creator of all that knows all more than anyone knows self.
What is your character before God?
God identifies Job in the attempt of satan over his life, stating, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
So, who are you before God?
Your character is rooted in your life of responsibility before God.
Will you allow your responsibility to become your character to claim the promises of God in His word?
Get to know God and meditate on the word of God continually.
RESPONSIBILITY IS TO KNOW GOD
In John 8:31-32, the word speaks to all, “…you shall now the truth…” There is no excuse for no man not to know the word of God. 
Knowing God is a task, a responsibility to claim the promises of God.
Daniel is an example among those who know God, and he lived the life of responsibility before God, for greatness to the glory of God. 
Daniel 11:32 records, “but the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.”
Daniel knows God, lived a life of responsibility before God, and did not defile himself. In his heart, he purposed not to defile himself with delicacies of an unbeliever king. The Bible records, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore, he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” (Daniel 1:8) 
RESPONSIBILITY IS MEDITATING THE WORD OF GOD
Meditating the Word of God is a responsibility to live life for the glory of God. 
God identifies the importance of meditating His word when He called meditation for Joshua.
After the death of Moses, God spoke to Joshua about the importance of meditating His word, “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) 
To be meditating is communicating with God continually, relating and involving God in life day and night.
God is true to deliver by His word. 
The importance of meditating is in the pages of the Bible.
1Timothy 4:15 states, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”  
“I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.” (Psalm 119:15) 
Continual meditation on the word of God is living a life of responsibility before God to experience failure impossible in life.
Responsibility before God is the price for greatness. 
In life, think responsibly, act responsibly and allow responsibility to become your garment before God. 
Above all, be consistently responsible before God.

Prayer for today: As for the hand of God establish over your life to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Clarity of sight is in the word of God. 

1 Samuel 13

The command of God, the word of God, is the source to gain the clarity of sight.
Proverbs 6:22 records the character of the word 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.” 
Gaining the clarity of sight is encased in hearing and hearing by the word of God. 
One that is hearing and hearing listens to the word of God to gain an understanding, the clarity of sight in the journey of life.
Ask to be enabled hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Psalm 119:130 informs all, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
Gaining the light of God delivers the clarity of sight not to become a victim of falling or failing in the wicked world. 
The simple believes the Lord.
The understanding of the simple is rooted in prudent character. Proverbs 14:15 states, “The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps.”
Are you a simple believer and not prudent in your ways of life?
Search yourself to be complete answering to the word of God.
If you are simple and not prudent, it is not enough to gain clarity of sight.
Proverbs 22:3 warns, “A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.”
King Saul is an example of one with simple but not prudence in engaging challenges before him.
At the time of war against the enemies of the Israelites, Prophet Samuel gave Saul word clarity of sight not to fall before the enemies. Saul was simple to believe but not prudent to keep to the word clarity sight.
1 Samuel 13:8-13 documents the act of being simple and not prudent by Saul: “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him. 9 So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him 11 And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, 12 then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” 13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you.”
Saul waited, but his waiting was not enough.
The journey of life is ups and downs.
None is with exemption from experiencing the challenges of life. With clarity of sight, one shall have the peace that surpasses all understanding by not to be overcome by the time of challenges.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled hearing and hearing by the word of God.