FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know to understand God in His Word?

Psalm 34

The Word of God is God. John 1:1 confirms that the Word of God is God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
Do you know to understand God in His Word?
Indeed, one with no understanding of the Word of God cannot observe to see God in His Word to fear God, to live life in obedience to God.
The evidence of no understanding of God does not hear the Word of God.
John 8:47, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” Search yourself to know if you are of God.
Do you understand God to seek Him?
Psalmist buttresses: “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3) To fear God is studying Him to understand and know His Word, the key to all that matters in living life.
With understands, knowledge and wisdom will have a place in the life of one.
Firstly, “…But knowledge is easy to him who understands.” (Proverbs 14:6) One with the understanding of God will always have a knowing edge over challenges, and a peace that surpasses all understanding becomes the identity.
Secondly, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding…” (Proverbs 14:33) 
Wisdom is the instruction of God. 1Corinthians 1:30 states, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” The wisdom of God in the heart of man is Jesus in the life of man. Meditate on the Word of God Day and night to remain in the presence of God.
God identifies David as one after the heart of God. David, a man after the heart of God, teaches the fear of the Lord when he states, “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.” (Psalm 34:11) David knows what it is to have an ear to hear and fear God that kept him in his challenges.
DO YOU FEAR GOD?
Psalm 34:13-14 identifies four points in one who fears God: 
1. Keep your tongue from evil,
2. Keep your lips from speaking deceit, 
3. Depart from evil and do good,
4. Seek peace and pursue it. 
In this wicked world, one should meditate on what it means to fear God. In the journey of life, Abraham served God because he feared God. Hebrews 11:8 testifies, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.” Just like Abraham, fear God, give yourself to obey His Word, gain to retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to listen and gain understanding to seek God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One that fears God walk in His ways, love, and serve God diligently.

Deuteronomy 10

By faith is to be-living (believe) the word of God for the glory of God. Be-living by the word of God is not by the mouth. What does God want from all? 
Deuteronomy 10:12 identifies answers: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
One that fears God walk in His ways, love, and serve God diligently.
Do you fear God? 
Seek God diligently with all heart and with all soul to walk in His ways. God spoke to the Israelites, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40) 
God wants from all is to fear Him.
God is a good God. It is a must to fear God living life for His glory.
To fear will love God to be obedient to His word. 1 Samuel 12:14 admonishes, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.” Have the desire that the fear of God will reign and rule your life. 
Do you have faith? 
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Without faith, it is not possible to fear or love God.
Do not just have faith but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Get to know to understand as a faithful one. 
Pray with a desire to be what God calls all man to be when He made you.
What does God want from all?  Psalm 139:14 of David testifies, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
One that fears God walk in His ways, love, and serve God diligently is with boldness and character in the ways of life.
Be faithful with fear and love to live as fearfully and wonderfully creation of God. 
Today, come out of self-deception pay attention by listening to the word of God. Live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to seek God diligently, not just seeking Him in your ways.

1 Samuel 17

Among ways to seek God diligently is by keeping His testimonies, to declare Him not to deny Him in the journey of life.
First, to seek God diligently is by giving self to keeping His testimonies. Deuteronomy 6:17 buttresses, “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.”
All should be given to the testimonies of God to be blessed by God just like David. 
Know to give self to the testimonies of God to gain His attention and be blessed as promised in Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The testimony of God over the life of David provoked the blessing of God with the victory he had over Goliath. 1 Samuel 17:45-47 documented, “Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
Second, to seek God diligently is to declare for God and not to deny Him.
In life, regardless of the challenge, do not deny God but declare His as your Lord and savior. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, the three friends of Daniel, declare God as a God of deliverance. The three friends could not deny serving God but rejected not serving gods or worship the gold image of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar, with anger, threatened to send the three friends of Daniel into burning fiery fire. The three friends responded to the threat of Nebuchadnezzar, “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) In the burning fiery furnace, the deliverance of God answered for the friends of Daniel.
In this wicked world, listen to the word of God that is the key to live life for the glory of God. 
Know to seek God diligently in His word, worship God and not worry.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to seek Him diligently in all ways of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is worth living life for the glory of God.

Genesis 22

It is reasonable for all to know, understand, and be mindful of the truth that God alone created all to live life for His glory and honor.
Revelations 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
There is no reasonable excuse for no one not to live life for the glory and honor of God but to take God for granted. 
In your service to God, are you pleasing yourself but displeasing God? Knowing God as a long-suffering God without living life for His glory is not a license for any man not to be living life for the glory of God. 
Live life for God by lifting your hands as submission should be with the expectation of reaching God. 
Claiming to be living life for God is to remain connected with God continually.
God is a good God that is worth for all man to be living life for His glory.
Seeking God diligently with all heart and with all soul is to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 speaks to all, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  What do we do to live life for God when seeking God diligently instead of taking God for granted?
1. TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY is obedience to HIS WORD
Exodus 19:5 recorded, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” 
The Bible spoke in the Old Testament for the obedience of Israelites before God. 
The New Testament record the benefit of demonstration of obedience by disciples of Jesus. Luke 5:4-6 states, “When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless, at Your word, I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.” Obedience is seeking God to live for His glory. Disciples of Jesus obeyed to be enabled to live life for God as a fisher of man.
2. TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY will fear God not to hold self from His word.
Abraham lived life for the glory of God. Abraham could not withhold from the command of God as commanded by God.
God recognized the obedience of Abraham to His word and said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12)
Abraham could not take God for granted but lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live life for His glory.

 FAITH CAPSULE: What kind of a believer are you?

Isaiah 37

There are unbelieving believers, and also there are believing believers.
Who are you?
Unbelieving believers are conversant in the word of God, carry the word of God in the mouth but not in the heart.
Unbelieving believers are with character and act as religious instead of living as Christ-like, which is the evidence of a believing believer living by the word of God.
What kind of a believer are you?
Today, with a desire, live life for God, ask that God will enable you to begin to live life by the word of God, to live life for the glory of God, and not to live a life of waste. 
Prayer is the rod of a believing believer that prays with understanding for deliverance and preservation to excel to the glory of God.
Ask for the mercy of God to enable you with the strength of prayer continually before Him.
When King Sennacherib Assyrians mount up a threat against King Hezekiah, it was the prayer of Hezekiah that brought down the forces of Assyrians.
Hezekiah sent for Isaiah about the challenges of the Assyrians.
Isaiah 37:6-8 records the response to Hezekiah, ” And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”  
Hezekiah was prayerful against the Assyrians when he concluded his prayer before God as stated, “Now, therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord, You alone.” (Isaiah 37:29)
God answered the prayer of Hezekiah and confirmed by Isaiah. (Isaiah 37:21)
Ask against every representative of Assyrians that is mounting against your destiny.
Also, the blasphemers of you shall fall and not rise again.
Ask that every threat against your life shall be shattered and not stand against you.
Answering or living life as a believing believer is not an excuse from praying continually.
The word of Paul the apostles encourages in Act 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
As an acclaimed believing believer, do not disallow prayer from taking a central place in your life continually.
Hezekiah was sick when God sent Isaiah to reveal the cause of his sickness and his near death.
Isaiah 38:1 states, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.”
Hezekiah did not hesitate with an excuse but responds to the message of the Lord in Isaiah 38:2, “Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord.” 
Prayer of deliverance before God is not an excuse for all.

Prayer for today:  Ask God to enable you with strength on the prayer altar.