Category Archives: Devotions

HEART TO GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: A given heart to God is bound to fear Him.

Deuteronomy 4

Today, the majority no longer fear God with their heart but with the mouth. Unfortunately, one that does not understand the fear of God does not know God. Proverbs 2:5 buttresses, “Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.”
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, you are not with the fear of God, but you have displaced God in your life, 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 buttresses the need to learn and fear God saying, “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. 
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. 

GOD WILL DO

FAITH CAPSULE: One thing God cannot do is: GOD CAN NOT FAIL.

Joshua 6

With faith, what you are engaging before God that is yet to become manifest is not the evidence that God does not hear and will not answer. Faith is to know that God will answer with yes, no, or wait.
Do not stop seeking God, the evidence of faith in engaging God. Know to be persistent in engaging before God, resist delay of manifestation to insist on God that is not partial to do for one and will also do for all that seek His face in asking. 
Peter testifies, “In truth, I perceive that God shows no partiality.” (Acts 10:34)
Romans 2:11 declares, “For there is no partiality with God.”
Keeping the testimonies of God is sharing the testimonies of God.
Vice versa sharing the testimonies of God is keeping the testimonies of God.
Psalm 119:2 informs all, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
What you are asking from God that is yet to become manifest is not the evidence of impossibility. 
God is the perfect One, the unfailing creator that does not sleep nor slumber but will convert impossibility to possibility. Luke 1:37 testifies, “For with God nothing will be impossible.”
God reverses irreversible, and with God, concerning your challenges, there is nothing impossible to become possible.
Also, know that God is the unchanging changer, is the same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
God is not a partial God to anyone that will understand and know God by His way, for His way through His word.
The record of the word of God is for healing and deliverance. Psalm 107:20 testifies, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Approach God with what you are asking from Him, remind Him concerning His testimony of what He has done, knowing that He is not a partial God not to answer you.
The word of God is His testimony. The word of God is His work.
The word of God encourages all to command Him concerning for His word. (Isaiah 45:11)
The word of God also demands, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:26)
There are cases in the pages of the Bible to remind God to seek Him for what you are engaging Him for His answer for your expectation, and He will not ignore His promise.
At all times, with faith not in doubt, know to remind God, He is not a partial God and will not fail to remember you.
There is no one with exception facing challenges.
The Israelites came out of the bondage of over four hundred years in Egypt, going to the promise of God, to the Promised Land.
Pharaoh failed to hold them back, and the Red Sea could not deny them to drown them.
However, the wall of Jericho attempted to derail and displace the promise of God over the Israelites but failed.
What is it with an attempt to deny, derail or displace the promise of God for over your life? 
Put God in remembrance to deliver you as He delivered the Israelites.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God over your life.

DOUBT CAPTIVES

FAITH CAPSULE: Give regard to God not to become a captive of doubt.

Matthew 14

What makes up a man will be the mark of what it takes to live life.
Giving self to doubt is the avenue to self-destruction. 
Give regard to God, to know Him, and not to become a captive of doubting God. 
Do not doubt, do not limit, or despise the power of the word of God. Proverbs 13:13 warns“He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”  
Give regard to the word of God, know and patiently live by His word to experience the termination of struggle or challenge in any area of life. Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
The word of God is the power to do and undo as directed to address life challenges. 
Hebrews 4:12 describes the word, “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 regard to the word of God, deny doubt in your thought or action.
Word is indeed living, powerful, and sharper to terminate challenges to the glory of God.
In your challenge, why not give regard to the word of God to miracle in the place of mockery?
Disallow doubt!
Jeremiah testifies the identity of the word of God, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.” (Jeremiah 15:16) 
Do not doubt to limit or despise the power of the word of God.  
Give regard to the word of God to answer you if you will work the word of God.
Working the word of God is labor. 
Laboring the word of God is obeying the word of God diligently; laboring the word of God is choosing to do the word of God instead of doing what the world says. Deuteronomy 28:1-2 states, “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.” The word confirms the reason to engage word laboriously and not doubt the word of God. 
Laboring the word of God is without a doubt but will deliver the blessing of God.
Do not doubt the word of God, but do the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask not to live a life of waste.

GOD IS GOOD

FAITH CAPSULE: Listen to see, to receive in the word of God.

Jeremiah 1

Just like the Israelites and Joshua, the victory for Jeremiah was rooted in the word of God when God said, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:10) 
God spoke to Joshua, Jeremiah, and they listen with understanding to see the manifestation in the spoken word of God. 
To Ezekiel, God spoke direction: “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.” (Ezekiel 4:15) Ezekiel also listened with understanding to see and received the direction by the word of God.
Every of your hearing and hearing (listening) in the word of God is the evidence of listening to see, which is the key to gain understanding.
Are you listening to understand the word of God?
Are you with understanding to see your victory in the word of God just like Joshua, Jeremiah, and many others in the pages of the Bible?
Are you with understanding to see your unfailing direction in the word of God just like Ezekiel and others in the pages of the Bible?
The word of God is the manual for all. 
Live a life of understanding to be seeing and receive in the word of God.
Jesus is the Word of God. (John 1:1)
John 10:10 records the purpose of the coming Jesus: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” 
Listen to the word of God to see God in Him (the word of God) to live life more abundantly?
John 14:25-27 records the gift of His peace:
 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Every recording of the word of Jesus that sounds in your direction is the source of your peace.
Are you listening to understand and to see in the word of God? 
If you are listening with understanding, you will see and receive as spoken to you.
Just in case the word has sounded to you but not remember, Jesus promised that the Helper, the Holy Spirit from God, in His name, will teach you to remember all that He has said.
In all your listening to the word of God, understand to see, to receive, and what you see will become of you.
God is good!

Prayer for today: Ask to be filled with wisdom and understanding in the word of God.

TO LIVE FOR GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: Pray that this month will answer for you as the month to live life for God.

Psalm 91

Living life for God demands to grow in the wisdom and knowledge of God.
Isaiah 33:6 speaks to all, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Are you growing in the wisdom and knowledge of God, the source of strength, the only way to fear God and be stable in these challenging times?
As a way of life, pray nonstop that God will fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
THE EVIDENCE OF NOT LIVING LIFE FOR GOD, NOT ABIDING IN HIM. 
John 8:32 records, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” One that does not receive the truth will see it as a threat and does not accept it to abide in it.
Those who do not receive the truth are in bondage of pride; they are not free to be corrected or redirected, not living life for God.
Those who do not abide in Him are rebellious, not living life for God. Job 24:13 buttresses, “There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths.” Jesus is the wisdom from God for us. (1 Corinthians 1:30) Live life for God to give your ears to hearing the rebukes of life just like Proverbs 15:31 admonishes, “The ear that hears the rebukes of life, will abide among the wise.”
LIVE LIFE BEFORE GOD
Living life for God, abiding in Him is taking a passage not to live life in darkness. In John 12:46, Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” 
It is not possible to be answering as a believer and be full of darkness. 
To be full of darkness is abiding in darkness, not living life before God.
Those build by the word of God will live life for God. Acts 20:32 states, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
Pray that God enables you that His word will gain entrance in you to build you up, living life before Him.
It is worthy to pray to live life before God to experience as Proverbs 6:22 identifies, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Claiming to live life for God or live life before God is not different, and you shall carry the mark as one that belongs to God.

Prayer for today: Pray with understanding to live life before God.