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.

FAITH CAPSULE: Wickedness one in the heart knows self.

Psalm 73

God will not execute against wicked speedily but at His appointed time.
God creates all and knows all.
There is nothing hidden from God.
God is God and the only God that judges all at His appointed time.
Wickedness is before God that sees all things.
Genesis 6:5 records, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Wickedness is not by season, but it is a continual happening in the world.
Do you wonder why wickedness is continual?
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 states, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
God alone is God and will not be intimidated to judge out of His appointed.
Are you walking in the word of God or walking in the wickedness of the world? 
What is your mind before God?
Are you living a life of wicked one consciously or unconsciously?
God knows the wicked one if one denies or accepts to be one.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 states, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” 
Can you identify if you are wicked or not wicked? 
Psalm 73 identifies some glaring wicked heart:  
Pride serves as their necklace.
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge with abundance.
They have more than a heart could wish.
They increase in riches.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily (arrogantly)
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Are you one that is claiming the word of God but not living life by the word of God? 
It is wickedness to be living outside of God to incur the sentence of God at the appointed time of God. 
Today, come out of wicked ways to avoid the sentence of God against evil work. 
As regards the wickedness of the wicked ones, Jeremiah speaks before God, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit…” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Keep your heart diligently not to become a wicked one before God.
The judgment of God does not sleep but is alive at His appointed time. 
Do not count against the appointed time of the judgment of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the fear for God become your garment not to be wicked

FAITH CAPSULE: Be strong and courageous to live by the word of God.

Joshua 1

Moses was strong and courageous to do as commanded by God. The word of God testifies that he observes the word of God consistently because he gave his self to meditate on the word of God. (Joshua 1:1-7)
To be Meditating the word of God by the day and night is communicating with God.
Below, with understanding, meditate as the word speaks in your direction.
LIVE LIFE TO SERVE GOD RIGHT
To fear God is rooted in having faith by hearing the word of God. Romans 10:17 admonishes, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Know God by His word to fear Him.
Fear God to obey Him. 
Obedience is serving God. 
Serving God by attending church, answering as a church member for all life, or making church home does not add enough to serving God. 
Serving God is encased in having fear for God. Psalm 2:11 said it all, “Serve the Lord with fear…”
With fear, serve God and be counted righteous before God.
Pray to live life for God.
EXPECT TO GET WHAT YOUR GIVE
In life, “whatever a man sow is what a man will reap”
As close as banana and plantain look alike, to reap bananas in the place of plantain will not happen, regardless of how look-alike they appear.
What are you sowing to reap?
Hosea 10:12 buttresses, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
In your ways of life, become one with merciful to experience the mercy of God. Matthew 5:7 records, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” 
Be merciful to be able to attain the mercy of God in your ways of life.
THE MERCY OF GOD IS SUFFICIENT
Give self to the word of God, live life with the fear of God, to experience His mercy.
Numbers 14:18 states, “The Lord is long-suffering and abundant in mercy…” God does not run out of mercy, but it is a man that runs out of His mercy. 
Are you living outside of the word of God, expecting His mercy to be in place for you? 
Be obedient to the word of God to experience His mercy.
The mercy of God is abundant, sufficient but never becomes insufficient for those who fear Him. 
With fear, will obey God to gain His mercy continually.
GOD ALONE IS MERCIFUL
Merciful mercy is God the perfect creator.
God is consistent in His mercy that does not fail in His goodness towards one that seeks Him diligently for His deliverance and preservation. 
Are you seeking God diligently?
Who do you remember to call on besides the merciful God?
Psalm 20:7 records, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Prayerfully, give self to calling on God by His exalted name alone (Psalm 148:13), remind Him by His magnified word that is above all His name (Psalm 138:2) 

Prayer for today: Ask to enable living by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life right to reap the goodness of God.  

Psalm 2

One that does not know God does not know to fear Him.
Wickedness reigns continually, especially ones that know about God.
One cannot know God indeed and not fear Him.
To hear God will know about God, not to know God to fear Him, but hearing and hearing by the word of God will know God to fear Him. 
To fear God is the evidence of one that has faith. Romans 10:17 admonishes, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
No one can fear God without hearing the word of God when His word gains entrance to give light. Psalm 119:130 records it, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The word of God is God and God is light. (1 John 1:5)
Know God by His word to fear Him.
Fear God to obey Him. 
Obedience is serving God. 
Serving God just by attending church, being a church member for thousand years, or making church home does not make it up as serving God. 
Serving God is encased in having fear for God. Psalm 2:11 said it all, “Serve the Lord with fear…”
Serving God right is the evidence of being righteous before God. 
Also, serving God wrong is evidence of being wicked before God. 
Without a doubt, God knows all.
How are you serving God? 
David searches his service before God to re-address himself for doing what is right before God. Bible records:
Psalm 77:6, “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.”
Psalm 139:1, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.”
Word of God demands all to serve God to be righteous before God, doing right at all times. 
To be doing right before God is, knowing the word of God, living life by His word.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the mind of God how individuals serve God:
“Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
To be serving God right is sowing fruit to reap from God.
Living life to please God is sowing to reap good before God.
Living life to know good before God and not doing is wrong, the mark of a wicked one.
Who are you before God? 
How are you serving God?
Search yourself before God.
Are you righteous, or are you wicked? 
Interestingly, serving God by all is not hidden but in the word of God to be identified.
Despise from wickedness, live life right before God to reap the goodness of God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that God enable you to serve Him right. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Have you called yourself, or called by man?

Matthew 7

Today majority answers to a title in the name of God that is not by the calling of God but by answering, to self call or calls by man. 
Did God call you?
Matthew 22:14 buttresses, “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
Different titles such as pastors, prophets, apostles, believing to be answering to God, claiming to worship God but not live by the word of God. Matthew 7:22-23 records the response of Jesus for all, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”  
Have you called yourself, or called by man?
Watch and pray not to become a victim, as one counting or committing to man as the caller. Commit yourself to God alone. Psalm 37:5 warns all, “Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.” It is the timing of God, not the clock adjusted by man, that will bring your calling to pass. 
Know that quoting or sleeping on the ground of religion does not testify to the calling of God.
Watch it, know to be waiting on God for His calling over your life, do not run where you should be walking, also avoid running in the place to walk.
Isaiah 40:31 speaks to all, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”
If you do not get a call, do not run to answer calling wrongly.
Did God call you, and you know, but your world did not know?
In your answering to the calling of God, you do not owe an answer to no man but ask for boldness and character over your life to answer the calling of God.
With boldness and character, you will remain focus on answering the calling over you and living life to the glory of God.
Answering the calling of God is taking to the way and the truth. (John 14:6) However, the truth is not acceptable in the wicked world (Luke 4:24) because it is bitter to accept.
In your calling, prayerfully do not answer as Judas Isacahriot answers to the calling of God. Judas numbered and obtained a part in the ministry with the eleven apostles but not count.
Just like Judas, many are numbered but not answered, when to be counted.
Know to answer fully to God, ignore the forces not to discourage your calling, to delay and deny your arrival at the center of divine assignment.
With the assurance of your calling by God, not of man, remain focus on the promise of God that will see you through your calling as 1 Thessalonian 5:24 records, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live life to the glory of God.