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DO YOU?

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have a place for God in your heart?

Romans 10

Regardless of going to church or attending any place gathering in the name of worshipping God all day and night, there is no evidence of having a heart for the word of God.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
Are you with understanding where the word of God belongs to as the host of the word of God?
The word of God is God, His word is His command, the word of God is His law, and the testimony of God is also His word.
The place for the word of God is in the heart of man, but the majority have no room in the heart to open up for the word of God.
Do you have a place for God in your heart?
Pages of the Bible testifies that the place for the word of God is in the heart of man.
Deuteronomy 6:6 records, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.” 
Deuteronomy 11:18, “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart.” 
Job 22:22, “Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.” 
Psalm 119:11, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” 
Proverbs 4:4, “He also taught me and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands and live.” 
Ezekiel 3:10, “…Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.” 
Without a doubt, the word of God belongs to the heart of one that will open the heart for the word of God to gain entrance. 
Jesus appeals for an opening heart for the word of God.
Revelation 3:20 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
Do you have a place for God in your heart?
A heart that is not full of the word of God in the heart is with no space for the word of God. 
Why not make your heart available for God? 
Do you have a place in your heart for the word of God?
Today, the heart of the majority is full of the world with no space for the word of God.
A heart with no place for the word of God is not faithful before God.
Have the desire to have a place in your heart for the word of God. 
The destination of the word of God is to the heart.
The word of God is magnified, above all the names of God. (Psalm 138:2) 
Why not make your heart available for God? 
Mark it, and know that any heart that is closed to the word of God is the heart occupied by the world.

Prayer for today: Ask that your heart be open to receive the word of God.

DO NOT WORRY

FAITH CAPSULE:  Have the choice not to give to worry rooted in fear.

John 10:10

Are you looking up to God or looking up to the creation of God?
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is the evidence of not looking up to God that is abundantly able to do and undo.
Any time one keeps eyes on confronting challenges, such is to misplace focus on God. Are you beholding your challenge?
Exodus 14:10-12 documents the issue of fear by the Israelites, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The Israelites, knowing fully well that God shall deliver but they gave into fear. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled instead of worshipping God to have the peace of God. 
To be worrying in the place of worshipping is always the root of negative confession.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19) While they were locked up in a state of fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
Looking up to Jesus as Lord and Savior shall experience that He is always around to uphold.    
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign. 
After Jesus had spoken peace into the life of His disciples, their eyes of the mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion that He carries. John 20:20 records, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  
The disciples looked up to Jesus when they heard His word to become open to come out of fear. 
Do you know that Jesus carries a mark on your behalf?
The devil is the author of fear. John 10:10 records the encouraging word of Jesus, for all not to worry, not to give to fear, “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. “
It is a choice not to give to worry rooted in fear.

Prayer for today: Ask for the boldness and character that is in Jesus. 

PLEDGE TO GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: A pledge in the heart lives life for God.

Jeremiah 30

The word of God is not to convince but to be committed to by all. 
Also, the word of God is not for decoration but declaration. 
The word of God is for deliverance, healing, and preservation.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
The evidence of one that gives self to the word shall live by the word of God.
Answering as a believer God with no evidence of declaring the word of does not live life by the word of God but as a religious one.
Come out of RELIGION of the mouth, but give self to the word of God. 
A failure to give earnest heed to the word of God will lead to distance from God but closer to self-destruction.
Living by the word of God is rooted in giving more earnest heed to the things heard in the word. 
Living by the word of God works for those who work the works of God. 
What is your work with the word of God?
In the book of John 6:28, Jesus was asked, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus responded, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” One that gives earnest heed to Jesus live life by the word of God.
Jesus is the word of God. Give the more earnest heed to His word.
The word of God is POWER with no substitute that is in place for one that lives life for the glory of God.
The word of God is the way for salvation.
The power in the word of God is for deliverance and preservation.
What is holding you from giving earnest heed to the word of God?
The word of God is power.
By the word, Jesus brought Lazarus from the grave of four days. Bible records: “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” (John 11:42-43)
Importantly, give earnest heed to the word of God to dwell and abide in the presence of God.
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God is the evidence with a pledge to be approaching God.
Those that pledge to approach God are the ones that make up the mind for God that is mindful of man. Jeremiah 30:21-22 buttressed, “…For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?’ says the Lord. You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’”
How is your way of life demonstrating the pledge of your heart to God?
Give more earnest heed to the word of God!

Prayer for today: Ask for your ears to hear and receive the word of God into your heart

PRAY THE WORD

FAITH CAPSULE: Pray the word of God that does not return void to Him.

Acts 6

Praying the word of God will provoke the hand of God to remember with favor and visit with salvation. 
Acts 6:4 informs all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
How will one pray the word that does not gain entrance into one that is praying before God? Interestingly, Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The Bible identifies the simple as the believer.
Psalm 116:16 testifies, “The Lord preserves the simple…”
Proverbs 14:15 confirms, “The simple believes every word…”
Today, set before God as hour self-deliverance, turn to God with trust and hope that God shall not ignore your prayer.
PRAYER is the key to move forward with God, living life before God, and not being far from God that is near with all.
Get to pray the word of God below:
1. Romans 10:3 records, “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Ask God to delete every trace of ignorant of not living life before you permanently.
Ask that God enable you to be submissive to you in every area of life.
Ask God to take charge of the days He has given you that you concentrated to Him. (He created all to live life for His glory, He is not a slave master but a saving master)
2. Ask that you shall not be a faith failure all the days He has given you.
Ask that you shall be a vessel of strengthening the life of your family, your loved ones. (Jesus prayed for Peter that his faith not fail. Luke 22:32 records, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”)
3. Ask God to enable you, that you be awake in every route of His deliverance and preservation, not be trapped but to experience His move in your life. (In John 5:1-7, documents the paralyzed man by the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew, Bethesda. Many are getting their healing, but a man for 38 years could not gain his healing until his engagement with Jesus.) 
4. 2 Timothy 2:3 records, “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
Ask from God that in the challenging days, God shall enable you not to be entangled in the affairs of life but to focus on Him continually, pleasing Him.
Ask that God, in His mercy to disconnect you from every line that is communicating wrong to lead you wrong before God.
Ask against all that is complicating your life before God ceased.
Also, confusion forces against your answering to the calling of God be separated away from you.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will give heed to your prayer.

PRAY TO GOD CONTINUALLY

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer before God is asking from God.

James 4

Paul admonishes, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Act 6:4) 
Give yourself to prayer and His word. 
God is faithful, and He will answer yes, no, or wait.
Praying before God is a key to open up a solution for challenges when not pray a miss. James 4:3 warns against praying a miss, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Pray with understanding. Occasional praying is not praying continually.
Let praying before God become your way of life that is waiting on God continually.
God is a good God.
Anyone waiting on God shall experience that God is the unchanging changer that reverses irreversible.
God is God that waits to act for those that wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
God will not ignore one that prayerfully waits for Him but will remember with favor and visits with salvation.
In this season challenging time, wait on God with prayer.
Prayer before God is asking from God.
Is there any of your way before God that is not right but wrong to be a hindrance?   
Ask from God to search you, to know your ways, to correct and lead you.
David, a man after the heart of God, knew to wait on God by asking: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
Prayerfully, waiting on God to lead you in an unfailing direction.
The way to have the rest of God is by praying before God and not going astray. 
Going astray is rooted in the heart. 
Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss in the way of God. 
God is a good God, and to end in an astray way is not of God but the evidence not to wait on God.
God is a God of time and process.
Time belongs to God. In praying, wait, remain focus on God for His timing to get an answer from Him. not by the time of the world. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. 
The time of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Praying before God demands to remain unmoving, inactive, or in a state of repose, as until expected manifests. 
With your prayer, it is worthy to put off further activity to remain focus on God.
God is a God that gives unfailing attention to those that call on Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with continual prayer.