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.

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.

FAITH CAPSULE: become build-up for God.

Are you unbelieving believers or acclaimed believers making noise by quoting the word of God?
One that can seek the word of God and open for the entrance of the word into the heart, such shall become build for God.
Give yourself to the word of God to retain and become a build-up for God by the word of God. Acts 20:32 buttresses, “…I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up…” 
Pray that the word of God will gain entrance to be build up in God.
The world has always been a place where evil continually grows.
Genesis 6:5-6 records about the evil on earth, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent[d] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ” (Genesis 6:5-6) 
Living in this wicked world demands continual growth in the things of God, not to be a victim of the world or not to live a life of waste.
All believers should know and understand that the evil is in the business of upgrading his cunning devices, then all man should desire and be exposed to constant self-upgrade in the word of God.
Giving self to upgrading in the Lord God demands:
Pray and ministry of the word of God.
Apostle Paul admonishes, “we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
Praying without the ministry of the word is not enough to upgrade any believer. Every believer should give self to the word of God if there is a desire for upgrading. 
Prayer will draw man to grow in the Lord God. 
Jesus called for prayer when He said, “when you pray” (Matthew 6:5-7) 
Praying before God is a must, is among ways to be continually upgraded in the Lord God.
To search or study in the word of God will upgrade one before God.
One that is searching or studying in the word of God will be upgrading self continually in the Lord God. 
The book of Ecclesiastes 1:13 speaks to the importance of self-upgrading: “And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.”
A man that is studying in the word of God is upgrading self in God to become approved to God as 2 Timothy 2:15 states: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 
There is nothing like giving self to studying the word of God for self-upgrading in the Lord God. 
Get into self-upgrading in the Lord God, do not become a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable not to become a victim of evil devices.

 FAITH CAPSULE:  Praise God with understanding to provoke His hand.

The manner of praising God matters as the mark of being mindful of God by David. He was praise-full that testifies his way of life before God.
Are you praise-full before God?
God raised David, and He identified David over King Saul. God spoke through Samuel, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14) A man with the heart of praising God is mindful of God, a position to become lifted by God. 
Praising God is not only in singing to God but declaring the awesomeness of God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do. Continuous praising God is a demonstration of faith. It is seeking God diligently that gains the attention of God.
David declares what he was doing with praising God: 
“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:4) 
Psalm 145:4 admonishes all that praise declares the acts of God from one generation to another, “One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.” 
God is an awesome God, and whosoever with the understanding to give thanks and praise to God shall experience the decoration of God for good. The Bible records that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego (three friends of Daniel) were sentenced to a burning fiery furnace fire when they refused to bow for a foreign God. The friends of Daniel responded to the death sentence with a praise declaration, “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) 
The praise declaration of God will decorate one with deliverance and preservation. The three friends of Daniel praised God to experience the decoration of God with deliverance from an untimely death.
Giving self to a reasonable sacrifice of praise to God is seeking God diligently to provoke the victory from God. 
King Jehoshaphat, with understanding, engaged praise before God to provoke victory over enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:21-22 states, “And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the Lord, For His mercy endures forever.” Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.”  
The documentation of praising God to gain victory testifies that God will not fail when one praises God with understanding.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life of praising God.

FAITH CAPSULE: In your way of life, are you humble before God?

2 Chronicles 32

Among ways to be humble are identified through the pages of the Bible.
WITH FAITH IS TO BE HUMBLE
One with faith will seek God the evidence of being humble before God.
Do you have the faith to seek God?
It is faith that pleases God, and without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6)
One with faith to seek God pleases God also is the humble such to experience the beauty of God. Psalm 149:4 records, “For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.”
Have faith, seek God to demonstrate as the humble one before God.
PRIDE AND WICKED IS OF EVIL NOT OF HUMBLE ONE
Psalm 147:6 records, “The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.”  In life, what is desirable is what God will deposit. Why not have a desire to live a life of humble not of pride, that makes one wicked before God?
The wicked is with the word of God in the mouth but far from the mind. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Proverbs 29:23 records about the pride,  “A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
Make it a way of life not to be a victim of being a pride or wicked one that fails before God as a humble one.
God acknowledges one that is humble before Him.
The case of Hezekiah and his humility before God records: “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord, and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore, wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.” (2 Chronicles 32:24-26)
In the place of unconscious or conscious of sin before God, with pending challenges of the consequence, turn to God, humble yourself with prayer before God.
Obedient to live life before God is not possible without being humble in the walk of life.
Jesus, the Lord, and savior became obedient before God because He humbles Himself.
Philippians 2:8 records, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Before God, there is no legitimate reason not to live life humbly before God to obey God, to live life for the glory of God.
Be humble to obey God! 

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life for God not to be a waste in the journey of life.