FAITH CAPSULE: Live life to find God.

Exodus 19

Not to find God is the character of a wasted life.
To live life outside of the word of God is to live a wasted life.
Live life for God, the creator of all.
How are you living?
What or who are you living for?
God, the creator, the unfiling God, the only God that has mercy in His hand, creates all to exist for His name.
Revelation 4:11 testifies, “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.”
Mercy belongs to none but the perfect God who creates all for His glory.
No one belongs to themselves but belongs to God.
Live life, strive to live for God, not to miss the hand of God in life.
To find God is to strive.
To strive is to seek God diligently.
One who seeks God is going to find God.
John 12:26 identifies serving God:“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” 
If seeking God is not possible, the word of God will ask for seeking Him.
God is true to seek Him, follow Him diligently, and find Him.
David is an example that followed God with his heart, and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8) 
Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness by His word? 
Deuteronony 4:29 identifies with seeking God diligently, not to settle for seeking God in a standard that will not find Him.
It states, “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.”
One will find God with the condition that is: seeking Him diligently with all heart and soul. 
Obedience to the word of God will walk the way of righteousness.
Obeying the word of God is also a way of seeking diligently to keep oneself in God as a treasure to God. Exodus 19:5 confirms,“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.” 
With faith, it is possible to obey the word of God and diligently seek to please God.(Hebrews 11:6)
Among the ways of seeking God are:
To come out of the wickedness to find God.
One who lives right is not wicked to seek and find God.
The wicked one does not live by the word of God to find God.
In all your ways, follow God to be standing in His word.
Seek God diligently to please Him and be rewarded to see Him.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to seek God diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Answering God fully demands unfailing focus.

Job 2

The documentation of Terah, the father of Abraham, is an example of distraction that prevents one from arriving at the desired destination in life.
Genesis 11:31-32 documents about the father of Abraham, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”
The father of Abraham was set for the land of Canaan, but dwelt at Haran until he died.
Distraction can be a denial, an agent against focusing on the right endeavours in life.
Answering God fully demands unfailing focus.
Without doubt, distraction will occupy where there is no focus.
In every area of life, distraction must not be allowed.
Distraction can operate as the paralizer of effort, not to be paralyzed in an area of life.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest one as an agent of evil.
For example, the wife of Job was his force that attempted to distract Job, and failed in the presence of God.
Job 2:9 records, “Then his wife said to him, ‘Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”  
Job resisted the device of distraction from his wife when he responded:“You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) 
Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your way of life?
Know and understand how to deny distraction, from close ones and those at a distance.
Deny distraction, to focus on your way of life, and not become a victim of the evil of this world.
Claiming to have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior does not exempt you from encountering distraction, but watch and pray not to become a victim of distraction.
Many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but the agents of distraction are in place to deny attention to God.
Does that sound like you?
Martha was a victim of distraction. 
When Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, she could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain a position in the presence of Jesus. 
Luke 10:38-40  records,“Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’” 
Just like Martha, have you welcomed Jesus into your house and become distracted? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but a distraction prevented her from being in the presence of Jesus.  
Who or what is your distraction? 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to remain focused in your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know God, come out of religion, live life for Him.

John 8: 31-59

The majority know about God; only a few know God.
In all areas of life, physically or spiritually, one should have an understanding to have a knowing edge.
It is not possible to know God with a listening disability, which results in a lack of understanding.
Jesus questions with an answer confirming for all to know the reason for lack of understanding, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
The world is too busy to ignore and also not give attention to God. 
It is not possible to know when an understanding is foreign to one.
One who gives attention to God will listen to gain understanding and know God for who He is. 
The majority know about God; only a few know God.
Ask God to enable you to know Him more.
One who forgets God does not know God.
One who is mindful of God will continually remember and give attention to learning to know God. 
Deuteronomy 4:5-6 buttresses, “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. 6 Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding…”
Observe is to see and become exposed to what is seen in the word of God to gain understanding.
One who lives by the truth of God is the evidence of knowing God, to live by His word.
The truth of God is not appealing because it can be bitter to become acceptable for living by it.
God is true, but His truth is hardly acceptable to the world.
John 8:45-47 records the word of Jesus that speaks the truth about not knowing God, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore, you do not hear, because you are not of God.” 
One who does not accept the truth cannot believe and will not know God.
You must know God to come out of the religion of this wicked world.
To know God is rooted in the living word of God.
To know God is seeking God diligently, to please Him, and to find God as promised in Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
You must know God because knowing about God is not enough to escape from the pain that exists in the wicked world.
Know God, come out of religion, live life for the glory of God.
You must know God; that is the truth to be free in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know Him more.

FAITH CAPSULE: Great is the mercy of God!

Genesis 19:1-21

The mercy of God is His endurance forever. 
The word in1 Chronicles 16:34 speaks to all, confirming the endurance of God that is forever,“Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.”  
The everlasting God exists in His mercy.
The mercy of God satisfies all areas of life. 
The Psalmist records in Psalm 90:14, “Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” 
The mercy of God inhabits joy and gladness. 
Proverbs 20:28 says, “Mercy and truth preserve the king…”  
The Mercy of God will not preserve just the identified as king, but all who live life with the fear of God will gain the attention of God for His mercy. 
From this moment, live consistently by the word of God.
Attain the unfailing mercy of God.
Understand, know how to walk in the word of God, and be enabled by God, not to run out of His mercy.
The mercy of God is in place to deliver and to preserve.
God is a merciful God.
Mercy belongs to God.
Mercy is unquestionably the doing of God.
No one is in place to question why the mercy of God answers for one in need of the hand of God.
Mercy is the character of God.
God is rich in mercy, and His mercy is great.
One with the mercy of God shall be relieved from suffering.
The mercy of God is compassion, lovingkindness, favor, and steadfastness.
The mercy of God is a gift, an undeserved compassion for one who receives it.
In the mercy of God, there is leniency.
Nehemiah 9:31 describes the mercy of God, “Nevertheless in Your great mercy. You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; For You are God, gracious and merciful.”
Without doubt, after the resurrection of Jesus, it is to give regard to God for the fullest mercy of God that is sending Jesus for the sins of all.
The Apostle described the mercy of God inTitus 3:4-7, ” But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
Great is the mercy of God!
Lot and his wife were in the place of destruction when the mercy of God found them for deliverance.
Despite the reluctance of Lot to come out of the destruction in Sodom and Gomorrah, the mercy of God was in place for the deliverance of Lot.
Genesis 19:19 records the testimony of the mercy of God over Lot, “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life…”

Prayer for today: Meditate prayerfully asking for the mercy of God over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind with forbearance.

Psalm 92

The beginning of a day or month demands unfailing thankfulness to God.
Psalm 92:1-2 identifies praising and thanking, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High.” 
Understanding, giving thanks, and praising God is giving regard to God at all times.
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle.
Thank Him for His mercy.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the mercy of God has been consistent in seeing you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind with forbearance.
Understand, know how to walk in the word of God, and be enabled by God, not to run out of His mercy.
In the given days that you have by the breath of life, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God, as the Bible records His word.
God alone will have mercy on whom He chooses to, but He will also have mercy on one who lives by His command.
God is a good God, He will not turn not to have mercy for one doing it right according to His word.
One that live align with the word of God and loves Him will not miss out of the mercy of God.
The mercy of God is attainable when the life one is living aligns with the word of God:
One living life by the word of God takes the position to receive the mercy of God. 
For example, Joseph lived according to the word of God.
He ignored the temptation to violate the word of God and not to fail before God (Genesis 39:7-15). 
In one instance, he denied the offer to sleep with the wife of his master by claiming: “…How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9) 
Joseph reacted against the temptation of the wife of his master to experience the mercy of God as the Bible mentions, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21). 
The mercy of God is attainable when one loves God:
Obedience to God is evidence of love for God that will always provoke the mercy of God.
The Bible records that loving God is keeping His commandments (John 14:15).
To understand and know God is to love God and to fear God.  
The story of Joseph points out that Joseph kept the commandment of God by forbidding adultery when he fled from sleeping with the wife of his master.
Joseph obeys, loves, and fears God, and he gained the mercy of God. From this moment, live consistently by the word of God.
Attain the unfailing mercy of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that Understand, know how to walk in the word of God, and be enabled by God, not to run out of His mercy.