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.

FAITH CAPSULE: With humility, cure worldliness.

Deuteronomy 8

One living life to be humble before God is taking a position to be blessed by God. Also, not living life to be humble before God will experience the curse by God.
James 4:10 warns all, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
What is your position before God?
TAKING A POSITION NOT TO HUMBLE GOD
A hindrance agent to hinder others from serving God is not a humble one before God and will not experience the blessing of God. 
Pharaoh of Egypt was a hindrance, as he denied the Israelites from serving God. The Bible records, “So Moses and Aaron came into Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” (Exodus 10:3) 
Pharaoh repeatedly denied the Israelites from serving God to experience a curse but not the blessing of God.
CONFESSING INIQUITY BEFORE GOD IS AN ACT TO HUMBLE GOD
One that is admitting wrongdoing before God is confessing iniquity to prompt the remembrance of God His promises that is good. 
The word of Leviticus 26:40-42 that answers for to the Israelites also speaks to all about what it means to be humble and be blessed by God: “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt— then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.”
It is worthy to confess iniquity to experience the blessing of God that remembers with favor and visits with salvation.
TO BE CONTENT IS TO BE HUMBLE
The word of God identifies Moses, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” (Numbers 12:3) Moses was content the catalyst to be humble before God. Exodus 2:21 testifies Moses, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.” One with content is satisfied regardless of position in the way of life. The challenge of Moses made him flee from the Palace of Pharaoh in Egypt to Midian. The spirit of content spirit humbled Moses to be available to answer the calling of God.
CHALLENGES WILL HUMBLE ONE
The challenges in the journey of life will humble one to engage the test. The response to the test will demonstrate the heart to God by keeping the word of God. Are you experiencing troubling challenges? Deuteronomy 8:2 records, “And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.” Challenges can be training for one to become humble before God and be blessed by God.
Humility cures worldliness!

Prayer for today: With a desire, ask to be enabled to be humble before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Is there any mixed multitude with you as your company?

Numbers 14

The Israelites could not claim the promise of God as they failed to disengage mixed multitude to the Promised Land. Exodus 12:37-38 records: “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them…”  
For the Israelites, a mixed-up multitude is an unholy mix-up. 
At the departure of the Israelites from bondage to the Promised Land, they could not disengage the mixed multitude.
As they progressed on the journey, the effect of mixed multitude caused trouble for the Israelites. The Bible records in Numbers 11:4-6, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so, the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”  
The initiation of Israelites complaining before God was the complaint of the mixed multitude. 
God responds to the complaint of Israelites, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30)
Interestingly, Pharaoh and his chariots could not deny the breakthrough of over four hundred years of the Israelites in Egypt but the mixed multitude denied them.
The Red Sea failed to hold back the Israelites from breaking forth, but the complaint of the mixed multitude prompted termination from reaching the Promised Land. 
Is there any mixed multitude with you as your company?
Here are some warning signals that mixed multitude is your company as you journey:
Mix-multitude will keep reminding you of the past when you need to focus on where the Lord is taking you.
Mix-multitude will only cause you to crave for want in the place need.
Mix-multitude will cave into complaining instead of complimenting God.
Mix-multitude will cause one to worry in the place of worship.
Consciously or unconsciously, who is the mix-multitude of your life journey?
Know to deny mix-multitude not to derail your life journey to arrive at the presence of God.
1 Peter 4:7 admonishes all, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Watch against mix-multitude in your life journey, and pray that God will hedge your behind and before you and lay His hand upon me.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will live life to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: With prayer, you will answer to the calling of God.

1 Samuel 3

Answering the calling of God will position one to the center of His calling for deliverance and preservation, living life to the glory of God, not living a life of waste.
The challenges of life are not enough to stop the calling of God over one that He chooses to give a call to live life for Him.
However, there are forces in place to delay or deny one from not hearing to answer the calling of God.
The Challenge of Samuel delayed him in answering to the calling of God and should be prayed not to experience.
SAMUEL AT HIS CALLING
Samuel was ministering in the house of God when the calling of God came. At his calling, the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.
1st time of calling: 
When God called Samuel, he answered wrongly, thinking Eli called him, and he said to Eli, “Here I am, for you called me. And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down.” (1 Samuel 3:4-5)
Samuel could hear but ran wrongly, and he could not answer. (Answering wrong will reposition one wrongly, He hears but yet runs wrong)
PRAYER:
Ask that everywhere you have misplaced the calling of God over your life, God that reverses irreversible will have mercy to redirect you on the track of His direction over your life. 
2nd time of calling:
Samuel could not answer appropriately but went back and lay down to sleep.
Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him. 1 Samuel 3:7 records, “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.”
Know God, not just know about God to receive the revelation of God. 
PRAYER:
Ask that God will enable you to know Him and be able to receive His revelation over your life, to position you in the center of his divine assignment. 
Ask that the Lord God shall deliver you from the forces that send you back, sleeping in the place to be awake, moving forward to His calling, to be active for His glory.
3rd time of calling:
Samuel ran to Eli and was redirected by Eli saying, “Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So, Samuel went and lay down in his place.” (1 Samuel 3:9)
Eli directed Samuel right, saying, YOU MUST SAY, SPEAK LORD.
Samuel now knows what he must do for him to hear from God.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to know what you must do, to hear and answer the calling of God over your life.
4th time of calling:
Samuel did as direct by Eli, his overseer, the servant of God spoke to him.
PRAYER 
Ask that God will have mercy to speak again in every juncture you have missed His callings over your life.