FAITH MAIL: Are you with limited understanding to serve God right?

Numbers 14

A believer of God must serve and worship God with understanding.
As an acclaimed believer, are you serving God with all your heart, with all soul, and with all strength?
To serve God wrongly comes with a costly consequence. 
Uzzah served God with good intentions but lost his life. The attempt of Uzzah to keep the Ark of God from falling took away his life. His act of serving was against the Word of God that forbids anyone from touching the Ark of God. The Bible records, “Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.” (2 Samuel 6:7) Uzzah failed to serve God to become terminated untimely. 
When the Israelites were coming out of the bondage of Egypt for over four hundred years, God required them to serve Him; however, their service was incomplete. The failure of the Israelites in times of challenges was their faith failure before God. In their challenging times, they confessed negatives by murmuring against God. 
God responded to Israelites’ faith-failure through Moses as stated: “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 14:28-30)   
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is the evidence of not following Him fully. 
As a result of not following God fully, every Israelite that left Egypt above the age of twenty failed not to complete their journey to the Promised Land. 
Are you serving God fully to avoid a failure to arrive at the promise of God? 
With your desire to serve God, what is holding you back from serving God acceptably? Jesus responds to believers, “Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24) 
Are you with limited understanding to serve God right?
Are you with a commitment to serve God?
Serving God demands to follow Him fully. Jesus admonishes, “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.” (John 12:26) 
With understanding, serve God not to become terminated.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will serve God with understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: A diligent mind will not conform to the world.

Romans 12

The sound and clear warning by Paul the Apostle, in Romans 12:2, states, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Conformity can be action or behavior in correspondence with current customs, rules, or styles. 
The apostle Paul warns all not to conform to this world. Unfortunately, the warning is falling onto deaf ears among the acclaimed believers. Conformity to this world is thriving even among the acclaimed believers, not just unbelievers of the world. 
What is it about this world? 
The ruler of this world is the wicked one, the liar and the destroyer, the devil himself. 
The devil engineers falling it was the evil one that led Adam and Eve into disobedience that kicked them out of where God had placed them, the Garden of Eden. 
It is a warning for believers and unbelievers of the word not to conform to this world.
To be conformed to this world is rooted in the mind of man.
Today, how is your mind? 
Without a doubt, the mind is the battleground where the enemy wants to take over, but keep the mind diligent by engaging in constant renew by the word of God. 
Among ways renewing of the mind is based on commitment and constantly meditating on the word of God. 
The evil, the father of lies, goes around looking for some to devour. 
Evil is an active, constant, and consistent evil doing. 
Always keep the mind away from pride that all evil branches.
Self-centeredness, stubbornness, rebellion are among that branches out of pride. Isaiah 26:3 admonishes, “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in you.” 
Make it a way of life by keeping the mind stay on God.
The calling of God is not a confirmation of getting to the expected end but an indication that God wants you to get to His calling over your life.
In all calling of God, with answering, there will always be an undoubtedly evil challenge with an attempt to deny the arrival of the called one to an expected end. However, in the calling by God, God does not fail to back the called up if the called will back off from every ground that does not glorify God. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 is an encouragement in the calling of God as verse states, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
In all, challenges will come, but God will deliver in all. (Psalm 34:19) 
Have you received the calling of God or the calling of the world? 
With your desire and prayer before God, the grace of God shall enable you to arrive at the calling of God over your life. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to become a victim to conform to the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: A liar is nothing but a twister of the truth of God.

Acts 5

Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God can be lying in the place of telling the truth.
Twisting the truth is evil that needs to be avoided, not to be part of the way of life.
Deuteronomy 19:19 warns, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
Put away lies the identity of the evil.
By your action and your word, are you responsible for twisting the truth of God?
Avoid being ignoring or not intervene to correct lies that are not true. An adage states, “Tell the truth and let the enemy be ashamed.” 
As a believer, there is no excuse to avoid or not to deny liars that you know.
Are you an acclaimed believer of the word of God but twisting the truth of God?
By telling lies, God is not deceived-able at all times.
Give yourself to the word of God to attain perfection in Christ Jesus as
Colossians 1:28 buttress, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” 
Search for yourself to determine your stand before God.
Refrain from twisting the truth of God as your ways for self-defense while engaging in wrongdoing.
One engaging in twisting the truth of God will become convinced that lying can make a way where there is no way. 
Do you know that twisting the truth of God is the evidence of taking distance from God?
Twisting the truth of God will keep one far from God, to become set for evil. Psalm 56:5 testifies, “All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.” 
Are you one with no means of controlling yourself from unwarranted talking that is a route of twisting the word of God? 
Are you with the impression that God is in your twisting agenda? Romans 3:5-8 documents that twisting the truth does not stand before God at all times, “But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? —as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.”
Embracing lies is also twisting the truth of God, positioning self for destruction. Do not embrace lies as your way of life, which is the character twisting the truth that will come to light to experience exceeding pain. 

Prayer for today: Pray not to live life as a liar.

FAITH CAPSULE: Walking in order of God is obedience to God.

2 Samuel 6

God is a good and gracious God that will not void His word, and neither shall there be any excuse for anyone to violate His word. The order in place for the ark of God was without exception. God had warned all His people, not to the ark of God.
At the time of transporting the ark of God to Jerusalem, at a threshing floor (a place for processing grain), Uzzah reached out and touched the ark. It was unintentional of Uzzah to touch the ark, but the word of God is with the intention for man to keep orderliness in the word of God.
Out of the order of God is to be placed in the death penalty for anyone that touches the holy object of the tabernacle of God (Numbers 4:15) 
In the word of God, there is always a condition to achieve His promise.
Word of God stands to perform with perfection when there is obedience without violation. 
The Word of God does not return void to God, so why not give self to the word of God with no violation?
Isaiah 55:11 buttresses, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”  Disobedience to the word of God will not excuse destruction as the consequence of disobedience. 
Are you obeying or disobeying the word of God?
Proverbs 13:13 warns all, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
God as a merciful God is no excuse for sin against Him. Uzzah lived in the days of law does not allow him to sin, and living in the days of His grace is no excuse to be living a life of disobedience to the word of God. 
The book of Roman 6:1 questions, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” The direction of God is His order. Living outside of God is living in disorder which is a way of death and eternal damnation.
Moses, a giant in the hand of God, was with no excuse for his disobedience before GOD.
Disobedience is with a consequence before God. Once Moses received an orderly direction from God but delivered it in disorder. Numbers 20:8 records the word of God disobedient by Moses, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus, you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” Moses went and struck instead of speaking to the rock. He took the order of God in his hand to call them rebels.
One that is out of the order of God is out of the ordination of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will keep you from disobedience to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be in the right place to gain deliverance and preservation.

Genesis 19

Are you paying attention to the time you are living? 
Where you are when deliverance comes to look for you will determine your salvation. It is one thing to be at the right place and at the right time; it is another to be able to identify that your deliverance is at hand. Rising and worshiping God at where you are and how you are is evidence of spiritual sensitivity. 
God decided the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah because of sin and iniquity. God visited Abraham to reveal His move to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Genesis 18:20-21 record “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”  God is with inestimable mercy, will not overlook sin but will make a way out for the righteous ones in the time of judgment.
Why not engage repentance before God for your deliverance and preservation?
Sodom and Gomorrah were to experience destruction because of sin and iniquity before God, but Lot was delivered. Lot, could not miss his deliverance because he was in the right location at the right time. 
In life, one can suffer from sudden and untimely destruction when one fails to be in the right location and at the right time. When the two angels sent by God came to Sodom, Lot was at the right place to become connected with the agent of God for his deliverance plan. Lot was not in an unusual location but at the right place. Genesis 19:1 records, “Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face toward the ground.”  
Lot saw angels, and he welcomed them by rising to meet them. 
Lot also bowed himself to acknowledge them. 
Rising and worshiping when your deliverance comes knocking is with an understanding of favor and the salvation plan of God.
The Psalmist understands and knows to ask from God, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation” (Psalm 106:4)
Let every moment of your life be in focus for the hand of God to deliver when deliverance matters. 
How often have you seen people at the park or gate fall asleep? 
Lot was awake, could have slept, and missed his deliverance. 
Today, as was in the past, the sinful world demands awaken spiritually and physically.
Among the wicked people, in the land of Sodom and Gomorrah,
Lot was in a position to receive deliverance because of the inestimable mercy of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not miss out on the inestimable mercy of God.