FAITH CAPSULE: The desire for God must be in the mind of all.

1 Samuel 13

Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels to attain what the heart set up to have. As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or to be a believer with sincere for God? 
Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or to be a believer with sincere for God? 
What you desire is what you seek after. 
One that desires to live heaven on the heart will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Jesus declares it, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
The whole matter that counts and works perfectly in life is to fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God and to keep His command is to desire to seek God. 
Listen to word that states about fear of God and heart: “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” (1 Samuel 12:24)
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great things, and He is doing more for all to the reason to have the desire for God, with heart. 
God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart of all. 
God once corrected Samuel in his attempt to make the brother of David as the king, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 
Without doubt, the heart of David is what God saw when His word declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David was sought by God and saw that his heart desires for His name. 
What do you desire? 
The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.
If you have a desire for God in your heart, God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him and become decorated by His presence in your life. 
King David knows what is best to desire when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
As an acclaimed believer, think if you sincerely desire of the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask for the desire for God to become rooted in your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God to serve Him diligently.

John 12:23-32

The book of Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” 
To fear God and to keep His command is encased in seeking God. 
When all know to seek God, all will serve God. To serve God is to follow God in His word.
Jesus points out, “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)
The conclusion of the whole matter is: Fear God, seek God, serve God, and follow Him so that the Father will honor you.
Seeking God leads to serving Him. 
In serving God is to follow Him. Jesus declares clearly, “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)
Are you serving God fully?
Are you serving God for your material gain?
Search yourself to identify how you are serving God.
Apostle Paul encourages, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”(Romans 12:1)
With understanding, know to serve God sacrificially, let your serving God be acceptable before God alone. 
Do not serve God casually but to serve God by following God fully as Jesus requests saying, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me…” Following Jesus means putting all away to follow him. 
Following Him is stepping after the same way that He stepped while He was on the face of the earth. 
The expectation of Jesus from His disciples to follow Him records, “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mark 8:34)
Do you have a desire to come after Jesus? 
Jesus made fishermen of those who desired to follow Him. The book of Matthew 4:19 records, “Then He said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” 
Serving Him is following Him. 
Following Him is a sacrifice by giving up everything for Him. 
To follow Him is not to be a spectator but to learn and to become fishers of men. Jesus’ request from man to follow Him does not identify Him as a slave master. 
Matthew 19:28 records the reward for all that follows Him, “…Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”  
Serve Him fully to experience the fullness of the reward for following God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him fully by following Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Who are you in Christ?

2 Timothy 2:1-13

Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or by the act? 
A Christian soldier need not be introduced as a soldier because his warlike disposition will always point him out as one who is operating as a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
What kind of a soldier are you? 
Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier? 
A soldier should be one that contends or serves in any cause as a soldier of the Lord. Soldiers are to persist steadfastly in their cause and to persevere until an assignment, as expected.V
An eligible and qualified soldier for Christ has to be a sold-out soul for the cause of the cross that Jesus carried to Calvary.
Paul, the apostle, admonished Timothy by using an illustration of a soldier. “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” (2 Timothy 2:3-4)
Paul’s illustration for faithfulness is that a soldier (follower of Christ) must endure hardship. Unfortunately, Christian soldiers today do not want to endure hardship but will like to enjoy worldly pleasures or live lives of convenience and not commitment. 
Are you an acclaimed Christian with no iota of desire to live life to experience the endureth life of Christ?
Endurance can be painful and can generate unwanted suffering.
Enduring hardship is what qualifies a Christian soldier as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
Every Christian soldier must know to experience how to endure; Christian soldiers cannot escape hardship in this world of wickedness. 
The Christian soldiers without endure of challenges in this world are soldiers that often entangle themselves with the affairs of this life. 
It is evident in the word of Paul that no soldier engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life and answered to the cause of Christian soldiers.
In the book of Peter 2:11, the word warned against fleshly lusts: “Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.” Among the affairs of this world that can derail a soldier for Christ is fleshly lust. With lust, it is not possible to answer as a sold-out soul for the assignment of Christ. 
Undoubtedly, fleshly lust is a principal target which Christian soldiers should not take for granted because it launches its attack regularly. 
Are you working not to walk living lust?
Living lust will present great or small temptation that does not spare grave
for fleshly lust ones. It is so deadly that it only goes after its target that is the soul of every Christian soldier.
As a soldier of Christ, you become captured by the enemy of all, the evil one, then your role as a soldier will mark you as a victim soldier in the hand of the chief of all wicked, the evil one himself.
Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or one with a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life for Him.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Give yourself to the word of God.

2 Samuel 22

Word of God is worthy and profitable to trust and hope in it for one that allows its entrance into the heart.
2 Samuel 22:31 records the character of the word of God, “As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.” 
First is the way of God. 
Moses proved the way of God is to find grace in His sight. 
Moses confirmed the trust of God in his question with the answer he received from God. Moses asked God, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:13-14) The way of God is perfect because taking to it is to encounter grace in the sight of God that gives rest.
Secondly, the word of God is proven.
The creation of heaven and earth by the word of God is proven, and having a place in it will not fail. The bible made us know that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) The word is proven it comforts in a time of affliction as testified, “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” (Psalm 119:50)Also, the word of God is proven to give rest because it is true that God magnified His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2)
Thirdly, God is a shield to all who trust in Him. 
Through the pages of the bible, the testimonies are clear that by His doing, He is a shield giving deliverance and preservation.
For example, God declared to be a shield for Abraham not to be afraid in Genesis 15:1, “…Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” God was the shield in the old days, and He is still the shield beyond times to come.
Are you distracted from trusting God?   
In times of challenges, do not be distracted but trust God. 
With trusting God, the peace of God reigns. Indeed, and in truth, it is not possible to hear the testimonies of God and doubt the word of God.
When you hear from God, there will be no fear but peace. 
In faces of challenges, the whole world can say no; but you will say yes that is based on trusting the word of God. 
The existence of doubt is the evidence that you have not heard from Him. Take to the word of Isaiah 26:3-4, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.” 
The word of God is profitable to trust in it.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to rest in His worth word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you mind-full of God or selfish to your world?

Psalm 8

One that is selfish is lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with self to profit or pleasure. The character of a selfish one is not to be mindful of others.
One that is selfish will hardly listen.
One that is selfish avoid responsibility.
One that is selfish does not have consideration for the time for others.
Selfish ones are not mindful of others the evidence of self-centeredness, not the spirit of God.  
Think of this: How can one that is not mindful of others be mindful of God?
David asked God: “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm 8:4)
Does the question of David before God speak to you?
Are you mindful of God?
In the world today, man is full of himself while God is empty in man. 
The empty of God in man is the evidence of not living by the word of God, the lack of fear of God. 
Today, the majority no longer fears God with their heart but with the mouth.
The lack of fear of God is the evidence of misplacement of the word (command, law) of God, and it is the automatic route into the path of eternal damnation.
Without any compromise, the will of God for man is to fear God. 
No one is born to this world with the knowledge to fear God.
The knowledge to fear God comes from learning in the word of God. 
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 buttresses the need to learn and fear God, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” 
To live a life with the fear of God is the only way to be able to humble self and become obedient to God continually.
The Law of God will cause tenderness of heart. 
With a tender heart, there is a place for humility. Without humility, obedience is not possible. The word records about the obedient of Jesus, “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:8)
The will of God is for man to fear Him. 
Do you fear God indeed and in truth? 
Are you lost from the word of God? 
One that does not learn from the word of God is one that will be misplaced, from God.
Fear God and know to Him.
Deuteronomy 24:29 identifies what it takes to find God, “…seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul seek Him and you will found Him” 
Do not be deceived but fear God from the depth of your heart.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live a life for His glory.