FAITH CAPSULE: What are you doing wrong before God?

Genesis 3

Do you know the word of God and not do, or you know about God and not know to do right?
Knowing about God is not knowing God to do according to the word of God.
Wickedness defines knowing the word of God and not do.
Before God, Jeremiah was curious about who the wicked are. 
Jeremiah 12:1 records, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.”
Engaging in wickedness act is knowing or not knowing to do wrong before God.
Wrongdoing is a deviation from accuracy as in mistake, as inaction or speech. Wrongdoing is the condition of believing what is not in truth. Wrongdoing can be a moral offense; wrongdoing can be a sin before God. It is a wrongdoing to violate the word of God, and it can be a conscious or unconscious error before God. Another way to describe wrongdoing is despising the word of God. The word of God makes all realize that “He who despises the word will be destroyed…” (Proverbs 13:13)
Have you in any way violated or currently violating the word of God? Prayerfully ask that the mercy of God will open your eyes and ears to avoid or come out of conscious or unconscious wrongdoing.
God sees all, and there is no excuse for wrongdoing before God.
Regardless of title or how many years you have been walking before God, wrongdoing is not excusable.
Before God, Adam and Eve committed error by believing the serpent enough to eat against the commandment of God for them not to eat from a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve violated the word of God that is wrongdoing. 
In wrongdoing, no one is in any position to hide from the eyes of God.
When God showed up on Adam and Eve, they attempted to justify their action of wrongdoing before God stating, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12-13) Excuses for wrongdoing before God does not count but will provoke the judgment of God.
Wrongdoing committed by Adam and Eve exposed all in under heaven to numerous pains of today.
What is your wrongdoing before God?
Are you doing what is right wrongly before God?
One with doing right wrongly before God will always provoke the consequence for doing wrong before God.
Today, mark it that before God, there is no reasonable excuse to be delivered from destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you not to live a life of wrongdoing.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to prayer before God.

2 Kings 20

Praying before God for challenges that need to subsided demands trust and hope to experience deliverance. 
Prayer is to seek God diligently.
Prayer demands persistence to get a result. 
Are you experiencing a challenge that is resisting continuous prayer? 
Continue prayer without ceasing, and it is the way out of challenges.
For self-deliverance, prayer is an avenue to experience the visitation of God. 
In the pages of the bible, it is evident that prayer is key to self-deliverance. 
Hezekiah engaged in prayer to experience self-deliverance. 
2Kings 20:1 document, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’”  Hezekiah did not seek deliverance from no man but engaged in prayer before God for his self-deliverance from sudden death. 
Hezekiah reminded God about his walk and loyal heart before God; he wept before God. God responded to the prayer of Hezekiah to send Isaiah “…I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord. And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.” (2Kings 20:5-6) Truly, Hezekiah prayed before God to gain self-deliverance from sudden death.
Just like Hezekiah, Hannah vigorously prayed in time of her barrenness. Hannah was praying when Eli mistook her for drunkenness.
1Samuel 1:12-14 records, “And it happened, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore, Eli thought she was drunk. So, Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”  Hannah responded to Eli that she was not drunk but poured out her soul before God.
 Eli answered Hannah, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.” (1 Samuel 1:17) 
Hannah prayed vigorously, conceived, and bore Samuel. 
Are you praying? 
Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer when He prayed for the deliverance of Peter from faith failure in Luke 22:32, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail…” 
Through prayer, Paul experienced self-deliverance from prison.
Paul testifies, “And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!” (2 Timothy 4:18) Prayer is power for self-deliverance engaging God in the name of Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to give yourself to prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Who is the inquisitor of your life?

One that inquires or makes inquisition of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile about your way of life.
Who is the inquisitor of your life?
God identifies Job with integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3) The identification, description of the testimony of God about Job was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife, family, or friend from near or distance.
For Job, the inquisition by his wife was discouraging enough, but Job could not be discouraged. His wife states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) Job responds to his wife as one that knows God indeed.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him differently.
The wife of Job saw him as a man wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you experiencing an inquisitor in your life, or are you an inquisitor in the life of others? 
Who is the inquisitor that is discouraging your walk with God?
Can you perceive the inquisitor of your life, to know, to avoid in your life?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction. Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became terminated.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the deliverance plan from God to escape. The Bible record that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
As a conscious or unconscious inquisitor of others or yourself, how are you responding to the challenges of life?
Often time, man allows the act of negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus did miracles on every ground but not so at His city of Nazareth. 
The people were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary. The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5) 
Are you an inquisitor of the messenger of God or, you a messenger of God experiencing inquisitor in your life?
Will you stop being an inquisitor in the life one that is answering to the assignment of God? 

Prayer for today: Pray not to become a victim of an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Listen to gain understanding to see in the word of God for your gain.

Listening to gain understanding is rooted in paying attention.
Listening to the word of God will understand the word of God to live life abundantly to the glory of God.
Keep in mind that the word of God is in the documentation for all to learn and gain understanding. Romans 15:4 buttresses, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
God has not changed. God will not change forever, and He is the unchanging changer. God alone reverses the irreversible. 
Give yourself to the word of God!
When God created, He speaks the word and consequently sees in His spoken word, which brings forth manifestation.
The Bible record, “Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good.” (Genesis 1:3-4)
Repeatedly, at the creation time, God spoke His word to see the manifestation of what He said. As a result, all, with no exception, should be listening with understanding to see, receive in the word of God.
When you begin to listen with understanding, you will see the manifestation. 
With listening, understanding to see by the word of God is the combination to be in place to live life victoriously, to the glory of God.
The key to it all is, if you can listen, understanding will enable you to see, to receive, and what you receive in the word of God will become of you.
When there is no listening, there will be no understanding.
The word of Jesus in John 8:43 rhetorically questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Are you listening enough with the understanding to be able to see what God says to you in His word?
All that God wants to do for you is always in His word if you will listen and gain understand to see in what He says to you.
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?
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)
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 that you will be attentive to gain understanding in the word of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: In the word of God, there is deliverance.

1 Samuel 30

Deliverance is to gain freedom from the challenges of life. 
One with an understanding and knowing God will engage the word of God for self-deliverance.
Just as engaging the word of God for self-deliverance, individuals carrying a weapon also claim self-deliverance.
What or who are you looking up to engage for self-deliverance outside of God?
Psalm 107:20 testifies, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.” 
Give yourself to the word of God diligently to gain an unfailing deliverance.
God alone is the author of deliverance.
In a time of challenge, as a believer, are you seeking or looking to man for deliverance or seeking God? 
Engage self in the truth of God, be free to experience self-deliverance in times of challenge. 
Jesus declares the source of freedom, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) Jesus is the word of God, the truth. (John 14:6) 
Know to abide in the word of God as a believer, the truth that makes freedom becomes a possibility for deliverance.
King David is an example with the challenge but turned to the truth of God for self-deliverance. 
The challenge of David was the attack from the Amalekites.
In the attack, the people of David were captive.
The followers of David lifted their voices and wept. The bible records the effect of the Amalekites attack, “Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” (1 Samuel 30:6) As a result of the captivity, David became a target of rejection by his followers as he became discouraged and distressed.
The challenge of David demanded deliverance as he turned to self-deliverance through the hand of God. 
The above verse points out the deliverance of David:
First, David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. 
Second self-deliverance was the self-move to inquire of the Lord. 
David did not position himself to be self-pity before man. 1 Samuel 30:8 records self-deliverance approach, “…David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” God responded to David, “Pursue, for you shall overtake them and without fail recover all.”  Self-deliverance of David was in the truth (word) of God that he received from his inquiry from God. 
David, in time of challenge of distress, discouragement, lonely, he strengthened himself in the Lord.
Deliverance of David was in the assurance from the word of God to go after his enemy.
David went after his enemy to get freedom for his people, and once again, he was free before his people. 
God is true to deliver one that will abide in Him to know the truth, and the shall give deliverance (freedom) from a challenge.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the mercy of God to gain deliverance in His word.