FAITH CAPSULE: By your way of life, do you rightly deserve the favor of God?

Genesis 39, Esther 2:1-18

God remembers with favor. Psalmist prayed, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation,” (Psalm 106:4)
Favor is what makes the difference in every journey of life. When God pours out His Favor on you, you shall live life for the glory of God.
The favor of God is with the grace which God freely grants. 
In the Bible days, so many experiences Favor, and today God is still finding men to grant His favor.
Are you one that looks up to God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?
By your way of life, do you rightly deserve the favor of God?
God is merciful, and if you sincerely desire His favor, He will deposit His favor over your life.
Esther experienced the visitation of God not because she was perfect in the way of life.
Esther was an orphan that was raised by her uncle after her father and mother had passed away.
While at the palace of King Ahasuerus, Esther experienced the favor of God when Queen Vashti failed.
Queen Vashti lost it when she dishonored King Ahasuerus as the door of favor for Esther to become the queen.
Today, pray that a door of favor will open for you.
It happened that Esther was chosen among many women to become the queen in place of Queen Vashti. 
Esther 2:9 documents the channel of the favor Esther, “Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.”
In your challenge, are you seeking the favor of any man or woman?
Esther did not need additional help because God was operating on her behalf. When the favor of God is in place, all that it takes for meeting every need will be in place. What you thought was a need shall become available for you. 
Favor is not your merit; it is God working on your behalf. 
Favor has no age barrier or any form of discrimination. Only God alone has the power to grant undeniable in the life of any as He desires. It is never too late for you to be blessed and highly favored because He is a faithful God.
Are you with the expectation of the favor of God?
Live life as Joseph.
Joseph live life for God, and he could not do great wickedness and sin against God. (Genesis 39:9)
Genesis 39:21 record the testimony of Joseph not sinning against God to provoke His favor, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.” 
The favor of God is certainly not to become a victim of evil.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to walk with Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: See in the word of God you hear.

Jeremiah 1:1-16

The Bible makes it clear to all that the word of God is alive. 
Unlike the word of the world, the word of God alone is alive.
The word is active for the producer of the movie called The Passion of Christ, the producer was able to see life clearly about what Jesus went through in the word. After the producer must have read or hear the word, he produced the movie as if he was present at the time of Jesus.
The movie producer heard and able to see in the word of God.
To hear and see in the word of God will know to do before God.
It is not enough to hear the word when the picture of what the word says does not take root in your heart. 
God wants us to hear when He speaks to us.
Have you been studying (not just reading) but not gain an understanding of the word of God? 
In the documentation of the creation in the Bible, Genesis 1:3-4 records, “…God said, “let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good…”  If God can see in His spoken word, definitely God expects from all to see in His word. For all the creation of God, until there is an ability to hear and see in His living word, none will be able to receive from His word.
All that Jeremiah needed to resume his divine assignment was to see in the word of God; otherwise, he would have missed the calling for his life. “Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:9-10) Jeremiah received the word of God and able to see the purpose and plan of his life. 
The word of God you carry to the heart is the word you see as the power of God to bring about manifestation to the glory of God.
Moses did not move in the direction of God for His life until he was able to turn aside and see in the word of God. Exodus 3:3-4 records, “Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:3-4) Moses heard and saw in the word of direction to engage his divine assignment to the glory of God. 
The word you hear and keep to the heart you will do.
Proverbs 4:20-21 admonishes all, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.”
Give ear to hear, to see in the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask to begin to see whenever the word of God sounds in your direction. 

FAITH CAPSULE: The direction for your life to get you is in the word of God.

Acts 9

The word of God that speaks in your direction will not fail you in the journey of life if you will hear and do accordingly. The word of God in Isaiah 55:11 encourages, “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.” 
The word of God is unfailing, to guide, to deliver, and to preserve.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
Is it the world that you are giving yourself to direct you?
Give yourself to the word of God. 
The word of God you hear and certainly do will correct you to uphold you for the glory of God.
It was the word of God that sound for Paul the apostle that upholds him for the glory of God. 
Saul of Tarsus (Paul the apostle) was on his journey to wreak havoc on the disciples of the Lord Jesus in Damascus when the word of God locates him. Acts 9:3-4 records the encounter of Saul, “As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
Saul questioned the voice that sounded his name, and Jesus introduced Himself to him. The bible records, “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:6)
Saul heard from the Lord Jesus what he must do.
Do you know what you must do to move you forward in the calling of God?
Has the word of God sound in your direction but not move you forward?
Have you been hearing the word but not do?
Matthew 7:26 records the word of Jesus that speaks to all, “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish…” 
Saul heard and did according to the word that sounds in his direction.
Saul changed to Paul, and from the moment of receiving instruction, Paul began to move in the direction of the calling for his life. Determination is not what will help, but the grace of God is what will get you into your divine assignment. The word of God promises that “He will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go and He will guide you with His eye” (Psalm 32:8). 
What to do in your life will get you to where you must be in the Lord. 
In every word that sounds in your direction, hear and do to live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to hear and do according to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know yourself in the Lord.

Exodus 4

Do you know yourself in the Lord? 
If you know yourself the Lord, you will know what the Lord has deposited in you. Knowing yourself in the Lord will determine how far you go in answering the calling of God over your life. 
Get to know yourself in the Lord. 
Psalm 49:20 states, “A man who is in honor yet does not understand is like the beasts that perish.” The lack of understanding denies answering to the calling of God in life. 
Do you know what the Lord deposits in you? Give yourself to God to know yourself in Him. 
When it was time for God to raise a giant among the giants that glorify His name, there will be no excuse for no one that does not know him or herself from answering to the calling of God.
Truly, confusion or lack of understanding is always with an attempt to deny the answering to the calling of God.
Moses is an example of one that does not know himself in the Lord.
When Moses escaped from Egypt because he killed an Egyptian in favor of an Israelite, God located him for his calling to point out what he does not know.
God will call no one for an assignment without empowering man.
At the time He called Moses, Moses does not know himself. 
Exodus 4:2-4 records, “So the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” 
He said, “A rod.” And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),”   Moses had a rod and not know himself in the Lord to see the rod as a power of God he carries.
Get to know yourself in the Lord!
A rod of God in hand is the power of God at hand. 
Moses did not know himself in the Lord for him to engage the assignment until the Lord shows Him.
Today, know that the calling of God does have a specific fitting rod in your hand.  
Unlike the twelve disciples of Jesus, Apostle Paul did not walk with Jesus on the face of the earth, but he knew himself in the Lord more than any of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Paul testifies, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (1 Corinthians 15:10) 
Just like Paul, know who you are in the grace of God, not to live a wasted life but live in the center of the assignment of God over your life.
Get to know yourself in the Lord and take off in the direction of your calling.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of God not be in vain over you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you making noise of Easter celebration but yet living as a deceiver?

Luke 24

Easter celebration without knowledge and understanding is mere religion and not a continual celebration of the reality of Christ, His sacrifice for all.
Easter celebration of Jesus is every day knowing that Jesus has risen!
Living the testimony that Jesus has risen is keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 admonishes all to keep the testimonies of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
With knowledge and understanding, Keep the testimonies that Jesus has risen!
Mark 9:31 records the teaching of Jesus, “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third
day.”  
Jesus experienced mockery. He was scourged and was spit on, killed but raised on the third day. (Mark 10:14) The experience of Jesus is the reason for the Easter celebration.
Easter celebration should be continual as the way of life. With understanding, it should be the testimony of living life for the glory of God, the evidence of acknowledging the goodness of God that is in place for all to accept Jesus not to become a victim of sin.
Are you an acclaimed believer or an unbelieving believer that does not live the testimony of the Easter celebration?
The identities of not living a life of the Easter celebration non-stop are: mocking the name of Jesus and denying Him to betray Him.
Are you betraying Jesus by denying Him? 
Peter blatantly denied Jesus three times to avoid suffering with Him. Acclaimed believers identify with Jesus, but none wants to suffer with Him or suffer just like He did. 
Are you making noise as a believer but yet living as a deceiver? Let deception not be your way of life because God sees it all! 
With humiliation, Jesus carried the cross, went to the grave, and arise from the grave on the third day so that all will cross over with Him not to fall and fail to miss heaven. 
The account of His humiliation is not to provoke emotional sobering but invoke engaging the reality of Christ. 
How are you observing the humility of Christ Jesus?
Without humility, there is no way one can become obedient to the Word of God. Today, gain the understanding that “…He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
Live life in obedience to God!
Know to believe the Living Word of God.
A believer should get it clear that the Easter celebration is a moment of celebrating the One that came and is here to elevate all.
Easter is the continual celebration for the goodness of God over the life of all.
Rejoice Jesus has risen!

Prayer for today:Ask God that you live life for His glory.