FAITH CAPSULE: Gain understanding and knowledge to serve God continually.

Daniel 6

Walking with God demands to have faith in the word of God to remain continual to do according to the command of God.
With continuity, Joseph served God faithfully, by walking away from the sin that is hidden from any man but not hidden from God. At the time of Joseph’s journey of life, Joseph could not yield to the pressure of the wife of his master that wanted to lay with him. Bible records the response of Joseph to the wife of his master, “But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:8-9) Abstaining from sin that is hidden to man but not hidden from God is a way of continual avenue to avoid sin before God. Joseph testified his stand before God, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.” 
Continuity should be constant with consistent to walk with God.
Daniel continually served God as his character when an unbeliever king recognized Daniel as one that serves the living God.
At the time of King Darius’ sentencing of Daniel to an untimely death in the den of lions, the king stated: “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” (Daniel 6:16) The Bible documented the loss of the sleep of King Darius, waiting for morning hour to check the demonstration of the faith of Daniel. Daniel 6:19-20 records, “Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 
King Darius, an unbeliever of God, recognized in Daniel that those who give self to God continually shall not go wrong to become a victim of wicked agenda. 
Just like Daniel, one that gives attention to God continually will gain deliverance and preservation attention of God unfailingly.
After all night for Daniel among hungry lions, he responded to the king Darius as the Bible states, “Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” (Daniel 6:21-22) 
The continuity of Daniel in serving God provoked heaven to give him unfailing attention of deliverance and preservation over his life.
Learn from the word of God, to gain understanding and knowledge to serve God continually.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled, to serve God continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Negative confession is a complaint before God.

Numbers 14

It was the complaint against God that set the Israelites for a painful journey of life.
The Bible records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:1-4) 
The complaint of the Israelites before God was a negative confession when they reacted to discouraging reports of the spies on the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining to confess negatively before God?
One with the complaint will rebel before God.
The Israelites at the coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years complaint and rebel before God.
As a believer, avoiding compliant before God is rooted in trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God as Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is the evidence of having hope in God.
Do you have faith to wait on God without complaint not to become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoiding complaint before God is the discipline to wait, knowing that God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4, encourages all, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Every failure to wait on God will complain and become rebellious.
Pharaoh and his chariot could not stop Israelites from coming out of bondage, the Red Sea could not deny the Israelites journey to the Promised Land, while Jericho wall could not deny their advance journey to the Promised Land, but a complaint with negative confession denied the Israelites from getting to the Promised Land.
Numbers 14:28 records the response of God to the complaint of the Israelites: “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.” 
Complaints with negative confession should be avoided in the journey of life. Give yourself to complementing God to avoid complaining, God is a living God that hears at time. 
Do not complain anymore.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not be a vessel of complaining before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Covetousness is rooted in the lack of contentment.

Joshua 7

The character of a covetous one is a greedy, acquisitive one with a strong desire for, especially material possessions. Covetous implies inordinate desire often for the possessions that belong to another.
Covetousness is rooted in the lack of contentment.
One with covetousness is in sin against the word of God, the evidence of the lack of fear for God.
The Bible records, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17) 
Is covetousness your way of life?
Covetousness is critical to complicate the journey of life.
Consciously or unconsciously, the sin of covetousness before God can be the reason for the delay or derailment in the journey of life.  
Covetousness is a sin to deny one from obtaining promises in the word of God.
The obedience of the Israelites to the word of God was the reason for their victories over their enemies while their sin of covetousness was the cause of their loss against the people of Ai with lesser might of the military.
The Israelites assumed victory against the people of Ai, not knowing that their sin of covetousness was before God, to deny them victory.
Are you one with sin that is enough to deny your victory when victory should be answering for you?
The falling of the Israelites was the result of their sin of covetousness before God that prompted Joshua to go before God, as Joshua 7:7 records, “And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought these people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!”  
Joshua did not know that the sin of covetousness was the cause of their defeat in the hand of their enemy but was curious why their past situations were better than their present challenge.
Just like Joshua, are you curious about why your past is better than your present? 
It could be that God has departed from you just as He departed from the Israelites due to their sin of covetousness.
On behalf of the Israelites, Joshua pleaded before God when God told him about the covetous sin of Achan. 
The indiscipline of Achan is in covetousness and his disobedience before God counted against all the Israelites.
Achan transgressed the command of God that was rooted in deception. (Joshua 7:10-11) 
The sin of covetousness brought the Israelites down, not able to stand before their enemies but turned their backs before their enemies. 
In your challenging battle, are you turning your back before your enemies?
Are you an acclaimed believer that answers as an overcomer in times of challenge? What is it that is overwhelming you?
Consistently, obediently engage the word of God that does not fail.

Prayer for today: Ask that your faith will not fail before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know the truth of God to be free.

John 8:1-32

The lack of knowledge of God will lead to confusion about the truth of God.
The truth of God is simple to know.
Are you one that does not know the way in your journey of life?
Is there any confusion in your decision making in your life?
Are you THOMAS of modern days, the Thomas disciple of Jesus, that is with confusion, not know, and how to get the right way?
John 14:5 records, “Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Thomas spoke on behalf of his brethren, not knowing the way when Jesus responded to Thomas, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
Jesus is the TRUTH.
Many throngs Him yesterday and today, many know about Him, but do not know the truth.
Many acclaimed believers are not free because they do not know the truth.
Are you an unbelieving believer that is not free? 
Any Thomas that does not know the truth is not free indeed.
What does it mean to be free indeed?
Jesus declares what it means to be free, “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)
Dwell and abide in the word of God to know the TRUTH and be free in this wicked world of darkness.
Jesus is the Living WORD of God, the truth of God.
AMONG THE IDENTITIES OF TRUTH
Truth does not lie. 
Truth is threatening. 
Truth can be bitter not to be accepted.
The truth will always embarrass falsehood.
Truth is challenging but not confusing and always direct right.
Truth is not popular to gain a place in the company of liars.
The truth will always be right but does not become wrong.
Truth is not evil and yet not acceptable by the majority.
Is it your desire to be free?
Why not give to the truth of God as your value?
To be free, let the truth become your value.
Become an advocate for truth as your value that does not hide but stand for the truth always. 
Behave your value, the evidence of believing the truth in the ways of life.
In the journey of life, be steadfast in the truth by which Christ has made all free.
Living life as an advocate of truth is the evidence of fear for God, to serve God in sincerity by putting away the gods of this world.
Remain abiding in the word of God, Keep growing in the truth of God, and live a life that is free to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the truth of God to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God does not fail and is like a fire and like a hammer.

Judges 4

Listen to the word of God is to understand and know the power of the word of God that is in position for all to engage for attainment in the journey of life.
It is the character of the word of God not to fail and also, it is like a fire a hammer to break ever assumable unbreakable force in one’s life.
UNFAILING WORD OF GOD
God does not lie. Isaiah 55:11 confirms, “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.” It is the character of the word of God not to return void to God without accomplishment for God.
Are you with understanding to call, to remind God for the promises in His word?
The word of God is the work of His hand. All the work of His hand has never failed. With understanding, one that reminds God that does not forget will experience the stretch extension hand of God. 
God encourages all, “Thus says the Lord, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.” (Isaiah 45:11) 
With understanding, always know to remember to command the word of God that does not fail.
WORD LIKE FIRE
The Bible makes us know that the word God is God (John 1:1) and Hebrews 11:29 points out, “For our God is a consuming fire.” 
God that creates heaven and earth, also preserve and reserve heaven and earth. 2 Peter 3:7 records, “But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” By the testimony of the word of God is fire, call the word of God as fire, with the expectation to burn off all that is not of God hibernating in your life.
The book of Jeremiah 23:29 confirms the word of God like fire, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
With understanding, without doubt, why not call on the fire nature of the word of God to burn all that does not represent God in your life? To refine you, shine for God to His glory.
The word of God is like a hammer, will answer against forces that stand against one to be broken, to have the peace of God.
A hammer is a weapon used against Sisera the commander of the army of Jabin, the King of Canaan, by Jael, wife of Herber to deliver victory for the Israelites. (Judges 4) Call on the word God like a hammer against forces of the hindrance of your life.
One that listens to the word of God will know the characters of the word of God, having the edge in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that the fire nature of the word of God to burn off all that does not represent God in your life.