FAITH CAPSULE: About the mercy of God is to know God, to fear Him.

Psalm 136

Day after days, week after weeks, month after months, year after years, the mercy of God has been consistent to see you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy belongs to God. 
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
The mercy of God is with forbearance that does not runs out.
The mercy of God is His loyal love; it is the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God. 
The mercy of God is no man’s merit but the goodness of God. 
Only God that is in the position to render mercy unto all, unfailingly.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT GOD’S MERCY?
About the mercy of God is to know God, to fear Him.
Luke 1:50 admonishes, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
According to the word of God, with the fear of God, mercy will become obtainable from God. 
Why not desire and allow the fear of God to reign and rule your life?
Understanding and knowing to fear God will lead to the love of God by obeying His word.
Deuteronomy 7:9 testifies, “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.” 
With fear for God, mercy will become one’s portion and to live a life of testimony to the merciful of God.
About the Mercy of God is His abundant. 
The book of Numbers 14:18 says, “The Lord is long-suffering and abundant in mercy…” God does not run out of mercy but it is a man that runs out of His mercy. 
Are you living outside of God’s word while expecting His mercy to be in place for you?
Understand and know God that His mercy is abundant, sufficient but never becomes insufficient for those who fear Him. 
Fear and obey God, live life for God to obtain His mercy continually.
About the mercy of God is His endurance forever. 
“Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.” (1 Chronicle 16:34) The everlasting God exists in His mercy.
The mercy of God satisfies in all areas of life. The Psalmist records in Psalm 90:14, “Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” Having satisfaction in God’s mercy is to have joy and gladness. 
Proverbs 20:28 says, “Mercy and truth preserve the king…”  The Mercy of God will not preserve only the king but all that live life with the fear of God.  
Give regard to God, disregard all which denies a man from the mercy of God. Jonah 2:8 “Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy” Disregard idol, to receive God’s mercy.
Now, be consistent to live life by the word of God to attain the unfailing mercy of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy to give heed to the challenges of your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it about the word of God?

Hebrews 4

John 1:1 record, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Without a doubt, nothing was created without the word of God.
Hebrews 4:12 introduces what the word of God is about for all, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
Are you taking away or adding to the word of God to live life by the word?
Deuteronomy 4:12 warns, “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
Give yourself to know the word of God that is magnified by God as Psalm 138:2 states, “For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”
The word of God cannot be resisted by any force or any agenda of evil or by the activity of darkness as Psalm 105 points out, “He sent darkness, and made it dark, and they did not rebel against His word.” 
The word of God is power for healing and deliverance, Psalm 107:20 made it known, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
When the word of God is called, for intervention over challenges, God will not fail to send His magnified word against challenges, if God will be called by His name.
Are you one that is full by the word of God?
One that is truly full of the word of God will not be quiet, not to call for the magnified word of God against challenge.
Once, Jesus had an encounter with a troubling wind and sea as He traveled on the sea with His disciples. The Bible records, “Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So, the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:23-27)
Jesus spoke the word to calm the troubling wind and sea.
As a believer of the word of God, identify the root of your challenge that is troubling your journey in life to speak the word of God that can deliver and preserve you from evil agenda. 
Listen, power belongs to the word of God to rebuke and to calm any challenge that ravages your world. 
Give yourself to the word of God that will build you to give you abundant life.
The word of God speaks to all.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will gain entrance into you.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is not mathematics, do not calculate Him but count on Him at all times.

Numbers 20

God is not mathematics that you can add two plus two and get four for the answer to access the presence of God.
Assuming God to receive from Him is not asking, He tells all to, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?” (Matthew 7:7-10)
God is not mathematics that can be found with formula but to find Him by seeking Him diligently.  
God is a God of manifestation that response to deliver the promise of His Word. Where God says walk and one walks, such will experience the commitment of God in the journey of life. 
When God says sow and you throw, you will not reap from God.
Are you doing against the word of God?
Before God, there is no one with an exception not to act according to the command of God, without painful consequences.
Moses disobeyed the word of God when he struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock. Numbers 20:8 records disobedience of 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.”  God is a consistent God that is worth to count on when He commands. Moses was not consistent to answer as commanded by God, he responded, “And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.” (Numbers 20:10-11) The disobedience of Moses was a wrong calculation of God that is not mathematics as Moses could not arrive at Promised Land.
God is not mathematic, He cannot be wrong, He is consistent God whose Word will not return to Him void just as He promised in Isaiah 55:11, “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.” 
God alone is the creator of mathematicians. 
God cannot be managed; He is the only Manager of all managers that cannot be manipulated.
With God, do not assume for your answer, count on Him, wait on Him patiently for the manifestation of your expectation.
God is not mathematics, do not calculate Him but count on Him at all times.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to keep you at all times. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Understanding demands attention. 

Understanding demands attention to know God, the truth to live for the glory of God.
Proverbs 4:1 testifies to the importance of attention to have the understanding saying, “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding” (Proverbs 4:1)
Listening is giving attention to understand the word of God and without understanding, there will be no knowledge. John 8:43 records about the question and answer of Jesus when He pointed out the issue of the lack of understanding, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” 
Without listening by giving attention to the word of God, there will be no understanding that is the key to know God.
Listen, Jesus is the word of God. John 1:1 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Understand it that Jesu, the word of God is the truth when He says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
One that does not listen to understand the word of God, the truth of God, cannot believe and will not know God as John 8:45 confirms, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”  
Think of it, how can you know God which you do not know to believe?
In life, it is not possible to know God that you do not understand but to only know about God.
Do you know God or you know about God?
Many acclaimed believers that do not know the truth of God do not know God. 
If you are a believer that knows the truth, you will be free not to become a victim of the wicked world.
One that does not know the truth, the word of God shall not be free as John 8:42 says, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” know the truth of God to be free from the wickedness of the world, living free by the word of God.
In this world, listening disability not to understand and know the truth of God is rooted in not having time for God.
Will you give attention to the word of God, to enter you as the light of God? Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” One with no light of God shall continually experience the challenges of the world of darkness, and not experience free, navigating through the world of darkness.
With understanding, know the truth of God, do not be one that suppresses the truth of God, which is the righteousness of God. Romans 1:18 warns, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
Let the desire for God become your portion for getting understanding that will enable you not to live a life of waste, but to live a life of worshiping God, the purpose He creates all for His pleasure.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to fill you with spiritual understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God.

Numbers 25

The zeal for God is also obvious in the life of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar.
It happened during the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, they sin before God. The sin that provoked the anger and the wrath of God was the joining of Baal of Peor.
The zeal for God in Phinehas answered for the deliverance of the Israelites in Numbers 25:6, “…One of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.” 
The point here is that the Israelites were experiencing the wrath of their sin when one of their brethren repeated the same sin against the command of God. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, with the zeal for God, responded to the sin in Numbers 25:7-8, “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So, the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.” 
The zeal for God in the life of Phineas was the way of his life.
The zeal for God in Phinehas made him see wrongdoing when he responded with right doing before God, for the glory of God.
Today, acclaimed believers are looking away from wrongdoing in the things of God because they lack the zeal for God to react with doing right, against wrongdoing for the glory of God.
The Zeal for God made Phinehas rise from among the congregation, against wrongdoing among the congregation. 
The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God and it opened the door of uncommon blessing to Phinehas before God as God spoke to Moses “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel because he was zealous with My zeal among them so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal. Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel’” (Numbers 25:10-13). 
Do you have the zeal for God?
One that does not have the zeal for God will not be clean up for God to occupy.
One that does not have the zeal for God will lack the strength of God to be set for the calling of God in life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal for God to make you be a vessel for His glory and the uplifting of the business of His kingdom.