FAITH CAPSULE: What is your work like before God, the only Creator of all?

Matthew 5:1-15

What kind of a believer are you?
Does your character communicate your claim as a believer of God?
What is your work like before God, the only Creator of all?
Are you cold, hot, or lukewarm answering to God?
Revelation 3:15-16 records the word of God in response to the work of all: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
By the scriptural verse above, it is clear enough that there is no middle ground in every word of God. As an acclaimed believer, you are either one who contributes to the earth as a preserver or one who does not contribute but takes the place of a non-preserver (destroyer). 
As an acclaimed believer, are you a preserver or destroyer by your way of living life?
In the Bible days, the refrigerator was not in use for preserving food, but it was salt.
Jesus identifies that just as salt preserves food, so should believers are to be the salt of the earth preserving the earth.
Are you a preserving believer or a lukewarm-believer or a hot or cold believer?
A believer should be the one bringing impacting changes to the word, preserving the decaying world of sin and iniquity. The world is changing believers because believers are adapting to the wicked world in the name of evangelizing the world. 
Believers are not to be changed by the affairs of this world. 
For you, it is not enough to be a consistent church goer neither is it enough to be fluent in quoting Bible verses if the character does not communicate your claim as a believer of the word of God. 
Most believers today want to be quiet in their walk with the excuse of not wanting to offend anyone by what they believe.
Think about this: How can it be that food coming out of the kitchen with salt should be tasteless?
Jesus said in Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”. 
A kitchen with salt that is producing tasteless and unacceptable food is evidence that salt has lost its flavor. 
The salt that is not effective has lost its purpose. 
Such salt becomes a waste and due to be thrown away. According to Jesus, a thrown away salt becomes an underfoot material. 
What kind of salt are you? 
Are you one that is bold in quoting the word of God without Godly character to back your quotation or claim as a believer? 
Believers of the word are to be salt that seasons their world with godly and acceptable contributions. 
Live life as a preserving agent according to the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from becoming a salt-less vessel to your world.

Faith Capsule: The solution for challenges demands focusing on God.

Exodus 14

In life, challenging trouble will provoke worrying.
Often, worrying is the reason for not looking up to God.
Are you worried and not looking up to God?
A failure to look up to God in the face of the challenge will misplace focus on God. 
Are you beholding your challenge or looking up to God? 
Exodus 14:10-12 documents, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” Does that sound like you? The Israelites, knowing fully well that God is able, yet they gave into fear when they failed to lift their eyes unto God for help. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled when they gave a negative confession.
The solution for challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19) While the disciples of Jesus locked up themselves in the state of fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. If anyone will look up to Jesus as Lord and Savior, He is always around to uphold such.     
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign.  
After Jesus had spoken peace into the life of His disciple’s life, the eyes of their mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion. The Bible records, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.” (John 20:20) 
With the challenges of today, consistently set your mind to see the mark of crucifixion on Jesus to remind you that He has paid the price to uphold you not to become a victim of challenges.
If you will begin to see the marks of crucifixion on Jesus, believe that it is registered on Jesus for all to have life abundantly, the fear about all that is going on around the world will not have its place in your life.
Believe and receive Jesus into your life to carry you with evidence of salvation.

Prayer for today: Ask to be bold with the character of looking up to God at all times.

FAITH CAPSULE: As a creation of God, are you living life by His way?

Job 21 

The word of God answered to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
Without a doubt, all created belongs to God, and there is no place to hide from the only creator of all man.
As a creation of God, are you living life by His way?
Are you living life by keeping to your ways in the place of the ways of God?
Are you living life by your ways instead of the ways of God because your ways seem right to you?
Listen, it is an error to be living life in your way that seems right.
The word of God warns about your way that seems right to you.
Proverbs 14:12 records the warning of God: There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Jonah, a prophet of God that supposedly knows God, did not go by the direction, the way of God as directed by God. Jonah 1:1-3 documents the choice of the way of Jonah over the way God before him: “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”
Jonah was careless and reckless when he responded to the way that seems right to him. His obedience to the only God was to obey as commanded by God, regardless of what seemed right to him or not.
The disobedient of Jonah placed him in the position of untimely death, but he cried out to God that answered for mercy deliverance of God.
God knows you more than you know yourself, and you should know to live every moment by the ways of God not to become a victim of untimely death. 
It is an act of wickedness to know the direction of the word of God for His way, to move in a different direction.
The word of God that is not hidden but clear enough for any, but taking to a different way, is the evidence of ignoring God.
Are you living life to ignore your creator directly or indirectly?
Again, without any doubt, walking against the way of God is telling God to depart from you.
Serving God is living life, by His way.
Job address the wicked: Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him? (Job 21:14-15)
Are you living life by your ways instead of the ways of God?
Come out of wickedness to live for God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to live life by His way.

FAITH CAPSULE: Forgetting what God has done will not want to wait on God. 

Psalm 106:13-33

Do not be discouraged by the reason for the delay in your expectation from God. Importantly, know that delay is not a denial, but give yourself to Psalm 103:2 that says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.” Blessing the name of God all the time and in all things is the evidence that one remembers Him. 
Forgetting what God has done or what He can do is enough to lead one into taking a route of sin. 
By the hand of God, the children of Israel came out of the bondage of Egypt but could not remember what the Lord did for them. Psalm 106:13-14 mentions, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” (Psalm 106:13-14) The Israelites overlooked; failed to recall; unable to remember; unable to call to mind what the Lord did for their salvation from the bondage of over four hundred years. When there is a failure for one not to remember the beginning, arrival at the destination shall experience a complication.
As a result of the truth that the Israelites could not remember the works of God, failure not to wait for the counsel of God took charge of their life. By their testimony, it is evident that not to wait on God is a passage to become wasted, a failure to arrive at the promise of God. 
The Israelites lost exceedingly.
Are you one that is clouded by the delay of your expectation, to have forgotten the works of God?
Can it be that you are disregarding the works of the hand of God? 
Isaiah 5:12-13 records about disregarding the work of God, “The harp and the strings, the tambourine and the flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” (Isaiah 5:12-13) 
With a failure not to give regard to the work of God as commanded by God, there will be no regret in doing what does not glorify His Name. 
Also, not to have attention to what God has done will deny one from responding to what God is doing or what God can do.
Where are you standing?
Are you failing not to give regard to God or not giving attention to what God is doing or what He can do?
It is iniquity not to give regard to the work of God or not to consider the operation of His hands because He is a Jealous God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to remember and not disregard the works of His hand.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is not too late to wait on God.

Psalm 27

Know to be waiting on God.
Knowing to wait on God will not live a life of waste but live life for the glory of God.
This season, in all your going and coming, in all your endeavors, ask God to enable you in waiting on Him continually.
Waiting on God is asking from God. 
Waiting on God will always lead to an unfailing direction of God.
The way to have the rest of God is in waiting on Him, and not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
God is a good God and to end in astray way is not of God. 
God is a God of time and process. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. 
The timing of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Waiting on God can be defined as to remain unmoving until expected manifests. 
Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. 
Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and for a
definite purpose, that is, for something expected. 
Without absolute trust in waiting on God, there will be no result emerging from waiting on God. The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) 
Trusting in God is what energizes waiting on Him. 
Trusting in God does have blessings, and not to trust in God will also generate curses. God spoke in Jeremiah 17:5, “…Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.”  
As regard blessing in trusting, the same word of God states in Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
How can you wait on whom you do not trust, to have hope in Him? 
The combination of having trust and hope in place will enable waiting on Him.
There is a consequence when waiting on God to know in your way of life.
Waiting on God will reveal where one is doing wrong in the right place.
Wait on God to know and correct what you are doing wrong in the place of doing right.
God is a God of the eleventh hour. The eleventh month of the year is not too late for God to locate you at your expectation. God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “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.”  
Meditate the month as your month of waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you in waiting on Him continually.