FAITH CAPSULE: Be MINDFUL of God, living life by the word of God.

Psalm 8

The word of God is God. (John 1:1) One that is FULL of God (Word) will be MINDFUL of God.
Are you MINDFUL of God or MINDFUL of the world?
The mind of the majority is occupied by the world, and not mindful of God. How can one that is not mindful of God, the creator, will be mindful of neighbor or family? 
Psalm 8:4 records David’s question before God, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” God is mindful of man, while man is mindful of the world.
Give yourself to the word of God to be mindful of God, not to become a victim of this wicked world.
Jeremiah 12:1-2, identifies ones with mouth-full of the word of God with empty of God in the mind, “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.” 
One with mind-less of place for God will be living life as a wicked one before God.
Take note to know that nothing goes under heaven, with all man, God sees and will judge all at His appointed time.
Genesis 6:5-7 records God’s response to the wickedness of man, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Are you mindful of God or mindful of the world?
Consider that it is time to come out of the world by giving yourself to the word of God.
Giving self to the word of God is the same as to come out of religion into Christ’s reality.
Today, be responsible before God.
Responsibility is the price of greatness. It is for all to know the truth of God as John 8:32 records, “…And YOU shall know the truth, and the truth shall make YOU free.”  It is the responsibility for all to study, search in His word, to KNOW the TRUTH of God.
Responsibility before God is not making the noise of God’s name without living by His word.
Responsibility before God will not tell lies to deceive and manipulate others in the name of God. Desire to be responsible before God in this coming year.
Responsibility is for one to become MINDFUL of God, living life by the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for God to enable you to become full of Him by His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Responsibility is the price of greatness.

John 8:1-36

God the Almighty is worthy to receive glory and honor from all His creation consistently, continually.
As a creator of God, how many thanks given have you rendered to God just today?
How many?
If you can count, you are short and not do enough to give thanks to God.
Giving thanks, not thinking thanks before God is the same as praising God for all He has done, all He is doing and all He will do. The word buttress, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:6)
If praising God at every breath will spare you from sudden death, will you not be giving thanks to God at every breath?
Give God thanks continually.
To have the breath of life is a privilege of God’s grace bestowed on those with the breath of life.
God created all with His will for all to live life for His glory and honor.
How are you living life before God, the creator, with the expectation to be worshiped? The Bible records, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.” (Revelation 4:11)
God created all to exist by His will.
God is a jealous God.
As a jealous God, giving Him attention will be seeking Him for giving Him glory and honor.
All belong to God to be living life for His glory. 
One that believes in God beyond doubt will SEEK HIM DILIGENTLY with all strength, without any doubt.
It is our RESPONSIBILITY to live a God-given life that will activate God’s response to all of us.
Why responsibility?
Responsibility is the price of greatness, to seek God diligently, continually.
Responsibility is for all to know the truth of God as John 8:32 records, “…And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  It is the responsibility for all to study, search in His word, to know the truth of God.
Responsibility before God is not making the noise of God’s name without living by His word.
Responsibility before God will not tell lies to deceive and manipulate others in the name of God.
In the coming days ahead of you, get upgraded and regain focus, living God-given life responsibly before God as a believing believer, not as an unbelieving believer. 
In your God-given life, with the responsibility to seek God diligently, give a name to your days or your year a prophetical name with the expectation to experience your days or your year to answer as what you call it to be for you.
With responsibility, call your coming days, your year as a: YEAR OF KEEPING TESTIMONIES OF GOD.
The word of God is His command, His Laws, His statutes, and is the testimonies of God for all man.
Living God-given life is by keeping the testimonies of God that will provoke the blessings of God.
Psalm 119:2 encourages, “Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
Be responsible to claim God’s blessing.

Prayer for today: Ask God that you desire to live life for the glory of His name.

FAITH CAPSULE: After the celebration, what are you giving back to God?

Psalm 100, 136

God is the eternal creation of all, and He is mindful of all and does not want anyone to perish. The Bible records the evidence of God’s love, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
Do you understand and know the love of God for all?
John 17:24 records God’s desire, “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” 
The majority has given self to the Glamorous celebration of Jesus with the lack of knowledge to live life for the glory of God.
All need to know that Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation, to avoid a failure not to miss eternal life. Romans 6:23 buttress, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 
In your celebration of the gift of God, what is it that you are giving back to God? 
All glamorous celebration of the birth of Jesus should know that celebration without understanding to know and live life for God is not enough to be counted as giving back to God.
What is the aftermath of your yearly celebration of the gift of God?
Are you thinking about how to give back to God for His gift for your life?
Why not give self to praising God with the understanding that will draw you to the presence of God?
Praising God with understanding is giving self to God as a reasonable sacrifice before God, to seek God diligently. Psalm 47:7 records, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
Praising God with understanding should be rooted in the heart but not pretending to praise before any man.
Praising God is placing God gloriously high. 
Praising God is not entertainment to impress a man but a vehicle to enter and locate the presence of God. Psalm 100:4 records, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”   
The world’s glamorous celebration of God should not deny you from celebrating God with understanding and giving back to God.
Give back to God with praise to gain the presence of God.
David’s praise before God is a way of giving back to God.
2 Samuel 6:14-16 records, “Then David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord…”  
With understanding, come out of the seasonal GLAMOROUS CELEBRATION of Jesus’ birth, give back to Jesus for His love for you, to have His presence over your life.

Prayer for today: Let God know that you want to give back for His love.

FAITH CAPSULE: Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Luke 2:1-40

Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation. 
He is here for man’s deliverance and preservation if all man will engage Him as the gift of God for all. 
The celebration of Jesus should ALWAYS be at all seasons but not once in a year.
The celebration of Jesus should be with the understanding that He is the meaningful Gift of God for all. Romans 6:23 records, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The verse is to provoke the understand which counts before God. 
The celebration of Jesus is a secret but a story to ones with a lack of understanding and knowledge. Know Him to celebrate Him!
In this season of celebration, celebrate Him as the Lord and Savior and not as Santa from the North Pole. Jesus is the reason for the season. Get to know Jesus today as Yahweh saves, Immanuel (God with us), the Light of the World.
Jesus is One who brings hope and gives guidance. 
The celebration of the birth of Jesus is not with the understanding of His coming by His believers. 
Do you know the reason why you are celebrating the birth of Jesus? Jesus’s birth is His coming for all. 
Jesus stated the reason for His coming, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) Where there is a lack of understanding of His coming there will be no reason to believe.
The gift of God for all is His love offering for all. Word records in 1John 4:9, “In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” Jesus is the love of God for all. 1 John 5:1 speaks to all man, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” It is worthy that from this day, all man should know to unwrap God’s gift to man, the evidence of acceptance of God’s gift. 
Since the arrival of Jesus till today, there is hardly anyone with a place for Him in their inn.
Luke 2:7 testifies, “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”
Today, respond to God’s gift by accepting Him in your inn.
What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him?
Pay your attention to the truth that celebrating Jesus unpleasingly is a possible unacceptable celebration. With Faith, God is pleased with all. Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding of celebrating Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the indescribable gift of God for all.

John 4:1-42

Today and always, understand and know to be giving the love of God. Love is the gift of God that matters to God.
Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is a lobby to gain attention. In this season, at all seasons give out the love of God as a gift. Man, that is giving out love which is the gift of God will gain from God. 
Are you giving out the gift of love? 
It is those who know to embrace the gift of God that will know to give out with God’s love. 
Jesus is the indescribable gift of God for all.
Jesus is not the gift of God to be purchased with money!
Search your self in all your lobbying with a gift to gain man’s attention instead of God’s attention. 
All the gift that matters to God is to embrace and give out the love of God.
One that does not love God will not give out love which counts before God. 
Do you know the gift of God?
Understand not to be giving or receiving a fake gift.
The gift of God is not a seasonal fake but a perfect one.
Jesus responded to a reluctant Samaria woman that refused to give Jesus, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10) For real, stop giving and accepting the fake gift, accept Jesus, the GIFT of God for all. 
Is your running around for a gift to dispose of it with God’s love?
Apostle Paul points out that the purpose of God’s command is to love God. He stated, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” (1Timothy 1:5-6) Paul does not speak about the love that flows from the tips of lips. Paul speaks about the love which counts before God. It is the love of God not the lobbying for love with the gift that counts before God.
Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is engaging religion without Christ but a mere tradition. 
It is important to know that the gift of God can not be purchased with money!
Jesus gave so much for all to understand and know that He is the gift of God for all.
Jesus’ self-introduction to the woman of Samaria speaks to all today that Jesus is the indescribable gift for all.
With understanding, come out of the religion of love to embrace Christ’s reality.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to understand, know to embrace the gift of God.