FAITHCAPSULE: To settle with the promises of God demands contentment.

Genesis 13

Abraham’s word to Lot records, “Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me, if you take the left, then I will go to the right; or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left”. (Genesis 13:9) Abraham wanted a voluntary separation with Lot when he made a statement of contentment with no grievances.
Abraham demonstrated contentment the evidence of one counting on the promises of God in place over his journey of life.
Abraham was with content in all his life. 
Abraham was not roped with love for abundance but with satisfaction. Ecclesiastes 5:10 points out, “He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase…” 
Abraham was satisfied with the promise of God.
Abraham did not replace the promises of God with possessions. The life of Abraham is the evidence that it is not possible to be living a life centered on God and be a looser. All over the Scripture, there are many giants in the hand of God that lived a contented life with testimonies of greatness through the goodness and mercy of God. 
Abraham was a man of contentment. Always, he was letting go of all that requires a let go; he never struggled with the threat of lack and never doubted God’s blessings of provision.
Paul, in his first letter to Timothy, mentioned that “Now godliness with contentment is a great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.” (1 Timothy6:6-8) Paul did not call it ‘gain’ but a ‘great gain’. Paul was not just using the power of the word but was sharing what his experience has been, by living the word of God.
In the journey of life, contentment is like a driver that never mistake but arrive at the expected end. Contentment answered for Abraham, it also answered for Moses. 
Moses, in his journey to God’s divine assignment over his life, contentment in him did not allow derailment over his journey’s calling. The Bible records Moses’ content, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.” (Exodus 2:21-22) 
In life, to settle with the promises of God demands contentment and denies the desire that outruns possessions. When contentment is rooted in the life of a believer, there will be the grace of God to move forward in the center of God’s divine assignment. 
What is it that you need to let go and allow the hand of God’s manifestation in your life?
It is important to understand and know that godliness with contentment is a great gain. 
Allow contentment to become centered over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that contentment will become established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not expose your heart to the ways of self-destruction.

2 Samuel 11
Without doubt, whatever eyes of man consume on is what the heart lives on. 
A man that begins to set eyes wrong before God is set to become corrupted before God. 
What do you set eyes on as consumption for the heart?
David, a man after God’s own heart lost control of his heart when he could not keep his heart with all diligence but consumed what is wrong before God.
The Bible documents David’s wrongdoing, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” (2 Samuel 11:1-3) 
David was at the right place but at the wrong time when he SAW and BEHELD a beautiful woman bathing. 
What are you beholding wrongly? 
David could not keep his heart with all diligent, he failed to rebuke wrongdoing before his eyes.
What are your eyes consuming for your heart? 
David responded to his eyes while his heart acted, “Then David sent messengers, and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:4-5) David’s engagement with wrongdoing was a sin before God.
David’s eye fed his heart with wrongdoing was extended to the killing of Uriah and took over his wife Bathsheba. 
David’s wrongdoing could not hide from God but his wrongdoing displeased the Lord.
Take control of the things that you see, do not expose your heart to the ways of self-destruction. Keep your eyes clean to keep your heart pure. Jesus called the eye the lamp of the body in Matthew 6:2, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” 
What do you set eyes on as consumption for the heart?
A heart that is kept diligently will be pure. 
To be pure in heart is to be righteous. 
To be righteous will identify a believer as one with integrity. 
A believer with Integrity lives the life for God. 
The pure in the heart is not wicked, and they will see God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for a heart that is diligent before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the word of God to build you up.

Psalm 139

King David declares in Psalm 139: 23-24, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties and see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” 
King David was a man after God’s own heart but searched his heart before God.
Who are you before God?
Do you search your heart, to know if you have given your life for God to build you up, to give you an inheritance among the sanctified?
Do you search your heart not to miss from claiming the promises in His word?
Search yourself continually to give yourself to the word of God that will build you up in God and not become a victim of the wicked world. 
Apostle Paul cautions, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
To be build-up by the word of God is to be fear-full of God.
One with the fear of God will have an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
One with the fear of God is established in the righteousness of the Lord. One that is established in the righteousness of the Lord knows to praise God, to give thanks, to give vows for getting the attention of God.
The heritance of God is for those who fear God. 
King David testifies, “For You, O God, have heard my vows; You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name.” (Psalm 61:5) 
David was build-up by the word of God, his evidence of God’s servant as one among the sanctified.
Give yourself to the word of God to build you up.
Begin to live life as the servant of God with the fear of God.
Give yourself to the word of God to have an inheritance among those who are sanctified. 
Isaiah 54:17 identifies the portion of the heritage of those who are sanctified, those who are a servant of God, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord” 
Are you claiming “No weapon formed against you shall prosper…”?
Give yourself to the word of God to build you up for claiming the heritage of God’s servant.
David, a servant of God, lived life to claim the heritage of the servants of God.
Are you living life by God’s word? 
Allow self to be build up by God’s word to be qualified to receive or contain the promises of God for those who give life to God’s word. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you want to be build up by God’s word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you giving all to the word of God?

2 Timothy 3

God gave it all to all man not to become a victim of the wicked but to live life abundantly to the glory of God. John 10:10 records it, “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.”Are you giving all to the word of God not to become a victim of the thief, the wicked one?
The word of God declares in Genesis 6:5, “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.”
Are you giving attention to be searching for yourself not to live life as a wicked one before God?
With no exception, God has given ALL, His word to accept by learning His word not to be a wicked one but to live life abundantly for His glory.
God, in His word, He has given to all what it takes to live life, to be complete before Him.
 2 Timothy 3:16-17 records, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
God has given Himself to all in His word.
Accepting God’s word is giving self to God’s word as a way of life.
Have you been giving yourself to the word of God that is profitable for living life?
Are you learning from the word of God the source of having hope of God in this wicked world?
Romans 15:4 points out, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope”
Give self to the word of God, the wisdom of God, to learn the word of God, to gain understanding and knowledge not to become a victim of the wicked world.
The word of God is the wisdom of God for all.
The wisdom of God is Jesus Christ for us. 1 Corinthians 1:30 records, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” 
Give yourself to learning the word of God!
Are you a wicked one that is living life outside of the word of God?
Jeremiah 12:1-2 identifies the wicked, “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.”
The wicked ones have the word of God in the mouth but far from the mind.
Give self to God’s word to avoid the thief, the wicked one!

Prayer for today: Ask God for His word to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life only counts for those with the fear of God.

Psalm 34

The book of Psalm 64:9 records, “All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider His doing.”
Do you fear God as commanded by the word of God? 
Does your fear of God reflect the life you are living? 
Proverbs 19:23, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; he will not be visited with evil.” Fearing God should not be a one-time engagement but a continuous way of living life. 
It is wisdom to know and be living life in the fear of God. 
The Psalmist points out that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). 
Samuel spelled out clearly in 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.”Joshua 24:14 admonished, “Now, therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth…” 
When there is fear of God in the life of a man, there will be every reason to serve Him in truth with the whole heart. Any believer that is serving God with conscious of all the great work the Lord has done will live life with the understanding that indeed there is nothing God cannot do.
Can you think of what God cannot do?
It is foolishness to give up on God for what God can do.
Fear God and have in the heart that it is wisdom to know God. 
Not to fear God, and have in the heart that it is wisdom to know God is foolishness. 
Psalm 14:1 record, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’. They are corrupt, they have abominable works, there is none who does good.’” 
Where do you stand?
Do you fear Him in the mouth or do you fear God in your heart?
To truly fear God is a treasure. 
To fear God is taking a position of no distance from God. Psalm 103:11 buttressed, “For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.”
It is a grace of God to be alive. 
Also, living life is not a right but a privilege of God. 
It is wisdom to know that in living life there is nothing that counts most but to fear God. The book of Ecclesiastes concludes with a clear warning stating, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
Fear God to draw you to God that is never far but near to all His creation.

Prayer for today: Ask for the fear of God to be your garment.