FAITH CAPSULE: Responsible for the word of God will provoke the goodness of God.

Daniel 1

A choice to be a responsible one does have consequence.
Being responsible is the price of greatness.
When a man chooses to be responsible in response to the word of God is what set to live life for the glory of God.
Jesus frequently and unswervingly communicated humility by His words and His action throughout His ministry on the face of the earth. Jesus’ demonstration of humility is for our learning.
Humility is a choice to be responsible. The word of God pointed out that without humility, obeying the word of God becomes impossible. Philippians 2:8 buttressed, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Jesus, our Lord, and savior chose to be humbled and responded with obedience. Jesus’ humbled Himself and became obedient that made Him great for the glory of God.
How responsible are you in the word of God?
Daniel was responsible to attain the price of greatness for the glory of God.
The bible records about Daniel, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.  Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.”(Daniel 1:8-9) Daniel’s responsibility did not only provoke favor and goodwill of God before the chief of the eunuchs but through all his day of captivity.
Through the life of Daniel, the choice of responsibility was glaring as he avoided wickedness against the covenant. The book of Daniel 11:32 identified for our learning, “Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.”
Is wickedness your way that leads to becoming irresponsible?
Do you have the desire to be great for the glory of God?
Without doubt, to be built by the word is a direct route of choosing to become responsible which is the price of greatness. In life, commend to the word of God. Apostle Paul admonished us, “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)
Be responsible to live life for God’s glory!
Jesus has paid the price, are you doing your part to get to the place He paid for all to be?
From today, be responsible, live life for the glory of God, provoking His goodness over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask from God’s enablement for your life to be responsible in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Wicked ones do not remember that God oversees heaven and earth affairs.

Genesis 37, 39

The word of God is true as stated, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Brothers of Joseph took an evil position against their brother Joseph. Genesis 37:18-20 records the statement of the brothers of Joseph towards Joseph, “Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! Come, therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”
Brothers of Joseph turned out to become enemy with a wicked agenda against Joseph’s dream.
Often, wicked ones do not remember that God oversees heaven and earth affairs and absolutely, nothing is hidden from God, He alone sees the acts of evil.
Are you with evil agenda with the expectation to hide your evil from God?
It is important to know that God will not overlook every evil agenda and activities of all. Ecclesiastes 8:11 records for all man’s understanding that God is not asleep from His judgment against the evil of all, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
Are you with evil agenda like Joseph’s brothers?
The story of Joseph points out that when a man is set up by God to live for the glory of God, the enemy will also set up to offset God’s purpose in the life of man. However, God will not fail for His own just like Joseph. It is written, “The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority.”(Genesis 39:2- 4) Truly, God was with Joseph because the enemy chose to be against him. The enemy wanted to deny him to live to the fulfillment of God’s purpose.
Is there an evil agenda against your life that you know or unknown?
Today, with understanding, know that God’s hand is not short to deliver you from evil agenda if you will walk in His word.
The word of God identifies that the Lord was with Joseph and there was mercy, favor, prosperity, success, and authority in place in the life of Joseph. When God is with man, no evil can be against a man that walks in the word of God.
Joseph’s fear of God was the evidence of his walk in God’s word. The book of Proverbs 14:27 records, “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.”
Having the fear of God will not fail to turn around the intent of the enemy to good.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s fear to overtake your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: What you desire will be deposited in your life.

Psalm 27

Having life is not of right but a privilege of God.
Your God-given right is to wish and live life for the glory of God, the giver, and taker of life.
Living life is a journey.
In your journey of life, let your wish be your desire.
Desire is to express a wish to obtain.
Desire is a strong feeling that compels to attain what heart set up for.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or to be a believer with sincere for God?
One that desires to live heaven on the earth will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Jesus declares it, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
The whole matter that counts and work perfectly in life is to 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)
To fear God and to keep His command is to desire to seek God. Listen to word that stated about fear of God and heart, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” (1 Samuel 12:24)
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done so great and He is doing greater things that man should have the desire of God with heart.
God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart. God once corrected Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) Without doubt, David’s heart is what God saw when His word declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) God sought David and saw that his heart desires for His name.
What do you desire?
The desire for God must be in place in man’s life not only in the mouth of the word. When a man desires for God, God will deposit the grace to desire Him. In life, desire, devote and seek God with your heart.
King David knows what is best to desire when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
As an acclaimed believer, think if you sincerely desire of the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: One that waits on God seek God diligently to FIND God.

Hebrews 11

God is always near to be found by anyone that gives self to dwell and abide in Him. The evidence of God’s nearness to all is that He acts for those that wait for 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.”
Are you waiting on God to experience that He is near?
One that waits on God seek God diligently to FIND God.
With faith, seeking God diligently will please God.
Hebrews 11:6 buttressed, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
The purpose to Seek God diligently is to find God. Deuteronomy 4:29 points it out, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God. Living life for God will follow all that is right.
Seeking God diligently to FIND HIM is following righteousness as pointed in Isaiah 51:1, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” With the wickedness of the world, give ear to hear and have a heart occupied by His word.
Seeking God diligently by serving Him is following Him with no hidden agenda, He knows all man. Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow Him in John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
Will you give yourself to seeking God diligently to find God?
Believe it and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently to find, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently.
One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness. John 8:12 records, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is to disallow seeking God unpleasingly.
Seek God diligently is fulfilling God’s required condition to FIND God.
Keeping God’s command is not chasing after world activities.
Keep God’s word to do as commanded in God’s word and to live life for God’s glory.
God’s command states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deuteronomy 4:29) “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy 6:17)
God is a good God.
It is the responsibility of man to seek God diligently, to find Him and live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you in line with His word of deliverance to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: What you do not understand will not work for you.

Psalm 139

Lack of understanding is the evidence of not having a knowing edge (Knowledge)
One the ack understanding is with the lack of knowledge.
The book of Hosea 6:4 speaks to all, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
Are you claiming God and not know Him?
One that does not know God but only knows about God is not living life by the word of God because there is no understanding, the evidence of the lack of knowledge.
With understanding, knowing God will give self to seeking God diligently.
Are you seeking God casually?
Are you pleasing self instead of pleasing God in your service to God?
Prayerfully, ask God to prompt your understanding, to fill you with the knowledge of His word.
From today, begin to know the reasons why God should be known.
Among reasons to seek Him diligently is to know Him not to only know about Him.
Seek God diligently in His Word the source of faith to trust and hope in God.
ALL MAN SHOULD TRUST AND HOPE IN GOD
Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Seek God diligently to know Him, trusting and hoping in Him at all time.
HE KNOWS ALL BY NAME
Isaiah 43:1 buttressed, “But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.”  The knowing of all by God is the to seek Him, to know Him and gain His presence. God’s word points it out that all belong to Him and should approach Him boldly, expectantly as God that cares.
HE KNOWS ALL BY NAME
Isaiah 43:1 buttressed, “But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.” God knows all, why not seek Him to know Him and gain His presence. God said that we are His, why not approach Him boldly, expectantly as His? HE WILL FIGHT FOR US
Seek God diligently for Him to fight on your behalf in the physical or spiritual battle. Exodus 14:14 encourages all that will know that: “The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”
HE THINKS ABOUT YOU
God is a precious father whose thought sets on the man while the walks of man are outside of His word. Psalm 139:17 stated, “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!”
Jeremiah 29:11 also testifies that God is good to man, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Prayer for today: Ask to let Him know that you want to know Him.