FAITH CAPSULE: You are the enemy of yourself!

Acts 12

The devourer of man, the father of all lie is the number one enemy of all man.
The weapon of the number one enemy of your life is your inability to please God.
The inability to please God is the assess ability of the number one enemy and his agents into your life. The only way for the enemy into your life is your sleeping in the place to remain awake. The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares identified sleeping as the enemy’s way to gain assess man’s life as stated in Matthew 13:25, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.”
Are you one like a good sower that fell asleep but not awake?
You are the enemy of yourself!
You are not pleasing God.
One that is not awake will not be watching and praying.
Watching and praying before God is connecting with God, to hear, to see and to receive direction from God.
Are you awake in your prayer before God? Luke 21:36 records warning against not watching and praying, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Watching and Praying before God is having communion all day all the time with God without sleeping.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares said, “but while men slept, his enemy came…” (Matthew 13:25) With the enemy’s assess ability there will be no remedy to resolve the enemy’s agenda but only the mercy of God that can reverse what seems or looks irreversible to man.
All man should be awake, to be watching and praying before God in this wicked world is the will of God for all man.
Are you sleeping, not know that you are slipping off, making self assessable for the wicked one?
The summation of the consequence of the enemy’s in the parable is captured in the word as stated, “So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matthew 13:27-30)
From today, stop deceiving yourself, get to know that you are sleeping and not awake before God.
Learn from it that, in the parable, sleeping allowed the enemy to do evil with no remedy against the enemy until the day of harvest when God will separate good and evil.
Wake up from sleeping, stop slipping off the presence of God’s deliverance and preservation over your God-given life.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you desire for the strength of prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Grace is what God has SHOWN to all man, to see and be able to obtain the grace of God.

Isaiah 26, Revelation 22

With acronym, a preacher described the GRACE of God: G is for God’s; R is for Riches; A is for At; C is for Christ’s; E is for Expense. Indeed, and in truth, God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.
The Grace of God is an unmerited favor in place for all man.
The grace of God is the gift of God’s love for all man.
The Grace of God for all man is God’s divine assistance for restoration (rebirth) or sanctification.
Dictionary describes theological meaning of God’s grace as: “The unmerited love and favor of God toward human beings; divine influence acting in a person to make the person pure, morally strong; the condition of a person brought to God’s favor through this influence; a special virtue, gift, or help given to a person by God.”
God’s grace and mercy of God’s description are often mixed up only because of similar expressions of God’s favor and love. However, grace and mercy possess a clear distinction.
The grace of God: When man experience God’s grace, man receive favor which man does not deserve.
The mercy of God: When man experience God’s mercy, man shall be spared from the punishment which man do deserve. For example, Lot experienced mercy and was spared from the punishment of destruction. Genesis 19:19 records, “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life…”
Grace is what God has SHOWN to all man, to obtain. Isaiah 26:10 buttresses, “Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.” Jesus, the grace of God is shown to man to obtain but all hardly behold the grace of God. Ezra 9:8 also stated, “And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.”
Jesus is the gift of God, the grace of God for all to see and receive Him.
Do you believe Him to receive Him?
Is He (Grace of God) with you?
Regardless of this wicked world, the grace of God is in place for all man to seek and to find Him just as Noah did. Genesis 6:7-8 records, “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.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
It is not impossible for you to become the Noah of your time.

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

FAITH CAPSULE: God will wait to act for those who wait before Him.

Exodus 33, Psalm 33

RIGHTEOUSNESS IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT
Righteousness is doing right before God.
Are you doing right before God?
When you are doing right according to God’s word as a required condition to wait on God, you will experience from God’s action.
Doing right before God is the evidence of having fear for God. Acts 10:35 confirms, “But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him”
Are you waiting on God to act on your behalf?
Waiting on God comes with having fear for God.
God will act for those who fear Him to be doing right before Him with the expectation to experience from God’s act. Psalm 33:18-22 speaks about God’s act for those who wait before Him, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You.” Do the verses above speak to you?
The blessing and condition to receive the blessing of God are in the word of God.
Be righteous before God to experience God’s act in His word.
REMEMBRING GOD’S WAYS IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT
Moses’ testimonies of his journey of life are the evidence for why he continually waits on God to experience acts of God.
Documentation of Moses in his journey points out that Moses knows God to wait for direction not to be a failure. Exodus 33:12-14 records: “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” God’s way is His word, and His word is His presence. With no doubt, one waiting on God will experience God’s presence to act for one that waits on Him.
Moses, in his leadership of the Israelites to the Promised Land, he was waiting on God, while the Israelites experienced the acts of God in their journey to the Promised Land. Psalm 103:7 testifies for all to know the need of knowing God for waiting on Him as stated, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.”
Remembering God’s way is the direction to arrive at God’s divine assignment.
God will wait to act for those who wait before Him.
Wait before God to act for you by rejoicing, doing right and remembering His ways.

Prayer for today: Ask from God for you doing right before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: There are God’s required conditions to wait, to experience God’s act.

Isaiah 64

The word of God encourages waiting on God, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)
Isaiah 40:10, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
God will act for those who wait on Him.
Are you waiting on God or you are with the desire to be waiting on God?
Isaiah 64:4 testifies to God’s act to those who wait on Him, “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.”
How are you waiting on God?
Expecting God to act for those who wait on Him comes with conditions to be diligently engaged.
Isaiah 64:5 Identifies conditions, “You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways…” According to the above bible verse, rejoicing, doing righteousness, remembering God’s ways are the conditions to be engaged by one with the expectation to experience God’s act.
REJOICING IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT
Rejoicing before God is not just by smiling or feeling Good but knowing to trust and hope on God for His acts while waiting on God.
Rejoicing to provoke the act of God while waiting on God is identified through scriptural verses such as:
Psalm 9:2 records, “I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to your name, O most High.”
Psalm 16:11, “In Your presence is the fullness of joy…”
Proverbs 8:30, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” Quotations identified above testifies to the truth that with joy, man is accessible to God that acts for ones who wait on Him.
The Apostle Paul articulates on the need for rejoicing in Philippians 4:4. “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” The Apostle Paul’s call for joy is with emphasis and with a shout!
Trusting God for His attention demands joy as Psalm 33:21 testifies, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him because we have trusted in His holy name.”
With understanding about rejoicing while waiting and seeking God to experience God’s act is buttressed in Psalm 70:4 “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You…”
Rejoicing before God is a way of waiting on God to experience God’s act.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the strength of waiting on Him, for His act without fail.

 Other required in the word of God to wait for God’s act are:
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT AND REMEMBERING GOD’S WAYS IS TO WAIT ON GOD FOR HIS ACT are To be continue

FAITH CAPSULE: Lack of commitment to God is looking away from God.

Numbers 32

Looking away from God’s word is lack of commitment to God.
Commitment to the word of God is not just a religion but living life to the glory of God.
With a commitment to the living word of God is taking the unfailing route in the journey of life.
Are you truthful to yourself living by the word of God?
Anyone with a commitment to God’s word is with an understanding of seeking God diligently.
In the journey of life, a failure not to give self to the promise of God is declining God’s word, the lack of commitment to God’s word.
In the journey to God’s Promised Land, the Israelites constantly disobeyed God the evidence of lack of commitment to God’s word.
Among the Israelites, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben wanted to settle for the East side of the Jordan against God’s word for them to cross the Jordan, and be established into God’s plan for them. The choice of disobedient to God’s word by the children of Gad and children of Reuben was the choice for self-convenience over commitment to God.
Numbers 32:1-7 documents the disobedient of the children of Gad the children of Reuben, “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” Therefore, they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.” And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? Now, why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?”
God promised the land that flows with milk and honey, but the children of Gad and children of Reuben wanted to settle for land with milk. The children of Gad’s great multitude of livestock must have prompted for their settle for milk not considering milk and honey as promised by God.
In the journey of life, replacing commitment to God’s word with self-convince will not arrive at God’s promise.
Commitment is not convenient, but it is self-sacrifice before God.
One that compromises God’s word is not committed to God’s word.
Are you sincerely committed to the word of God?
In the journey of life, be committed to God and remain connected to the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand to keep you for Him with commitment.