FAITH CAPSULE: How are you seeking God?

Matthew 6

In this wicked world come out of religion, give yourself to a commitment to God. 
Commitment to God is seeking God diligently.
How are you seeking God?
What is the purpose of your need to seek God? 
Seek God diligently is seeking God first as Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Seeking God is the testimony of those who love God as Proverbs 8:17 records, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”
One that believes in God and knows that God is a rewarder of those who seek Him are ones that will seek God diligently as Hebrews 11:6 records, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is seeking God diligently to find God as Deuteronomy 4:29 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.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God. 
Living life for God will follow the word of God right.
Seeking God diligently is following righteousness as pointed in Isaiah 51:1, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…” With today’s world of wickedness, it is wise for one to listen and to give self to the word of God. One that is not giving ear to hear will not know God, to gain an understanding of God. Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.” 
Seeking God diligently is serving God. 
Serving God is following God with no hidden agenda because God knows all. 
Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow God 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.” 
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God. 
Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently, to find Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. 
Above all, one that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by the word of God that is true. John 8:12 confirms, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him.
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of the servant of the Lord.
Serve God by living life for God to gain His promises and not be a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to establish you in serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is His way.

Exodus 33 

The word of God is God. 
The way of God for all under heaven is His word. 
Moses asked for from God about the way of God for him in Exodus 33:13, “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.” (Exodus 33:13)
In the way of God, there is direction, deliverance, and preservation. 
Are you asking for God’s way in your life?
It does not matter how long you have been taking to your way, but it is true and certain that the way of God cannot be wrong. 
The way of man cannot be compared to the way of God. 
In the way of God, there is life but in the way man, there is death. Proverbs 16:25 buttresses, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
The way of man can be of mockery God cannot be mocked; God sees from where man is coming from to where man is going. 
Which way are you have you taking?
Taking to a way outside of the way of God is a way with no rest that can lead to self-destruction.
God answered the question of Moses’ request for His way, “And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) The word of God is God, and His word is His presence. 
The way of God is written in the pages of the Bible. 
Moses asked God and he received an answer from God as Psalm 103:7 testified, “He made known His ways to Moses…” 
Are you asking for God’s way that will give you an unfailing answer for your way?
God cannot fail when a man adopts to God’s way.
It is impossible to take to the way of God and end up in destruction. However, it is evident that when a man takes outside of God’s way self-destruction becomes a possibility. 
In the journey of life, there are so many ways that seem right but not all lead to life.
Give yourself to self-examination and avoid self-destruction.
The book of Proverbs 16:2 states, “All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the spirits.” 
Will you be sincere with yourself and let God direct or redirect your steps into His way? 
Taking to the way of God is the evidence of having faith in God.
With faith, God is pleased with one that walks in Him, His way the evidence of having faith in Him. Proverbs 16:7 admonished us, “When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” 
The word of God is God, His word is His way that will not fail for a man that asks and know to walk in God’s way.

Prayer for today: Ask God for your life to walk in His way all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Compromising the word of God is a failure to restrain.

1 Samuel 2:22-36, 1 Samuel 3:1-13

Compromising the word of God is the evidence of lack of fear of God, lack of understanding among believers and unbelievers.
Are you compromising the word of God by choosing against how He wants all to live life?
Compromise exists in the church and outside of the church. 
A believer that is serving God as it pleases self is against the word of God. 
Compromising the word of God is a lack of faith. Without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6) 
Compromise is not of God. 
Compromising the word of God is the tool of the devil to confuse believers and unbelievers to corrupt the journey in life. 
Compromise is a conscious or unconscious way of embracing evil and not living life to fear God. A believing believer that does not restrain wrongdoing is taking to a position of compromise, not to do right.
James 4:17 buttresses, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
Are you compromising the word of God to impress your member, your pastor? Are you compromising the word of God to be complementing an eminent member or to avoid eminent one from departing from your member?
Also, compromising wrongly between parents and children is not of God. Eli and his sons compromised the word of God. The Bible records the corruption of the sons of Eli in 1 Samuel 2:12-15, “Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the Lord. And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”
Compromising the word of God by the sons of Eli was recorded as great sin before God because Eli did not restrain his children. (1 Samuel 3:13) God called on Samuel to identify Eli’s son sin and His judgment of Eli, “In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.” (1 Samuel 3:12-13) Eli compromised before God, and it counted as his sin before God. 
Eli’s compromise was his corruption before God, while his sons were terminated.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to deliver you from every ground of compromising His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life by God’s command is following God.

1 Kings 19

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FOLLOW GOD?
Given self in submission to God’s word will follow God, will not miss the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, there is no exception for rich or poor that does not follow God and make it to the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, whatever a man is holding onto against God’s command will not follow God to make it to the kingdom of God. 
What are you holding on and not able to give yourself to God’s command?
Abraham is an example of a rich one that followed God’s command to sacrifice the life of his son in his journey of life. He followed God’s calling as he attempted to sacrifice his only son when God spoke to him. Genesis 22:12 records, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Abraham fears God to follow God’s command. God testifies the fear of Abraham for His name as Abraham lived life to follow God.
In your life, whatever it is that holds you back from giving yourself to the word of God will keep you from following God to miss the kingdom of God. 
Are you with desires to make it to the kingdom of God, a life of eternity?
Live life by following God’s command. 
Elisha is another example of a rich one that left all to follow the calling of God over his life. When God called Elisha, through Elijah, he responded, “…Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you…” (1 Kings 19:20) Elisha’s answer was holding against following God, he was not ready to follow God but later gave up all to follow God as the Bible records, “So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” (1 Kings 19:21)
In your journey of life, what is it that is holding you back from following God?
Is it your property or family that is holding you from following God? 
Jesus identifies what it takes to follow Him when he said, “…you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” (Matthew 19:28-30)
From today, live life for God by following His command, to make the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God that is not a fiction.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you for living life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Pray for the possibility of God over you.

Matthew 19:13-30

Regardless of this world’s challenges, with your desire not to miss the Kingdom of God, pray continually to FOLLOW Jesus (the Word of God) FULLY.
The journey of life is a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
In the journey of life, depending on how all walk with God will determine who makes it to the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God.
What does it take not to miss the kingdom of God?
The word of God speaks to all about what it takes not to miss the kingdom of God, “…Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:23-24)
Demands of the word not to miss the Kingdom of God is very challenging as disciples were stunned to question Jesus, “…Who then can be saved?” (Matthew 19:25) 
Are you a rich one that will find it hard to make to the kingdom of God?
Who is a rich one?
A rich one does not suffer a lack of need.
When comfort answers in the place of lack, it becomes the evidence of one as the rich.
One whose needs are being met and become rich is with the tendency to forget God, to take a position outside of route not to enter the kingdom of God.
The question, who then can be saved, by disciples of Jesus was answered by Jesus’ stating, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
Through the pages of the Bible, it is pointed out that the possibility with God will only come with prayer before God, not just by quoting the word of God for anyone to achieve one’s desire.
Are you praying with the expectation for the possibility of God over you or just quoting the possibility of God without praying? 
In the journey of life, the route that leads to the kingdom of God also demands from all (not only rich) to follow Jesus, when Jesus spoke to disciples about following Him in Matthew 19:28-30, “So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.”
Regardless of who you are, by Jesus’ word, it is only one that FOLLOWS HIM FULLY that will make it to the Kingdom of God.
With desire and continual prayer that will make it possible not to miss the Kingdom of God FOLLOW the Word of God (Jesus) in the journey of life, a route that leads to the kingdom of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to follow Him fully in the journey of life by God over your life.