FAITH CAPSULE: Live life for God by following Him in His word.

Ecclesiastes 8

Seeking God diligently is following God in His way, living life to please God and be counted for His reward.
Among ways of seeking God by following Him are:
BE AWAKE SPIRITUALLY BEFORE GOD
Are you awake spiritually, living life by the word of God?
The wicked world demands to be awake seeking God diligently and not be asleep spiritually. One that is not living for God is sleeping before God spiritually.
Jesus’ parable is an everyday truth with a spiritual application, it is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning in His parable of sleeping in the place of serving God. Matthew 13:25-30 records, “…but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 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?’ 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?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 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.” 
The above parable of Jesus reveals that sleeping will displace following God with the wicked to gain entrance into man’s life. Every time one is sleeping before God will position man to be FAR from GOD that is not FAR to all.
Sleeping before God cannot possibly follow God, living for God.
TO COME OUT OF WICKEDNESS is living right to seek God diligently. It is important to know that the wickedness is continual, walking outside of God’s word. One that is walking outside of God’s word will walk in line with the evil activities of the wicked world.
GOD will judge the wicked world at His appointed time. 
Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 warned, “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. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.” Seeking God diligently will follow God continually not to be counted with the wicked world at the appointed time of God’s judgment.
Like a seed, sow self in God by seeking God diligently. Follow God to be standing in God.
Seek God diligently is following God by His word to please God and be rewarded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that your step be rooted in His word, to follow Him all the days of life He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: With faith, it is possible to obey God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Psalm 91

The standard to seek God is seeking God diligently.
Seek God diligently to please God but not seeking God by mouth. 
To Seek God diligently is rooted in faith. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “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.” 
Seeking God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him and Him in one’s life. Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “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.” 
Will you seek God diligently?
In this wicked world, for your benefit, not deceiving yourself seek God diligently dwell and abide in God. Psalm 91:1-3 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” 
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God being righteous as word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1) The wickedness of this word demands to be wise by listening to the word of God and not follow the dictates of one’s heart.
Seeking God diligently is serving God with no hidden agenda before God.  John 12:26 identifies what it means to serve God, “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.” 
If seeking God to find God is not possible, God would not have asked for all to seek Him diligently, to find Him by following Him. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.” 
God is true, seek Him diligently to find Him.
David is an example that followed God with his heart and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8) Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness in His word? 
Obeying God’s word is seeking diligently to keep self in God as His treasure. Exodus 19:5 confirms, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” 
With faith, it is possible to obey God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to be seeking Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Desire for the word of God to established in your life.

John 1:1-18

The word of God is God. John 1:1-2 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
The word of God you carry is the evidence of God in you.
Are you giving yourself to the word of God?
The word of God that enters will give light and understanding not to become a victim of this wicked world of darkness. Psalm 119:130 buttresses, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
God sent His word to heal and to deliver as Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
The word of God is near for man, but man is far from the word of God, occupied by the world. Why not give yourself to the word of God?
God magnifies His word above all His name and Bible records, “…For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.” (Psalm 138:2)
At all times, the word of God does not return to Him void. 
Isaiah 55:11 records, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
The word of God is power for all to live life for the glory of God. 
Hebrews 4:12 testifies, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
The word of God will build one, to inherit among the sanctity of God.
Acts 20:32 records, “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”
To fear God is to hear and learn in the word of God.
The word of God speaks to all in Deuteronomy 4:10, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth…”
Among the ways of giving self to the word of God to be established in one’s life is meditating the word of God day and night as Joshua 1:8 records, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Give yourself to the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God will locate you to become established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you complaining to confess negatively before God?

Numbers 14:1-38

Complaining in the journey of life does not have a place before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God will not be committed to God, to deny arrival at the destination in the journey of life.
Are you complaining before God? 
Do not complain, it is the expression of dissatisfaction with God that will position one for a painful journey of life.
One thing God cannot do is: He cannot fail!
In every way of life, complaint, the expression of dissatisfaction with a negative confession is not acceptable before God. The word of God warned: “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:6)
The written word of God is a manual of life, to lead with direction to arrive at the destination of the journey of life.
Importantly, give self to the word of God, not to look away from God’s word which is the evidence of taking distance from God.
It was the complaint against God that set the Israelites for a painful journey of life.
The Bible records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:1-4) 
The Israelites’ complaint before God was a negative confession when they reacted to the spy’s discouraging report that was against the Promised Land for the Israelites. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining to confess negatively before God?
One with the complaint will rebel before God.
The Israelites at the coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years’ complaint and rebel before God.
As a believer, avoiding compliant before God is rooted in trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God as Jeremiah 17:7 states, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is the evidence of having hope in God.
Complaints with negative confession should be avoided in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask from God not to become a victim of complaining.

FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know God not just know about God.

Exodus 14

Knowing about God is not knowing God.
Knowing about God does not know God to be mindful of God and His attributes.
Knowing God is the evidence of giving self to live life by His word.
Seeking God diligently in His word is getting to know God. Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “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 to know Him demands to seek Him with all heart and soul.
Knowing God will have trust and hope in God at all times. 
Knowing about God will trust but not know to hope on God. 
Do you know God to trust and hope in Him?
Many know about God to pray before Him but not able to patiently wait in hope for God’s answer.
Jeremiah 17:7 identifies trusting and hoping on God to claim the blessing of God, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Knowing about God is not knowing God to submit for God’s fighting on your behalf against the identified enemy. The Israelites know about God, had trust in God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years but lack hope in God when the fear of their enemy overwhelmed them. Exodus 14:11-12 records the Israelites reaction to their enemy, “Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”
Moses responded to the Israelites lack of hope that prompted their negative confession before God, “And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13-14)
Get to know God in the pages of His word. God is true to His word, what He says to one speaks to all. Knowing about God in the place of knowing God will always result in having trust and not having hope in God.
Trust and hope that God is not a partial God. Give self to God’s word. Gain understanding and have the knowledge to be approaching God that was, God that is and will remain forever. He is the unchanging changer that is not partial. Romans 2:11 speaks to all, “For there is no partiality with God.”
It is not enough to know God but to know God and become exposed to His revelation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know Him.