FAITH CAPSULE: Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Luke 2:1-40

Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation. 
He is here for man’s deliverance and preservation if all man will engage Him as the gift of God for all. 
The celebration of Jesus should ALWAYS be at all seasons but not once in a year.
The celebration of Jesus should be with the understanding that He is the meaningful Gift of God for all. Romans 6:23 records, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The verse is to provoke the understand which counts before God. 
The celebration of Jesus is a secret but a story to ones with a lack of understanding and knowledge. Know Him to celebrate Him!
In this season of celebration, celebrate Him as the Lord and Savior and not as Santa from the North Pole. Jesus is the reason for the season. Get to know Jesus today as Yahweh saves, Immanuel (God with us), the Light of the World.
Jesus is One who brings hope and gives guidance. 
The celebration of the birth of Jesus is not with the understanding of His coming by His believers. 
Do you know the reason why you are celebrating the birth of Jesus? Jesus’s birth is His coming for all. 
Jesus stated the reason for His coming, “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.” (John 10:10) Where there is a lack of understanding of His coming there will be no reason to believe.
The gift of God for all is His love offering for all. Word records in 1John 4:9, “In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” Jesus is the love of God for all. 1 John 5:1 speaks to all man, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” It is worthy that from this day, all man should know to unwrap God’s gift to man, the evidence of acceptance of God’s gift. 
Since the arrival of Jesus till today, there is hardly anyone with a place for Him in their inn.
Luke 2:7 testifies, “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”
Today, respond to God’s gift by accepting Him in your inn.
What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him?
Pay your attention to the truth that celebrating Jesus unpleasingly is a possible unacceptable celebration. With Faith, God is pleased with all. Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding of celebrating Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the indescribable gift of God for all.

John 4:1-42

Today and always, understand and know to be giving the love of God. Love is the gift of God that matters to God.
Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is a lobby to gain attention. In this season, at all seasons give out the love of God as a gift. Man, that is giving out love which is the gift of God will gain from God. 
Are you giving out the gift of love? 
It is those who know to embrace the gift of God that will know to give out with God’s love. 
Jesus is the indescribable gift of God for all.
Jesus is not the gift of God to be purchased with money!
Search your self in all your lobbying with a gift to gain man’s attention instead of God’s attention. 
All the gift that matters to God is to embrace and give out the love of God.
One that does not love God will not give out love which counts before God. 
Do you know the gift of God?
Understand not to be giving or receiving a fake gift.
The gift of God is not a seasonal fake but a perfect one.
Jesus responded to a reluctant Samaria woman that refused to give Jesus, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10) For real, stop giving and accepting the fake gift, accept Jesus, the GIFT of God for all. 
Is your running around for a gift to dispose of it with God’s love?
Apostle Paul points out that the purpose of God’s command is to love God. He stated, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” (1Timothy 1:5-6) Paul does not speak about the love that flows from the tips of lips. Paul speaks about the love which counts before God. It is the love of God not the lobbying for love with the gift that counts before God.
Running around for a gift to dispose of it without love is engaging religion without Christ but a mere tradition. 
It is important to know that the gift of God can not be purchased with money!
Jesus gave so much for all to understand and know that He is the gift of God for all.
Jesus’ self-introduction to the woman of Samaria speaks to all today that Jesus is the indescribable gift for all.
With understanding, come out of the religion of love to embrace Christ’s reality.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to understand, know to embrace the gift of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Self-convenience in the place of commitment to God’s word will not claim God’s promise.

Numbers 32

In the journey of life, a lack of commitment to God’s word will deny one’s arrival and not claim the promise of God. One with a commitment to the word of God is giving self to walk before God without ceasing. With a commitment to the living word of God is taking the unfailing route in the journey of life.
Claiming to be a believer without commitment to the word of God is having a religion with no relationship with God.
Does that sound like you?
Are you committed to God’s word with an understanding of seeking God diligently? 
What does it mean to seek God diligently?
One that seeks God diligently will walk, sit and stand in the word of God with commitment to the word of God to claim the blessings as the Bible records, “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law, he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1-2)
In the journey of life, are you obedient to God’s word?
The Israelites in their journey of life to God’s promise, they were disobedient, 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 Jordan against God’s word for them to cross the Jordan to established into God’s plan.
The choice of disobedient to God’s word by the children of Gad and children of Reuben was self-convenience with no commitment to God’s word.
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 could not commit to God’s promise.
In the journey of life, replacing commitment to God’s word with self-convenience will not arrive at God’s promise.

Prayer for today: Ask God for you to be committed to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you compromising the word of God?

1 Samuel 2:1-36

Consciously or unconsciously do you compromise God’s command?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse not to do according to His word.
To compromise God’s command will complicate a man’s journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
To compromise God’s command is an indication of a lack of fear for God, that opens the door for the devil. Proverbs 3:7 warns, “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.”
To do as commanded by God is doing good that counts before God. One that knows to do good and not do is compromising God’s command as a sinner before God. (James 4:17)
With understanding, all man should know not to compromise God’s word to impress any man (inside or outside of church) and not to impress any family or friends. 
The Bible records how Eli’s children compromised God’s word that counted against Eli’s failure not to have trained his children enough before God.
1 Samuel 2:12-15 records, “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.”
Sons of Eli does not know God when they actively engaged themselves in the sacrifices without restraint from Eli their father. Compromising the word of God by the sons of Eli was recorded as a great sin before God. Eli did not do enough to restrain the evil acts of his sons despite his position as Priest and father. 
When God called on Samuel, at a young age, God identified to Samuel the sin and judgment of Eli stating, “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’s failure not to act enough against the wrongdoing of his children counted against him and corrupted his destiny. 
Come out of all the evil which you know about; refrain from being carried along with compromising God’s command or stand to correct compromising God’s command.
No man under heaven that compromises the word of God to arrive at God’s divine assignment in the journey of life.
Gain understanding and knowledge in the word of God to live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand over your life not to be a failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to gain understand and knowledge in the word of God.

Proverbs 2

You cannot get answers from what you do not know or understand. Also, one without knowledge and understanding will not recognize the answer when it arrives for the purpose to deliver.
Lack of knowledge and understanding is the root of failure in all areas of life. The challenge of not having knowledge and understanding is, listening disability. Jesus expresses in John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” Listening disability denies understanding which makes no place for knowledge in man’s life.
Are you spending time on the word of God to gain understanding with knowledge in the journey of life?
When there is a lack of knowledge and understanding in the Word of God, failure in the walk of life becomes inevitable. 
The Word of God is for every man to hear, receive, and believe to experience victory over the challenges of the wicked world. 
Jesus is the wisdom, the Word of God, the instruction for all. 1 Corinthians 1:30 communicates to all, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” 
The Word of God heals and delivers man from destruction (Psalms 107:20).
The Word of God gives life abundantly to one that will receive and believe in God’s word. 
Unfortunately, many are without the ability to understand the Word due to worldly living and unending chores; some of which include:
· Being too busy, having no time to study the Word of God.
· Preferring to take care of the activities of this world before giving self to the things of God.
· Having a dislike for the word of God that is the truth to accept.
. Living a worldly life is taking the word of God as foolishness 
Will you consider the Word of God as the evidence of His wonders?
It is important to understand and know that the Word of God is the key to retain the presence of God. 
Once in God’s word with Moses, it becomes glaring that the word of God is the presence of God. (God’s way is in His Word; God’s Word is His presence. (Exodus 33:13-14) 
Having an understanding and knowledge in the Word of God is also the source of God’s revelation for getting a clear and unfailing direction in the journey of life). 
Will you come out of all that is keeping you away from the word of God, the wonder of God?
Gain understand and knowledge that God invests much into a man’s life and He deserves man’s attention to be living life by His word.
Give self to the word of God for instruction, direction to walk worthy to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to fill you with the knowledge and understanding of His word.