FAITH CAPSULE: Challenging needs are keeping you far from God or close to God?

Regardless of time or season, give attention to points below in dealing your challenging needs. God is in charge.
Worrying but not worshipping God:
Jesus specifically warned against worrying in Matthew 6:25-27, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” Are you with the burden of meeting challenging needs?
Are you worrying or worshipping God?
When worrying arises worshipping brings down one before God.
When worrying replaces worshipping God one will become far from God.
Worrying will prompt one to question God wrongly instead of worshiping God. Take note, know that questioning God in faith is not the same as question God in doubt. Do not worry, avoid complaining and not become a victim of worrying. God is a good God.
Sleeping in the place of need:
One that is asleep will miscalculate meeting of challenging needs.
Spiritually, to not sleep before God.
One that is asleep before God keeps self into a distance from God.
Psalm 13:3-4 mentioned the danger of sleeping, “Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.”
Are you sleeping spiritually or physically? Be awake before God and not to become a victim of lack.
Seek God regardless of challenging needs:
Are your challenging needs keeping you far from God or close to God?
In your time of challenges, keep close and not far from God by seeking God. Matthew 6:33-34 encourages, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Are you giving up from seeking God in your challenges? Seek God diligently as stated in Deuteronomy 4:29, “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.”
Seek God with all heart and soul is keeping the focus on God regardless of challenging needs which moves man far from God. Just like the Lost son, have you taken far from God but now discover the need to return to God like the prodigal son? Luke 15:17 stated, “When the prodigal son came to himself…”
The Lost son recognized his distance from father, he repented and returned to his father.
Why don’t you rise and begin to cry for the mercy of God to draw you to Himself and not be a victim of wandering into the far from God?

Prayer for today: Give thanks for what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do.

FAITH CAPSULE: The fear of God is God’s treasure!

Matthew 6

God knows all man before any man is born. It is also true that there is none born with knowledge about God or Knows God until after birth. Jeremiah 1:5 stated, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Any man with the knowledge about God should grow to KNOW GOD.
Knowing God is not the same as knowing about God. Knowing God demands seeking God diligently with all heart and soul to find God. Deuteronomy 4:29 buttressed, “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.” When Seeking God diligently is having a place in any one’s life, to live life with the fear of God shall be established in one’s life. Think of it: How can one fear (awe) one that is not known?
To fear God is to love God. To fear God is to live life by His word of command.
In your new beginning, why not seek God diligently to know God and become fear-full of God? God expects from all to fear Him which is not impossible for all to fear God. Proverbs 15:33 describes the fear of God, “The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.”
In this wicked world, it is reasonable to give self the choice to gain rest solution in seeking God diligently.
What is it that happens when seeking God diligently is having a place in man’s life?  Isaiah 33:6 identified seeking God diligently, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Why not treasure seeking God diligently and fear God to become God’s treasure?
The fear of God is God’s treasure!
In this life, get to KNOW GOD, live life with the fear of God and become God’s treasure.
The word of God encourages Seeking God diligently as stated in Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
What are you seeking diligently? Think and change your way of living life. Matthews 6:19-21 warned, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
One Treasured all will provoke God’s treasure in all about one.
Today, come out of religion with no Christ enter Religion with Christ.
Seek God diligently from the heart and soul, fear God in your ways of life. Become a treasure to God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand upon you not to be a victim of the world today.

FAITH CAPSULE: This wicked world demands to be awake seeking God diligently.

Matthew 6

God in His word does have required standard for all to seek Him diligently. Bible recorded, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6) Seek God diligently which is acceptable to Him as His required standard.
With sincere desire not just by determination, but prayerfully engage seeking God by following Him.
Above all reasons, seeking God by following Him more than ever includes to do the following:
WAKE UP FROM SLEEPING
Are you living or sleeping before God?  This 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 spiritual application. It is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning. When sleeping takes the place of serving God, Matthew 13:25-30 stated “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 parable of Jesus reveals sleeping as the key for wicked to gain entrance into man’s life. Every time one is sleeping before God will position man to be FAR from GOD which is never FAR but NEAR to all man. Sleeping before God is the evidence of KNOWING ABOUT GOD. KNOWING GOD is serving God acceptably continually.
TO COME OUT OF WICKEDNESS is living life to seek God diligently. It is important to know that wickedness of this world is awake continually. One that is asleep in the place of living life for God is positioning self for the wicked world to have a place in one’s life. GOD will judge the wicked world at His appointed time. Wicked ones often get away with their activities but their activities, should not be a discouraging reason for no man not to be seeking God diligently. Seek God and not become a victim of God’s judgment over wickedness.  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.” God is watching man and waiting for His appointed time to show up for JUDGEMENT.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to seeking God diligently to find God.

Isaiah 51

All which man need is in seeking God diligently. Matthew 6:33 pointed out, “…But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” In this wicked world, seek God by serving God to dwell and abide in God.  Psalm 91:1-3 buttressed, “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.” As a believer, not an unbeliever, it is a secret to seek God by dwelling and abiding in Almighty God.
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God. Serving God is living life for God.
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 God’s word. One that is not giving ear to hear will not gain an understanding of Him. 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 Him. Serving God is also following Him with no hidden agenda because He knows all man. Word of God demands and declare what it means to follow Him. 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 for finding Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word which will not lie. John 8:12 confirmed, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him. David was a man like us and sought-after God. 1 Kings 14:8 testified, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only    what was right in My eyes.” Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness in His word? Unchanging changer God, yesterday, today and forever once warned against not seeking to follow Him in 1 Kings 9:6-7, “But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.” Think and search who or what you have set before your way of living life outside of living life, following God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to move on you, to seek Him diligently in this season.

FAITH CAPSULE: REST SOLUTION not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is all man’s solution to navigate this wicked world.

2 Chronicles 1

With understanding celebrate every day as the world celebrates every new year. Ignorant makes a destitute of a believer celebrating one year as a thousand year. 2 Peter 3:8 stated, “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” Come out of religion into religion with Christ reality. Celebrate New Day as you celebrate New Year!
Listen, with understanding, celebrate every God-given day just as the way you are celebrating a New Year. A New Year that will count by God must be a thousand years as stated above. Do not be one with world religion celebrating God-given day glamorously once a year.
Are you celebrating New Year with New Year resolution? In this wicked world, give self a REST RESOLUTION. The Wicked world demands REST SOLUTION. Rest solution for all man is in the word of God if one will study, understand and know the word of God. Isaiah 33:6 buttressed, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.”
Without a doubt, REST SOLUTION not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is all man’s solution to navigate this wicked world without becoming a victim. Gaining understanding for wisdom and knowledge in the word of God is stability, strength to persevere and have fear for God.
A true believer of God must come out of self-deception to give self for understanding in the word of God for wisdom and knowledge which is the means for stability in this wicked world. Understanding, wisdom, and knowledge are the Spirit of God that cannot fail in the life of one with the Spirit of God. (Exodus 31:3)
Understanding of King Solomon’s case is the testimony to have the desire for stability with wisdom and knowledge: “Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge these great people of Yours? Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king—wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like.” (2 Chronicles 1:10-12)
For your REST SOLUTION in every given New Day, with understanding, fear God which is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge to understand God. (Proverbs 9:10)
Every God-given day demands understanding, wisdom, and knowledge that is hidden in Christ and not be a victim of this wicked world. Daily all man should give self to Christ to prayerfully and gain REST SOLUTION by asking to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Prayer for today: Ask for wisdom and spiritual understanding in the word of God to be ordering your step daily.