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BE HIS TREASURE

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.

SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY ABOVE ALL

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.

SEEKING GOD 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.

REST SOLUTION not NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

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.

THIS FAR

FAITH CAPSULE: This far, fear God!

Psalm 64

Thus, this far, your living life this far is God’s doing. Think of it! Living life this far is not a right but great privilege of God. Are you acknowledging God’s privilege over your life? The glamorous celebration of God’s gift in one season is not acknowledging God but arousing self’s emotion. However, this far is time to reflect and to allow the fear of God to take charge of your life. Fear God which brought you this far.
To fear God is to live the life of fulfillment to the glory of God.
It is important to fear God as recorded in the pages of the Bible.
Learn and know or to remind self of the fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
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, and that they may teach their children.”
Job 28:28, “…And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding…”
To fear God is abiding in Him and not depart from Him.
Jeremiah 32:40 buttressed, “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.”
Are you serving God with no understanding? Serving God is to fear Him. Psalm 2:11, “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.”
Living life in the promises of God demands to fear God.
Psalm 25:12-14, “Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses. He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth. The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.”
Psalm 33:18 “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.”
Psalm 34:7-9 “The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORDis good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.”
Let the fear of God keep you under the eyes of God.
Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.”
This far, fear God!
Revelation 2:10 said it all, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer.” Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
Why not allow the fear of God become your priority?
This far, let the fear of God become you compass to arrive at God’s divine agenda for your life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His fear to take over your life.