FAITH CAPSULE: The beginning or the end of a day, season, or month demands unfailing thankfulness to God.

Psalm 92, 100

It is a goodness of God to see the newness of the moment.
Seeing every moment is the grace of God, not because of knowing how to see a new day.
Thanking God will praise God. Praising God will thank God.
Psalm 47:7 informs all, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
The word of God that demands praising God with understanding also demands thanking God with understanding.
Give God the sacrifice of thanksgiving continually to seek God diligently. Giving thanks is not a thinking engagement. 
Giving thanks is rooted in faith, appreciating God for what He has done, what He is doing, and all He will do. 
Give God thanksgiving, praising God continually.
Psalm 100:4 recorded, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”
God is a God of jealousy.
It is giving Him attention that pleases Him as He gives back His attention. 
Giving thanks to God is getting attention from God, the evidence of returning to God with appreciation.
King David successfully brought the ark of God to his city with thanksgiving to God.
The thanksgiving of King David states, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!” (1Chronicles 16:8-9) 
King David returned with thanksgiving to God for His deeds among the peoples. 
In all relations to God, He always waits to act for those who wait for Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
God waits for all the thanksgiving that He deserves, at all times.
When Jesus healed ten lepers, only one returned to give thanks.
The reaction of Jesus to only one of the ten lepers records, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So, Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:15-19)
Giving thanks to God is a reasonable sacrifice, acceptable as doing good before God.
Psalm 92:1-2 identifies praising and thanking, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High.” 
Giving thanks and praising God is giving regard to God at all times
Praise with understanding.
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle.
Volumes and pages of a book will never be enough to identify what thanking and praising God is doing. 
Giving God the sacrifice of praise and thanks is seeking God diligently.
At every breath of life that God has given you, give Him thanks and praise. (Psalm 150:6)

Prayer for today: Ask that thanking and praising God for His goodness will be your way of life continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be consistent and diligent in finding God.

Daniel 6

Seek God diligently to find Him.
Seeking God is not a play but a costly labour.
One who is not seeking God diligently is bound not to find Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 identifies what it takes to find God: “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.”
As a believer, has it ever been your desire to encounter the presence of God?
The majority have no desire to encounter God in their experience.
Excuses of inconvenience occupy the majority, not aligning with the desire to engage the presence of God.
Continuity eschews inconvenience and answers with the commitment that those who seek God continually, with no excuse for the inconvenience, in every area of seeking after God.
With continuity, those who give themselves to serving the Lord God will gain the experience of God.
Search yourself to know whether you trust and hope in God by continually keeping His word.
The Psalmist testifies to the character of one who strives to walk in God. 
Psalm 71:14 records “But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more.”  
With continuity, Joseph served God by walking away from sin. 
Joseph refused the pressure to lie, but not lie with the wife of his master. 
Genesis 39:8-9 records the response of Joseph to the wife of his master, “But he refused and said to his master’s wife, ‘Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” Abstaining from sin is an avenue to avoid sin before God continually. Joseph testified his stand before God, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” 
Joseph demonstrated a mind for God, not to derail his continuity of commitment, before God.
Daniel continually served God, walking with God.
An unbelieving king recognized Daniel as a servant of the living God.
Unwillingly, after King Darius sentenced Daniel to an untimely death in the den of lions, he spoke to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” (Daniel 6:16) The Bible documents the loss of sleep of King Darius, waiting for the morning hour to check the demonstration of the faith of Daniel. 
Daniel 6:19-20 records, “Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 
King Darius, an unbeliever, recognized that Daniel could not go wrong as a believer in God.
Be known for God, seek God diligently.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will serve God continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is not a careless talker.

Numbers 32 

Giving regard to God is the way to seek God as a way of life.
Why not give life to the glory, honour, and power to God?
The will of God is to live life for Him.
The word of God is not meant to return void, but man void His word not live by His word.
For example, when God gives a promise, He adds a condition.
Without engaging, the condition will deny the promise.
In the promise of God, a condition to claim has to be met.
God told the children of Israel to take them to the Promised Land.
It was a promise because what God says is a done deal.
The condition for the Israelites to claim the promise is to live for God in the journey to the Promised Land.
The Children of the Israelites failed to commit to the word of God.
Quoting the word of God without living shall lead to failure.
Commitment to the word of God is not in memorizing the word of God, but to meditate day and night and be able to do according to the word of God.
In the journey of life, not being committed will not claim the promise.
Claiming to be a believer without commitment to the word of God is having a religion with no relationship with God.
The children of Gad and Reuben disobeyed God to settle outside of the word of God for their own convenience. Numbers 32:1-7 documents the disobedient of the children of Gad and 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 the children of Reuben could not commit to the promise of God, but set out for livestock (milk provision).
In the journey of life, be committed to God to avoid destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is keeps you away from the word of God?

John 1:1-34

The word of God is in place for all who will give themselves to the word of God.
In the word of God, there is direction, deliverance, and preservation.
One with an understanding of the word of God is bound to gain a knowing edge in all life journeys.
To gain understanding is to hear and hear repeatedly, to observe the word of God.
One who hears the word of God consistently, meditating on the word of God, shall be able to see in the word of God. will meditate on the word of God.
Joshua 1:8 informs all, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you[c] 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.”
What one sees in the word is what one receives, to become such.
Get an unfailing answer, solution to the challenges of life.
Also, one without knowledge and understanding will not recognize the hour for deliverance in the word of God.
Jesus identifies a lack of understanding as the root of failure in all areas of life.
Jesus expresses in John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
A listening disability denies understanding, leaving no place for a knowing edge in the challenges of life.
Make it a way of life to spend time on the word of God to gain understanding and knowledge, having an edge 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. 
Jesus is the wisdom, the Word of God, the instruction for all. 1Corinthians 1:30 communicates to all,“But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…”
Give yourself wisdom from God!
Know and remember that the word of God heals and delivers from destruction (Psalms 107:20). 
The Word of God gives life abundantly to one who will receive and believe in the Word of God. 
Do not have the ability to understand God in His Living Word due to worldly living and unending chores, some of which include being busy and having no time to study the Word of God.
Spending engaging world activities ahead of the activities to the glory of God.
Taking a stand against the truth of God.
Giving time to the foolishness of the world.
With understanding, give life to giving regard to God.
Understanding the word of God is to gain and retain the presence of God.
Many pages of the Bible testify that the way of God is the word of God.
Having an understanding and knowledge of the Word of God is also the source of the revelation from God to get a clear unfailing direction in the journey of life). 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled, keeping you in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: To have a relationship with God is rooted in giving oneself to the word of God.

Proverbs 3

Build a personal relationship with God.
One that is built up by the word of God is bound to have a relationship with God.
Do you have the desire to be built by the word of God?
One built by the word of God will not become a victim of destruction.
The word of God identifies the need to be built, stating, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.” (Psalm 28:5 )
Give yourself to the word of God to build you.
Keep in mind, the word of God is God. (John1:1)
Jesus is the Word of God.
One who gives oneself to the word will have a relationship with the word of God.
One with a relationship with God will not fall off the track of life.
Relationship with God is rooted in faithfulness.
Faithfulness is to keep abiding in the presence of God. 
Are you full of the word of God, to walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; to serve Him and hold fast to Him?
Keep in mind that the word of God is a light for navigation in this wicked world. 
Personalize the word of God, and the wisdom and knowledge will give stability, so as not to become a victim of a wicked world.
Proverbs 3 records that when one keeps the word of God in the heart, such shall have the length of days and long life with peace.
Mercy and truth will not forsake such.
Having a relationship with God will enable one not to despise nor detest His correction.
Have the desire to live in a personal relationship to:
Keep the word of God as a way of life; to walk safely without stumbling; not be afraid of any terror nor trouble from the wicked ones.
A relationship with God will result in confidence in the Lord and not withdrawing from doing good when it is necessary. 
The relationship with God will keep one from devising evil in the wicked world.
The Word of God is His command, His law, which gives light, and without it, there is nothing anyone will do in safety. 
Proverbs 6:23 refers to the word of God as light and for teaching. 
Psalm 119:105 states that the word is a lamp for feet and a light on the path. 
Proverb 6:22 buttresses, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.” 
Let your desire be for a relationship with the word of God.
A relationship to enable navigating the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will receive the word of God to live by His word.