FAITH CAPSULE: In this new season, pray to grow more in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 5

Waiting on God will know how to live a life of the fear of God.
To fear God from the depth of the heart, not on the tip of the tongue, shall live to the glory of God.
Knowing to fear God is to live for God.
Power belongs to God.
The mercy of God is His power that no one can deny.
The Mercy of God is compassion or forbearance for whomever He has to give and those who fear Him.
Psalm 33:18 records: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” 
With the desire to fear God, have trust and hope in Him, to mark one not to be a victim of evil.
Pray that the fear of God will keep you under His eyes, and from this moment, answer as your time to fear God more.
Understand and know to fear God.
Abraham understood to fear God.
God promised Abraham that He would give him a son.
In his waiting for the promise of God for his son, he learn and understood to fear God.
When he had a son, God commanded him to sacrifice the son to Him.
By the action of Abraham, in response to the command of God, it counted before God as his fear of God.
Genesis 22:12 records the response of God to the unshaking obedience of Abraham, stating, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Abraham learnt to fear God.
Is the fear of God your way of life?
This season, pray to grow in the fear of God.
No one is born with a fear of God, but through learning from the Word of God, it is the way to develop a fear of God.
The bible repeatedly identifies learning to fear God.
Besides learning to fear God, it is praying before God, for a heart to fear Him.
With the desire to fear God, God will deposit what it takes to fear Him.
Are you one with the desire to fear God?
Without fear of God, one cannot serve God.
The word of God that sounds to one, speaks to all.
In Deuteronomy 4:10, God said to the Israelites, “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.”
To learn to fear God also requires a heart that is set on God to fear God.
Deuteronomy 5:29 informs all, “Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments…”
Determination is not enough to live by the fear of God.
It is the will of God for all to exist for Him.
God wants all to fear Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to grow and live in the fear of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God without patience can be a waste of time.

Engaging patience can be painful, but it is beneficial in all its applications.
In an attempt to find God, when patience is applied, one will gain from God.
Wait on God with patience to gain His attention.
It is never too late to apply patience, waiting on God for the manifestation of expectation.
David, who was after the heart of God, testifies to the importance of waiting on God with patience.
Psalm 40:1 records, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.”
God answered David while he waited on God.
Are you waiting patiently for so long with nothing to show for what you expected?
In waiting patiently, let there be character rooted in faith, as strength to remain waiting for God.
Psalm 37:7 records kinds of character rooted in faith, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
When waiting patiently, exercise more faith to rest in the Lord with no fear of failure.
God is a good God and will not look away from faith exercised.
The consequence of waiting patiently for God will provoke a response from God.
However, with fear in place while waiting on God, failure is inevitable.
King Saul could not wait patiently for God when Samuel told him to wait for the appointed time for the sacrificial offering before the war against the Philistines. I Samuel 13:9-10 records: “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him. So Saul said, ‘Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.’ And he offered the burnt offering. Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came…”
With no patient to wait, King Saul violated the word of God to wait.
Obedience is rooted in faith.
One who exercises obedience will faithfully seek God for His visitation.
To have faith in God is a character with hope, who obeys God to please God.
The Bible describes faith as, “…the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
Do you believe in God?
Abraham lived a life of obedience because he believed in God.
Hebrews 11: 8-10 stated: “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”  With faith, Abraham had faith to wait on the promise of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait on Him in the journey of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Gain understanding of the Word of God.

Psalm 34

To understand the Word of God is to live life for God, not to live a life of waste.
Understanding will enable one to have a knowing edge, not fall where the world falls.
Get to know that the Word of God is God. 
John 1:1 confirms that the Word of God is God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
Understand God in His Word.
Indeed, one with no understanding of the Word of God cannot observe to see God in His Word to fear God, to live life in obedience to God.
The evidence of the lack of understanding of God is that they do not hear the Word of God.
John 8:47, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” 
Search yourself to know if you are of God.
Do you understand God to seek Him?
Psalmist buttresses: “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3)
To fear God is rooted in studying Him to understand and know His Word, the key to all that matters in living life.
One with understanding, knowledge, and wisdom should have a place in one who lives for God.
Firstly, “…But knowledge is easy to him who understands.” (Proverbs 14:6) One with the understanding of God will always have a knowing edge over challenges, and a peace that surpasses all understanding becomes the identity.
Secondly, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding…” (Proverbs 14:33) 
Wisdom is the instruction of God.
1Corinthians 1:30 states, “But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God…” 
The wisdom of God in the heart of such is Jesus in the life of such. Meditate on the Word of God day and night to remain in the presence of God.
David had his heart for God, and that qualifies him to teach the fear of God. Psalm 34:11 records “Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.”
David knows what it is to have an ear to hear and fear God, which kept him in his challenges.
DO YOU FEAR GOD?
Psalm 34:13-14 identifies four points in one who fears God: 
1. Keep your tongue from evil,
2. Keep your lips from speaking deceit, 
3. Depart from evil and do good,
4. Seek peace and pursue it. 
In this wicked world, one should meditate on what it means to fear God. In the journey of life, Abraham served God because he feared God. Hebrews 11:8 testifies, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.”
Just like Abraham, fear God, give yourself to obey His Word, and strive to retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that listening to gain the understanding to seek God becomes your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: What one knows and understands will determine how far one goes with God.

Deuteronomy 10

What one claims to know and not understand is the evidence of knowing about.
Many who claim to know God do not understand what God wants.
What is it that God wants?
What God said to one speaks to all.
What God requires from the Israelites speaks to all.
Deuteronomy 10:12 record: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
All that God requires is rooted in having the fear of God.
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently.
Do you fear God? 
No one is born with the fear of God.
Determination is not enough to fear God, but one who desires to fear God shall experience God, who deposits all it takes to fear Him.
Jeremiah records the prayer to ask for the fear of God.
Jeremiah 32:38-40 records “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 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.”
Fear God to be able to live for God.
Without doubt, when there is no fear of God, it is not possible to walk in His ways, love and serve Him diligently.
To fear God is evidence of obedience to His word. 
1 Samuel 12:14 admonishes, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.”
Have the desire that the fear of God will reign and rule your life. 
One who fears God is bound to have faith.
Do you have faith? 
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Without faith, it is not possible to fear or love God.
Fear God, not just have faith, but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Get to know God to understand as a faithful one. 
Pray with a desire to be what God calls all to be when He made all.
What does God want from all?  Psalm 139:14 of David testifies, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently.
Today, come out of self-deception and pay attention by listening to the word of God.
Live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Giving thanks to God is not just thinking thanks before God.

Daniel 6:1-10, Luke 17:11-19

A mindful thanksgiving is not the same as mouthful thanksgiving before God.
Giving thanks to God in the right way counts before God.
Doing right in the wrong way provokes wrong in answer.
God awaits thanks before Him.
Giving thanks to God is not just thinking thanks before God.
God owes no one, but all owes God.
Giving thanks to God will draw His attention.
God, in the doing of His goodness, awaits a return to receive thanks.It is a way of life returning to God in appreciation for His doing.
Thanksgiving to God should not be limited to uttering words but giving thanks for having a life that pleases God.
Thanksgiving, God is worshiping God.
Worshipping God is seeking God diligently.
Giving thanks to God or praising God must be with understanding.
Psalm 47:7 admonishes all, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
With thanksgiving and praising God, worship God with the understanding that is reasonable and acceptable before God.
The Bible records how thanksgiving is the way to move forward and not become a victim of the wickedness of this world.
For example, Daniel, with his thanksgiving before God, escaped and did not die by the evil agenda of wicked ones that placed him in the den of Lions. Daniel 6:10 records, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
Daniel gave thanks to God for escaping sudden death.
Thanksgiving before God gave Jonah an escape from sudden death. Jonah disobeyed God when he found himself in the belly of a fish.
The Bible records of Jonah, “But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.” (Jonah 2:9) Jonah engaged in thanks before God to gain deliverance from the belly of a fish.
Are you giving thanks to God with understanding?
When Jesus healed ten lepers, only one returned to give thanks to Jesus for his healing. The response of Jesus to the only one testifies to the truth that God waits for the return for thanksgiving.
The word 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)
Thanksgiving before God should be rooted in the mind, not just in the head.

Prayer for today: Ask that a heart of thanksgiving become your way of life.