FAITH CAPSULE: Daily, understand and Know what is good to ask from God.

Psalm 32, 94

What is stopping you from asking from God? A failure not to ask is the evidence of lack of faith. The word of God stated, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11) Asking and not receiving could be the evidence of asking wrongly. The bible makes us to realize that it is possible to ask and ask wrongly. The book of James 4:3 stated, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” What are you asking from God? Is your asking from God centered on knowing God? Why not ask from God to fill you with the knowledge of His word and spiritual understanding? If man will turn to God asking for seeking God more, living life will be to the glory of God. To seek God is to be positioned where all your needs be added to you by His grace. (Matthew 6:33)
Asking from God the promises of God for your life is not because God has forgotten you. God does not forget His children; He is God that acts for the one who waits for Him. (Isaiah 64:4) Ones that know to wait on God are the ones that know to ask, and God attends to them. God hears from those who wait on Him. God hears, and He is God tha sees. The bible pointed it out that He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) It is worthy to begin to ask God for instruction and teaching over your life. In these days of uncommon challenges and evil occurrences, ask for God for His promises as stated in Psalm 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye.” Do you desire His eye to guide you? Indeed, it is a blessing to be guided by the eye of God. Psalmist buttressed, “Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity…” (Psalm 94:12-13) Ways of today demands instruction and teaching of God to lead man. God has promised to instruct and teach man to rest and have a place in man’s life. Daily, understand and Know what is good to ask from God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to hear and respond, walking in His way.

Faith Capsule: The word of God is the strength in place for man to engage in every step of life.

Exodus 33

Jesus is the Living Word of God that was with God in the beginning. It is written, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) The Word of God is God. The word of God is also the Way of God. Jesus testified in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  Clearly, the Way of God is the Word of God. Jesus is the Word of God for every believer. Walking the Way of God is allowing the Word of God to take the leadership in one’s journey of life. God cannot be deceived, God cannot be mocked, and He sees the ways of every man. Which way are you going? God has His way and His ways are in His word. Any way outside the way of God is a way into self-destruction.
At a point when Moses was leading the children of Israel to the Promised Land, there was a need for him to know the way to go to avoid leading the people in his own way. Moses called on God. “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”  (Exodus 33:13) The way of God is deliverance and it is preservation.
Through the pages of the bible, there is none that engaged the Way of God and ended up in destruction. The way of God is the presence of God. Man’s desire to walk in the way of His way, will guide man’s feet to walk in His way. I Samuel 2:9 buttressed, “He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength no man shall prevail.” Walking in His way is taking to the avenue of keeping silent the wicked ones. The word of God is the strength in place for man to engage in every step life. Man should not count on personal strength. Are you one that is considering self’s strength in the journey of life? Without doubt, it is time to give self to God’s hand by walking in His way; living life for His glory. Take to the way of God and God will take you beyond your expectation. Let God be pleased by walking in His way because, “When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” (Proverbs 16:7) The Lord God has given man His word to deliver and preserve man that will take to His word.

 Prayer for the today: Ask for the grace of God to always know to walk in His way.

FAITH CAPSULE: Word of God is the way to live life and become an overcomer.

1 John 5

If indeed you are a believer Jesus admonished all, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you ^[f]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) Give self to His written word. Peace is loaded and enough for man to take to His word and not be a victim of trouble in this wicked world. Trouble will come in this world but giving self to His word is enough to see man through as overcomer in the face of trouble. This world does not have anything better to offer but pain in every area of life, but His word is enough to offer good for man. As an acclaimed believer, how do you see the challenges of the world? Are you of those who call it difficult? It is important to stop calling and seeing the challenges of the word as difficult. Are you born of God? Ones that claim to have been born of God yet continue to call it difficult are seeking difficulties.
As one that is been born of God, confessing that living life is difficult is a wrong and a negative confession from the heart. The word encourages us, “Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) As a believer it is worthy to begin to see life as not difficult. Life can be troubling with challenge. However, overcoming challenges is in place for one that is giving self to the word of God. In the word of God and giving self to the word of God it is certain to live life over challenges as an overcomer.
Word of God is the way to live life. Truly, live life by taking the right steps in deed and in truth. In gaining entrance into a life without difficulty, one will have to stay away from religion. Jesus said in “I am the door, if anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” (John 10:9) Jesus is true to His word by stating if anyone enters by Him. There is no race requirement or color qualification.
Why not try and enter through Him? Jesus warned in John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy, I have come that they may have it more abundantly.” It is time to take a moment and begin to re-trace one’s steps to see if one is born of God. Anyone that is born of God should prepare to overcome any challenge because He is fighting every challenging battle. Lift your eyes up unto Him today and ask Him to take charge over your life.
He is a compassionate God and He will have compassion on you. Remember, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19)

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to have its place in your life.  

Faith Capsule: Indeed, to despise God’s command is the evidence of lack of fear for God.

Romans 6

God is a God of order. Every of His command must be obeyed and they are not negotiable. Have you been commanded but not obey? It does not matter who you are, but it does matter not to despise the word of God. To despise His word is to be destroyed. Proverbs 13:13 buttressed, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Evidently, to despise God’s word is lack of fear for God. Moses, as great as he was in the hand of God could not step on the Promised Land because he despised God’s command and there was no excuse to deliver him from not to miss stepping on the Promised Land. Moses experienced the consequence of his error when he despised the word of God.
It is written, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” (Numbers 20:7-8) Moses was to respond to the request of the children of Israel for water when God commanded him to speak to the rock. Moses did not speak as God commanded by God, but he engaged God’s command in his own way. The bible recorded in Numbers 20:11, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.” Before he struck the rock, he called the children of Israel name which was not in God’s command that was given to him. The move of Moses did not settle well with God. As a result, God responded to Moses and Aaron, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:12) Life time journey ended up in the wilderness for Moses when he struck the rock instead of speaking as commanded by God. A simple disobedience denied Moses from getting to the Promised Land. Moses pleaded to God, but God did not reverse His judgment towards Moses. Indeed, to despise God’s command is the evidence of lack of fear for God.
It is true that we are living in the time of dispensation of grace, but it is not a reason to despise His command. It is true that Jesus paid it all for us on the Calvary. However, the word questioned us, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”(Romans 6:1-2) The sin of Moses was serious enough for us to learn not to despise God’s command.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the spirit not to fear God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Dwelling in God is to know God.

1 John 3

Do you desire to dwell in the presence of the Lord? If you are one with desires to dwell in His presence there is a need to amend your ways and your doings. One who is able to amend his/her way will walk in the knowledge of His will. In Colossians 1:9-11 Paul prayed, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.” Paul’s prayer is worth of constant meditation for all that desire to dwell in the presence of God. Walking in the word of God is doing the will of God. To know God is to be in Him and Him in you.
Having been in the church for long or having the ability to memorize and be conversant in quoting the word is not an evidence of knowing God. Many know about God but do not know God. It is written, “Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.” (1 John 2:3) Talking about the commandment of God is not an evidence of knowing God but keeping His commandment is the evidence of knowing Him. Many talks about the commandments of God but few are demonstrating the life of one who keeps His commandments. 1 John 2:4-6, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” The word of God is true. God does not lie, and He will not look away from the manifestation of His word. In this world of challenge there is no better place to abide but in the word of God. Determination is not what will make man to dwell in the word. Peter determined not to deny Jesus, but he eventually denied Christ three times. It was the prayer of Jesus that uphold Peter to become a victim of denying Christ. Jesus’ prayer that kept Peter was recorded: “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:32) When there is desire to dwell in God, God will deposit what it takes to dwell in Him. Word buttressed, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in Him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” (1 John 3:24)

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.