FAITH CAPSULE: Doing right wrong is certain not to receive right answer.

2 Samuel 11

With no exception, Colossians 1:28 sounded warning to every man, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” Are you one that is taking to the word of God as warning? Word of God is true warning for man to gain understanding and know to be free so as not to become a victim of wickedness of this world.
In line of warning, 2 Timothy 2:1-4 also sounded warning to man, “You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” Are you an acclaimed soldier of Jesus Christ? Regardless of title among believers there is no exception from warning in the word of God.
As a good soldier of Jesus Christ, you have been called by God and your calling has marked and identified you as an enemy to the camp of the devil. As a result of your stand in the Lord, you can no longer take or stand on any ground at any period in time. Taking such a stand is letting down your guard as a soldier of God. Letting down your guard is allowing your enemy to bring its war to your front.
King David a soldier for God and a leader lowered his guard for the enemy to strike him. Despite all the victories of King David, he was not able to fight a war of success when adultery brought its war to David’s front. One of the major causes of King David’s loss of battle was recorded in 2 Samuel 11:1, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.” King David was at the right place at the wrong time. As a prime target of the enemy, there is no room for mistakes that are life consuming. As a believer, you cannot afford to be at the right place at the wrong time nor at the wrong place at the right time.
The warning word of God is written for our learning (Romans 15:4) With attention to the warning word of God is to identify healing and deliverance from the vices of wickedness under heaven. Apostle Paul admonished “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10-11)

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God  to be giving attention to His warning .

FAITH CAPSULE:Giving self to God is serving God.

Exodus 8:20:32, 9:1-7

God spoke to Moses, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12) God repeated His message to Moses in same Exodus 3:18 calling serve as sacrificing as stated, “The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.”  Obviously, serving God is a sacrifice; sacrifice is serving God. Through Moses, God brought Israelites out bondage to serve Him. Giving self to God is serving God. Bondage or captivity are critical to deny man from serving God. Man does not have excuse not to be giving self to God. Bondage, captivity is agent in place for man not serve (sacrifice) God. Often time, man places self in bondage or captivity which takes man out of serving God. When man pleases self to serve God is actually not pleasing God. Are you paying attention to be pleasing God in your service (sacrifice) before God? It is a priority to be serving God that gives the privilege of life to man. Pharaoh was an agent of the Israelites bondage for not serving God.
It is certain that power belongs to God and it makes it impossible for the enemy to be more powerful. God sent Moses for deliverance of Israelites but Pharaoh repeatedly declined the going of Israelites to go and serve God. Disobedient and hardness of Pharaoh’s heart provoked the hand of God to send plagues over Pharaoh and Egyptian people. It is written, “And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the land. 23 I will make a difference^] between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.” (Exodus 8:22-23)   God does not waste word and His word shall not return to Him without performing. Exodus 8:24 recorded, “And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.”  All that will consciously or unconsciously take a position not to serve God is taking to a route journey of pain. Also, man in a position of denying others from serving God is calling for Pharaoh and Israelites experience of plagues. In life, man should take to the side of God by serving God because when Jesus will come for ones taking to His side by serving God.
Give self to serving God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be serving God continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know God to have a stand before God.

1 Kings 18

For one that knows God there is nothing wrong to ask God today that all agents of confusion, delay, hindrances should be seized on your behalf just as Baal prophets were seized. Pray that today, they shall not escape the hand that will seize them, ask for them to be brought down just as the Baal prophets were brought down at the Brook of Kishon. Those agents that do not represent God in your life need to be permanently and eternally terminated so they will have no life to work against you anymore. Do not spare them, go ahead with your weapon (the word of God), invade them, raid them, disable them, unmake them; do not spare them. Pray a standing prayer, allow God to work on your behalf and victory is certain in Jesus name, amen.
One need to meditate and imagine the occurrence on Mount Carmel and Brook Kishon to answer for all that works against one.
On Mount Carmel, Elijah engaged four hundred and fifty false prophets of Baal in a power demonstration. In that encounter, Elijah asked the false prophets to call for their god to show with power. The god of the false prophets was a failure with no power demonstration of their god. When all attempts to call on Baal was exhausted, Elijah placed a call on God of gods, the only God that answers by fire. Without any delay, God answered Elijah and a consuming fire fell. By virtue of God’s showing, Ahab and his entourage saw the move of God in power demonstration. It is written, “Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”’ (1 Kings 18:39) Just like the people on Mount Carmel saw the move of God and declared, The Lord is God, have you seen enough of the move of God in your life to begin to declare the Lord is God? It was clarified between the God of Elijah and the prophets of Baal that the God of Elijah is the Lord God, and there is none to worship but Him. Know Him to call on Him just like Elijah.
Victory on Mount Carmel extended to Brook Kishon and so shall it be for ones that know God to ask from God. Elijah declared an open war against the prophets of Baal. 1 Kings 18:40, “And Elijah said to them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!’ So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there.” One that know God should have a stand before God. What is your stand before God? Have you accepted Him as your only God, the Lord of lords, the eternal Creator, the One that was, that Is and that will always be? Knowing God is not knowing about God, knowing God is the reason for expectation from God that manifests on behalf of man.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to know Him more dearly.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Gain understanding of three doings which are certain to be blessed by God.

Psalm 1

Three doings that are certain to position man for the blessing of God are: Walk of man; Sitting position of man; Standing location of man. Identified three doings of man will demonstrate the faith of man as a believer of God. In life, walk of man will directly affect where or position man is found sitting and what a man is located to be standing for. The three doings of man will testify one’s believe in the living word of God. As an acclaimed true believer, where one is walking to and coming from must reflect the presence of God. As an acclaimed true believer of God, where or who one is sitting with must be an evidence of the fear of God. Also, as an acclaimed true believer, one must be standing for all that is right as commanded in the word of God. Truly, counsel in the word of God is crucial not to be positioned outside of God but to be positioned for the blessing of God. The word of God is perfect to perform the promise of God as it is written, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1) Mark it, when a believer begins to seek counsel from an unbeliever it is an indication that something is not right with such believer.
The only way to redirect one’s walk before God is to continuously engage in the word of God by meditating the word of God.
The word admonished that there is delight in the law when meditating the word of God is in place in one’s life journey day and night. (Psalm 1:2) Life is a journey, who you surround yourself with will determine what you get out of life. One’s journey of life with meditating on the word of God is the determinant to deliver expected end of journey. Whose word do you believe in? Do you believe the word of God or man? The word of God is a sure counsel that leads one’s walking, sitting or standing for the glory of God. When the counsel of God (meditate the word of God day and night) begins to cause delight in the life of man, it becomes evident that the word of God is meaningful to one’s life.
Meditating on the word of God is the right track not to walk, sit or stand outside of God’s way. Think of it: Man is like a vehicle and meditating on the word of God day and night can be compared to a steering. Without steering, stagnation is certain and transportation becomes terminated. Definitely, where there is no transportation transformation is set to cease. Be encouraged to be certainly blessed by walking, sitting and standing in the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to constantly walk, in line of God’s word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the word of God as a sacrifice.

Numbers 32

Word of God is certain and consistent to deliver when it is constantly engaged. Joshua is an evidence of giving self to the word of God constantly. After Moses, God commanded Joshua to constantly engage the word. Joshua 1:8 recorded, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you 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.” God’s word pointed out to Joshua the importance of meditating on the word as the way for Joshua to be successful in his divine assignment. With constant meditation word is set to impact one’s life and the spirit of faith shall be established. With spirit of faith, following the Lord God wholly shall become one’s identity in the walk of life.
The importance of engaging the word of God constantly as God laid it down for Joshua, Paul the apostle also bolstered the importance of engaging the word of God in 1Timothy 4:15, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.” Paul’s command about meditation testifies to the importance of meditation. Meditation is a labor which requires spending day and night, giving oneself to word as a sacrifice. Meditation is labor and labor is a sacrifice. A believer which constantly meditate on the word of God day and night is set to reap from the promising blessings of meditation.
Obviously, constantly meditating the word of God will identify one to wholly follow God. To wholly follow God is also a key to be prosperous and to have good success working the works of God. Such prosperous and good success is to become established getting to expected journey of life God’s promise. (the Promised Land)
Joshua was an example of one with meditating the word of God and was identified with good success to arrive expected end in his life journey. Numbers32:11-12 recorded “Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, expect Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’” Following God wholly is demonstrating the spirit of faith which Caleb and Joshua did. Does it occur to you the importance of constant meditation over the word of God?
Written word of God is for our profit. 2Timothy 3:16 encouraged, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” As it was profitable to the men of God in the Bible days, so it is profitable to any that makes the choice of meditating on the word of God constantly.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be meditating the word of God day and night.