FAITH CAPSULE: Seek God sacrificially and please Him in His way but not in your way.

Numbers 22

Man must seek God in His appropriate to seek Him and see Him. It is important for man to seek God for man’s attainment before God. Are you seeking Him diligently or carelessly? God is the Creating creator we must seek Him diligently. When Balaam was moving in opposite direction to God’s word, God opened mouth of donkey where there was no man to speak correction into Balaam’s life. Numbers 22:28, recorded “Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” Seek God, be available for Him and disallow seeking any outside of God. Who are you seeking? In the place of seeking God, are you seeking prophet-liar or false apostle?
When man is not available for God, God will make use of stone or donkey.
Waiting on God is seeking God by waiting on God that waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 30:18 testified, “Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.” Man must seek God with attention, expecting to find God and receive from Him. (lame man in Acts3:1-10 is an example)
Jealous God is not a slave master that will force man to seek Him but a saving God. Seeking God demands understanding to seek Him sacrificially and to please Him to see Him. SACRIFICE: Sacrificially to seek God must be worthy and costly. Abel’s worthy and costly sacrificial offering to seek God made him to attain respect from God. It is written, “Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering.” (Genesis 4:4) God cannot be deceived to receive from Him. Cain the brother of Abel could not seek God with a worthy and costly sacrifice.
PLEASING: Pleasing God is in man’s action. God sees in our action and it measures in weight before Him. It is written, “…For the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3) Action was the faith of a paralytic man that was carried by four men tearing through the roof to seek Jesus. Mark 2:5 recorded Jesus’ response, “When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” Jesus saw the paralytic man and he was healed. Without doubt, without faith God is not pleased but with faith, God is pleased.
Find God by seeking Him sacrificially and please Him in His way but not in your way.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of seeking God continually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Desire for loving God, and search God diligently.

1 John 4

Loving God is a must to live for God. Do you have desire to love God? Desire to love God is to have the love of God deposited in your Heart. God sees all hearts under heaven.
Obeying God fully is inhabited in loving God indeed and in truth. God did not design loving one another for man to be foolish but for man to demonstrate man’s love for God. Word of God for us to love Him also speaks out what not to love. It is written, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1John 2:15-17)
Evidently, man that is not in the word of God is in the world living the world. One that is in the world belongs to the world. Are you the world by way of living? Are you a friend of the world? Living as the world or taking a position as the world is taking a position as the enemy of God. The book of James 4:4 stated, “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” The world is not a position where loving one another as commanded by God because the system of the world aligns with Satan and opposes God and Jesus. True believer of God should not love false god’s society(culture) and false values (morals) of this wicked world.
Loving one another is the evidence of one is loving God. Without doubt, not to love God is to be placed under curse as stated in 1 Corinthians 16:22, “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!” Will you desire to love God? With determination, Peter denied Christ. (Mark 14:31) With determination to love God is a failure possibility. With prayer for heart’s direction into the love of God is possible. It was prayer that answered in Peter’s life not to become a victim of failure for his denial of Christ. Pray to love God by loving one another as stated in 2Thessalonian 3:5, “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
Loving God as commanded by God is way to live for the glory of God. Meditate within your heart, desire for loving God, and search God diligently. Live life for God!

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to love Him according to His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Loving God is not an emotional or mouth game.

1 John 3

God’s command from the beginning speaks to all: love one another. Deuteronomy 6:5 recorded, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” As in the Old Testament, Jesus also requested in the New Testament, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke 10:27) Loving one another is the evidence of loving God our creator which no man has seen Him. All God’s doing is what the devil stands against. It is devil’s gain to work for man not love one another.
Loving one another is the message which has been passed out to us from the BEGINNING. The devil has been standing against man from loving one another to make it possible for man not to love God. It is written, “For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.” (1John 3:11-12)
As wrong as it is, man always claim love for God when there is no love for one another. As an acclaimed believer, not practicing righteousness is not loving other as commanded by God and it is sin before God. 1 John 3:10 buttressed, “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.”
Do you have the love of God?
The love of God is to love unconditionally, sacrificially and personally.
Personally: Christ is to be seen in us. 1John4:20-21, “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?  And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
Unconditional love was demonstrated by Jesus for us to learn and do like Him. With His love, He died for us while we were sinners. (Romans 5:8)
Sacrificially, our demonstration of love should be of the love of God not just talking love. 1John 3:16-18, “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.  But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but indeed and in truth.” Do you love God as commanded by God? Loving God is not an emotional or mouth game. God sees all hearts under heaven. Love Him indeed and in truth.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the love of God be established in your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: In the journey of life, how you walk will determine where you sit and what you stand for.

Romans 4

Contentment, covetousness, complaint, compromise, commitment, conscience, continuity can be identified as the seven-track pointer.  The seven-track pointer will keep man before God through the journey of life. With discipline, the journey of life with attention to embrace contentment, covetousness, complaint, compromise, commitment, conscience, continuity is certain to keep man from falling, failing or faltering from the presence of God.
With contentment man is bound to be satisfied. With covetousness which is rooted in greediness should not have a place in the life of man. Complaint can be grumbling before God instead of complimenting God for His goodness. Are you one compromising by giving self to concession in the place of taking a stand for the right doing? Commitment is engaging self to God’s word unceasingly. Man is to have conscience which is the sense of right and wrong before God. Continuity is a flow and not to be breaking on and off walking in and out of the word of God.
Are you a discipline man in the word of God? To be discipline is to live life as a true disciple of Christ. Through the pages of the bible, many with discipline to engage the seven-track pointer were able to do great exploit to the glory of God. However, some started their journey engaging the seven-track pointer but could not embrace all but faulted before God.
Among all, Abraham was distinct in his journey of life. In it all, the journey of Abraham’s faithful life was accounted to him for righteousness. (Romans 4:9) One like Daniel live life to see and survive four different rulers but was not recorded for voiding the seven-track pointer in his journey. The bible identified Daniel stating, “…but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” (Daniel 11:32) Daniel knew his God as he kept in line of the seven-track pointer before God.
In life, man’s engagement to the business of God is certain to succeed. What are you giving your life to outside of God’s business? Many like Abraham and Daniel took to the business of God and they achieved success to the glory of God. In the journey of life, how you walk will determine where you sit and what you stand. God is watching to bless man that keep his walk.
Pay attention: In the journey of life, whenever contentment is missing in man’s life, covetousness sets in and feeds into complaints which become the act of rebellion. With rebellion, conscience is sealed off and compromising God’s word establishes itself. A believer that compromises is one that demonstrates lack of commitment. Lack of commitment is the evidence that there is no continuity in living life by the word of God.
With discipline adopting to the seven-track pointer, live life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to keep you in line of His word for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live life continuity in the word of God for the glory of God.

Genesis 39

Continuity can be described as, uninterrupted flow. Continuity demands unceasing discipline to maintain flow on a right path of living life for God’s glory. Through the pages of the Bible, those who continually focused on God excelled greatly to the glory of God. Continuity eschews inconvenience and answers with commitment meaning that those who continually seek God are committed with no excuse for inconvenience in every area of seeking after God. Continuity is what constantly connects us with God. Those who give themselves up to serving the Lord God continually remain constantly in His hand. The Psalmist testified, “But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more.” (Psalm 71:14) “So shall I keep Your law continually, forever and ever.” (Psalm 119:44) Hosea 12:6 buttressed, “so you, by the help of your God, return; Observe mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.” Act 6:4 laid it down for believers stating that, “we are to give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” Hebrews 13:15 admonished us, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God.”
With continuity, Joseph served God faithfully by staying away from sin that could have been hidden from man but not able to be hidden from God. Joseph was under the pressure of his master’s wife who casted longing eyes on Joseph and asking him to lie with her. Bible recorded Joseph’s response to his master’s wife, “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?” (Genesis 39:8-9) Abstaining from sin that is hidden to man but not hidden from God was Joseph continuity to avoid sin and sinning before God. Joseph stated, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.” Continuity should be a constant with consistent walking with God.
Continuity in serving God is certain to position man on the hand of God that has never fail to deliver. Seek God by serving Him continually.
In the journey of life, whenever contentment is missing in man’s life, covetousness sets in and feeds into complaints which become the act of rebellion. With rebellion, conscience is sealed off and compromising God’s word establishes itself. A believer that compromises is one that demonstrates lack of commitment. Lack of commitment is the evidence that there is no continuity in living life by the word of God. Live life continuity in the word of God for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to live in His given life to you for only His glory.