FAITH CAPSULE: God deserves all our attention at every breath of life.

Psalm 100, 150

Praising God can never be too much. Do you believe God enough to be praising Him for your raise in your entire walk? Praising God in the morning, afternoon and night will get a believer into the presence of God. God inhabits the praises of His people. Psalm 22:3 buttressed, “But you are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.” What will it cost you to let praising Him be your only language as you enter into a new day, a new week, a new month? Without doubt, constantly praising God is what will make all the difference in every walk of life.
Knowing and understanding God is what it means to be praising God. Psalm 47:7 stated “…sing praise Him with understanding” God deserves all our attention at every breath of life. He is a jealous God. When praising God is provoked by our understanding, God will revoke challenges of the enemy that are militating against our destiny.
God’s does not sleep as the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth. Under all circumstances, the eyes of God will sought out those who seek God’s heart with praise. King David, a man after God’s heart knows that in the heart of God praising Him with understanding is raising standard against our enemies. King David was speaking from his life time experiences when he testified, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praise; so shall I be saved from my enemies.” (2 Samuel 22:4) David understood quite well what it meant to be constantly praising God. Praising God with understanding will stop every hand of enemies. Every believing believer with understanding of constant praise for God takes a position not to be a victim of enemy that confronts man on a daily basis. Through the Bible, many wars were fought and won just by praising God that is worthy of praise.
Praising Him is not just in the mouth, but in the heart through the mouth. David repeatedly confessed his constant praise of God that delivered him from every hand of his enemies. Joshua and the Israelites praised God with understanding to open up the securely Jericho as the wall of hindrance fell flat for the breakthrough of the Israelites. God is worthy of a constant praise at all time in all situation. He alone dwells in an unapproachable light. Above all, God is the only One who inhabits eternity. He alone is the Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end; the ancient of days and the great I Am that I Am. In times of challenges, understand and know that God does not expire nor limited by time. Above all the different times is the grace and privilege of life. The Psalmist declared, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” (Psalm 150:6) By virtue of the goodness and mercy of God, it cannot be too much to be praising God at every breath.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be praising God constantly.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God, love God which is the purpose of God’s commandment.

Deuteronomy 6

Commandment of God is the purpose to fear God. It is written, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” (Deuteronomy 6:1-3) Fearing God is to love Him. In life, love God by obeying all His commands. Failure to obey God is a failure to fear Him and not to love Him. God wants us to love Him as it is written, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) God is the Master creator and He does not demand from us what is impossible to do as commanded.
The purpose of commandment is written, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith.” (1 Timothy 1:5) God’s standard is set in His word which does not return to Him void and we are to live in compliance to His standard.
Ones that keep their heart with all diligence will no doubt love with pure heart. Loving with pure heart is the only access to His presence just as stated by Jesus, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8)
An acclaimed believer without good conscience is fault-full and will fall short of God’s standard. Paul the apostle acknowledges the importance of faith with good conscience when he testified before the council, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.” (Acts 23:1) As an acclaimed believer, one must avoid becoming fault-full by consciously engaging faithfulness with good conscience.
Loving from sincere faith is to be living with passion for the name of God like Phinehas the son of Eleazar who turned back the wrath of God from the children of Israel. The Israelites, while under God’s judgment for their harlotry in Moab, one of the children of Israel came with a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the entire congregation who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Phinehas reacted when he rose from among the congregation; he took a javelin and went after the man of Israel and killed him and the woman. God acknowledge Phineas’ zeal (Passion) and the plague stopped among the Israelites. (Numbers 25:6-11) Love is sincere; sincere faith is without reservation for God’s glory. True love for God is to fear. Know the purpose of His command; do not hold back your love from God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be living by the commandment of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you considering way to be humble in this challenging trouble.

1 King 21

Among ways to keep eye on God and not to become a faith failure in this challenging trouble is humility. To be humble is important to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure. Man must know God to be humble and not to be a vessel faith failure. Are you humble? It is written, “To be humble in the sight of God is to be lifted up by God.” (James 4:10) God does not oversee the humble ones but He is paying attention to the humble ones. Through the Bible, God repeatedly reversed irreversible when humility takes place in the life of man. Ahab was among many with humility before God to experience God’s mercy which reversed irreversible. When Ahab’s wicked ways positioned him in irreversible consequence before God, he became humble before God. God recognized Ahab’s humility and He reversed Ahab from calamity consequence. 1 King 21:29 recorded God’s response to Ahab’s humility, “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”
God is consistent to His word if we are committed to His word by keeping eye on God in time of challenging trouble. 2 Chronicles 7:14 recorded, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you considering way to be humble in this challenging trouble and not become a vessel of faith failure?
Philippians 2:3-8 identified numbers of way to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.  Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,  who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,  but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Humility is also a source of obedient.
Like Jesus, Paul, Moses was identified in Numbers 12:3, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.”
Be humble, keep eye on God and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: As God for the spirit of humility and not to become a victim of faith failure.

FAITH CAPSULE: Claim and confess to receive in the Word of God.

Exodus 14

The Word of God does not expire.
The Word of God does not contradict but is consistent to deliver.
The Word God exists from generation to generation.
The Word of God does not fail and there is never going to be a time for the word God to fail.
Above all, the Word of God is true to accomplish.
The book of Isaiah 55:11 testified, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” The Israelites were on their way out of bondage to God’s Promised Land for them as the Red Sea was in position to deny the Israelites. As a result of the Red Sea fear was raised as faith sank in the heart of the Israelites. Moses responded with the word of encouragement as stated, “…do not be afraid, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13-14)  God gave His Word of salvation to the Israelites through Moses.
Are you unstable and clouded because of fear?
With faith and no fear, man shall see to receive deliverance and preservation in the Word of God. Fear, distraction, inconsistency and lack of commitment in serving the Lord are among the forces that will always deny a believer from standing still. Wherever you have been told that there is no way, In these days of challenges, know to say no to fear; take to a stand-still and begin to see a way in the Word of God.
God placed His word in Jeremiah’s mouth, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to destroy and to throw down, and To build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:10) The Word of God in Jeremiah’s mouth enabled Jeremiah to engage and endure for his divine assignment to the glory of God. The Word of God was God’s representative through Jeremiah. The Word of God positioned Jeremiah in the place to see and be able. God wants His children to exercise a creative faith by seeing possibility in the place of impossibility. God has never gone to sleep and He will not fall asleep concerning your situation. Take to Moses’ advice in Exodus 14:14, “The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”  Claim and confess to receive in the Word of God. Know in faith that your miracle is at hand.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open the eyes of your heart and to see when He speaks to you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Stand firm in Christ is to know Christ.

Philippians 3

Challenging trouble of today will make a believer to move into avenue of faith failure. Keeping eye on God is way to not to become a faith failure. Will you allow challenging trouble of today move you from remaining in faith? Jesus questioned faith situation when He returns as stated, “…when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)
Focusing on the Word of God is crucial not become a faith failure. Jesus prayed for Peter not to be a victim of challenging trouble that was going to move Peter into faith failure, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail (Luke 22:32) Challenging trouble of today is bound to any believer when keeping eye on low prize in the place of keeping eye on the highest prize in heaven.
How are you taking step in the face of challenging trouble of today?
Take note that living in life today is like a race that delivers prize for how race is engaged.
1 Corinthians 9:24 admonished us about race and it is prize stating, “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.” 2 Timothy 4:7 recorded, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Paul identified what it takes not to be moved out of faith into failure as stated in Acts 20:24, “But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
Like Paul, it is possible to disallow any challenging trouble and not move out of the right track of the race of life. Without doubt, to complete the race for the highest prize is to be keeping eye on God.
Keep eye on God by:
Stand firm in Christ
Standing firm in Christ is to know Christ and know to come out of the ignorance of knowing about Christ. Standing firm is to know that Jesus is coming back. Standing firm should be directly related to where to sit and how to walk in this wicked world. Paul said it all in Philippians 3:20-21, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body…”  Know Christ in the midst of challenging trouble of today; give self entirely to the Word of God. God does not ask from us what cannot be done. We are to do His word and not be a vessel of faith failure.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to be a faith failure.