FAITH CAPSULE: Are you thinking clearly when it comes to God’s promises and plans for your life?

Numbers 32:1-42

Knowing God is to know that God hears and answers when a call is placed unto Him. When you call on Him, know what you ask for and think all of His promises to your request.
God responded to the Israelites in the bondage of Egypt with promise of land that flows with milk and honey, but they resigned themselves to a land that flows with only milk. The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great multitude of livestock. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead were regions for livestock (Numbers 32:1), they decided to settle there and not go over the Jordan to the land where God was taking them. Are you denying His promise for your life?
Denying God’s promise for your life is despising His word.
Despising the word of God is setting self for self-destruction.
God is a good God. Thinking (meditating) on His promise is being elevated for good.
Paul admonished the importance of meditating by stating, “whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” (Philippians 4:8) Promise of God is loaded with nothing but good. Has He promised you but you are not thinking (meditating) on His promise?
The Israelites could not meditate to possess but went to Moses and requested to stay on a portion of God’s promise. It is written, “Therefore they said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.” (Numbers 32:5) Can you imagine man’s dubious thinking? God was taking the Israelites to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, while the children of Reuben and Gad limited themselves, they were only thinking of their livestock (source for milk). The thought of honey no longer held their interest. Are you thinking clearly when it comes to God’s promises and plans for your life? Deny yourself, meditate the promise of God. Know it that God’s promise for you is lovely and it will deliver good report for you. God was not failure and He will not fail. Meditate His plan for you because He is having a better plan for you than the plan you have for yourself. He said in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Do not deny yourself from what God has planned for you. His thoughts for us are better than the thoughts we carry in us.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take full charge of your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Engaging love for worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God (presence of God) to shame.

John 8:21-47

Asking, seeking and knocking are the ways of praying to God to hear us. David demonstrated experience of expecting to pray to God so as to hear from God. David stated, “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself him who is godly; the Lord will hear when I call to Him.”(Psalm 4:1-3)
Clearly in the verses above, David testified deliverance from distress because in his prayer to God, he was relived.
David also pointed out that engaging love for worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God (presence of God) to shame. David must have been curious by asking for how long will man love continues for worthlessness and seek falsehood.
Are you in the religion of worthless and falsehood? How long will man hang in worthlessness and falsehood religion that does not deliver answer for praying to God?
What is it about worthlessness? What is it about falsehood that is taking charge in the life of man especially acclaimed believers?
Worthlessness can be described as: Insignificance, unimportant, irrelevance. Worthlessness is without doubt good-for-nothing.
Falsehood can be described as: Lie, untruth, misrepresentation. Falsehood is nothing but engaging act of deceiving, the act of lying or making false statements. Are you embracing self with worthless and falsehood? Seek God to express the love of God. God cannot be deceived.
Majority knows the truth but makes the choice not to believe truth. Exchange truth for lie is the evidence of man’s comfortable with emotion that does not extend to God.
Man makes the choice of not to clinch truth which is not to believe Jesus. John 8:45 recorded Jesus’ word, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
Among reasons God will not hear prayer is the result of: Failure not to believe Jesus but take to lie in the place of truth; turning to worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God to shame. Know God by clinching to truth.
–Knowing God will determine our knowing edge (knowledge) to be over the challenges of this wicked world.
–know about God is the avenue to unfailing stagnation; it is the source of limitation of moving forward and not able to have edge over challenges of this wicked world.
Know God to avoid worthless and falsehood to retain the presence of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand to deliver you from conscious or unconscious worthlessness and falsehood.

FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God is to live life to the glory of God.

Deuteronomy 6

It is written, “Seek good and not evil, that you may live; so the Lord God of hosts will be with you, as you have spoken. Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.” (Amos5:14-15) Do you fear God? Seeking good and not evil is the identity of man that fears God. Do you fear God or possess mouth that is full of the fear God?
The fear of God is to hate evil. Proverbs 8:13 stated, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” How much of His fear do you carry in your life? The fear of God is way of life. “In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.” (Proverb 14:26) Confidence is the evidence of how we fear God. God is indeed our refuge; our strong and might tower. To fear God is to trust in God and to constantly demonstrate confidence in the face of challenge. Ones that trust God fears God. To fear God is to live life to the glory of God. “The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Proverb 14:27) How can a creature not fear His Creator? How often have you been in a creative position, but not having the needed patience but destroyed your creation because it did not come out as expected?
God is a good God. He has put everything in place for us to have life in Jesus Christ and not die.
Have you ever considered the way that leads to life? It is written in Proverbs 19:23, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” There are different ways of living life but the way of God is to abide in satisfaction where lack is strange and the evil one is constantly being denied.  Jesus Christ made us to realize that He is the only way when He stated in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The only way is Jesus and ones that accept Him takes to the good way, truth and life. Without doubt, it can be concluded that it is wisdom to fear God and it is not enough to celebrate Him when there is no fear of Him. Just as the New Year continues, understand it today that having life is not by merit but by the mercy of God; allow the fear of God reign and rule over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to fear God is all your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: God sees how man is comfortable in complete liars.

Psalm 4

When Hager the Sarai’s maid was fleeing from Sarai, she had an encounter Angel of the Lord that asked her to return back to Sarai. Angel of the Lord also mentioned to Hager that she was going to bear a child. In response to the Angel of the Lord’s word, Hager stated, “Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?” (Genesis 16:13) Truly, God sees; He is a God that sees. With the testimonies of man that knows God actually knows God and knows that God sees. Once, God proved seeing all when He sent Isaiah to Hezekiah saying, “…Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.” (Isaiah 38:5) God sees. Psalm 94:9 spoke about God as God that sees, “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”
God sees how man is comfortable in complete liars; God sees that man prefers lies to truth; God sees how man makes the choice of committing to man in the place of God. By seeing, God reacted to man’s wrong doing as stated in Psalm 4:2, “How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood?” Man turning the glory of God to shame is loving worthless and seeks falsehood (untruth). So many falsehood is reigning among acclaimed believers that only knows about God but not actually know God. Giving self to falsehood is committing self to Prophet-liars, Apo-stealers, the self-ordained or man ordained of today.
Today, know God and be rest assured that God is seeing enough to know who is who under heaven. He is in position to take care of ones that does not love worthless and seek falsehood turning the glory of God to shame. Psalm 4:3 recorded God’s response to God that does not turn the glory of God to shame, “But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself him who is godly; the Lord will hear when I call to Him.”
The written word of God above points it out that God will not fail those who call on Him; God will hear those who are set apart to him. The identities of ones that are set apart to God, ones that do not seek falsehood and does not turn the glory of God to shame are stated in Psalm 4:4-5, “Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Offer the sacrifices of righteous, and put your trust in the Lord.”
Know God, live for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to set you apart to Him and for the glory of His name.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know God to ask and seek God for unfailing answer.

Daniel 6

Knowing about God is an indication of not knowing God. Obeying God means to know God. Knowing God is receiving from God.
Jesus enlightened how to receive from God when He stated, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8) Asking, seeking and knocking before God is praying to God for answer. Knowing God to obey will receive answer from God that does not fail to answer prayer. God answers prayer with yes, no or wait.
ASKING
Jacob asked and received from God which is the evidence that God is not deaf not to answer when man asks. Genesis 32:29 recorded “Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.” In the verse, “Jacob asked and God said.” Asking is an assurance when we know God as stated in the following verses:
1 John 3:22, “And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” When we do not obey His commandment we ask amiss. (James 4:2-3) 1 John 5:14, “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” Daniel is an example that demonstrated his confidence in God as he stood against the law not to pray to God. Daniel 6:10 recorded, “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.” Confidence in God will make man to have expectation with manifestation in God.
SEEK
Seeking God is finding God that is not secret to those who seek Him with all. Deuteronomy 4:29 pointed how what it takes to seek God, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Preparing heart for God is a way of seeking God to get answer. Ezra 7: 10, “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.”
Among the ways of receiving from God is: Know God to ask and seek God for unfailing answer.

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