FAITH CAPSULE: Does the word of God means to your navigation in the world of darkness?

Psalm 119:129-136, John 1:1-18

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. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” (John 1:1-5) Without doubt the Word of God is the life and the life was the light of men. The world is wickedly clouded with darkness and the only way to navigate to the expected end is to be filled with the Word of God.
The Word that was in the beginning with God is also the commandment and the law of God.
Does the word of God means to your navigation in the world of darkness?
The bible admonished the word, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105) For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life. (Proverbs 6:23)
The light that we all need is here and also speaks across the pages of the Bible for anyone that will hear. The light of God is needed in the world that is clouded by darkness. It is the light of God in man that gives direction and clarity that becomes man’s portion. With word in man there will be no falling for darkness. With word man shall be able to stand and not be a victim falling flat.
Are you allowing the Word of God and not the word of world in your life?
The word of the world is like striking a match which blows off at the slightest hiss of the wind.
The Word of God is a light that is untouchable by blows at the slightest hiss of the wind unlike word of world.
The Word of God in the life of man keeps man from becoming a victim of the love of wicked word.
Do you have a place for the Word of God to be a part in your life?
Jesus the word of God came to give life and to give it more abundantly. (John10:10)
Are you granting Him access into your life?
The Psalmist confirms the need for the word to enter stating, “The entrance of the word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130) How can the Word enter without spending time to study the Word? Allow the Word of God to accesses you and it will generate light to navigate the wicked darkness of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace that grants word to access your life for navigating through darkness world and not be a victim of wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Worshiping God is to be separated to God.

Genesis 12

The will of God for man is to serve God by worshiping God. Worshiping God is to be separated to God. The love of things of the world is a way not to worship God. However, he who does the will of God abides forever. The book of 1 John 2:15-17 buttressed, “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.”
Worshiping God is separation unto God and it is an evidence of believing God. To be separated unto God is to find Him. Seeing God is impossible where one is surrounded by the filth of this wicked world. Seeking (worshiping) God demands all of our being and those that are able to seek Him diligently shall be rewarded because He is a rewarder of those who seek Him diligently. (Hebrews 11:6) Separation unto His command is always a high order of worship whenever man obediently becomes separated to the word of God.
Abraham separated as commanded by God when he answered to God’s calling to depart his country, his family and his father’s house to a land unknown to him. (Genesis 12:1-2) Every separation to God counts before God and commits God to count on one for uncommon or special assignment. Abraham’s separation to the word of God was accounted to him for righteousness because it was evidence that he believed God. (Romans 4:3)
When man conspicuously responds to word of God by denying engagement to the love of world it becomes separation to God. Worshiping God is separation to God. Separation to God is the avenue which leads to assessing and possessing all that God has in place for any that is able to obediently separate to Him.
God is not a slave master who will force us to worship and it makes it the more reason why engaging worshiping God is a choice to be made by individual. Abraham could not substitute anything for following in line of worship when he repeatedly separated himself fully to every word of God.
As an acclaimed believer, are you separating to word of God?
Is it your love of the things of the world at the center of your life?
What is it that is denying you to worship God?
Until you are empty of world of things in your life you cannot have a space for God in your life.
Worshiping God is living godly. Godliness is counting on nothing but the One that sustains the breath in us.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of worshiping God to become your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: One who is self-full cannot be possibly steadfast.

Luke 5:1-32

Jesus was teaching when He stated, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21)
Does that sound like you?
The will of Father is to serve by following Jesus fully.
Is it your desire to serve God by following Jesus fully?
To follow Him fully (to serve God) demands to be steadfast.
One who is self-full cannot be word full.
Following fully is not a one time or a on and off engagement.
Following the word demands to be steadfast which is to be fixed in direction, firm in purpose and fixed in intensity.
To be steadfast in following the living word of God is not a self-satisfying engagement and one who is self-full cannot be possibly steadfast.
King David realized the importance and the need for one to be steadfast when he called on God in Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
A steadfast spirit is what caused Caleb and Joshua to follow God fully. Caleb and Joshua refused to flow with the crowd confessing negative against the word of God which promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. They followed the word fully and confessed positive in the face of Moses and all the people. By virtue of their positive confession, God declared, “My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.” (Numbers 14:24) One who follows the commanding word of God follows God fully.
At the time of God’s calling of Elisha through Elijah, “…He left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, ‘Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.’ And he said to him, ‘Go back again, for what have I done to you?’ So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” (1 Kings 19:20-21)
Elisha left all behind when he answered God’s calling. In answering, Elisha demonstrated steadfastness. He emptied self by getting rid of all that could have held him back. Elisha used his oxen’s equipment as a boiler to boil the slaughtered oxen. Elisha followed the business of the Kingdom steadfastly. Whatever man cannot forsake for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven is what will cause Heaven to forsake man from becoming a qualified candidate for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Be steadfast in following fully and be rewarded in Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to create in you a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Sing praises to God while you have your being.

 Psalms 47, 100

Acceptable sacrificial praise is full of joy and it glorifies God in whose presence there is joy forevermore. God is holy and He will not respond where there is sin.
When God sent Samuel to go and anoint David, He sent him with a communication for Jesse the father of David. It is written, “…I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.’ Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.” (1 Samuel 16:5) In this communication it is clear that sanctification comes before sacrifice.
Once, the children of Israel were to present themselves before God, “So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.’” (Exodus 19:14-15) It is proven throughout the Bible that God has to be approached without sin.
What kind of praise have you been rendering to God when you come before him?
Praise is not noise-making, it is not keeping time to the music with our hands, it is not a performance, it is not drawing attention to oneself, and it is not in the choice of nice words with a nice beat. Thank God for Jesus who has taken away our sins. If believers will confess with sincere and genuine hearts, in the name of Jesus, praising Him will bring the presence of God because He is a God that inhabits the praises of His people.
When God is in your praises, your enemies will be ambushed, chains will be broken; victory will become your portion.
Who should praise God? You should sing praises to God while you have your being. The Psalmist said so, “I will sing praises to the Lord while I have my being.” (Psalm 146:2) In several pages of the Bible, it is written that those who fear Him should praise Him. Praise Him with the voice of joy, with harp and melody; praise Him among the people or in your secret closet. Psalm 34:1, “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Praising Him all the time will raise you up to Him.
Whether believers like it or not, God has spoken; He has laid down His expectations that will generate manifestation. He will not come again to lower the standard or raise it. When believers choose to do just as He asked, the result will match His promises. Coloring the word of God, taking the word of God out of context, or adding to the word of God will only take a believer through emotional ruin. Approach the word just as God prescribed and He would be found by man.
God is truly faithful indeed.

Prayer for today: Ask for acceptable praise to God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is lined up in order.

 Numbers 20:1-13

The word of God is lined up in order and the word is constantly with order. In the word of God there is no compromise to displace order with disorder.
From January till today placing disorder in the place of order will deliver no good or positive result. In life, nothing that is not good is bound to bring out no good but bad. As an acclaimed believer of God’s word, one must take to God’s order instead of disorder. If you have started the journey of the year in order, there is a need to maintain order and get a positive result.
Have you started the year in order?
Have you switched to disorder in the course of the year journey?
If yes, you are bound to set outside of God’s purpose for your life.
With God in place as the leader, there has to be order in place. Are you allowing Him to take the leadership?
God is waiting to take a lead in our life. God is God that acts for those who wait for Him. Are you willing to move according to His order? God’s order is direction; God’s order is the password that will access all to breakthrough in the journey of life. In life, challenges such as opposition, hindrance, confusion are inevitable but taking to God’s order is the overcoming way.
Walking in disorder will deny one from getting to the Promise Land. Once Moses received an order from God but delivered it in disorder. It is written, “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 20:8) Moses went and struck instead of speaking to the rock. He went further and spoke to the people by calling them rebels. Out of God’s order is out of God’s direction. Moses was to lead the Israelites to the Promise Land but was denied from entering into the Promised Land because he went out of order that was given to him by God. Moses was a giant in the hand of God. It does not matter how strong or weak one is in the hand of God, whenever disorder sets in one’s step, one is bound to be off set in God’s divine’s purpose’s for one.
It can never be too late to cry unto God for life to be restored. Turn your face to the Lord and pray for restoration in God’s order.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s mercy that keeps man in God’s order.