FAITH CAPSULE: Do not stop or slow down from celebrating Jesus.

Luke 24

All matters of celebrating Jesus should be celebrated every day, not once a year.
For example, Easter celebration without knowledge and understanding is mere religion and not a continual celebration of the reality of Christ, His sacrifice for all.
The Christmas celebration is the life Jesus brought to the world for those who believe in and accept Jesus.
The Easter celebration of Jesus should be every day, knowing that Jesus has risen!
Living the testimony that Jesus has risen is a testimony to the glory of God.
keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 admonishes all to keep the testimonies of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
With knowledge and understanding, keep the testimonies that Jesus has risen!
Mark 9:31 records the teaching of Jesus, “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. ‘ ” And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.” 
Jesus experienced mockery. He was scourged and was spit on, killed, but raised on the third day. (Mark 10:14)
The experience of Jesus is the reason for the Easter celebration.
With understanding, it should be the testimony of living for the glory of God, the evidence of acknowledging the life of Jesus, which brought freedom from the bondage of sin.
Are you an acclaimed believer or an unbelieving believer that does not live the testimony of God?
Consciously or unconsciously, are you betraying Him?
Are you betraying Jesus by denying Him? 
Peter blatantly denied Jesus three times to avoid suffering with Him. Acclaimed believers identify with Jesus, but none want to suffer with Him or suffer just like He did. 
Are you making noise as a believer but yet living as a deceiver?
Let deception not be your way of life because God sees it all! 
With humiliation, Jesus carried the cross, went to the grave, and arose from the grave on the third day so that all who cross over with Him will not fall and fail to miss heaven. 
The account of His humiliation is not to provoke emotional sobbing.
Going to die and rising should invoke engaging the reality of Christ. 
Live obediently, giving regard to Jesus for going to the cross for all to have life abundantly.
How are you living obediently?
Without humility, one cannot become obedient to the Word of God.
Today, gain the understanding that “…He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
Live life in obedience to God!
Know to believe the Living Word of God.
A believer should understand and know that the celebration of Jesus should be a way of life.
Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live life for His glory.  

FAITH CAPSULE: 

1 Samuel 13 

Knowing to be waiting on God is not a waste of time.
Knowing to ask, seek, and knock is waiting on God, not rushing ahead of God.To be waiting on God is walking, and not running in the place for walking.
To be waiting on God is walking with God.
Isaiah 40:31 records, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
In waiting on God, count not on the clock but on the move of God.
It is the man who creates the clock, but time belongs to God.
Looking into the clock is not waiting on God but an avenue to self-destruction.
Looking into the timing of God is waiting on God, the evidence of obedience to God.
A believer in God must understand to wait and endure a period of waiting on God.
Waiting can be a delay, but never a waste of time.
Saul could not wait for the command of the Prophet of God (Samuel) when he told Saul to wait for seven days, the time of God.
God testified about David when Saul failed to wait on God. 
God spoke through Samuel for the disobedience of Saul, “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David knows the heart of God with understand to wait on God before making moves. 
The Bible documents David could not run in a valley of scary but walk through.
Psalm 23:4 records, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
Know to wait on God.
At the time of waiting, continually meditate on the word of God that does not return to Him void.
Without a doubt, meditate to activate your faith and not become wasted.
With meditation, you shall gain the strength of God and good courage, as some scriptural verses point out:
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.”
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:5, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”
Hosea 12:6, “… wait on your God continually.”
The word of God is strong and is enough to terminate struggle in the life of anyone that it gains entrance.
Word of God is not foolish, but the foolishness of man not to wait is to become wasted in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand upon you to stand in waiting on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not live far from God.

Psalm 91

One who is far from God is set to be lost from God.
To be far from God does not give regard to God as a way of life.
To be far from God is a character not to reflect on what God has done, what He is doing, or what He will do.
Giving regard to God continually is the way to be alive.
God is near to all, but many are continually far from God.
One far from the way of God exists on the route of the lost by missing out on the promises of God for all.
Those not far from God dwell and abide in the secret place of the Most High God.
Psalm 91:1 admonishes,“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 
The word of God is true to perform and not void for those who trust and hope in Him.
One who is far from Him is a character of one who undermines the effectiveness of the word of God.
The disciples of Jesus undermine the truth that Jesus will be crucified, die, and rise from the dead on the third day.
The wickedness of the acclaimed believers is evidence not to live by the word of God but to live as a sinner.
One who lives as a sinner is in the bondage of sin.
Do you know God (not to know about), not to be far from Him, to be free from the bondage of sin?
John 8:32 encourages, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Prayerfully strive to know God and become free from the bondage of sin.
Know that Jesus is the truth to know, He is the way to walk, and live a life abundantly as Jesus promised.
John 10:10 informs all, stating, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Jesus paid it all for all to live for God, by living close and not far from Him.
Jesus identified Himself as the way.
In John 14:6, Jesus introduced Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Why not engage the word of God to draw nearer to God as the way not to live a life of waste, a life with no rest or peace?
Once God answered the asking of His way by Moses, “And He said, ‘My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Responsibility is the price to be great, doing exploits to the glory of God.
Take it responsibly, as the price, know and live not far from God.

Prayer for today: Pray against living far from.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you giving regard to God not to live a life of waste?

Matthew 16

The resurrection of Christ should be ongoing without stop.
Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus continually.
Keep the mind from living a life of waste.
It is costly that God sent His beloved Son to die for the sins of all.
At the baptism of Jesus by John, Mark 1:11 records, “Then a voice came from heaven, ‘You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
God endured a sacrifice of His beloved son to bring all to Him and not die the death of sin.
Are you a believer living by the word of God, who sets the mind not to live a life of waste?
God sent His beloved Son so that none will miss the presence of God eternally.
Indeed, sin is a sinner before God; it sets one away from God.
Romans 3:23 confirms, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Evidently, all without sin will not be short of the glory of God.
God, in His goodness and mercy, makes it available by the blood of Jesus, so that all will not become victims of sin, driven away from Him.
Jesus paid the price of sin for all, but the majority are not living away from sin.
It is the will of God that Jesus went to the cross.
If Jesus had the will of His own, He would not have gone to the cross.
Matthew 26:39 documents of Jesus:“He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, ‘O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
The will of Jesus cannot override the will of God.
Matthew 26:42, “Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
The plan of God is for all to live for Him without sin.
However, with sin and no sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, it is not possible to see God.
Evidently, all sins will not be looked over by God.
Accept Jesus, live away from sin, and sin not to live a life of waste.
God is not a joker.
The word of God shall not pass without being established.
God is a forgiver, but there will be no excuse for sin and iniquity.
God is waiting for all to reconnect with Him.
Are you striving not to miss God?
It is not a fable nor a story with no root; God will judge the world of sin and sinning at His appointed time.
Luke 13:24 admonishes all, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
Paul the apostle testifies,“I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.” (Acts 24:16)
Easter time is a way of life, the reflection of the pain of God for the blood of the beloved Son.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you so that your faith will not fail.

FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the truth, He came for truth, and He lived truthfully.

John 14

Do you know the truth?
Truth is nothing but true.
Truth does not deceive nor manipulate.
Truth will not tell lies, and telling lies is not in alignment with it.
One in distance to truth is close to missing in the way of life.
How are you responding to the truth that comes your way daily?
Truth will teach and lead when it is accepted.
Do you know the truth?
Jesus introduced Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”(John 14:6)
Jesus is the truth, He came for truth, and He lived truthfully.
He was, and He is still the truth and cannot fail.Without doubt, if the world chooses to stand against His truth, He is more than able to overcome.
All should live in truth.
If living in truth is impossible, God would not have demanded living truthfully in this wicked world.
Jesus is the truth.
Living in truth is living in the way of God.
Jesus came to life and led the way for God.
The way of God is not the way of the wicked world, but He has come to lead all into His ways. The truth of the matter is that truth is threatening; Jesus was a threat because of His truth.
Truth is threatening.
Truthfully, Jacob’s love for Joseph was more than his love for his brothers, and it was not a sin. Jacob’s truth about his love for Jacob was not a secret; it was not a lie or an evil agenda, but the brothers could not accommodate the truth.
Genesis 37:4 records, “… when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.”
When Joseph had a dream about his brothers, he told the truth and the way in his dream. The truth about the dream will position Joseph as the head of the whole family without exception.
Joseph revealed the truth about his dream, but his brothers responded, stating,“…Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.”(Genesis 37:8)
The truth about the dream prompted his brothers to reject Joseph and eventually sell him into slavery.
Truthfully, according to his dream, he became the head of his family.
In this wicked world, any attempt to have truth covered or eliminated will only last for a period before truth takes over.
Jesus speaks to all, as He spoke to Jews who believed Him, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”(John 8:31-32)
Accept truth, let it teach and lead you.

Prayer for today: Ask that the truth of God reign and rule your life.