FAITH CAPSULE: Word is love as commanded by God is of faith.

1 John 3

The word love is rooted in faith.
When Jesus comes back, will He find faith (Love)? (Luke 18:8)
Do you love as requested by God?
Jesus questioned, “
Do you love others?
1 John 3:11 states, “For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
Many claim to believe that loving one another is not in heart.
Are you in the Lord? One that claims the word of God by not living the Lord is not evidence of living by the word of God. 1 John 2:5 states, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.”  Loving should be the key to the life of a believer.
Jesus gave the parable, “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance, a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise, a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion.” (Luke 10: 30-33)
A man in the parable was attacked and wounded by thieves.
A priest and Levite saw the wounded but passed on the other side. Do you love the kind of priest and Levite that passed on and did not help?
An unbeliever demonstrated love as stated in Luke 10:33, “But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Acclaimed believers in the name of love walked away, but the sinner, a certain Samaritan, answered and demonstrated the love.
The sinner had compassion like Jesus.
Are you being deceived by church title or by a man-designed position in the church? One can be a priest or Levite and not answer to the task of a priest or Levite.
The certain Samaritan gave care when he supplied materials and paid the bill in full.
Can you answer the question of Jesus?
The question of Jesus in Luke 10:36 states, “So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?”
Serving to please God is not only in religious activity.
Serving to please God demands to love others.
John 13:34-35 buttressed, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this, all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Living by His command is the evidence of a true follower of Jesus.
All must love as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live engaging the command of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Doubting in place of faith does not grow. 

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Faith comes by hearing the word of God. (Romans 19:17)
However, a failure not to give to the word of God is denying having faith to grow and giving to doubting.
Doubt is an avenue of setting self for destruction.
Labor the word of God to deny doubt in your thoughts or actions.
Doubting is the avenue to self-destruction.
Do not doubt, do not limit, or despise the power of the word of God. 
Proverbs 13:13 warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”  
With patience, living by the word of God will terminate struggle or challenge in any area of life. 
Psalm 34:19 buttresses, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
The word of God is the power to do and undo as directed to life challenges.
Why doubt what the word said? 
Hebrews 4:12 describes the word, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
Give yourself to the word of God to deny doubt in your thoughts or actions.
Word is indeed living, powerful, and sharper to terminate challenges to the glory of God.
Will you give yourself to the word of God?
To engage the word without a doubt will position one to convert mockery to a miracle.
The Bible records the word of God, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)
God is true to His word for all that will take to Him. 
Why do you allow doubt?
Do not doubt to limit or despise the power of the word of God.  
Turn to the word of God to answer you if you will work the word of God.
Working the word of God is labor. 
Laboring the word of God is evidence of obedience to the word of God.
Laboring the word of God is the choice to do the word of God instead of doing what the world says. 
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 states, “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
The word of God confirms the reason for engaging the word laboriously and not doubting the word of God. 
Laboring the word of God will deliver the blessing of God.
Do not doubt the word of God, but yourself do the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your ears of understanding against doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking God by His word will not fail to locate God.

Exodus 19, Psalm 47

Sanctification before the sacrifice is the evidence of understanding and knowledge to locate God without failure. 
When God sent Samuel to go and anoint, to separate David as a living sacrifice, He sent him with a message for Jesse, “…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 message, it is clear that sanctification (consecration, dedication) comes before sacrifice. 
Also, 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), Throughout the Bible, sanctification always has come before sacrifice.
Samuel and Moses called for sanctification before the sacrifice of God.
With understanding and knowledge, let sanctification be in place before sacrifice to assess or provoke the hand of God in your favor. 
Are you with a devotion mind to surrender before God?
That is, are you with sanctification with the mind of sacrifice before God?
Seek God with dedication (sanctification), expecting your sacrifice (surrender) to become acceptable.
For example, sacrificial praise is rooted in sanctification for one to gain the presence of God.
How is your praise before God when you come before him?
Psalm 47:7 admonishes all about praising God, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” 
Understanding sacrificial praise rooted in devotion (sanctification) before God will gain the presence of God. 
Praising God should not necessarily be in noise-making; praising God should not be an entertaining man; praising God does not have to be in self-pride but lifting the name of God. 
If believers confess with sincere and genuine hearts (the act of dedication before God) then praising is a sacrifice to locate the presence of God. 
God inhabits the praises of His people. 
When God is in your sacrificial praises, your enemies will become ambushed, and victory will become your portion. 
Who should praise God? 
Without any exemption, all should praise God while having a life.
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, those who fear Him should praise Him. Praise Him with the voice of joy, harp, and melody; praise Him among the people or in your secret closet. Psalm 34:1 states, “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Praising Him all the time will raise you to Him. 
Live life by the word of God to gain His presence in all your ways.

Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding of God to be established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to the order of God as a way of life.

Numbers 20

Walking in disorder will prevent one from getting to the promise of God.
In life, no man is above giving to be giving oneself to the order of God.
Once, Moses received an order from God but delivered with his disorder.
Numbers 20:8 records the order of God for Moses, “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.”  
Moses gave himself to disorder by striking instead of speaking to the rock.
Moses called the people rebels. 
To be out of the order of God is to be out of direction to the promise of God.
Moses was to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land but could not step into the Promised Land.
In the word of God, get yourself in order of God.
The word of God is in order, and the word of God is consistently constant to bring orderliness to life of obedience to His word.
Are you approaching life by keeping the order of God without failure?
In the word of God, there is no compromise to displace order with the disorder. 
From January till today, placing disorder in the place of the order will deliver a negative result. 
Nothing that is not good is bound to bring out no good. 
As an acclaimed believer of the word of God, there should not be an excuse to give self to disorder. 
If you have started any journey in order, there is a need to maintain orderliness to experience a positive result. 
Did you start the year in order? 
Have you switched to disorder this year?
One in disorder is bound to set outside of the purpose of God.
With God in place as the leader, there should be order. 
Will you allow God to take the leadership of your life?
Psalm 32:8 encourages the promise in the word of God that says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
Psalm 32:8 encourages the promise in the word of God that says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” 
God waits to lead in the life of all who will give themselves to His leadership without force but by choice.
God is God, and He is God who acts for those who wait for Him.
Today, in your journey, know that the order of God is direction, like the password that will access one to a breakthrough.
Challenges such as opposition, hindrance, and confusion are inevitable, but giving oneself to the order of God will lead to the right way.
Before God, no excuse counts for disobedience.
Walking in disorder is outside of the order of God.
Today, place yourself in order in the word of God to reach the calling of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you in place of order.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know that nothing is too difficult for God to do.

Mark 10: 46-52

Are you too quiet to ask?
The word of God states, “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.” (Mathew 7:7-8)
Do you know to quit and not be able to persist?
Challenges or situations demand crying out to God for His intervention.
Bible times, a roadside beggar decided to cry out to Jesus for his deliverance and come out of his dust location.
The Bible records one blind Bartimaeus Timaeus sitting on the dusty roadside.
Lameness kept him grounded.
To be grounded on the roadside is to be decorated with dust and be denied living a meaningful life.
Are you living life in a dusty roadside situation?
Do you know for sure that the God of yesterday is the same today?
Know that nothing is too difficult for God to do.
The Bible records that the lame man refused to be quiet by calling out to Jesus, “When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”(Mark 10:47) Despite his condition, all he needed to do to have his circumstances turned around was to listen, hear and see that his deliverance was at hand.
He cried out and did not remain quiet.
Are you one who hears but cannot see past your hearing?
The day that the blind man heard that Jesus was near, he saw deliverance from his ground of stagnation, “And throwing his garment, he rose and came to Jesus.” (Mark 10:50)
When the blind man threw his garment of dust, shame departed from him.
Do you hear and not see that the Lord is nearer to you than you know?
Bartimaeus Timaeus cried out to Jesus and received his sight.
It was mentioned that he immediately followed Jesus on the road.
It is impossible to follow Jesus with good sight and open eyes and not see the goodness of God.
The story of the blind man changed for the better because he regained his sight to follow Jesus.
Do not let Him pass by you without crying out to Him.
Cry out for His help until He gives heed to your crying.
Ignore the reaction of the multitude in an attempt to shut your crying out.
Bartimaeus Timaeus, the roadside beggar, became the roadside miracle man when he refused to be quiet but loud.
The “road duster” became the “roadmaster” when he cried out loud at the God Master.
God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
God is not a partial God not to answer to calling Him.
Call out to God alone.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to miss your day of deliverance.