FAITH CAPSULE: Be occupied by the presence of God. 

John 1:1-35

Day after day, week after week, and month after month.
To be alive is the grace and mercy of God.
Undoubtedly, God does not own any creation but, all own God to live for His glory.
What occupies you determines living for God.
What is your desire to occupy you?
To be occupied by the word of God is in a position to live by the word of God.
The word of God is God.
John 1:1-3 informs all, “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. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
Jesus is the word of God.
Whoever is occupied by the entrance of the word of God is bound to live for God.
Revelation 3:12 records the word of Jesus, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
God, the perfect creator, does not force anyone to gain entrance into the life of one.
God is not a slave master but a saving God.
Why not take a position to allow the word of God into your life?
Why not?
One that allows the entrance of the word of God shall become built to gain the inheritance among the sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
One occupied by the word of God is to gain the presence of God, live by His word, and retain His presence.
The word of God is not a destination for the tips of the mouth but for the heart.
One not occupied by the word of God lives by the way of the world.
It is a wicked world covered by the darkness of evil.
The wicked world demands the light of God to navigate and arrive at the divine assignment of God.
Jesus, the word of God, is the Lamb of God.
Revelation 21:23 states, “The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”
John the Baptist once identified Jesus as the Lamb of God when Jesus approached him, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
The word of God is light.
Jesus is the Lamb of God.
Jesus is the light of God.
God is light. 1 John 1:5 records, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”
Pray for the understanding of God.
Psalm 119:130 records, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”

Prayer for today: Ask the light of God to gain entrance into your life to occupy you against the darkness of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be on the ground is to live for God.

Psalm 150

GROUND OF WORSHIP IS NOT A MARKET
Seeking God by serving Him.
Psalm 150:6 states, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
At every moment, not just at breath, praise the Lord!
Time belongs to God, but the clock belongs to the world.
Advancing in the days of God bestowed in you, know God to live right before Him.
For example, on the ground of worshiping God, seek Him right, not seek Him in your way of life.
The ground of worship is not a marketplace of selling and buying.
Are you buying and selling on the grounds of worshiping God?
It is not how long or short you have made worshiping ground a buying and selling ground directly or indirectly, but at an appointed time, there shall be consequences.
Jesus reacted to selling in the temple, “Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.” (Mark 11:15)
Lies, deception, and manipulation are ways of selling and buying on majority grounds of worship.
Does that sound like you?
Do not be everyone, but always be yourself.
Know that God oversees all in their endeavors.
Live for God as a way of life, not only on the day of worshiping God.
Pray to live for God.
DO NOT WORRY, BUT YOU SHALL PREVAIL 
Waiting not to gain expectation is not how long, but how far God has brought you.
Give glory to God for His grace that has brought you this far.
To be alive today is not your right. 
Day after day, week after week, month after month, are the privilege of God to be alive.
Do not waver.
Do not worry.
One not knowing God is worrying instead of worshiping God.
Matthew 6:25-27 speaks to all, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…”  
God will not deny sincere attention to His word.
Know to give attention to God and not to worry.
Give regard to God
Ask that the grace of God shall not expire over your life. 
LIVE LIFE IN THE DIRECTION OF GOD
To read is not hearing and hearing the evidence of studying the word to live obediently by the word of God.
The word of God is deliverance and preservation.
Turning into the word of God is obedience to God.
In a time of sin and iniquity against the word of God, Noah received a word of direction from God to build an ark for his separation from untimely death.
Noah turned in the direction of God. The Bible states that Noah: “…went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.” (Genesis 7:16)
Ask that you turn to the word of God to shut you in and not become a victim of the wicked world of sin before God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to engage the word of God as your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: All are to live for God, to exist for His glory.

Psalm 27

With desire, not just determination, pray to live for God.
David, a man after the heart of God, was seeking God to declare in Psalm 27:4, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.”
The prayer of David is the prayer with the heart to seek God diligently.
It is the character of one who lives for God.
One that lives for God is the testimony of living by the will of God for all.
Revelation 4:11 confirms, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
All need to know the will of God that is for His creation to exist for Him (to live life for God)
Are you living for God?
The determination to live for God is not possible.
The determination can fail and will not work because the enemy, the only anabolous Devil, is doing all possible to gain many along with him into hell.
One with desire backed with prayer will not miss God.
Determination failed Peter, but the prayer of God delivered him.
All are to live for God.
One who does not live for God gives no regard to God.
Psalm 28:5 warns: Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.
All are to live for God, to exist for His glory.
A prayer with understanding is the key to seeking God diligently to gain the blessings of God.
Matthew 6:33 states, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Prayerfully, all are to strive not to live a life of waste that misses heaven.
Jesus speaks to all in Luke 13:24, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
Paul also testified that he also strives. (Act 24:16)
Praying to live for God is crucial to be continual and not to miss out on God.
PRAYER
Ask that the spirit of God occupy your heart and always be after the things of God.
Ask from the depth of your heart that the desire to live for God be activated and established in your life.
Ask that you will continually be found in the center of the will of God all the days God bestowed upon you.
Ask that you will know to give regard to God in all areas of life.
Ask that the strength of God to strive and not live a life of waste become your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is healing and giving in the word of God.

Psalms 138, 148

The word of God is God.
The word of God is power.
God made heaven and earth by His word.
Psalm 138:2 informs that God magnified His word above all His name.
In the name of God, the characters of His word are undeniable when engaged with understanding. 
The word of God is with healing.
Matthew 8:16 records a demonstration of the healing character of the word of God when Jesus had an encounter to heal, “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.” 
The word of God is power.
The word of God will do and undo by casting out all that does not represent God in the life of anyone that the word answers for.
Also, just a word of God is enough for healing, deliverance, and preservation. 
Healing, the character of the word of God, is evident through the pages of the Bible. Psalm 107:20 documents, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
With understanding, know to call on God for His healing word. Isaiah 43:26 encourages all, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”  
God is the same yesterday and tomorrow and He does not forget but will answer when called on Him according to the promise in His word.
The word is giver.
Whatever God wants to give out is in His word to give one an understanding and ask for manifestation of what the word of God carries. 
For example, the word of God will give comfort or light to meet the expectation for one with the understanding that asks from Him.
Psalm 119:50 testifies, “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” Are you with the expectation to get from the word of God? With understanding, know the word of God to ask for what the word of God will give.
Psalm 119:130 testifies, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” With understanding, know to ask for the word of God that can give light for navigating through the darkness and not to become a victim of falling. 
Also, one who gives self to the word of God will be built up to inherit as the approved one before God. Acts 20:32 records, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
Give yourself to the word of God to build you, to receive from the word of God that will give unfailingly.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to engage His word as your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer calls for faith to be gained from God.

Luke 18: 1-30

A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and Knocking before God.
To be seeking God with prayer demands praying in the word of God.
Prayer calls for faith to gain from God.
The word of the apostle speaks to all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
What is it that you are asking God to change in your life?
To seek God with prayer demands giving self to continual prayer, a persistent prayer before God. 
A persistent prayer before God calls for Asking, Seeking, and knocking before God until the answer is delivered.
It is the character of God not to ignore the calling on Him.
God always answers yes and no or waits when called on Him with persistent prayer.
The parable of Jesus in Luke 18:1-8 records for all to know that God is a caring God that will not ignore persistence just as a judge could not.
A widow needed justice for an adversary. 
The widow prompts the response of the action of the judge.
Luke 18:4-5 documents, “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward, he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
Jesus speaks in response to the judge, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
The expectation with no manifestation in sight, there is reason to engage in persistence and knocking that is the evidence of FAITH.
In the time of expectation for manifestation, it is worth knowing that:
FAITH should not be a mouth noise.
FAITH is not a fanfare (a display or elaboration) but to engage God to experience manifestation for expectation.
FAITH is not an effort to impress anyone but to press on to experience God.
With faith, be one with persistent prayer by asking, seeking, and knocking as the word of God commands.
Give heart to God.
With heart given to God, eyes will observe His ways as Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Ask that you give heart to God, see in His ways, and live a life for God, not a waste of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enables you to know His way in all the days He has given you.