FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing the truth is evidence of having faith.  

John 14

God is an awesome God to love for His goodness and mercy.
Get to know God, fear Him, and live free. 
One faith will fear God, live in truth, and be free to live life for the glory of God. 
The word of God is the source of God and documents every reason to know God with fear. 
Get to know God, fear Him, and live free. 
The word of God is God. 
John 1:1 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
Many claim to know about the word of God, quote the word of God, or sing the word of God but lack freedom. 
The word of Jesus to the Jews also speaks to acclaim believers today, “Then Jesus said to those 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) 
Are you an acclaimed believer the word speaks to?
Do you know God or know about God?
One who knows about the truth does not know the truth.
One who knows the truth is free.
One who quotes or sings the word of God with no character walking in the word of God is evidence of knowing about God but not knowing God.
The Bible states, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Jesus is the truth of God. 
John 14:6 testifies, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 
Know the truth, the word of God, to be free in this wicked world.
Knowing the truth is evidence of having faith.
Do you have faith?
Have faith to become faithful as one rooted in knowing the word of God.
The source of having faith is hearing and hearing the Word of God. 
One who lives by the word of God is with the testimony of seeking God diligently.
Romans 10:17 declares, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Hearing and hearing the word of God is the coming of faith, but when there is no hearing, hearing faith will depart from one.
Continually, are you hearing the word of God to know God and be faithful?
The source of faith is the living word of God.
Faith is the living power that produces a living proof in the life of one who is faithful.
Faith is a spiritual power but not a philosophy or ideology. 
Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
Have faith by giving yourself to the word of God, fear God, and be free in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to give yourself to the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God is in place for all.

Exodus 15

The mercy of God does not result in merit but in the goodness of God. 
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by His creations to obtain His mercy.
God testifies to His mercy, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” (Romans 9:14-16)
The mercy of God is in place for all, and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one to experience His mercy.
The mercy of God could not be displaced or denied of the Israelites from coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In this wicked world, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God as the Bible records His word.
Know to plead for the mercy of God.
Know to plead for the mercy of God.
God identified Job as a blameless man who fears God and shuns evil but not with an excuse not to plead for the mercy of God. Job 9:15 records the pleads for mercy by Job in the presence of God, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
There is no excuse for Job to receive the mercy of God without pleading for His mercy. 
Just like Job, the Psalmist pleads for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Know to plead for the mercy of God.
Plead for the mercy of God!
God is at a distance where or when sin exists and does not accommodate sin.
With sin, one is short of the presence of God, but without sin, one will gain the fullness of the presence of God. Romans 3:23 speaks to all, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
Distance from the presence of God will provoke unwanted, unexpected painful challenges that exist in the wicked world of sin.
With repentance from sin, the mercy of God shall answer painful challenges.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the mercy of God has been consistent.
The mercy of God brought you far and not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
His mercy is with forbearance that does not run out.
Only God is in the position to render mercy unto all without failing.

Prayer for today: Ask, and plead before God for His mercy over the challenges of your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Who you are counts before God. 

John 2:13-25

Who are you before God?
What the people see you will not influence what God knows about you. 
Besides, as an acclaimed believer, do you know who you are?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.”  
You did not know that you were the temple.
It is important to answer the kind of temple.
As a temple, the kind of business that transpires in you is evidence of you, before God.
The Bible records that when the Passover of the Jews was at hand, Jesus visited Jerusalem.
He does not make a careless move just as He divinely went to Jerusalem to correct an anomaly.
John 2:14 records, “…He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.”  
Christ found businesses in the temple that were not of God. 
As a temple, what is it that Jesus will find in you when if He shows up without you expecting His visitation?
At the visitation of the temple, Jesus reacted to wrongdoing in the temple.
John 2:15-16 records, “When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”  
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus has not changed, and he will not change. 
If you are an anomaly in your temple, you should expect a whip of chords from Jesus.
Jesus reacted with a whip of cords when he visited a temple with activities, not of God.
What transpires in your temple, and what needs to be cleaned in you?
The disciples saw the reaction of Jesus in the temple as He kicked out all not of God, and they “…remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten me up.” (John 2:17).
Until the zeal of God eats up a believer, then the possibility of having a clean temple is almost impossible.
When there is zeal for God, Jesus will move into such life. 
To be zealous for God, the temple of God must not be of anomaly, and the temple shall be full of the presence of Christ.
God is watching, and all should continually watch out by keeping his temple clean to avoid whips of cords. 
Clean up your God-given temple, and avoid a whip of chords.

Payer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to keep you as His temple that is clean from an anomaly. 

FAITH CAPSULE: It is possible to become saved.

Matthew 19:13-30

How are you living before God?
Living by the word is easier said than done.
All must live to become safe!
The demands of the word for all not to miss the Kingdom of God is very challenging as disciples were stunned to question Jesus, “…Who then can be saved?” (Matthew 19:25) 
Are you a rich one in your world not living by the word of God?
Are you a rich one living life with comfort without commitment to God?
One with the richness of the world is a tendency not to take a position to enter the kingdom of God.
The disciples of Jesus asked, “…who then can be saved?”
Jesus answered the disciples by stating, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
Through the pages of the Bible, the possibility belongs to God.
Prayer before God and thanksgiving will locate God.
God performs in prayer and perfects in thanksgiving.
All should allow themselves to pray with the expectation of the possibility before God.
In the life journey, the route that leads to the kingdom of God also demands following Jesus.
The word of Jesus records the need to follow Jesus.
Matthew 19:28-30 states, “So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.”
Regardless of the status before God, it should not be an excuse not to follow Jesus.
The word of God demands from all to make it to the Kingdom of God.
With desire and continual prayer that will make it possible not to miss the Kingdom of God, demand to follow directions of the word of God.
Are you living life not to miss the kingdom of God?
Know to follow the word of God and not miss the Kingdom of God.
Do not be a victim of life challenges not to be saved.
Regardless of the challenges of the earth, all should know to live life and not miss the Kingdom of God.
The life journey should be a route that leads to the kingdom of God.
How one walks with God will determine making it to the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God.
What does it take not to miss the kingdom of God?
The word of God speaks to all, “…Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:23-24)
It is possible to become safe.

Prayer for today: Ask that you follow Jesus in all the days of God over your life.  

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.

Isaiah 64

Focusing on God will wait on God by not wasting time focusing on man.
The word of God might sound foolish, but will never fail to deliver those who believe in the word of God.
It is the word of God to ask, seek and knock. 
Asking, Seeking, and Knocking for the answer from God is evidence of having faith and looking up to Jesus. 
Hebrews 12:2 records, “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” 
Jesus, the author of faith, has given all the way to receive by stating, “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)
Waiting on God demands trust and hope by asking, seeking, and knocking before the manifestation of expectation. 
When there is no waiting for God, there will be rushing away from God to experience waste. 
King Saul could not focus on God, not wait as instructed but to become wasted. 
To obey and wait is to trust and hope in God, but Saul could not gain direction from God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God. 
Psalmist admonishes, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3) 
A believer in God must understand to wait and endure a period. 
Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time. 
Saul failed to wait on God. 
God spoke to the disobedience of Saul through Samuel, “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, know the heart of God, the evidence of waiting on God.
The prodigal son in the parable of Jesus could not wait.
The Bible records the prodigal son: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.” (Luke 15:11-13) 
The younger son could not wait for the appointed time of God to receive a portion of the good. 
The prodigal son moved out of the word of God because he could not wait. 
Waiting will ask, seek, and knock for the appointed time of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for His power upon you to be waiting on Him.