FAITH CAPSULE: King David exemplifies keeping the testimony of God.

1 Samuel 17

One that shares, meditates, or confesses the testimony of God that keeps the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2 points out the promise of God for those who keep the testimony of God, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!”
King David exemplifies keeping the testimony of God.
The victory of David over Goliath of the Philistines was the provocation of the testimony of what God had done for David.
The testimony by David was the weapon that stopped King Saul to discourage David from going against Goliath. 
1 Samuel 17:33 states the discouragement of King Saul to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”  “
David refused to be discouraged from going to fight Goliath.
In 1 Samuel 17: 34-37, David testified what God has done and what God can do, “But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37 Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”
David could not be intimated not to fight the confronting challenge before his life. 
David counted on the testimony of God over his life.
David dwelt on the testimony of God over his life.
The testimony of David was able to overcome the challenge of Goliath.
What is it that you count on God for your deliverance by the testimony of your mouth?  
Know to recount the testimonies of God over your life and experience victory, the blessing of God.
With the testimony of God, give your tongue to speak life in the place of untimely death.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” 
David saw challenges, testified to the power of God, and overcame them. Keep the testimonies of God by speaking out to challenges about what God has done and what He can do to enable you to overcome your challenges.
Keep the testimonies of God to meditate, confess, and be established for the glory of God.
Testifying what God has done, what He is doing, and what He will do shall provoke the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to keep the testimonies of God for your deliverance and preservation, the blessing of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Keep looking up to God.

Psalm 34

One who looks up to God is seeking God and knows to call upon the Lord God consciously consistently. 
Psalm 18:4 encourages, “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So, shall I be saved from my enemies.”
One looking up to God will know to keep an eye on God to experience His hand.
Consciously or unconsciously, who are you looking up to gain manifestation of expectation?
It is not possible to look up to God with understanding and become ashamed.
Psalm 34:5 testifies, “They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.”
Are you looking away from the word of God?
The word of God is God.
In the word of God, there is deliverance and preservation. (Psalm 107:20)
For your deliverance, look up to God with a commitment to remain connected to God.
Your determination is not enough, but have the desire, God deposits desire, to experience expectation in God.
Are you worrying while looking up to Gos?
Search yourself and know that worrying is not part of looking up to God. The word of God discourages worrying in Matthew 6:25, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…”
Keep looking up to God in the place of worrying.
The daily challenges lead to redirection from looking up to God. 
Consciously, with commitment, looking up to God with understanding will experience the hand of God that is not short, and such will not fail to find God.
All should know that keeping one eye on the word of God and the other eye on the world will not deliver.
With understanding, prayerfully focus your eyes on God alone.
PRAYER
Ask that the forces that cause looking away from God will not have a place in your life.
Ask that the spirit of God shall continually enable you to take your eyes off the challenges of the wicked world and to see where God is leading you.
Ask that the mercy of God will answer for you from this hour to be looking up to God alone.
Psalm 34:5 testifies, “They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.” 
Ask that every mark of shame shall not have a place upon your life.
Ask that God enable you to look up to Him so that shame will not become your identity in every area of life.
Isaiah 59:1 records, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.”
Ask that looking up to God shall gain His hand for His deliverance and preservation in all your endeavors.
Ask against the spirit of worrying that is silent or loud in your life to be permanently wiped off your life.  Matthew 6:25, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…”  
Ask that God enable you to keep looking up to Him in the place of worrying.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you walking far from God?

Genesis 6

God shall remember you by your way of life.
Calling on God to gain His attention is not an error, but one must seek God diligently to find God.
God is near to all the evidence that He does not forget his creation that seeks him to gain His presence.
Having a desire to be remembered by God should expectantly call on God that does not disregard calling on Him.
Take note that God waits to ask for those who wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Call on God to be remembered is not an error nor sin but asking, seeking, knocking to gain the attention of God.
Matthew 7:7-8 records, “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.”  
The Israelites called on God to remember them in the bondage of Egypt.
Exodus 2:23-25 documents the calling of the Israelites unto God,
“Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
The challenging time is now.
Knowing God for His goodness and mercy is not to keep quiet from calling on God, to be remembered for His divine intervention.
You are not living for God but expecting to find God?
For example, during the days of Noah, when wickedness was increasingly unacceptable before God, Noah was the only one in his challenging time to be remembered by God, the salvation of God.
The Bible records, “…Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”  (Genesis 6:8)
Noah could not be intimidated to stop doing right but gained attention before God.
Noah found grace, and salvation was his portion to be remembered by God. 
Genesis 8:1 records, “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.” (Genesis 8:1) 
Noah walked with God to be remembered by God. 
One that is consistent with God is bound to be remembered by God. 
Malachi 3:16 testifies, “Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, And the LORD listened and heard them; So, a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name.” (Malachi 3:16) 
Live life to the glory of God, who remembers to respond. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to be right before God and be remembered by God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Ask that you be able to seek God diligently.

The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently to please God but not seek God by mouth. 
To please God is rooted in faith. 
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
Seek God diligently, find God, and have a place in Him.
Deuteronomy 4:29 identifies seeking God diligently, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Avoid self-deception, but Know to seek God diligently.
LIVING LIES WILL NOT FIND GOD
Claiming and not living according to the word of God is evidence of ignorance.
Are you living for God?
Truth is bitter.
Many believers claim to be Christian but do not live as Christ-like to flood Church services.
Answering titles and attending or making church a house is not evidence of a Christian.
Are you Christian by the mouth or by your way of life?
Are you conversant in the word of God but walk in the world against the word of God?
Is your life lined up as a disciple of Christ?
Acts 11:26 records, “…the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
Answering as a Christian and not living as a follower of Christ is easier said than done.
BE A BELIEVING BELIEVER OF THE WORD OF GOD
Are you a believer?
The character of one answering as a believer is living by the word of God, which is living for God.
All owes God to be living for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 records, “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 are to live for the glory of God as all exist as His creation.
How are you living for God?
God has a calling for His creation.
Assuming the calling of God can lead one to answer to self, man, or take to a title, not engaging in a task that counts before God.
Pray to answer to the calling of God.
FIND GOD BY NOT LIVE A LIFE OF WASTE
A believer wanting to find God should know to seek or serve God to find God.
To seek is to serve God.
No one seeks God in their way to find God.
Know to seek God by His way!
God has a standard to seek or serve to find Him.
There is no excuse not to find God.
God called out the Israelites to come out of the bondage to serve Him. (Exodus 4:23)
What makes you not serve or seek to find God?
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “…seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Prayer for today: Pray not to live a life of waste but seek and serve to find God.

FAITH CAPSULE: There is a need to know God, to be able to walk with God.

Psalm 34

Know God and know the truth.
The character of knowing God knows the truth to be free.
John 8:32 states, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Do not settle for knowing about God.
Knowing God, the truth of God walks with God to be free, living life for the glory of God. 
Determination is not enough to qualify one as walking with God.
A desire (not just determination) to walk with God shall provoke God to deposit what it takes to walk with Him.  
Get to know God in His word, walk with God, and stay close to God more than ever before.
The challenging time is now.
One who is right by walking with God does not have an excuse not to have challenges but shall experience the deliverance of God in it all.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
God has walked people through challenging times they have never experienced before.
God, the unchanging that changes stagnation to motion for good, is still on the throne to walk those who walk with Him through the place of challenges.
Get the understanding that things will never be what they were.
Put aside anything that would keep you from walking with God, not to see, and hear from God, continually.
What you hear from God is for you with the understanding but makes no sense to others outside you.
In walking with God, what one hears is what one will see. Also, it is what one sees that one will receive to become such.
Noah walked with God, he heard to be obedient to God to ignore others.
Prayerfully walk with, before Him, in Him because the best and the worst time is now, but all will live the time to experience that God alone is the unchanging changer, the only God that reverses the irreversible.
With desire, prayerfully ask for enablement to walk with God.
Enoch walked with God to have a healthy 365 years and had sons and daughters.
Enoch did not die a sudden or untimely death as God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Noah walked with God at a time of corruption and destruction. 
Noah walked with God to find grace before God. 
Genesis 6:9-10 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons…” 
Abraham walked before God when God called him out to walk before Him. (Genesis 17:1) 
Abraham walked with God by walking before God, to be blameless and possess the promises of God for his life.
Walking with God is walking for God, also in Him.
WALKING IN HIM
The word of God points out that walking with God, before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 states, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
Have you believed and received God into your life?
Know God, not knowing about God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to walk with God.