{"id":10342,"date":"2022-12-28T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:28:10","slug":"the-hand-of-god-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10342","title":{"rendered":"THE HAND OF GOD\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Ezra 7<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Psalmist testifies to God,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cYou open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.\u201d (Psalm 145:16)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Is the satisfaction in His hand your abiding place?\u00a0<br \/>If the fear of God is your portion evidently, satisfaction becomes your abiding place.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 19:23<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThe fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>The right hand of God is all that everyone needs to ask.\u00a0<br \/>Also, in the hand of God, there is deliverance and preservation that settles for having satisfaction in life.<br \/>It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years.<br \/>God spoke when the Israelites were in the hand of Pharaoh of Egypt,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cSo I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.\u201d (Exodus 3:20)<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>\u201cAnd the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.\u201d (Exodus 7:5)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The hand of God is power, and no force under heaven can deny the hand of God.\u00a0<br \/>Indeed, through Moses as a vessel, the hand of God delivered mighty deliverance for the Israelites.\u00a0<br \/>Ezra testified the hand of God as the agent of being granted every request during their quest to rebuild Jerusalem\u00a0<em><strong>(Ezra 7:6)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Ezra testifies to the hand of God as gracious (good) when they were able to get to Jerusalem.\u00a0<em><strong>(Ezra 7:9)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Ezra 7:28\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>records,<em><strong>\u00a0\u201c\u2026So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Ezra could not stop but testifies again,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cAnd the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.\u201d(Ezra 8:31)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>What would one do without the hand of God in life?<br \/>Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.\u00a0<br \/>The book of Ecclesiastes states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cNothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>This testimony of\u00a0<em><strong>Ecclesiastes 2:24<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0adds to the truth that everything that has to do with living life abundantly is in the hand of God.<br \/>Jesus was received by the right hand of God after He left for heaven.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Mark 16:19<\/strong><\/em>It states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cSo then after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Let the right hand of God be your portion.<br \/>The hand of God is to desire in facing the challenges in the life journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Ask for the hand of God to reign and rule over your life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position. Ezra 7 The Psalmist testifies to God,\u00a0\u201cYou open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.\u201d (Psalm 145:16)Is the satisfaction in His hand your abiding place?\u00a0If the fear of God is your portion evidently, satisfaction becomes your abiding place.\u00a0Proverbs 19:23\u00a0states,\u00a0\u201cThe fear of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE HAND OF GOD\u00a0<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}