{"id":10447,"date":"2023-02-13T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2023-02-13T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:44:27","slug":"have-a-mind-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10447","title":{"rendered":"HAVE A MIND FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>1 Samuel 13<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels one to attain what the heart wants.\u00a0<br \/>As a believer, what do you desire?<br \/>Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or a believer with sincerity for God?\u00a0<br \/>What you desire is what you seek.\u00a0<br \/>One that desires to live in heaven on the heart will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.\u00a0<br \/>Jesus declares,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cBut seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.\u201d (Matthew 6:33)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The whole matter that counts and works perfectly is to fear God and keep His commandments, for this is all that counts.\u00a0<br \/>God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, good or evil.\u00a0<em><strong>(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>To fear God and to keep His command fulfill the desire to seek God.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>1 Samuel 12:24\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cOnly fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?<br \/>Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?<br \/>God has done great things, and He is doing more for all.<br \/>God only sees and moves by the act rooted in the heart of all.\u00a0<br \/>God once corrected Samuel in his attempt to make the brother of David the king,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cDo not look at his appearance or his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.\u201d (1 Samuel 16:7)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Without doubt, the heart of David is what God saw when His word declares,<em><strong>\u00a0\u201c\u2026The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people\u201d (1 Samuel 13:14)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>David sought God, and He saw the desire of David.<br \/>God knows that his heart is for His name.<br \/>What do you desire?\u00a0<br \/>The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth.<br \/>Anyone with a desire for God is in the heart, and God will deposit the grace to become devoted to Him to be decorated by His presence.\u00a0<br \/>King David knows what is best to desire when he said,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cOne 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.\u201d (Psalm 27:4)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>As an acclaimed believer, think if you sincerely desire the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask for the desire for God to become rooted in your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0The desire for God must be in the mind of all and not just in the mouth. 1 Samuel 13 Desire is to express a wish to obtain, a strong feeling that compels one to attain what the heart wants.\u00a0As a believer, what do you desire?Do you desire to be a churchgoer believer or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HAVE A MIND FOR GOD<\/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-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","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=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}