{"id":10604,"date":"2023-04-24T06:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2023-04-24T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T06:37:39","slug":"the-promise-of-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10604","title":{"rendered":"THE PROMISE OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Are you living by the word of God to claim the promise of God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Genesis 12<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One living by the word of God qualifies to answer as a believer of God.<br \/>One answering as a believer but not living by the word of God is a believer of the mouth, not of the heart.<br \/>Believing the word of God stands to claim the promise of God for one living by His word.<br \/>Are you living by the word of God, with the expectation to claim the promise of God?<br \/>The blessing of God comes with a condition.<br \/>The promise of God that is a blessing does not come to pass by accident but by living life by His word.\u00a0<br \/>The promises of God are vast, but man is vastly far from living by the word of God that delivers the promises of God.<br \/>Believing the word of God to claim His promises are:\u00a0<br \/>Obedient to live by the command of God; be holy; demonstrate the love of God;<br \/><strong>Obeying His commandment:<\/strong><br \/>God commandment Abram saying,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cGet out of your country, from your family and from your father\u2019s house, to a land that I will show you.\u201d (Genesis 12:1)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Abram did not question God for His command nor delay or doubt God.<br \/>Abram went as commanded and claimed the promises of God.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Genesis 12:2-3<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0records,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cI will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Obedient Abram provoked the promises of God for his life.\u00a0<br \/>Many want to claim the promises of Abraham but are far from obeying the word of God, not living by His word.<br \/>Abraham followed the word of God.<br \/><strong>Be holy:<\/strong><br \/>Living life by behaving the word of God makes one answer holy.\u00a0<br \/>God wants us to be holy.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>1 Peter 1:15-16\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201c&#8230;but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, \u201cBe holy, for I am holy.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Living holy by the word provokes promises of God as stated,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cI will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.\u201d (2 Corinthians 6:16)<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Demonstrate the love of God:<\/strong><br \/>To believe God is to love and fear God.\u00a0<br \/>One demonstrating the love of God will move God to bless with His promise of blessing.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>John 14:14-16<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0confirms,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cIf you ask anything in My name, I will do it.\u201cIf you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Abraham believed in God as he demonstrated his love for God when he offered Isaac, as commanded for sacrifice by God.<br \/>Isaac obeyed to receive the promises of God.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Ask for the understanding to live by the word of God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0\u00a0Are you living by the word of God to claim the promise of God? Genesis 12 One living by the word of God qualifies to answer as a believer of God.One answering as a believer but not living by the word of God is a believer of the mouth, not of the heart.Believing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE PROMISE OF 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-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","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=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10605,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}