{"id":10799,"date":"2023-08-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2023-08-29T06:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:33:25","slug":"before-god-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10799","title":{"rendered":"BEFORE GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00a0FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>There is no reasonable excuse to justify disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>I Samuel 13<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you saying there is no God by your verbal communication or body action?<br \/>It takes a foolish-minded one to take a position as a speaker for a forum that claims there is no God.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 14:1<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0buttressed,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThe fool has said in his heart that \u201cthere is no God\u201d They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Ones that say in the heart that there is no God are the ones that speak it from the mouth that there is no God.\u00a0<br \/>Jesus buttressed,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.\u201d (Matthew 12:34-35)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>It is always evil to say there is no God.\u00a0<br \/>Are you one that says there is no God by your actions and not only by speaking it out of the mouth?\u00a0<br \/>Are you saying there is no God by your verbal communication or body language?<br \/>How do you relate with others, communicating that there is no God?<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 14:1<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0identifies the foolish ones:<br \/>Those who are corrupt (Lack of honest practices such as bribery and lack of integrity)<br \/>Those who engage in wickedness (revolting and miserable work)<br \/>Those who do not do good (they are evil in approach)<br \/>Does any of the above sound like you?<br \/>As a believer, you cannot afford to live life foolishly.\u00a0<br \/>A believer should not answer to the wicked world as a foolish one by the way of life.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 26:4<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0warned,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cDo not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>In this wicked world, every ungodly act that demands an answer from one must be with wisdom, not as foolish.\u00a0<br \/>Always live with a godly act to avoid being marked as foolish.<br \/>Foolishness is a sin, and sin does not stand before God.<br \/>Saul was foolish when he offered the burnt offering that did not belong to his office as a King but belonged to a priest.\u00a0<br \/>Saul could not wait for the arrival of Samuel as commanded by Samuel.\u00a0<br \/>At the arrival of Samuel, Saul gave an excuse for the burnt offering as a result of the late arrival of Samuel.\u00a0<br \/>For Saul, the impending danger provoked his violation of the command of God (carrying out the burnt offering).\u00a0<br \/>Samuel responded to foolishness act of Saul,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cYou have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you.\u201d (I Samuel 13:13)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Regardless of any reasonable excuse, it is foolish to violate the command of God when responding to the challenges of the wicked world.\u00a0<br \/>There is no reasonable excuse to justify disobedience to the word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Ask to be enabled not to live outside of the command of God as a foolish one.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0There is no reasonable excuse to justify disobedience. I Samuel 13 Are you saying there is no God by your verbal communication or body action?It takes a foolish-minded one to take a position as a speaker for a forum that claims there is no God.\u00a0Psalm 14:1\u00a0buttressed,\u00a0\u201cThe fool has said in his heart that \u201cthere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BEFORE 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-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","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=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10800,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}