{"id":11063,"date":"2023-12-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2023-12-15T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:13:56","slug":"receive-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11063","title":{"rendered":"RECEIVE JESUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>A choice to live out of God will be a mark of such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John 8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In your confession, is He confirmed in you?<br \/>Jesus, in His journeying, arrived at a place He entered into the temple early in the morning.\u00a0<br \/>While He was in the temple, all the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them.\u00a0<br \/>While Jesus was in the temple, scribes and Pharisees were also present, and Jesus taught them.<br \/>In His teaching, they tested Him so that they might have\u00a0<em>something<\/em>\u00a0to accuse Him.\u00a0<br \/>In response to the people in the temple, He stated,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201c&#8230;I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.\u201d (John 8:12)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>The Pharisees responded to the statement of Jesus,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThe Pharisees therefore said to Him, \u201cYou bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true.\u201d (John 8:13)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>The Bible also identifies it that in the same temple, there were also people who believed.<br \/>In the documentation of the temple, what is your response to Jesus?\u00a0<br \/>Whose side are you in the temple?\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Are you on the side of the scribes, the Pharisees, or those who believe?\u00a0<br \/>Jesus, having engaged all, responded to all,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThen they took stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.\u201d (John 8:59)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Is your response in alignment with the Jews? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you in an attempt to stone Jesus?<br \/>Have you unknowingly been throwing stones at Jesus?\u00a0<br \/>The Jews at that time picked up stones to throw at Him, but He hid himself and slipped away from the temple grounds.\u00a0<br \/>If you have confessed Christ and your confession does not demonstrate the way of your life, then you are on the side of stoning-throw at Jesus. Do you know if you are throwing stones at Him?\u00a0<br \/>Jesus left the temple to move forward, and the Bible records,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cNow Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>(John 9:1)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Jesus could not look away from meeting the blind man and healed him. Which side are you on?\u00a0<br \/>Are you on the stone-throwing side (destructive end) like the persecutors or the healing side (receiving end) like that of the blind man?\u00a0<br \/>Ask God to help you to no longer live a deceptive life.\u00a0<br \/>Have you confessed to Jesus, but Jesus is not confirmed in your life?\u00a0<br \/>A choice to live out of God, deception will be a mark of such.<br \/>Jesus made a way to pass by stone-throwing ones.\u00a0<br \/>He came to give sight to those that cannot see.\u00a0<br \/>His coming was not for destruction but to deliver.\u00a0<br \/>He came to give hope to those who have lost hope.\u00a0<br \/>Be on the receiving end, and He will not pass by you.<br \/>Do not be a stone-throwing one, but become one seeking Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask God for His grace to deliver you to the receiving end.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0A choice to live out of God will be a mark of such. John 8 In your confession, is He confirmed in you?Jesus, in His journeying, arrived at a place He entered into the temple early in the morning.\u00a0While He was in the temple, all the people came to Him, and He sat down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RECEIVE JESUS<\/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-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","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=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}