{"id":11111,"date":"2024-01-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11111"},"modified":"2024-01-09T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:37:40","slug":"know-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11111","title":{"rendered":"KNOW TO PRAY\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>With understanding, pray the word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus said,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in His field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.&#8221; (Matthew 13:24-25)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>How are you sleeping in this wicked world?<br \/>Wicked is identified by the word of God in\u00a0<em><strong>Jeremiah 12:1-2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>stating,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper?<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them yes they have taken root; They grow, yes they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth But far from their mind.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The wicked is very conversant in the word of God, but the heart is far from God, deep in the world.<br \/>How are you sleeping physically and spiritually?<br \/>Sleeping consciously or unconsciously can happen all.<br \/>Jesus was praying at the garden when His disciples were around Him but they all went to sleep.\u00a0<br \/>In\u00a0<em><strong>Matthew 26:45,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Jesus woke them by saying,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cAre you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>How are you sleeping physically and spiritually?<br \/>Sleeping in the place of praying is walking awake with evil.<br \/>Sleeping in the place of watching is opening for the evil to occupy.<br \/>In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>PRAYER<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Ask<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>that wherever you are sleeping, consciously or unconsciously, for the enemy to occupy your life shall permanently cease not to be your potion anymore.<br \/><strong><u>ABOUT GROWTH<\/u><\/strong><br \/>Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, what or how is your growth?<br \/>Are you growing in the things of this world but growing in the calling of God over your life?<br \/>Stagnation is not of God but growing to the glory of God that counts to the glory of God.<br \/>Growth in the things of God is crucial not to miss at the time of judgment.<br \/>Whoever is around you, growing together with you, demands you to be vigilant and prayerfully not to become derailed.<br \/>In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus states,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, \u201cFirst gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.\u201d (Matthew 13:30)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>In the parable of wheat and tares, Jesus mentioned the issue of growth, the evidence that some Wasted growth while some are worthy of growth.<br \/>One that grows wasted is like one to become burnt, while the worth of growth is like wheat going to His barn.<br \/><strong>PRAYER<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ask<\/strong>\u00a0God to enable you so that you will continually grow in Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0With understanding, pray the word of God. In the parable of the wheat and tares, Jesus said,\u00a0&#8220;The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in His field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.&#8221; (Matthew 13:24-25)How are you sleeping in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KNOW TO PRAY\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-11111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111","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=11111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11112,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}