{"id":11222,"date":"2024-02-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:19:05","slug":"fear-god-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"FEAR GOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>No one is born with the fear of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Proverbs 14<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To live for God is to excel for His glory.<br \/>One who does not live for God will live a life of waste.<br \/>With desire is the choice to live for God.<br \/>God is not a slave master but a saving master who will wait and act to enable a desired one who wants to live life for His glory.<br \/><em><strong>Revelation 4:11\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>confirms all to live for the glory of God,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;You are worthy, O Lord, &#8220;You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Are you living for God, or are you living life as pleases you?<br \/>One that lives for God fears God.<br \/>To fear God is to live by His word and not live a life of waste but waiting on God.<br \/>No one is born with the fear of God.<br \/>All matters are rooted in the command, the word of God, to know to fear God.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Ecclesiastes 12:13<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0admonishes all,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man\u2019s all.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Having the determination to fear God cannot do it.<br \/>One with a desire to fear God prayerfully will live to fear God.<br \/>Is it your desire to live for the glory of God?<br \/>Have the desire and strive to fear God.<br \/>To fear God is a sacrifice not to live as it pleases you but to please God.<br \/>Let serving God with fear become your character.<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 2:11<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0encourages,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>To serve God is a sacrifice, denying self to find God.<br \/>Sacrifice is seeking God diligently, which enables one to find God.<br \/>Do you fear God?<br \/>Every living soul should live to fear God.<br \/>One that fears no other will fear God to gain the presence of God.\u00a0<br \/>The Psalmist testifies,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;I will fear no evil; For You are with me&#8230;&#8221; (Psalm 23:4)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>It is impossible to become exposed to failing with one who possesses the fear of God alone.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>God treasures it when there is fear for Him.\u00a0<em><strong>(Isaiah 33:6)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Much is to become identified as the character of ones that fear God:<br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 8:13, &#8220;The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 9:10, &#8220;The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 10:27,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The fear of the Lord prolongs days, But the years of the wicked will be shortened.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Proverbs 13:13, &#8220;He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The conclusion of the whole matter is to fear God as the way of life.<br \/>The word of God says to ask to become given.<br \/>Jeremiah records the promise of God to give,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.&#8221; (Jeremiah 32:39)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>With desire, pray to live by the fear of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><em>Ask to have one heart and one way to fear God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0No one is born with the fear of God. Proverbs 14 To live for God is to excel for His glory.One who does not live for God will live a life of waste.With desire is the choice to live for God.God is not a slave master but a saving master who will wait and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEAR 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-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","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=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11223,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}