{"id":11280,"date":"2024-03-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2024-03-20T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:17:33","slug":"act-communicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11280","title":{"rendered":"ACT COMMUNICATES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Faith is acting out before God to gain His attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Mark 2:1-12<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is a jealous God.<em><strong>\u00a0Deuteronomy 4:24<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0confirms,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;For the Lord, your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Know that the antidote for jealousy is attention.<br \/>Are you giving God the kind of attention enough to provoke the hand of God over your life?\u00a0<br \/>How is your action communicating your desire to gain the attention of God?<br \/>A wise statement,\u00a0<em>\u201cAction speaks louder than a voice.\u201d<\/em><br \/>The story of Hannah testifies to the truth that action speaks louder than voice.<br \/>Hannah was barren because the Lord closed her womb.\u00a0<em><strong>(2 Samuel 1:5)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>During one of her trips to Shiloh, her action caught the attention of Eli. The Bible records,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cAnd it happened, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.\u201d (1 Samuel 1:12-13)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>The action of Hannah called for the attention of Eli.<br \/>Eli responded with prayer for Hannah by calling on God on her behalf to open up her womb.\u00a0<br \/>Are you looking up to God for an open door?<br \/><em><strong>Matthew 7:7-8<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0speaks to all,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cAsk, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Action speaks before God to gain the attention of God.<br \/><em><strong>2 Samuel 2:3<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0confirms,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Gaining the attention of God is not in how loud to communicate in prayer. (This is saying it is wrong to pray out loud)\u00a0<br \/>Calling on God is encased in how the heart connects with God.\u00a0<br \/>Hannah spoke in her heart, and God heard the cry.\u00a0<br \/>Are you speaking from the mouth to impress?<br \/>Action is seeable, the evidence of having faith.\u00a0<br \/>Faith is acting out the word of God, and God will hear.<br \/>Once, Jesus reacted to the action of a paralytic man who came to Jesus tearing through the roof for healing.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Mark 2:5<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0records,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cWhen Jesus saw their faith; He said to the paralytic, \u201cSon, your sins are forgiven you\u201d (Mark 2:5).<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Jesus saw the faith. Undeniably, faith is what is seeable because faith is an action.\u00a0<br \/>The response of Jesus to the faith of the paralytic man is called action. The action is a faith demonstration that testifies that God sees faith.<br \/>Keep the testimonies in the word of God.\u00a0<br \/>Keeping the testimonies of God will add to the blessings of God.\u00a0<br \/>The psalmist admonishes,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cBlessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!\u201d (Psalm 119:2)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0One that keeps His testimony will know to be persistent by giving God all the attention.\u00a0<br \/>Give God all your attention for God to attend to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ask to be enabled to live life by His word.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Faith is acting out before God to gain His attention. Mark 2:1-12 God is a jealous God.\u00a0Deuteronomy 4:24\u00a0confirms,\u00a0&#8220;For the Lord, your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.&#8221;\u00a0Know that the antidote for jealousy is attention.Are you giving God the kind of attention enough to provoke the hand of God over your life?\u00a0How is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACT COMMUNICATES<\/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-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","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=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11281,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}