{"id":11291,"date":"2024-03-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2024-03-25T02:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T02:33:31","slug":"the-great-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11291","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT DEFENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as Great Defender.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Psalm 37<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting on God for the answer to the question is exercising faith.\u00a0<br \/>Waiting on God is a way out of shame.\u00a0<br \/>When waiting on God by not looking outside of God without any iota of doubt, shame shall not have a place in life.\u00a0<br \/>The Psalmist buttresses,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cIndeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.\u201d (Psalm 25:3)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Wait on God to get lead in the right direction where expectation yields manifestation.\u00a0<br \/>Waiting on the Lord demands boldness and character, which is a winning combination in the race of life.\u00a0<br \/>The Bible makes all realize that waiting extends to looking up to God for intervention against wicked ones.\u00a0<br \/>Are you one who is constantly questioning how the wicked ones are excelling?\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 37:7<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0states,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cRest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Waiting on God is keeping His word and not fretting in the face of any wickedness.\u00a0<br \/>Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as Great Defender.\u00a0<br \/>Does it seem like your waiting is taking forever without an answer?\u00a0<br \/>Is your crying wearing you out?\u00a0<br \/>Listen to the testimony of Psalmist,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cI am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.\u201d (Psalm 69:3)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Know to wait on God to deny wearing self in crying.<br \/>God has never failed, and He shall not as you wait on Him.\u00a0<br \/>Waiting on God is not a sign of weakness.<br \/>Wait on God on God silently and patiently.\u00a0<br \/>David testified in\u00a0<em><strong>Psalm 40: 1-2, \u201cI waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth- praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Waiting for God will grant the grace to walk firmly on any ground and not fall.\u00a0<br \/>Passing through the trial of waiting will no doubt put a new song in the mouth of one who knows to wait.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>2 Samuel 22:34<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0states in his testimony,<em><strong>\u00a0\u201cHe makes my feet like the feet of the deer and sets me on my high places.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Waiting on God took David to his high places.\u00a0<br \/>One with a low place in life and waiting on God is an avenue to come out of low places to high places, where there is no falling.<br \/><em><strong>\u201cWait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!\u201d (Psalm 27:14)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Gain a strong heart by waiting on God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask that you will know to wait on God when challenges present themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as Great Defender.\u00a0 Psalm 37 Waiting on God for the answer to the question is exercising faith.\u00a0Waiting on God is a way out of shame.\u00a0When waiting on God by not looking outside of God without any iota of doubt, shame shall not have a place in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE GREAT DEFENDER<\/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-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","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=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}