{"id":11340,"date":"2024-04-15T06:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2024-04-15T06:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:07:23","slug":"backing-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11340","title":{"rendered":"BACKING OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>The calling of God is never short of His backing!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Genesis 37<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you receive the calling of God?<br \/>The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete picture.<br \/>The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete picture.<br \/>At the calling of Abraham, the command to go and the blessing for going did not come with details.\u00a0<br \/>At his calling, God did not identify the challenges of temptation and confrontation ahead of Abraham.\u00a0<br \/>God commanded Abraham,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c&#8230;Get out of your country, from your family and your father\u2019s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.\u201d (Genesis 12:1-3).<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>The calling of God is never short of His backing!\u00a0<br \/>Has He called you and not backed you up?\u00a0<br \/>The challenges and temptations that come your way in answering the calling over your life are not evidence that He has withdrawn from seeing you through.\u00a0<br \/>When God calls, nothing counts but to fully answer with obedience.\u00a0<br \/>God will call regardless of the position or age of the one called.\u00a0<br \/>Abraham was seventy-five when he responded to the calling of God.<br \/>In His calling, neither old age nor young age can limit God from calling. The calling of God is like attempting to put thousands of pieces of a puzzle together for a complete picture to emerge.\u00a0<br \/>When putting the puzzle together with a missing puzzle, the complete picture will not emerge.<br \/>The dream of Joseph was a confirmation of the divine agenda of God for his life.\u00a0<br \/>There was no indication of how the dream would emerge.<br \/>Joseph had a dream twice and was discouraged because it was a puzzle to his family.\u00a0<br \/>When Joseph had the second dream,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, \u201cWhat is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?\u201d 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.\u201d (Genesis 37:10-11)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Joseph entered the journey he dreamt of at age seventeen and was not complete until he was thirty.<br \/>The journey was full of challenges and temptations.\u00a0<br \/>Indeed, it was a puzzle that could not have become a complete picture with only a piece missing.<br \/>It is only you who knows the dream that you have had or the calling that He has placed upon your life.\u00a0<br \/>Focus on God, He will see you through.\u00a0<br \/>Remember, the puzzle will not become a complete picture until all the pieces come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ask God to deliver and preserve you in His calling.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0The calling of God is never short of His backing!\u00a0 Genesis 37 Did you receive the calling of God?The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete picture.The calling of God is like a puzzle that needs to get the picture before getting the complete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BACKING OF 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-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","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=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11341,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions\/11341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}