{"id":11400,"date":"2024-05-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:54:02","slug":"a-life-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11400","title":{"rendered":"A LIFE FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>Knowing about the word God is not knowing God, to live life for God.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Exodus 14<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the peace of God comes with a condition.<br \/>The condition to have the peace of God is to seek and find Him.<br \/>To have the peace of God is to live life for God.<br \/>Knowing about the word God is not knowing God, to live life for God.<br \/>One who does not live life for His creation is as a captive.\u00a0<br \/>Many are carried away captive and\u00a0are very religious but not Christ-like.\u00a0<br \/>God was speaking to the children of Israel who were carried away as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cFor\u00a0thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. \u00a0For I know the thoughts that I think toward\u00a0you,\u00a0says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not\u00a0of\u00a0evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.\u00a0I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity\u2026\u201d\u00a0(Jeremiah 29:10-14)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>A captive is a captive (captured or\u00a0detained) in prison.<br \/>The message of God identifies peace as the only source of having a future and hope.\u00a0<br \/>Ones with the peace of God live life for God.<br \/>One with the peace of God knows God, not knows about God.<br \/>One with the peace of God dwells in the secret of God and shall abide under the shadow of God.<br \/><strong><em>Psalm 91:1-2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0states,<strong><em>\u00a0&#8220;He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>The secret of God is in the word of God and not hidden for those who study the word of God.<br \/><strong><em>Isaiah 45:19<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0testifies,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob,\u00a0\u2018Seek Me in vain\u2019;\u00a0I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>To do right is not to hide away from those who seek God diligently.<br \/>One with the peace of God, who lives life for God, engages in prayer as a way of life.<br \/>Embrace praying and giving yourself to the word of God.<br \/>Prayer is making a petition to God.\u00a0<br \/>Faith is belief with trust and hope in God.\u00a0<br \/>Prayer and faith compromise each other.\u00a0<br \/>Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer as the constant engagement and communication with God.<br \/>Faith is what pleases God.<br \/><strong><em>Hebrews 11:6<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>confirms,<strong>\u00a0<em>&#8220;But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>How is your prayer life?\u00a0<br \/>Prayer is not a waste of time before God but to gain from God.<br \/>God answers prayer with yes, no, or wait.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ask to be enabled with constant and consistent prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Knowing about the word God is not knowing God, to live life for God.\u00a0 Exodus 14 Having the peace of God comes with a condition.The condition to have the peace of God is to seek and find Him.To have the peace of God is to live life for God.Knowing about the word God is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A LIFE FOR 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-11400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}