{"id":11618,"date":"2024-10-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2024-10-03T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:56:02","slug":"pray-more-before-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11618","title":{"rendered":"PRAY MORE BEFORE GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>This month, pray to be remembered by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Psalm 106<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalmist prayed in <em><strong>Psalm 106:4-5<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>&#8220;Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation, That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Pray like the psalmist.<br \/>PRAYER TIME IS NOT A PLAYING TIME.<br \/>PRAYER GROUND IS NOT A GAMING GROUND.<br \/>Prayer time is with expectation for manifestation.<br \/>Prayer time is with the character of watching.<br \/>Jesus and the disciples repeatedly ask to watch and pray.<br \/><em><strong>Mathew 26:41,<\/strong><\/em> Jesus said, <em><strong>&#8220;Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Mark 13:33, &#8220;Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Luke 21:36, &#8220;Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>In Ephesians 6:18, <\/strong><\/em>the disciple states,<em><strong> &#8220;praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>1 Peter 4:7, &#8220;But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Jesus or His disciple asks to pray without watching.<br \/>The majority pray without watching.<br \/>Watching is an open end.<br \/>Watching can be to hide when challenges call for.<br \/>Jesus attempted to be stoned or pushed from the mountain, but the Bible states He hid Himself.<br \/>Are you a believer who prays and does not watch?<br \/>I heard about a prayer team assembling to pray for rainfall when there was no rain.<br \/>In one of the prayer meetings, not watching was demonstrated.<br \/>When the prayer was over, the rain started, and no one watched (prepared) for rain.<br \/>The youngest one brought an umbrella to move forward under the rain.<br \/>Rain prayed for was not to stagnate but to gain motion.<br \/>Are you praying and not watching?<br \/>Are you an unbelieving believer not doing as the word of God requests?<br \/>Do you lack understanding and do not know?<br \/><em><strong>Hosea 4:6, &#8220;My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Ask to be enabled to pray with understanding praying before God.<br \/>Ask against the spirit that marks one as an unbelieving believer.<br \/>God answers prayer. God answers with yes, no, or wait.<br \/>Know God and your character should be looking up to God.<br \/>Do not look up to God with one eye while the other is on the world.<br \/>Look up to God to gain the hand of God, which is deliverance and preservation.<br \/>Looking up to God is also the character of waiting on Him without a doubt.<br \/>God cares not to ignore waiting on Him.\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Isaiah 64:4<\/strong><\/em> testifies God\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;acts for the one who waits for Him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Look up to God continually, acknowledge Him for all He has done, all He is doing, and all He will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today: <\/strong>Ask God to enable you to look up to Him for His hand to rest on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: This month, pray to be remembered by God. Psalm 106 Psalmist prayed in Psalm 106:4-5, &#8220;Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation, That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PRAY MORE BEFORE 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-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","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=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}