{"id":11911,"date":"2025-04-17T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:00:17","slug":"desire-to-near-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"DESIRE TO NEAR GOD\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Have determination rooted in the desire to near God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Psalm 75<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is a good God.<br \/>God is near His creation, the character of a caring, perfect God.<br \/>Are you near to God?<br \/>How far are you from God?<br \/>Know that God is near, but all takes a distance from God.<br \/>The word of God is God.<br \/>The creation of God is His word.<br \/>It is glaring that the creations of God that are seeable are His word, the evidence that God is near to all.<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 75:1 <\/strong><\/em>buttresses, <em><strong>&#8220;We give thanks\u00a0to\u00a0You, O\u00a0God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare\u00a0that\u00a0Your name is\u00a0near.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The word of God, His work, and His name are near to all who will acknowledge and live near Him.<br \/>God is near to all with the desire to be near to Him.<br \/>The key to being near God is to fear God.<br \/>Note that the fear of God is His treasure. <em><strong>(Isaiah 33:6)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Fear of God is to near God.<br \/>One that walks with God or walks before God is near to God.<br \/>Enoch and Noah walked with God, the character of being near to God.<br \/>Abram walked before God, evidence to be near God and not to live a life of waste.<br \/>Have the desire to draw near to God.<br \/>Seek God diligently to find God.<br \/><em><strong>Jeremiah 29:13<\/strong><\/em> states,<em><strong> &#8220;And\u00a0you will seek Me and find\u00a0Me\u00a0when you search for Me\u00a0with all your heart.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>It is those who find God that are near to God.<br \/>One who is sinful is far from God because, with sin, no one can reach God.<br \/><em><strong>Romans 3:23<\/strong><\/em> buttresses, <em><strong>&#8220;for\u00a0all\u00a0have\u00a0sinned and fall short of the glory of God.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Are you far or near from God?<br \/>It is possible to be near God.<br \/>If it is impossible to be near God, the word of God would not demand or encourage all to be near God.<br \/>Seek God diligently, find God, and draw near God as possible.<br \/>Draw near to God, and He will draw to you.<br \/>To draw near God is not a mouth talk.<br \/>Know to be near God!<br \/>It is a blessing to find God, the character of one that is near God.<br \/>To find God is not noise-making, quoting scripture verses, or running after anyone in the name of God.<br \/>A believer seeking the world in the name of God proves that such is not seeking God diligently to find God.<br \/><em><strong>Deuteronomy 4:29 <\/strong><\/em>states,<em><strong> &#8220;But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find\u00a0Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>God is not far from one who will seek God diligently, giving self to the word of God to continue to live life for God.\u00a0<br \/>One who seeks God in His way but does not seek in the way of God will not find nor near God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today: <\/strong>Pray for the word of God that it takes to be near God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: Have determination rooted in the desire to near God. Psalm 75 God is a good God.God is near His creation, the character of a caring, perfect God.Are you near to God?How far are you from God?Know that God is near, but all takes a distance from God.The word of God is God.The creation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DESIRE TO NEAR GOD\u00a0\u00a0<\/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-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","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=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}