{"id":12282,"date":"2025-10-23T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:30:12","slug":"life-and-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"LIFE AND CHALLENGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Live life for God regardless of your challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Genesis 6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is a journey.<br \/>Life is full of ups and downs.<br \/>In your journey, it is not how long, but how far God has brought you that counts.<br \/>Are you one praying to God to live a long life?<br \/>Are you living life for God that you are asking for, a long life?<br \/>Give regard to the truth that God creates all to live life for His glory. <em><strong>(Revelation 4:11)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Why not make it a prayer point by asking God to enable you to live life for His glory?<br \/>To live life for God means not living a life of waste.<br \/>Prayerfully, ask that you live for the glory of God, more than asking for a long life.<br \/>Where are you in the journey of life?<br \/>What is reducing you from God?<br \/>One withholding from God is not living for God.<br \/>Is there a conscious or unconscious force that is holding you from living by the word of God?<br \/>Is there a silent sin hidden from the world that is holding one down?<br \/>What is the challenge holding you back from living for God or seeking God?<br \/>God is not far from all; seeking Him diligently, you will find Him.<br \/>In your journey of life, what challenge is reducing you before God?<br \/>The challenge that persists in life is possible to reduce, delay, or deny to arrive at the calling of God.<br \/>In a world of ups and downs, experiencing challenges is inevitable.<br \/>The world is full of wickedness.<br \/><em><strong>Genesis 6:5-6 <\/strong><\/em>records, <em><strong>&#8220;The\u00a0Lord\u00a0saw that the wickedness of man\u00a0was great in the earth, and\u00a0that every\u00a0intent\u00a0of the thoughts of his heart\u00a0was only evil\u00a0continually.\u00a0And\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and\u00a0He was grieved in His\u00a0heart.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>One who answers as a believer is not an excuse to experience challenges.<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 34:19<\/strong><\/em> states, <em><strong>\u201cMany\u00a0are\u00a0the afflictions of the righteous, but the\u00a0Lord\u00a0delivers him out of them all.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Any challenge that resists or persists will succumb to God at His appointed time.<br \/>Are you complaining before God in the face of your challenge?<br \/>A complaint expresses dissatisfaction before God to prompt a negative confession.\u00a0<br \/>Are you complaining by confessing negatively before God?<br \/>Anyone who complains before God will rebel before God.<br \/>The word of God warns:\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error&#8230;&#8221; (Ecclesiastes 5:6)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The complaint of the Israelites against God set them on a painful journey of life.<br \/>God hears all complaints, and there is no reasonable excuse for complaining.\u00a0<br \/>To avoid complaint before God is rooted in trusting and hoping in God.<br \/>There is no excuse for the consequences of the complaint.\u00a0<br \/>Pray against the spirit of complaint in your life to arrive at the promise of God.<br \/>In life, no challenge is forever; time passes, and challenges change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong> Pray that God remembers you with favor and delivers you from all challenges before you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: Live life for God regardless of your challenge. Genesis 6 Life is a journey.Life is full of ups and downs.In your journey, it is not how long, but how far God has brought you that counts.Are you one praying to God to live a long life?Are you living life for God that you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LIFE AND CHALLENGE<\/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-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","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=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12283,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}