{"id":12410,"date":"2025-12-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:58:58","slug":"grace-and-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12410","title":{"rendered":"GRACE AND MERCY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0The grace and mercy of God brought you this far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Philippians 4<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your thoughts so far? God has brought you.<br \/>One who can think will know to thank God, for He is merciful.<br \/><em><strong>Romans 9:15<\/strong><\/em> informs all,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cFor He says to Moses, &#8216;I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>From the first month of the year to this hour is a great privilege of God<br \/>that have brought you this far.<br \/>Continually thank God for His grace and mercy, which is not partial.<br \/>Acknowledge God for your going and coming is His grace and mercy.<br \/>Ask for the grace and mercy that brought you this far, and they shall not expire over your life.<br \/>Know God so that you do not live by sin.<br \/>God has brought all thus far.<br \/>Pray to fear God. One who lives by the fear of God is evidence of one who lives by His word.<br \/>The majority know about God but do not know God.<br \/>The evidence of not knowing God is sin and sinning before God.<br \/>The whole world is full of sin.<br \/>Sin and sinning are evidence of not fearing God.<br \/>When there is no fear, sin takes over in the form of wickedness.<br \/>Wickedness ravages the world.<br \/>God saw the wickedness of all.<br \/><em><strong>Genesis 6:5-7 <\/strong><\/em>records, <em><strong>\u201cThen the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Knowing God will strive against sin.<br \/>Search if the self is continually evil.<br \/>Deceive yourself not, pray against sin in your life, not to live wasted.<br \/>Keep in mind that God has brought you thus far.<br \/>In the coming days, weeks, months, and years, with desire, strive to live a life of responsibility.<br \/>Seeking God is not only about attending or engaging in church activity.<br \/>In life, the desire to pursue creates the purpose to achieve.\u00a0<br \/>Pursuing with purpose demands an investment of responsibility.\u00a0<br \/>Responsibility is a price to excel for the glory of God.<br \/>Are you responsible before God?\u00a0<br \/>To live a life of responsibility with a commitment to God is to seek God with all heart, soul, and strength.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Deuteronomy 4:29\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>records seeking God to find Him,<em><strong> \u201c\u2026you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and, with all your soul.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br \/>Responsibility is a choice to find God and to gain His presence.<br \/>Pray that you will live a responsible life, all the days He has given you.<br \/>Be responsible, running after the things of God, not of the world.<br \/>Have the desire for your need to be in the way of God.<br \/>Live satisfactorily by trusts and hopes in the word of God to settle needs.<br \/><em><strong>Philippians 4:19\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>records the promise of God,<em><strong> &#8220;And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Seeking God for wants instead of needs demonstrates trust in God but no hope in the promise of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ask to be a vessel with a spirit of satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0The grace and mercy of God brought you this far. Philippians 4 What are your thoughts so far? God has brought you.One who can think will know to thank God, for He is merciful.Romans 9:15 informs all,\u00a0\u201cFor He says to Moses, &#8216;I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GRACE AND MERCY<\/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-12410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410","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=12410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}