{"id":12783,"date":"2026-08-05T14:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:46:54","slug":"understand-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12783","title":{"rendered":"UNDERSTAND TO ASK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Romans 9<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God to provoke the mercy of God.<br \/><em><strong>Psalm 150:6 <\/strong><\/em>states,<em><strong>Let everything that has breath praise the\u00a0Lord;<\/strong><\/em> it is also worthy, pleading for the mercy of God at every breath.<br \/>Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God.<br \/>The mercy of God means God is compassion or kind forbearance that never runs out.<br \/>The mercy of God is His loyal love.<br \/>Only God is in a position to render mercy unto all, unfailingly.<br \/>The mercy of God, not any man\u2019s merit, is the reason God answers.<br \/>God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation for the release of His mercy.<br \/>God declared and was testified of in <em><strong>Romans 9:14-16, \u201c\u2026I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>The mercy of God cannot be questioned for having mercy for whom He has mercy for.<br \/>With understanding of how God gives mercy prompts to provoke His mercy on self.<br \/>It was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. The Bible records, <em><strong>\u201cYou in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed\u2026\u201d (Exodus 15:13)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>One led by the mercy of God shall excel to the glory of God.<br \/>Understand and know to remind God that He does not forget.<br \/>What God has done for one will do for one who reminds Him of what He is doing.<br \/>Reminding God is not evidence that God forgets.<br \/><em><strong>Isaiah 43:26 <\/strong><\/em>records the word of God that encourages all to remind Him, to provoke His doing in one with understanding of Him.<br \/>God speaks to all, <em><strong>&#8220;Put Me in remembrance; Let us\u00a0contend\u00a0together; State your\u00a0case,\u00a0that you may be acquitted.&#8221; (Isaiah 43:26)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Understand how to ask and know how to provoke God.<br \/>Remind God of His mercy to Joseph.<br \/>Joseph avoided sin; he did not sleep with the wife of His master.<br \/><em><strong>Genesis 39:21 records the consequence of Joseph not sinning against God, \u201cBut the Lord was with Joseph and showed him MERCY, and He gave him favor\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>God is not a partial God to look away from one who understands and knows to ask Him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ask <\/strong>God that it be your way of life to be asking Him for His mercy. <em><u>(In the mercy of God is deliverance and preservation of God.)<\/u><\/em><br \/><strong>Ask<\/strong> God to enable you not to run out of the mercy of God that does not expire.<br \/><strong>Ask<\/strong> that God enable you to live a life that counts before Him to gain His mercy. <em><u>(Romans 9:14-16 records that God will have mercy on whom He chooses to.)<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God&nbsp; Romans 9 To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God to provoke the mercy of God.Psalm 150:6 states,Let everything that has breath praise the\u00a0Lord; it is also worthy, pleading for the mercy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNDERSTAND TO ASK<\/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-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","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=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12784,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions\/12784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}