{"id":12852,"date":"2026-09-05T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12852"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:36:30","slug":"by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12852","title":{"rendered":"BY FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> Living life demands faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hebrews 11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give yourself to faith and patience.<br \/>Faith drives you to seek diligently and find God at all times.<br \/><strong><em>Hebrews 11:1<\/em><\/strong> records faith as\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cthe substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d (Hebrews 11:1)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Faith has a source.\u00a0<strong><em>Romans 10:17\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>records,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Word of God has a place in one who hears, and hears the Word of God.<br \/>Also, when one does not give to hearing and hearing the Word of God, one will experience the departure of such.<br \/>Living life demands constant engagement with faith and patience according to the Word of God.\u00a0<br \/>Living life with faith and patience, the Word of God gives life to the just ones.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Habakkuk 2:4<\/em><\/strong> buttresses:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026the just shall live by his faith.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/><em>All that pertains to living life is living by the Word of God (living by faith). The Word states: we walk by faith, not by sight\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>(2 Corinthians 5:7);<\/em><\/strong><em>we watch, stand by faith\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>(1 Corinthians 16:13);<\/em><\/strong><em>faith purifies the heart\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>(Acts 15:9);<\/em><\/strong><em>we get saved by faith through grace\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>(Ephesians 2:8)<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>Patience with faith, or faith with patience, is crucial to living life to gain and retain God.<br \/>Patience is the ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay.\u00a0<br \/>Patience is steady perseverance (steady persistence)<br \/>God is Longsuffering God, the character of having patience.<br \/><strong><em>Numbers 14:18 <\/em><\/strong>records of God,<strong><em>&#8220;The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Are you patient and longsuffering in the journey of life?<br \/><strong><em>Colossians 1:11 buttresses<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cStrengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Patience will provoke the blessing of God.<br \/>Lack of patience denies blessing and often leads to self-destruction.<br \/>Do you claim faith but lack patience, or vice versa?<br \/>Among the scriptural verses that shed light on the importance of faith and patience,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026you do not become sluggish but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.\u201d (Hebrews 6:12).<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Let faith and patience be your way of life.<br \/>Faith with patience, as in a journey, is not a wasted life.<br \/>Faith is the fuel, while patience is the ignition.<br \/>Trust and hope are rooted in faith and patience that deliver the blessing of God.<br \/>It is a blessing to trust and hope in God.<strong><em>(Jeremiah 17:7)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Job 14:7\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>encourages, \u201c<strong><em>For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>What counts one out cannot count as God, who counts better.<br \/>Challenges that reduce one cannot be more powerful than God, who reverses the irreversible.<br \/>Pray to understand and know to wait on God for His visitation over your life.<br \/>God is not partial, but will remember to give His blessing as He did in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Ask that the faith of God be activated in you always.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: Living life demands faith. Hebrews 11 Give yourself to faith and patience.Faith drives you to seek diligently and find God at all times.Hebrews 11:1 records faith as\u00a0\u201cthe substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d (Hebrews 11:1)\u00a0Faith has a source.\u00a0Romans 10:17\u00a0records,\u00a0\u201c\u2026faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BY FAITH<\/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-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","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=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}