{"id":2300,"date":"2006-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.gleeckit.com\/2006\/06\/05\/can-you-stand\/"},"modified":"2006-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"can-you-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Can You Stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Can you stand?< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1King17:1; 18:1, Psa.24:3-4, James 5:17,<\/p>\n<p><b><i>James 5:17, Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.<\/i><\/b> Elijah was able to provoke the hand of God for rain to cease and rain to fall at his request. He said in <b><i>1king17:1, \u00d2as the LORD God of <\/i><\/b>< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><b><i>Israel<\/i><\/b><b><i> lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word\u00d3<\/i><\/b> He did three things that are worth imitating. First, he called on the name of God and that is \u00d2the LORD God of Israel\u00d3. Secondly, he identified God as a living God. How often have you consciously called on Him by identifying Him as a living God? It does make a difference when you let Him know that you know Him as a living God. Lastly, Elijah declares his stand before God. Elijah knew that he stands. What does it takes to stand before Him? <b><i>Ps.24:3 asked who may stand in His holy place? <\/i><\/b>Ps. 24:4 answered <b><i>\u00d2he who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully<\/i><\/b>. If you walk His walk; work His work, you will be able to take a stand to provoke His hand to move on your behalf. Enough of being a power less Christian; enter into His word and His word will answer for you. He is a living God. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you stand?< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> 1King17:1; 18:1, Psa.24:3-4, James 5:17, James 5:17, Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. Elijah was able to provoke the hand of God for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can You Stand?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","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=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}