{"id":6533,"date":"2016-09-23T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:21:20","slug":"obey-to-gain-his-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"OBEY TO GAIN HIS PRESENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Manifestly, fleeing from the presence of God is to be presentable for the adversary of man.<\/p>\n

Jonah 1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The word of God is alive, it is not letter. A failure to obey the word of God is making a choice that is opposite of living life. A failure is self-created of self-destruction. When Jonah failed to obey the word of God, he faced his own self-created self-destruction. Without doubt, the word of God is God. Hearing and listening to the word of God is to obey the word of God so as to assess the presence of God.
\nThe Bible recorded in Jonah 1:1,<\/em><\/strong> \u201cNow the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, \u201cArise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> God called on Jonah but he failed to move in response to God\u2019s calling. Jonah\u2019s disobedience to the word of God was described as Jonah\u2019s departure from the presence of God as stated \u201c\u2026Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.\u201d (Jonah 1:3)
\n<\/em><\/strong>Manifestly, fleeing from the presence of God is to be presentable for the adversary of man. As a result of Jonah\u2019s disobedience, the vehicle of transportation encountered a mighty tempest on the sea. Jonah\u2019s disobedience set the passengers up for destruction. Jonah was approached as a result to the trouble on the storm. Despite Jonah\u2019s disobedience he went further and claimed in Jonah 1:9, \u201cSo he said to them, \u201cI am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Imagine a man that knows the word of God disobeying God\u2019s word and standing on the same ground claiming the fear of God in his life? At every time that you hear God\u2019s command and you move in opposite direction of God\u2019s command, you are heading in the direction of self-created self-destruction. Jonah was heading in the direction of self-destruction. God is the only creator of man, the commander with expectation to be obeyed. God expects our obedience and none to be disobeyed. Obeying nine out of ten God\u2019s command the same failure as in obeying one out of ten. Despite Jonah\u2019s claim of the fear of God, he was still in the journey of disobedience.
\nAre you a present day Jonah? Are you a conscious obedience or disobedience of the word of God? Disobeying the word of God is building up a self-destruction. Obeying every living word of God is walking on a ground that does not disappointment obedient children of God. In the life of journey, obey the word of God to avoid self-destruction.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask God for the grace of obedience to the living word of God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Manifestly, fleeing from the presence of God is to be presentable for the adversary of man. Jonah 1 The word of God is alive, it is not letter. A failure to obey the word of God is making a choice that is opposite of living life. A failure is self-created of self-destruction. When … Continue reading OBEY TO GAIN HIS PRESENCE<\/span> →<\/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-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","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=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}