{"id":7637,"date":"2018-08-17T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2018-08-17T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:21:49","slug":"gods-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7637","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S PRESENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> Give self to God\u2019s word to gain and retain His presence.<\/p>\n

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

It is written, \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. \u00a0<\/sup>He was in the beginning with God. \u00a0<\/sup>All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. \u00a0<\/sup>In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. \u00a0<\/sup>And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.\u201d (John 1:1-5)<\/em><\/strong> The word of God is God. Without the word of God nothing was created.
\nThe word of God is His wisdom and His strength. The word of God is God\u2019s presence that visits man. For example, the word of God visited Jonah and Jonah missed God\u2019s presence when he walked outside of God\u2019s word which is God\u2019s presence. It is written, \u201c<\/em><\/strong>Now the word of the <\/em><\/strong>Lord<\/em><\/strong> came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cArise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.\u201d 3\u00a0<\/sup>But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the <\/em><\/strong>Lord<\/em><\/strong>. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the <\/em><\/strong>Lord<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d (Jonah 1:1-4)<\/em><\/strong> Visiting word of God was vacated by Jonah when he arose to flee from God\u2019s direction. It is disobedience to walk against direction in the word of God. Jonah disobeyed God. Disobedience is vacating self from God\u2019s presence.
\nExperience from testimony, Paul the apostle, by virtue of his encounter with the word admonished us in Acts 20:32, \u201cSo now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> One that does not give self to the word of God cannot retain and gain in God\u2019s presence. One that is not spending time in the word is spending time in the world. Not spending time in the word of God is the evidence of inability to keep His command. Also, not spending time in the word of God is to be living life carelessly. Proverbs 19:16<\/em><\/strong> buttressed, \u201cHe who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Samson could not keep the commands of God when he allowed Delilah to violate God\u2019s command over his life. Evidently, consciously or unconsciously Samson was careless and not careful of God\u2019s word (God\u2019s presence) and he died. (Judges 16)
\nSamuel gave Saul direction to wait for seven days but Saul could not wait. On top of his disobedience, he could give self to God\u2019s command not engage burnt offering which does not allow kings. (1 Samuel 13)
\nGiving self to the word of God is to gain and retain His presence.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask for the grace of God not to be out of the presence of God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to God\u2019s word to gain and retain His presence. Jonah 1 It is written, \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. \u00a0He was in the beginning with God. \u00a0All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that … Continue reading GOD\u2019S 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-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","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=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}