{"id":8347,"date":"2019-11-19T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:26:06","slug":"search-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"SEARCH SELF!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>What does it mean to be a Christian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Acts 11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes a man be a CHRISTIAN is not just by attending a gathering in the name of a church or by quoting the word of God, but living life as CHRIST LIKE.<br \/>Are you a CHRISTIAN searching self to gain the understanding to know God?<br \/>So many answers as Christian but not live life as Christian because they have no understanding and LACK KNOWLEDGE!<br \/>Are you answering as CHRISTIAN?<br \/>Do you have an understanding of what it means to be a CHRISTIAN?<br \/>WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN (CHRIST LIKE)?<br \/>With the persecution, the followers of Jesus Christ\u00a0scatteredas far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the Lord Jesus. At Antioch, they were called Christians, meaning Christ-like.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Acts 11:26 records,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Living life as a disciple, a follower of Jesus&#8217; ways of life is what identifies a believer as Christian (Christ-like) but many answers as Christian and not live life as a Christian.<br \/>A Christian should live life, searching self, to seek God to follow the word of God as His disciple.\u00a0<br \/>Do you search yourself as David testifies in <strong><em>Psalm 139:23, \u201cSearch me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>SEARCH YOUR SELF continually, to seek GOD diligently as a Christian.<br \/>Search yourself in the word of God as like looking into a mirror to be addressing self, living life as Christ-like.<br \/>Among reasons to SEARCH SELF continually, to seek God, to gain understanding and know God is\u00a0not to be lost in the TIME one is living.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Ecclesiastes 9:12<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>WARNS all,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cFor man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>What you do not SEARCH (SEEK) to gain UNDERSTAND or to know about will not be found.<br \/>God said,<strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Do you search to know why you are not with KNOWLEDGE?<br \/>Lack of knowledge is evidence of no understanding.<br \/>Without understanding how can there be knowledge, not to become a victim of destruction?<br \/>God is mindful of all about the issue of no understanding as word records,<strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cGod looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.\u201d (Psalm 53:2)<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Isaiah 56:11<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0also points out the reason for no understanding stating,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cYes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Search yourself to be a Christian (Christ-like). <br \/>Search yourself continually, gain understanding to know God.<br \/>Live life not to become a victim of the wicked ones or not to be a wicked one, but to be led in the way of everlasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong> <em>Ask God to provoke you that you will continually\nsearch your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: What does it mean to be a Christian? 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