{"id":9215,"date":"2021-09-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:55:14","slug":"what-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9215","title":{"rendered":"WHAT WORKS ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Give yourself to having faith and patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hebrews 11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living life demands having faith as fuel, and patience should be the key to the ignition.\u00a0<br \/>Hebrews 11:1 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>\u00a0Take to mind that the Word of God which comes can also cease from coming when there is disengagement from hearing and hearing by the Word of God.\u00a0<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<strong><em>Habakkuk 2:4<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0buttresses,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026the just shall live by his faith.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<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<strong>(2 Corinthians 5:7);<\/strong>\u00a0we watch, stand by faith\u00a0<strong>(1 Corinthians 16:13);<\/strong>\u00a0faith purifies the heart\u00a0<strong>(Acts 15:9);<\/strong>\u00a0we get saved by faith through grace\u00a0<strong>(Ephesians 2:8)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>Patience with faith or faith with patience is crucial to living life to gain and retain the presence of 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, records of God, &#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 \/>By living life, the level of patience that one possesses will testify to the blessing of God in the life of such.<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 \/>For a believer to inherit the promises of God, being patient with faith is a must.\u00a0<br \/>The Parable of the Sower by Jesus points out that it is through patience that bearing fruit is the possibility.\u00a0<strong><em>Luke 8:15<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0states,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cBut the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Luke 21:19 also record, \u201cBy your patience possess your souls.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Give yourself patience in this journey of life, provoking more of the blessing of God.<br \/>With faith in the Word of God, having patience yields manifestation.\u00a0<strong><em>James 1:4<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0confirms,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cBut let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Patience is of God. (John 6:28-29) In life, have patience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Ask to be enabled with having patience as a way of living life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Give yourself to having faith and patience. Hebrews 11 Living life demands having faith as fuel, and patience should be the key to the ignition.\u00a0Hebrews 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHAT WORKS ?<\/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-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","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=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9216,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/9216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}