{"id":9259,"date":"2021-09-27T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:45:35","slug":"avoid-evil-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9259","title":{"rendered":"AVOID EVIL HEART"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>Wickedness is evil and non-stop but continually.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Jeremiah 7<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wickedness under heaven is not new and is not temporary, but ongoing until the final judgment of God.<br \/><strong><em>Genesis 6:5\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>record the response word of God about the wickedness,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Wickedness is evil and non-stop but continually.<br \/>The judgment of God against wickedness will come at His appointed time.<br \/>Is wickedness your way of life?<br \/>Are you comfortable in doing wickedness knowing that you are getting away with it?<br \/>Wickedness testifies to the lack of fear before God.<br \/>Mark it, God is not asleep over the wickedness on earth.<br \/><strong><em>Ecclesiastes 8: 11-13<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0speaks loud to the wicked ones,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>How is your way before God?<br \/>The way engaged will identify wicked or not wicked before God.<br \/>The way to move forward is in the word of God, while the way backward is in the wicked world of man.\u00a0<br \/>With you, which way is yours?\u00a0<br \/>Are you going by the dictates of your heart or by the living word of the living God?<br \/>Going by the dictates of the heart of man can be of the world.<br \/>The way of the world is the way that seems right to man, not the way of God.\u00a0<strong><em>Proverbs 14:12<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0makes us realize that\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cThere is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>The way that seems right to man comes from the dictates of the evil heart.<br \/>Engaging the way that seems right is the wrong way and will not go forward but backward.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>The way that seems right is always a way of assumption with no certainty to lead right.<br \/>The possibility of going back is rooted in the dictates of the heart.\u00a0<br \/>God speaks to Jeremiah about the disobedience of the Israelites in\u00a0<strong><em>Jeremiah 7:21-24, \u201cAdd your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>But this is what I commanded them, saying, \u2018Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>Evil heart belongs to wicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask that God take charge of your way.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Wickedness is evil and non-stop but continually.\u00a0 Jeremiah 7 The wickedness under heaven is not new and is not temporary, but ongoing until the final judgment of God.Genesis 6:5\u00a0record the response word of God about the wickedness,\u00a0&#8220;Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AVOID EVIL HEART<\/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-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","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=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}