{"id":9415,"date":"2021-11-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9415"},"modified":"2021-11-25T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:54:12","slug":"having-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9415","title":{"rendered":"HAVING LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Living life is a privilege of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Genesis 22<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is it that qualifies you to be alive, unlike ones that would have loved to be having a life but not alive anymore?<br \/>The mercy of God has kept those alive not because of knowing to live life better.<br \/>Living life is not a right, but it is the privilege of God to be alive.<br \/>Are you taking God for granted, for His gift of life that you have?<br \/>God, the Creator, creates all to exist for His glory.<br \/><strong><em>Revelations 4:11<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0declares,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cYou are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>One that is not living life for the glory of God is taking God for granted.\u00a0<br \/>Are you with excuses not to be living for the glory of God?<br \/>In your service to God, are you pleasing yourself but displeasing God? Take note that God is a long-suffering God, and none is with the license to be living life outside of existing for God, the Creator of all.<br \/>Stop taking God for granted but live life for God by lifting your hands before Him as submission with the expectation of reaching to God.\u00a0<br \/>Continually, living life for God is to remain connected with God.<br \/>God is a good God that is worth for all, to be living life for His glory.<br \/>Seeking God diligently with all heart and with all soul is to find Him.\u00a0<strong><em>Deuteronomy 4:29<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0speaks to all,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Among ways to live life for God, seeking God diligently instead of taking God for granted is seeking diligently, obediently to his word.<br \/>Living life to obey the word of God is a sacrifice that is consistent, costly, and not cheap.\u00a0<br \/>A sacrifice that takes self away from self to give all to God is seeking God diligently, being obedient.\u00a0<br \/>One that is living life obediently to the word of God fears God, is undoubtedly a treasure to God.\u00a0<strong><em>Exodus 19:5 records, \u201cNow, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Are you taking God for granted, not doing as commanded in His word?<br \/>Abraham lived life for the glory of God. Abraham could not withhold from the command of God but did as commanded by God, and God recognized the obedience of Abraham.\u00a0<strong><em>\u00a0Genesis 22:12\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>records the testimony of the word of God towards Abraham<strong><em>, \u201cDo not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Abraham could not take God for granted but obeyed God, lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Ask God to enable you to live life acknowledging Him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Living life is a privilege of God. Genesis 22 What is it that qualifies you to be alive, unlike ones that would have loved to be having a life but not alive anymore?The mercy of God has kept those alive not because of knowing to live life better.Living life is not a right, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HAVING LIFE<\/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-9415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415","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=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}