{"id":9439,"date":"2021-12-06T04:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2021-12-06T04:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:03:27","slug":"do-you-know-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9439","title":{"rendered":"DO YOU KNOW GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you know God or know about God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>John 1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the reasons not to know God but knows about God are:<br \/>Forgetting attributes of God<br \/>Lack of Understanding<br \/>Truth is not appealing to the world\u00a0<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Forgetting attributes of God<\/span><br \/>Forgetting attributes of God, not being thought about God will not know God.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Deuteronomy 4:5-6 buttresses, \u201cSurely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. 6 Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>A failure to give self to studying the word of God will not understand the attributes of God, to know God.<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lack of Understanding<\/span><br \/>A failure to give attention to the word of God will result in a listening disability. Jesus questioned and answered why lack of understanding,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.&#8221; (John 8:43)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>It is not possible to understand who one does not know.\u00a0<br \/>The world is too busy and not to give attention to God.\u00a0<br \/>Are you giving attention to listening to the word of God?<br \/>One that listens will know to gain an understanding of God.<br \/>He is a good God, the only God that reverses irreversible.<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Truth is not of the wicked world<\/span><br \/>Truth is not popular, is not acceptable to the world. It is not possible to know what is not accepted and not believed.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>John 8:45-47<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0records the word of Jesus that speaks the truth about not knowing God,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God\u2019s words; therefore, you do not hear, because you are not of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>One that does not accept truth to believe does not know God that is true.<br \/>You must know God to come out of the religion of this wicked world.<br \/>The evidence of one that knows God is to be living by the word of God.<br \/>One must know God to come out of the religion of the wicked world.<br \/>One that studies the word of God will know God but is a costly sacrifice.<br \/>To know God is seeking God diligently, to please God in the ways of life.\u00a0<strong><em>Hebrews 11:6\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>informs all,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>You must know God because knowing about God is not enough to escape the lasting pain for one that does not know God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask God to make you know Him and live life for God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Do you know God or know about God? John 1 Among the reasons not to know God but knows about God are:Forgetting attributes of GodLack of UnderstandingTruth is not appealing to the world\u00a0Forgetting attributes of GodForgetting attributes of God, not being thought about God will not know God.\u00a0Deuteronomy 4:5-6 buttresses, \u201cSurely I have taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DO YOU KNOW GOD<\/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-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9440,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}