{"id":9479,"date":"2021-12-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2021-12-17T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:33:39","slug":"any-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9479","title":{"rendered":"ANY SUBSTITUTE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0There is no substitute for prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Luke 3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is the Lord God that reigns forever.\u00a0<br \/>With prayer, one possesses the key that opens heaven.<br \/>Prayer is a key, while faith is the ignition.<br \/>Faith is crucial because, without faith, God is not pleased.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Hebrews 11:6\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>confirms,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Are you praying with expectation for an answer?\u00a0<br \/>Does your prayer have faith?<br \/>Word points out that without faith, God is not pleased.\u00a0<br \/>When with faith, God is pleased to reward one praying before Him.<br \/>Jesus demonstrates to all that with prayer, heaven opens.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Luke 3:21<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0records,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cWhen all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Jesus prayed with faith for an answer from heaven, and the answer came from the open heaven. The bible records,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cAnd the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, \u2019You are My beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.\u2019\u201d(Luke 3:22)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>The prayer by Jesus is a testimony to the fact that when a prayer finds a door to heaven, the Holy Spirit, which represents the presence of God, will come down and descend on the one praying.\u00a0<br \/>With the Holy Spirit descending, the voice of God will then sound in the direction of the one praying.\u00a0<br \/>The voice of God shall speak direction if the one praying has the ear to hear the voice of God.\u00a0<br \/>There is a need to have the grace of God to hear the voice of God when it sounds in one praying before God.<br \/>When heaven opened for Jesus, He heard the voice from heaven saying to Him, \u201cYou are my beloved Son; in You, I am well pleased.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>Remember, it takes faith for one praying to please God.<br \/>God is a prayer-answering God.<br \/>All should know and understand taking the time to call unto God.<br \/>How is your prayer life?<br \/>The word pointed out what it takes with prayer.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Psalm 109:4\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>of David states<strong><em>, \u201c\u2026But I give myself to prayer.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Just as stated by David in Psalm 109:4, the book\u00a0<strong><em>Acts 6:4<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0says,<strong><em>\u00a0\u201cBut we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Are you a believer with a prayer life or an unbelieving believer with no prayer life?<br \/>As a believer, how is your prayer life?\u00a0<br \/>A prayer-less believer is like a vehicle with headlights, driving in the dark without the headlights turned on.\u00a0<br \/>With such, it will only take a moment before a disaster happens by driving in the dark without light (prayer).<br \/>In these days of spiritual wickedness, there should be no substitute for prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ask for understanding and strength to increase prayer time before God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0There is no substitute for prayer. Luke 3 God is the Lord God that reigns forever.\u00a0With prayer, one possesses the key that opens heaven.Prayer is a key, while faith is the ignition.Faith is crucial because, without faith, God is not pleased.\u00a0Hebrews 11:6\u00a0confirms,\u00a0\u201cBut without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ANY SUBSTITUTE?<\/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-9479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479","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=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9480,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions\/9480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}