{"id":9674,"date":"2022-03-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2022-03-09T02:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:05:40","slug":"take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9674","title":{"rendered":"TAKE NOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Take note of two things by giving attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>1 Samuel 13<\/em><\/strong><br \/>1. Know to trust and hope<br \/>2. Avoid making the wrong choice.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Know to trust and hope:<br \/>Claiming to have hope in God is not only by mouth but must be rooted in the heart.\u00a0<br \/>One that does not keep heart diligently as the word of God demands from all cannot and does not understand and know to have trust and hope in God.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Proverbs 4:23<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0states:\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Do you have a heart with trust but not with hope in God?\u00a0<br \/>With the expectation for manifestation, acclaimed believers visit the gathering of believers because of trust but do not demonstrate hope for the expectation.\u00a0<br \/>It is not complete to expect or receive the blessing of God by having trust but not having hope.<br \/><strong><em>Jeremiah 17:7\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>records it,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Know and understand that God is not talkative that fails in His word.<br \/>The word of God does not return to Him void.\u00a0<strong><em>(Isaiah 55:11)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>What God says He will do is a done deal!<br \/>Do you have a heart with trust and hope in God?\u00a0<br \/>PRAYER<br \/>Ask that the strength in the word of God will answer in you, keeping your heart with all diligence.<br \/>Ask that in every way of seeking God, you shall keep trust and hope continually.<br \/>2. Avoid making the wrong choice:<br \/>Making choices in the life journey is possible to live in pain or not arrive at the divine assignment of God.\u00a0<br \/>Saul was chosen as King by God, but he made the wrong choice outside before God when he disobeyed the word of God.<br \/>Saul repeatedly disobeyed God.<br \/><strong><u>First<\/u><\/strong>, he engaged in unlawful sacrifice against the word of God. (Prophet Samuel instructed Saul to wait for a sacrificial approach when he was at war with his enemy. Saul did not obey but made the wrong choice to carry out the sacrifice)\u00a0<br \/>Saul states his excuse that the people were scattered when Samuel did not arrive on time ( Saul compelled to disobey).\u00a0<br \/>Samuel identifies him as FOOLISH.\u00a0<strong><em>(1 Samuel 13)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Secondly, God directed Saul to destroy the Amalekites.\u00a0<strong><em>(1 Samuel 15)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Saul spared King Agag at his choice against the command of God.<br \/>Saul made his own choice to spare, not destroy, as commanded by God.<br \/>One that is unwilling to obey disobeys.<br \/>Disobeying the word of God is turning from God.<br \/><em>Saul<\/em>\u00a0was 30\u00a0<em>years<\/em>\u00a0old when he became\u00a0<em>king<\/em>, and he\u00a0<em>reigned<\/em>\u00a042\u00a0<em>years<\/em>\u00a0over the Israelites.<br \/>At the time of disobedience of Saul, the presence of God was absent for him.\u00a0<br \/>God turned to David as His choice while Saul was king.\u00a0<strong><em>(1 Samuel 13:13-14)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>For forty years of reign, Saul was on his own.\u00a0<br \/>The disobedience of Saul to the command of God was his sin against him.<br \/>God made Saul retain the throne, but his descendant could not carry on his dynasty.\u00a0<br \/><strong>PRAYER<\/strong><br \/>Ask God that reverses irreversible will have mercy on your wrong choice taken against His choice for you.<br \/>Ask that you live a life of obedience constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Take note of two things by giving attention.\u00a0 1 Samuel 131. Know to trust and hope2. Avoid making the wrong choice. 1. Know to trust and hope:Claiming to have hope in God is not only by mouth but must be rooted in the heart.\u00a0One that does not keep heart diligently as the word of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAKE NOTE<\/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-9674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674","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=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}