{"id":9961,"date":"2022-07-10T03:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T03:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2022-07-10T03:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T03:32:46","slug":"seeking-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9961","title":{"rendered":"SEEKING GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Colossians 3:1-17<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is the creator, the One and only God that cannot and should not be disregarded but live life for His glory.<br \/>Are you assuming to be seeking God?<br \/>Are you a believer by the mouth?\u00a0<br \/>Are you searching for yourself to identify who you are before God?\u00a0<br \/>Are you a believer in truth to the heart?<br \/>Believing God is not only by confessing with the mouth but seeking God diligently.\u00a0<br \/>To be seeking God with diligence is the standard by God for all.<br \/>God is a jealous God while giving attention is the antidote to gaining the attention of God.<br \/>To seek God with diligence is giving attention to God.<br \/>What is it that is worth more than seeking God diligently?<br \/>Jesus admonishes,<em>\u00a0<strong>\u201cSeek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.\u201d (Matthew 6:33)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life.\u00a0<br \/>Seeking outside of God is taking a distance from the presence of God. Seeking besides God is setting self for the wicked world.<br \/>Accepting the truth of the word of God is to believe by behaving in the word of God.\u00a0<br \/>Jesus identifies a challenge for believers:\u00a0<strong>\u201cBut because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.\u201d (John 8:45)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>Give yourself to the truth of God to put the devil to shame.<br \/>A believer with truth lives by the expectation of God.<br \/>Have you given your life to the truth of God?\u00a0<br \/>In truth, seek God with all diligence. Jesus is the truth of God,\u00a0<strong><em>John 14:6\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>records,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cJesus said to him, \u201cI am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Believing God is behaving the word of God.<br \/>In this world of challenges, seek God diligently, and know to set your mind to experience the promise in God.<br \/>Paul buttresses,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cIf then you were raised with Christ; seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Colossians 3:1-2)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0As a believer, what you seek and set your mind on in the truth of God is what will make you up in the journey of life.\u00a0<br \/>The standard of seeking and setting the mind on things above states:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201c\u2026seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.\u201d (Deuteronomy 4:29)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Consider setting the mind seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.\u00a0<br \/>A commitment to seeking God will position man before God that all things are possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ask that you want to seek God with diligence in all your way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life.\u00a0 Colossians 3:1-17 God is the creator, the One and only God that cannot and should not be disregarded but live life for His glory.Are you assuming to be seeking God?Are you a believer by the mouth?\u00a0Are you searching for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=9961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEEKING 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-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}