FAITH CAPSULES: What kind of a believer are you?

Kings 17

Are you answering as Christian but reduced, not living as Christ-like?
Acts 11:26 records that the DISCIPLES were first called Christians in Antioch.
Are the disciples the same today?
For example, James 5:17 states, “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. “
Elijah was a follower of God indeed, not a follower of God by the mouth.
Kings 17:1 records the character of a follower of God, “And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”
Elijah lives for God to be qualified to stand and claim before God.
One that cannot stand to claim before God will live to fall, not stand when claiming before God. 
A pretender to stand in the name of God will fall.
Remember, the itinerant Jewish exorcists pretending earnestly in the place of praying (earnestly) fell into the hands of evil spirits.
Elijah prayed with the earnest character of one who stands to claim before God.
What does it mean to pray earnestly?
Pray with sincere and intense conviction.
PRAY WITH SINCERE:
Praying with heart, not just mouth as in empty noise.
PRAY WITH INTENSE CONVICTION:
Pray in trust and hope. For example, trust to come and pray to God but will come after prayer with doubt for the manifestation of prayer request before God. 
Before God, it is trust and hope to provoke the blessing of God, not just trust without hope. (Jeremiah 17:7)
Just like Elijah, Daniel made prayer as is custom and could not become a victim in the lions of the den. (Daniel 6:10)
His life of custom prayer was daily, going down on his knees three times daily.
Elijah demonstrates seeking God with all his heart and soul, which is seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But 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.” 
There is a difference between seeking God and seeking Him diligently.
Know to seek God diligently.
Romans 2:11 encourages all, “There is no partiality with God.”
Seek God diligently to find God.
PRAYER
Ask to be enabled to live life as His disciple that follows Him.
John 12:26 says, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me..”
Ask that you will serve God by following Him.
Ask that the spirit of God to be in prayer earnestly become your portion.
Ask for understanding and strength to pray with a sincere heart and intense conviction in seeking God.
Ask that seeking God in trust and hope becomes your way of life and that the blessing of God be your portion. (Jeremiah 17:7 testifies God blesses when one trust and hope)
Ask that having prayer as a custom becomes your way of life.