FAITH CAPSULE: Why not gain understanding to relate with God?
Psalm 136
Understanding a given information gives way to having a knowing edge.
Matthew 7:7-8 gives out the information from Jesus to all, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
With understanding, one will know to ask, seek, and knock, the evidence of watching and praying.
Repeatedly, the word demands watch and pray.
1 Peter 4:7 warns, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Are you praying not to ask amiss?
James 4:3 cautions, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Why not gain understanding to relate with God?
With understanding, one that prays in line with the word of God, for expectation is in prayer to experience manifestation.
God cannot be intimidated by many words or live life as ignorant with the expectation for manifestation as expected from God.
Do you understand God by His word?
Are you with the expectation of the mercy of God but not walking in line with God?
God is a merciful God.
The mercy of God is His favor. (Isaiah 60:10)
Numbers 14:18 admonishes, “The Lord is long-suffering and abundant in mercy…”
God does not run out of mercy, His creation walks out of His mercy.
As merciful as God is, God will also have mercy on whom He chooses to.
Romans 9:15 testifies to the word of God, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Are you praying for the mercy of God?
It is not a miss when asking for the mercy of God, but it is always to pray with understanding before God.
ASKING FOR HIS MERCY
About the mercy of God is to know God, to fear Him.
Luke 1:50 admonishes, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.”
According to the word of God, with the fear of God, mercy will become obtainable from God.
Why not desire and allow the fear of God to reign and rule your life?
Understanding and knowing to fear God will lead to the love of God by obeying His word.
Deuteronomy 7:9 testifies, “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.”
With fear of God, mercy will become the portion of one that loves God and lives a life of testimony of the mercy of God.
Gain the understanding of God in His way to receive and retain the presence of God.
Prayer for today: Ask to be filled with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God.