FAITH CAPSULE: Never too much to have more reasons to pray before God.
Jonah 1, 2
DO NOT COMPROMISE WRONGDOING
The word of God is His command that is not negotiable and is not to be compromised.
With no exception, all should live life according to the command of God to gain and retain a positive relationship with God.
One that redirects the word of God to please oneself but not to please God is the evidence of a lack of understanding to serve God diligently.
Are you engaging the command of God not to compromise the word of God?
Do you have faith in pleasing God without compromising His command?
Giving yourself to the word of God is to gain faith and live life according to the command of God. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But 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.”
Are you compromising the word of God consciously or unconsciously?
Before God, there is no legitimate excuse not to live life according to His word.
To compromise His command will complicate the journey of life.
Compromising God will violate man before God.
The world is deceiveable, but not God.
One with a lack of truth is a deceiver.
It is a sin to compromise iniquity.
Do not compromise with iniquity.
Judas compromises and does not rebuke iniquity (evil).
Judas was numbered as disciples but not counted.
Anyone that is compromising iniquity is complicating themself in the journey of life.
Iniquity is evil. The word of God warns: “The fear of God is, to hate evil…” (Proverbs 8:13)
Know and pray to live truthfully before God, who does not sleep, and He shall see you.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to live a life of truth and be counted as one who lives for His glory.
Just like Judas, pray not to be a vessel of compromising wrongdoing.
Judas was numbered as one of the disciples but not counted when it mattered before God.
Ask God to enable you not to compromise and engage in wrongdoing.
MORE THAN EVER TURN TO THE WORD/PRESENCE OF GOD
Pray that, more than ever, you want to turn more to the word of God.
The word of God is God (John 1:1).
The word of God is His presence (Jonah 1:1-3).
Are you walking away from the word of God?
The word of God locates Jonah with direction, but he went in the opposite direction.
Walking in the opposite direction from God is a route of challenging storms, the experience of Jonah.
One can survive by disobedience to God, but none can hide from the consequences of disobedience.
Disobedience calls for repentance.
Attending to worshiping God is not enough.
Return to walk the word of God that sounds in your direction to avoid the storm of destruction.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you to turn to Him more than ever, to live by Him.
Ask that the spirit of God will activate in you to walk in His word that sounds in your direction and not be a victim of the storm of life.