{"id":20118,"date":"2020-11-06T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=20118"},"modified":"2020-11-04T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:48:31","slug":"face-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2020\/11\/06\/face-lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20118-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-6.mp3\">http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/406\/heb.11.1-2\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heb.11:<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1-2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ERV) \u201cFaith is what makes real the things we hope for. It is proof of what we cannot see. God was pleased with the people who lived a long time ago because they had faith like this.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/psa.34.5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ps.34:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who look to Him for help <\/span><\/i><b><i>will be radiant with joy<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (emphasis added). What it means is that what I believe affects how I act, <\/span><!--more-->and it is going to show. How I act affects what I believe, and it is going to show on my face. You cannot see somebody that believes but is gloomy. It is going to show on your face. What is showing on your face is telling us what you believe. If you believe and look onto Him, you will be radiant, it will show on your face. If you are not radiant, you are not looking up to Him. If you are gloomy, you are looking somewhere else. Check! &#8220;<i>Those who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy<\/i>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I really believe that God is going to help me, whatever the situation may be. That belief does not only exist in my heart, or in my head. It starts to show on my face and in my actions, and that is what we see play out in Hannah\u2019s life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/100\/1sa.1.18\">1 Sam.1:<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NAS)<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c&#8230; (Hannah) went her way and ate, and her <\/span><\/i><b><i>face<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was no longer sad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d (emphasis added). Note that the situation had not changed yet, Hannah had not yet become pregnant. Did the Holy Ghost overshadow her in the temple and give her a baby? Nope. Hannah had not become pregnant, there was no cute baby bump yet. Hannah was not yet pregnant, <\/span><b>but<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> her face had changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How? The situation had not changed, but her face had changed. What happened? What happened is this, she was holding on to the Word while she was crying. Now she has heard His voice through Eli.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Samuel+1%3A17&amp;version=TLB\"> 1 Sam.1:<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (TLB) \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eli said, \u2018<\/span><\/i><b><i>Cheer up<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!\u00a0 May the Lord of Israel grant you your petition, whatever it is!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u201d (emphasis added). Many people hear God\u2019s voice, but they do not really hear it. I pray that you will really hear His voice in the Name of Jesus. Sometimes, even after hearing God\u2019s voice, some people say to God, \u2018let me continue to cry, I want to finish my crying\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The voice of your God is an assurance. Which God is this? The One <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c&#8230;who does not change like shifting shadows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/111\/jas.1.17\">(James 1:17b, NIV)<\/a>. She did not know how it was going to play out. But she believed that &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God is faithful and reliable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/70\/1jn.1.9\">(1 John 1:9a, GWT)<\/a>, and it changed her countenance. When I hear His voice and trust His faithfulness, my response can precede the result. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/114\/psa.27.13\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ps.27:<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 (NKJV) \u201cI would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Father, You are the God who does not change like shifting shadows. Therefore, I fix my eyes on You alone and I radiate with joy, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heb.11:1-2 (ERV) \u201cFaith is what makes real the things we hope for. It is proof of what we cannot see. God was pleased with the people who lived a long time ago because they had faith like this.\u201d &nbsp; Ps.34:5 \u201cThose who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,179,387,226,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acknowledge-god","category-advantage","category-assurance","category-believe","category-clarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20239,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions\/20239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}