{"id":8392,"date":"2018-02-28T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2018-02-28T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:06:00","slug":"to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2018\/02\/28\/to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8392-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/February-28.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/February-28.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/February-28.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/GEN.18.14-15.nlt\">Gen.18:<\/a><strong><sup> 14\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Is anything too hard for the\u00a0Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.\u201d <strong><sup>15\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t laugh.\u201d But the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said, \u201cNo, you did laugh.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God spoke directly to Sarah and she believed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/HEB.11.11.nlt\">Heb.11:<sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><\/a><em>\u201cIt was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. <strong>She believed that God would keep his promise<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> [with emphasis]. <!--more-->It is because Sarah believed that the Word of God came to pass in her life. How does this apply to us? The Word of God to your husband is good but it is the Word of God to you that will change your life. It is not God\u2019s Word to your house fellowship leader, to your pastor, or to your spouse that will change your life. It is God\u2019s Word to you that will change your life.<\/p>\n<p>What is God saying to you? It could be the same thing that God is saying to your Pastor. Remember, it is the same Word that God said to Abraham that God spoke to Sarah. However, until Sarah took ownership of the Word, it meant nothing to her. You have to hear God yourself. What is God\u2019s Word saying to you concerning that situation?<\/p>\n<p>Our house rent was due and there I was sleeping. My wife would not have it so she woke me up in the middle of the night demanding an explanation for my actions and a time when the rent would be paid. My confidence of course was in what God had said. Note that God did not tear open heaven to speak to me directly. However, I had seen His promise in the Bible. \u201cI have been young and now I am old yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his seed beg for bread.\u201d So I owned that scripture and believed that it will come to pass in my life. You have to get the Word of God for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/GEN.18.12.nlt\">Gen.18:<\/a><strong><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u201c<em>So she laughed silently to herself and said, \u201c<strong>How<\/strong> could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master\u2014my husband\u2014is also so old?\u201d<\/em> [with emphasis]. Like Sarah, we all make the mistake of focusing too much on the process &#8211; how will God do it? Faith is not being preoccupied with \u2018HOW\u2019; faith receives the \u2018WHAT\u2019 in spite of \u2018HOW\u2019 God does it. Faith receives \u2018WHAT\u2019 and does not worry about \u2018HOW\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Lord Jesus, Your Word is a lamp to guide my\u00a0feet\u00a0and a\u00a0light\u00a0for my path [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/PSA.119.105.nlt\">Ps.119:105<\/a>]. May Your Word never be scarce in my ears, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen.18: 14\u00a0Is anything too hard for the\u00a0Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.\u201d 15\u00a0Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t laugh.\u201d But the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said, \u201cNo, you did laugh.\u201d &nbsp; God spoke directly to Sarah and she believed. Heb.11:11\u00a0\u201cIt was by faith that even Sarah was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,216,138,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe","category-gods-promise","category-hearing-from-god-hearing-from-god","category-ownership","category-the-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","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=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}