{"id":3500,"date":"2024-10-04T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2024-09-29T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:55:07","slug":"god-prompts-us-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/god-prompts-us-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"God Prompts Us to Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Friday, October 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God Prompts Us to Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>But don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.\u00a0<\/em><strong>James 1:22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prayer is not just about receiving peace and guidance\u2014it\u2019s about responding to God\u2019s call. God often speaks to us through prayer, not just to comfort us but to move us into action. James 1:22 says \u201c<em>But don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves<\/em>.\u201d When we pray, we should be ready for God to prompt us toward a change, an act of obedience, or even a new direction. The challenge is to not only hear what He says but to be willing to act on it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the book of James we are told that God uses trials and tests. We know that God uses everything in our lives to produce perseverance. How do we know this? Because we\u2019ve read in God\u2019s Word, but if you have ever given over to obedience, then you\u2019ve experienced a \u2018here I am use me Lord\u2019 moment. Our part is to speak with our Heavenly Father, continue to press into His Word, let God show us what needs to change, and then apply it to our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Today, consider the ways in which God has been prompting you to take action recently?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:<em>\u00a0Father, when You speak, help me to listen and to act. Give me the courage to step out in obedience to Your will. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 4 God Prompts Us to Action But don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.\u00a0James 1:22 Prayer is not just about receiving peace and guidance\u2014it\u2019s about responding to God\u2019s call. God often speaks to us through prayer, not just to comfort us but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}