{"id":108193,"date":"2021-01-02T04:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=108193"},"modified":"2021-01-01T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:05:54","slug":"18-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/18-h\/","title":{"rendered":"18.h.  &#8220;Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">John 13:36<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Simon Peter said to him, \u201cLord, where are you going?\u201d Jesus answered him, \u201cWhere I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.\u201d Peter said to him, \u201cLord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cWill you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"verseid:46.10.12\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>1 Corinthians 10:12<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">For the Christians to resist the temptation to be self-reliant, they must first understand they are vulnerable. The one who\u00a0<b>thinks he stands<\/b>\u00a0will not stay on guard against temptation, so he may easily\u00a0<b>fall<\/b>. \u201cThe highest saint under heaven can stand no longer than he depends upon God and continues in the obedience of faith. He that ceases to do so will fall into sin, and get a darkened understanding and a hardened heart.\u201d (Clarke)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">We often want to excuse our particular tempting circumstances as \u201cvery unique\u201d and a \u201cspecial exception,\u201d but God reminds us that our temptation is not unique. Many other men and women of God have faced the same or similar temptation, and have found the strength in God to overcome the temptation. God has promised to supervise all temptation that comes at us through the world, the flesh or the devil. He promises to limit it according to our capability to endure it \u2013 according to our capability as we rely on Him, not our capability as we rely only on ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">With Jesus and God\u2019s Word in your heart, when worldly temptations come knocking at the door to your heart from Satan or self, allow Jesus and the Word of God answer the door.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When He is first in your heart and when God\u2019s Word abides in your heart, your eye and ears will be able to recognize these temptations that bombard us every waking moment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We never know when they will come knocking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Be in His Word and every mindful of these attacks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 13:36\u00a0 Simon Peter said to him, \u201cLord, where are you going?\u201d Jesus answered him, \u201cWhere I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.\u201d Peter said to him, \u201cLord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cWill you lay down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/18-h\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18.h.  &#8220;Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4031,14726,3164,2382,14729,36,347,14725,14728,14727],"class_list":["post-108193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-answered","tag-denied-me","tag-fall","tag-follow-me","tag-heed","tag-life","tag-peter","tag-rooster-will-crow","tag-stands","tag-thinks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108374,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108193\/revisions\/108374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}