{"id":24753,"date":"2017-09-29T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=24753"},"modified":"2017-09-29T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:30:25","slug":"his-workmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/his-workmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"His workmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u00a0For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John 6:44<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him<\/strong>. And I will raise him up on the last day.\u00a0It is written in the Prophets, \u2018And they will all be taught by God.\u2019 Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me\u2014\u00a0not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.\u00a0Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 44:18<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes<\/strong>, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.<\/p>\n

Romans 8:7<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God,<\/strong> for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.\u00a0\u00a0Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.<\/p>\n

Titus 3:3<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.\u00a0\u00a0But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,\u00a0\u00a0he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,<\/p>\n

Hosea 11:4<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.<\/p>\n

We were once foolish and disobedient. \u00a0We did not have a purpose more than that which would bring us pleasure. \u00a0Our thoughts were far from God serving our own interests. \u00a0And here is the GOOD NEWS – while we were in this condition and separated from God, He reached out to draw us to Him. \u00a0I think we seem to sometimes forget this great gift of drawing us, and then, to those who believe, eternal life. \u00a0Remembering this brings joy to our heart and purpose into our life. \u00a0It also keeps us humble and from thinking to highly of our selves and what we accomplish. \u00a0When we serve self it is in essence shutting God out and putting ourselves in front of His purpose and plan. \u00a0The problem with self is it is always there and the easiest default when we are not in His word and choosing to be led by Him. \u00a0Following God is a choice for eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u00a0For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.\u201d John 6:44\u00a0\u00a0No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.\u00a0It is written in the Prophets, \u2018And they will … Continue reading “His workmanship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3972,5091,333,5096,5076,2915,89,401,5093,3127,531,5105,304,174,1776,3073,539,232,5097,165,5094,5075,5099,5102,3257,196,1778,5098,5101,3152,3517,4691,4692,5103,1690,5095,5100,2877,3333,285,5092,5104,2072,3543],"class_list":["post-24753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-appeared","tag-beforehand","tag-believed","tag-cannot-see","tag-comes-to-me","tag-created","tag-discern","tag-disobedient","tag-draws-him","tag-envy","tag-eternal-life","tag-fed-them","tag-flesh","tag-foolish","tag-goodness","tag-hated","tag-heard","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hostile","tag-jesus","tag-know-not","tag-learned","tag-led-astray","tag-living-kindness","tag-malice","tag-mind","tag-passions","tag-please-god","tag-pleasures","tag-prepared","tag-prophets","tag-regeneration","tag-renewal","tag-saved-us","tag-savior","tag-shut-their-eyes","tag-slaves","tag-submit","tag-taught","tag-understand","tag-unless","tag-washing","tag-workmanship","tag-yoke"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753","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=24753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24756,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions\/24756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}