What does it mean to deny self or renounce all we have?\u00a0Deny self of what? We battle self and desires all the time that are not pleasing to God. \u00a0Some of this is temptations from Satan and some of it comes from our sinful nature. \u00a0Our culture waters down the cost of following Christ and living to honor and glorify God. \u00a0Our culture would say that serving God and denying self means giving up Sunday morning and attending church. \u00a0 \u00a0Following Christ is not one morning per week activity. \u00a0It is not a one hour per day daily devotional. \u00a0It is so much more than this. The cost (if it is truly a cost) is heart, mind, and soul deep. \u00a0It is a true desire \u00a0and choice to live for Him. \u00a0Denying self is to stop seeking what pleases my interests and start understanding and doing that which honors and glorifies God. \u00a0Deny self for how money is spent, how thoughts are fermented, how time is utilized. \u00a0Denying self is a daily battle that can easily be lost. \u00a0Check your heart – what are it’s desires?<\/p>\n
Matthew 16:24 Matthew 4:10 2 Timothy 2:12 Luke 14:29 Psalm 49:7 What does it mean to deny self or renounce all we have?\u00a0Deny self of what? We battle self and desires all the time that are not pleasing to God. \u00a0Some of this is temptations from Satan and some of it comes from our sinful nature. \u00a0Our culture waters down the cost of following Christ and … Continue reading “Deny Self”<\/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":[323,320,185,235,321,319,8,322,18],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-cross","tag-deny","tag-disciple","tag-follow","tag-profit","tag-ransom","tag-serve","tag-world","tag-worship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThen Jesus told his disciples, \u201cIf anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me<\/strong>. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u2018You shall worship the Lord your God
\nand him only shall you serve<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nif we endure, we will also reign with him;
\nif we deny him, he also will deny us<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSo therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTruly no man can ransom another,<\/strong>
\nor give to God the price of his life,<\/strong>
\n for the ransom of their life is costly<\/strong>
\nand can never suffice<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"