{"id":25921,"date":"2017-10-17T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2017-10-17T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:52:39","slug":"abide-in-his-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/abide-in-his-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Abide in His word"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNote then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God&#8217;s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cbeing no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:43.8.32\"><b>John 8:31<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b>\u00a0So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, \u201cIf you <em><strong>abide in my word<\/strong><\/em>, you are truly my disciples,\u00a0and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\u201d \u00a0They answered him, \u201cWe are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, \u2018You will become free\u2019?\u201d \u00a0Jesus answered them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. \u00a0The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.\u00a0So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:44.14.22\"><b>Acts 14:22<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:51.1.23\"><b>Colossians 1:23<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:62.2.19\"><b>1 John 2:19<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.<\/p>\n<p>How do you translate this verse\u00a0<em>\u201cIf you <strong>abide in my word<\/strong>, you are truly my disciples,\u00a0and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.<\/em>\u201d??? \u00a0How do you continue in faith and God&#8217;s leading??? \u00a0How do you remain steadfast and stable??? \u00a0How do you survive tribulations and trials of this world???? \u00a0How do you strengthen your soul???? \u00a0How are you set free???? \u00a0How are you made blameless??? How are your steps remained steady??? \u00a0What keeps you from shrinking back???? \u00a0How do you know of God&#8217;s kindness??? \u00a0How are you encouraged to keep on the path of God??? \u00a0<strong>ABIDE IN HIS WORD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNote then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God&#8217;s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.\u201d \u201cBut we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/abide-in-his-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abide in His word&#8221;<\/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":[2486,333,286,81,5281,4136,3030,806,223,5273,5275,5277,2,4039,5272,152,38,42,587,512,409,384,5145,4411,5271,5278,5274,4091,3053,5221,5269,5283,5270,2385,5282,179,5276,5279,1527,5280,147],"class_list":["post-25921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abide-in-my-word","tag-believed","tag-blameless","tag-blessed","tag-continue-in-the-faith","tag-creation","tag-cut-off","tag-destroyed","tag-disciples","tag-doer-who-acts","tag-dominion-over-me","tag-enslaved","tag-faith","tag-fallen","tag-forgets","tag-gospel","tag-heaven","tag-hope","tag-iniquity","tag-innocent","tag-kindness","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-not-of-us","tag-offspring","tag-perserve","tag-practices-sin","tag-presumptuous-sin","tag-proclaimed","tag-promise","tag-set-you-free","tag-severity","tag-shifting","tag-shrink-back","tag-souls","tag-stable","tag-steadfast","tag-steady-my-steps","tag-strengthening","tag-transgression","tag-tribulations","tag-truth"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921","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=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25923,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions\/25923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}