{"id":27657,"date":"2017-11-13T02:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=27657"},"modified":"2017-11-13T02:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:12:54","slug":"gentle-and-lowly-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/13\/gentle-and-lowly-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle and lowly of heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John 13:13<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. \u00a0If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. \u00a0For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. \u00a0Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.\u00a0If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.<\/p>\n

Romans 15:5<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,<\/p>\n

Ephesians 5:2<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.<\/p>\n

1 Peter 2:21<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.<\/p>\n

1 Peter 3:17<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.<\/p>\n

1 John 2:6<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.<\/p>\n

Psalms 119:1<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b> Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!\u00a0\u00a0Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, \u00a0who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!\u00a0\u00a0You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.\u00a0\u00a0Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!<\/p>\n

What does it take to live in harmony? \u00a0We are encouraged and given endurance from God to imitate the example of Jesus Christ, being lowly of heart and gentle in spirit. We ought to walk in His ways being diligent to know, understand, follow and obey His precepts. \u00a0Because of our sinful nature, this is a battle everyday and culture tries to convince us that being good is good enough, being better than most is good enough, that we are not doing what is legally wrong so we are good enough…… It is not about being good enough but rather being in Christ. \u00a0Needless to say our battle is not on the outside but on the inside within our souls. \u00a0Feeding our souls with His word\u00a0and having a heart deep desire to humbly serve honor, follow and obey Him will have a positive affect against\u00a0our sinful nature and influence of our culture. \u00a0Be an example of Christ and a reflective light of His grace, mercy, and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u201d John 13:13\u00a0\u00a0You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. \u00a0If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to … Continue reading “Gentle and lowly of heart”<\/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":[3147,286,81,391,2916,1473,5517,1893,519,164,596,2483,235,3093,3332,171,5518,4,165,2539,4089,1724,5519,5521,5468,4502,9,226,655,179,3038,3019,184,2528,5515,5467,5516,287,5520,3543],"class_list":["post-27657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abide","tag-blameless","tag-blessed","tag-called","tag-commanded","tag-diligently","tag-do-them","tag-encouragement","tag-endurance","tag-evil","tag-example","tag-find-rest","tag-follow","tag-gentle","tag-gods-will","tag-good","tag-harmony","tag-heart","tag-jesus","tag-learn-from-me","tag-messenger","tag-offering","tag-one-another","tag-presecpts","tag-sacrifice-to-god","tag-seek-him","tag-servant","tag-soul","tag-statutes","tag-steadfast","tag-suffer","tag-suffered","tag-teacher","tag-testimonies","tag-upon-you","tag-walk-in-love","tag-washed-your-feet","tag-whole-heart","tag-wrong","tag-yoke"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657","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=27657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27662,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions\/27662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}