{"id":303,"date":"2016-06-01T00:32:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2016-06-01T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:32:21","slug":"why-do-we-refuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/why-do-we-refuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Refuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How often do we stay outside the safety of our Lord and savior? \u00a0How many times are we not willing to listen? \u00a0How many times has He called to our heart and we refuse? \u00a0I think if we search our heart we are often listening to the wrong voice. Our input is not from scripture but rather from what we think we know or have heard. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t it time to come to Him with purpose to live out all the days we have left this side of eternity honoring and glorifying Him? \u00a0What does this world have to offer but broken dreams, unfulfilling work, and short term satisfaction? \u00a0Do you want to have purpose &#8211; reach out to Him and commit your heart, soul and mind to Him. \u00a0Willing to be used by Him. \u00a0Willing to hear. Willing to follow, \u00a0Willing to obey. \u00a0No one has ever said was too close to Jesus but many have said I wish I would have listened sooner for my life would have had much more meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 23:37<br \/>\n\u201cO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! <strong>How often would I have gathered<\/strong> your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, <strong>and you were not willing<\/strong>! See, your house is left to you desolate<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 147:2<br \/>\nThe Lord builds up Jerusalem;<br \/>\nhe gathers the outcasts of Israel.<br \/>\n<strong>He heals the brokenhearted<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> and binds up their wounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 1:24<br \/>\n<strong>Because I have called and you refused to listen,<\/strong><br \/>\nhave stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,<br \/>\nbecause you have ignored all my counsel<br \/>\nand would have none of my reproof,<br \/>\nI also will laugh at your calamity<\/p>\n<p>John 5:38<br \/>\nYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, <strong>yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life How often do we stay outside the safety of our Lord and savior? \u00a0How many times are we not willing to listen? \u00a0How many times has He called to our heart and we refuse? \u00a0I think if we search our heart we are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/why-do-we-refuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do We Refuse&#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":[410,210,412,35,414,16,411,415,413],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-bear-witness","tag-brokenhearted","tag-calamity","tag-counsel","tag-gathered","tag-listen","tag-refuse","tag-reproof","tag-wounds"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}