{"id":1060,"date":"2012-05-25T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:56:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T02:56:41","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-5-25-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-5-25-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 5-25-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(James 1:1 NKJV)\u00a0 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is what the book of James starts off with. I read this and thought, wow&#8230;&#8221;a bondservant of God&#8221;? And then I thought&#8230; &#8220;hmm, what is a bondservant?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is what the Webster dictionary gives for a definition for bondservant<strong>:<\/strong> one bound to service without wages; <em>also<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> slave.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> James was a slave to Christ!! This caused me to stop and ponder on my walk with Christ and where I&#8217;m at. How much of <em>me<\/em> do I give to God? How much of my <em>time<\/em> do I give to Him? Am I be willing to be a bondservant for Christ?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It makes you realize how serious James was about His walk with the Lord. It makes you see how strong his love was for the Lord. A slave does everything their master tells them to do.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Where are we at in our walk with Christ? Are we willing to be a bond servant for Him today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">401-377-5400<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(James 1:1 NKJV)\u00a0 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. This is what the book of James starts off with. I read this and thought, wow&#8230;&#8221;a bondservant of God&#8221;? And then I thought&#8230; &#8220;hmm, what is a bondservant?&#8221; This is what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[297,296,298],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loving-god","tag-serving-god-completely","tag-serving-god-faithfully","tag-surrendering-our-lives-to-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}