{"id":2042,"date":"2013-04-22T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2013-04-21T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:58:05","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-4-22-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-4-22-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 4-22-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Colossians 3:2 NKJV)\u00a0 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Where are our minds? What do we set them on?<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of different angles that this could be taught from, but today I we&#8217;d like to focus on this aspect;<\/p>\n<p>What occupies our thoughts? Are we spending all of our waking moments wrapped up in earthly matters, or are we giving God the time that He deserves?<\/p>\n<p>As we touched on last week, we can start our day by getting caught up in the cares of our day, or we can wake up and give God our attention <i>before<\/i> we get busy, setting things in order as soon as we wake up.<\/p>\n<p>But what about after we&#8217;re up and about? Are we pushing God aside for the remainder of our day, are we keeping Him in the forefront of our thoughts and the things that we do?<\/p>\n<p>God is everything. He is our source of life. Without Him we are nothing. But <i>with<\/i> Him we can do all things.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop rushing through our days, weeks and years and make an effort to <i>deliberately<\/i> give God all the time and attention that He is due.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<p>Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n<p>401-377-5400<\/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<p>To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please enter your email address in the box near the upper right corner of this page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Colossians 3:2 NKJV)\u00a0 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Where are our minds? What do we set them on? There are a couple of different angles that this could be taught from, but today I we&#8217;d like to focus on this aspect; What occupies our thoughts? Are we spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[746,747,66,265],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving-god-our-time-attention","tag-giving-god-our-attention","tag-giving-god-our-time","tag-hearing-gods-voice","tag-spending-time-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}