{"id":2388,"date":"2013-08-20T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:24:21","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-8-20-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-8-20-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 8-20-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 119:133 (NKJV) Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me.<\/p>\n<p>Direct my steps.<\/p>\n<p>This should be the prayer of every believer. These are the words that we should be speaking to God each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>When God is leading us, we will be taking the steps that <i>He<\/i> wants, not what <i>we<\/i> want.<\/p>\n<p>As we learn to walk closely to Him, our fleshly wants and desires begin to melt away and His spirit begins to have dominion over us. When this happens, <i>His<\/i> desires become our desires too.<\/p>\n<p>Following God&#8217;s steps for our lives doesn&#8217;t mean that everything will be trouble-free. But it <i>does<\/i> mean that when trouble comes, we will have peace in the midst of the storm and we will know that no matter how hard the wind and the waves beat against us, we will be safe with Him and we will have victory in <i>His<\/i> timing.<\/p>\n<p>Are things not going well for us right now? Let&#8217;s check our steps and make sure they&#8217;re being ordered by God, and not just by our own will and desires.<\/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>401-315-0902<\/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>Psalm 119:133 (NKJV) Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me. Direct my steps. This should be the prayer of every believer. These are the words that we should be speaking to God each and every day. When God is leading us, we will be taking the steps that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,804],"tags":[185,291,347,968],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing-closer-to-god","category-following-gods-leading-2","tag-drawing-closer-to-god-2","tag-following-gods-leading","tag-letting-god-lead-you","tag-letting-god-order-your-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}