{"id":5078,"date":"2015-11-07T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2015-11-06T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:08:57","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-11-7-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-11-7-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 11-7-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 10:45 (NKJV) 45 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serving others. It&#8217;s what Jesus came to do. He said it Himself.<\/p>\n<p>For some, serving others comes naturally. For others, it takes deliberate effort to push other things aside and put the needs of others before their own.<\/p>\n<p>As followers of Christ, we need to let God bring this to pass in our own lives. We need to bear this kind of fruit. We need to learn to serve others, even when it&#8217;s not convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus even took it further in the previous verse, and tells us that if we desire to be first, we will become slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Mark 10:44 (NKJV) 44 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of gives it more credence when we see it put this way, directly from the mouth of Jesus, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>So how do we do this? How do we learn to serve others in a way that&#8217;s pleasing to God?<\/p>\n<p>We press in to Him and let Him shape us into who He wants us to be. When we do this, our lives will start becoming more of what <i>He <\/i>wants and less of what <i>we <\/i>want.<\/p>\n<p>Then, and only then, will we have a heart to serve others as Christ did.<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 10:45 (NKJV) 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.\u201d Serving others. It&#8217;s what Jesus came to do. He said it Himself. For some, serving others comes naturally. For others, it takes deliberate effort to push other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[2796,2334,2797,2794,2795],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving-others","tag-bible-verses-about-being-a-servant","tag-bible-verses-about-helping-others","tag-bible-verses-about-putting-others-first","tag-bible-verses-about-serving-others","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-serving-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","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=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}