{"id":5715,"date":"2016-04-27T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2016-04-26T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:40:46","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-4-27-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-4-27-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 4-27-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, \u201c\u2018<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind<\/span>.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Even though we may love God with all of our heart, and say we want to do what He wants us to do\u00a0(and really mean it),\u00a0we still have that nasty flesh to deal with. It plays with our thoughts, and our emotions and it can cause a war within our own mind\u00a0at times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">It takes time and\u00a0persistence\u00a0to tame that flesh and cause it to be in\u00a0alignment\u00a0with God and His plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">We have\u00a0moments when we are all for His plan\u00a0and then there are moments when\u00a0we just want to throw in the towel and say we have no more energy or strength left. This is\u00a0normal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">But the bottom line is, we don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t walk away.\u00a0We don&#8217;t throw\u00a0in the towel and we don&#8217;t give in to the flesh.<\/p>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Why?\u00a0Because we love Him\u00a0too much\u00a0and we truly want\u00a0what\u00a0He wants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">So keep up the good work. Don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Let God&#8217;s Spirit dominate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">401-315-0902<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\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>Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, \u201c\u2018You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.\u2019 Even though we may love God with all of our heart, and say we want to do what He wants us to do\u00a0(and really mean it),\u00a0we still [&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":[3271,2737,2189,2190],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loving-god","tag-bible-verses-about-battling-our-flesh","tag-bible-verses-about-following-god","tag-bible-verses-about-loving-god","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-loving-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","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=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}