{"id":5768,"date":"2016-05-11T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2016-05-10T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:56:32","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-5-11-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-5-11-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 5-11-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Matthew 19:21 (NKJV) 21 Jesus said to him, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A giving heart, a heart that does not hold on to things, but is willing to give up all and follow Christ.\u00a0A heart that finds its\u00a0stability and fulfillment\u00a0in Christ alone;\u00a0This is the kind of heart that Jesus looks forward to developing in us each day. He calls it perfect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Following Jesus\u00a0may require us to make big sacrifices at times.\u00a0The best thing we can do is let God prepare our hearts\u00a0so that nothing comes between us and Him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">If Jesus is asking us today to let go of something, don&#8217;t waste time stewing over it.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Pray and ask Him to help us let it go.\u00a0We will have much more fulfillment in following Him than whatever that thing\u00a0could ever\u00a0offer. Amen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" 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 19:21 (NKJV) 21 Jesus said to him, \u201cIf you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.\u201d A giving heart, a heart that does not hold on to things, but is willing to give up all and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1349],"tags":[3298,3247,3248],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-following-jesus","tag-bible-verses-about-being-generous","tag-bible-verses-about-following-jesus","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-following-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","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=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}