{"id":5925,"date":"2016-06-23T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2016-06-21T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:08:57","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-6-23-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-6-23-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 6-23-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Matthew 13:15\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing,\u00a0And their eyes they have closed,\u00a0Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears<\/span>,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">When something or someone has grown\u00a0dull toward anything\u00a0it means they are not\u00a0excited about it and have\u00a0lost interest in\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This can happen to anyone\u00a0if we don&#8217;t keep ourselves in the word of God. We can grow dull in our hearts toward Him.\u00a0Our ears will grow hard of hearing and our eyes will close to His word. And the things He wants to show us and do with us will be far from us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Staying in\u00a0communication with God is what keeps us walking by His Spirit versus doing whatever we want, whenever we want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The flesh will pull us in a hundred different directions. And of course, as it is with <em>everything <\/em>that the flesh likes to do, it&#8217;s up to us to say NO and crucify it and its cravings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Galatians 5:24 (NKJV) 24 And those who are Christ\u2019s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.<\/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<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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 13:15\u00a0For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing,\u00a0And their eyes they have closed,\u00a0Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, When something or someone has grown\u00a0dull toward anything\u00a0it means they are not\u00a0excited about it and have\u00a0lost interest in\u00a0it. This can happen to anyone\u00a0if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[2267,2874],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staying-close-to-god-2","tag-bible-verses-about-staying-close-to-god","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-staying-close-to-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","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=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}