{"id":9263,"date":"2018-06-09T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2018-06-03T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:33:38","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-6-9-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-6-9-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 6-9-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">John 12:26 (NKJV) 26 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Jesus is saying here, &#8220;if anyone serves Me, let him follow Me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Part of being a good servant is\u00a0<em>following<\/em> Jesus.\u00a0So,\u00a0when we obey Him\u00a0and we do the things He asks us to do in His word, we are\u00a0serving Him. And when we do this, His Father, God Almighty, watches and He will honor us for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">What a beautiful relationship we can have as we receive and follow Christ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Jesus is not hard to love. Look at everything He is.\u00a0Loving, kind, compassionate, faithful, sincere, forgiving! He heals, He delivers, He gives us eternal life, etc. What\u00a0other\u00a0person in our life will be all of this for us?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Following Jesus can be hard if we don&#8217;t truly want to surrender in certain areas of our life. But if we do surrender, it can be easy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Matthew 11:30 (NKJV) 30 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For My yoke is easy and My burden is light<\/span>.\u201d<\/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. 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If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. Jesus is saying here, &#8220;if anyone serves Me, let him follow Me&#8221;. Part of being a good servant is\u00a0following Jesus.\u00a0So,\u00a0when we obey Him\u00a0and we [&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":[3247,1925,3248],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-following-jesus","tag-bible-verses-about-following-jesus","tag-bible-verses-about-obeying-god","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-following-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}