{"id":151,"date":"2010-01-29T06:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-01-29T06:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:21:32","slug":"the-most-precious-thing-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/the-most-precious-thing-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOST PRECIOUS THING WE HAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read Philippians 4: 8-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the most precious thing we have?\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know your answer, but for me the most precious thing I have is LIFE. It is the most gracious thing we have. Hence, it must be spent certainly for something worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Evaluate how you spend your life daily. Happiness, joy and peace are products of the pursuit of God and His righteousness. A life spent outside God is emptiness; it is full of disappointments and ultimately death. Living without God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan for our life, is like sewing with a needle that has no thread or writing one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life history with a pen empty of ink. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely a waste of energy.<\/p>\n<p><sup>8<\/sup> Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em> noble, whatever things\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em> just, whatever things\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em> pure, whatever things\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em> lovely, whatever things\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em> of good report, if\u00c2\u00a0<em>there is<\/em> any virtue and if <em>there is<\/em> anything praiseworthy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmeditate on these things.\u00c2\u00a0<sup>9<\/sup> The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4: 8-9<\/p>\n<p>PRAYER: God help me to know and understand the fact that happiness is never found in the pursuit of happiness, life is not found in the pursuit of life, but rather they are both products of a life spent and found in a pursuit of God and His righteousness. Matthew 5:6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Philippians 4: 8-9 What do you think is the most precious thing we have?\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know your answer, but for me the most precious thing I have is LIFE. It is the most gracious thing we have. Hence, it must be spent certainly for something worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Evaluate how you spend your life daily. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christ-life-church.org\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}