{"id":1036,"date":"2010-02-17T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:17:12","slug":"character-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/character-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARACTER COUNTS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 16:26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cWhat good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have often been called a character. For those of you who are not familiar with the expression, \u201cYou\u2019re a real character,\u201d it means someone who does something unexpected and humorous. That has been me for a good part of my life. It is amazing how, at 75, I will meet someone for the first time and within minutes they will call me a character. Perhaps it\u2019s the twinkle in my eye \u2015 you will have to ask them.<\/p>\n<p>Saying all of that, I do not want to write about being that type of character. My desire is to focus on the character qualities that truly identify a man or woman. Some of these qualities are godly, while some are worldly and sinful.<\/p>\n<p>In our church services I have been working through the book of Esther. Last Sunday I passed out study sheets to look for the character qualities of three of the main characters: Esther, Mordecai and Haman. One of our members mentioned the character qualities that Bill Gothard introduced in his advanced seminars.<\/p>\n<p>After much prayer, I have purposed to begin a series in the Daily-E-Votionals that will highlight a different character quality each day. I will strive to develop that quality in my own Christian walk and will encourage you to join me. Until tomorrow I will bless you in the Lord!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 16:26 \u201cWhat good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?\u201d I have often been called a character. For those of you who are not familiar with the expression, \u201cYou\u2019re a real character,\u201d it means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}