{"id":4244,"date":"2015-02-03T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:55:41","slug":"the-subtle-road-to-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-subtle-road-to-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SUBTLE ROAD TO DEFEAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 6:9-11<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber,<\/em><em> a little folding of the hands to rest\u2014and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like\u00a0 an armed man.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was generally not the intention of a person to become an out and out sinner, yet here they are entrenched in a life of sin. Some time ago I either read or heard about the devastating way a person drifts into a life of sin. Follow the flow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THOUGHTS<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> What we think leads to the next step, WORDS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WORDS<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> What we say is generated by our thoughts and leads ACTIONS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ACTIONS<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> May seem insignificant at first, but they lead to HABITS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HABITS<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Without realizing it our habits become our CHARACTER.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CHARACTER<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Who and what we are determines our DESTINY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DESTINY<\/span>: <\/strong>Our life on this earth will someday end. Our DESTINY starts with our thought life. How would you describe your thought life? It is very important to take evaluation while there is time.<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 6:9-11 \u201cHow long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest\u2014and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like\u00a0 an armed man.\u201d It was generally not the intention of a person [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}