{"id":4326,"date":"2015-03-24T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2015-03-23T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T22:40:59","slug":"i-can-do-it-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/i-can-do-it-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I CAN DO IT MYSELF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 55:16-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cAs for me, I will call upon God, and the <\/em><em>Lord<\/em><em> shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many against me.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like a lifetime ago (it almost is) when our kids were toddlers. They began to demonstrate their independent streak when they would interrupt what Joyce or I were doing with the words, \u201cI do it myself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That same attitude continues into our adult life in one form or another. This is especially true in spiritual matters. We read in God\u2019s Word that we are to follow Him in all that we do, but by our actions we seem to be saying to God that we want to do it our way and by ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>It is crystal clear that salvation comes by grace through faith, yet millions of people seem to think that they can achieve salvation by their own works. God is not interested in our puny works. He is, however, interested in our obedience. In 1\u00a0Samuel 15:22b, Samuel relates to King Saul: <span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cBehold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed is better than the fat of rams.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That was true back then and it is still true today. When we read God\u2019s commands in the Bible they are the same yesterday, today, and forever. We need to stop trying to do things our way and start doing things God\u2019s way!<\/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>Psalm 55:16-18 \u201cAs for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many against me.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","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=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}