{"id":5976,"date":"2017-11-14T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2017-11-14T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:45:28","slug":"prepared-for-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/prepared-for-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"PREPARED FOR ETERNITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ephesians 2:8-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cFor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>not of works, lest anyone should boast.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think you can be good enough to make it into heaven? Do you think that your good deeds need to outnumber your bad deeds to make it into heaven? What does the Bible say about being made right with God?<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to supply the answer. Actually, today\u2019s Scripture supplies the answer. It is more important to read what the Bible says about the matter rather than rely on the supposition of our human reasoning.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Isn\u2019t it great that God has done for us what we could never do for ourselves?! God did it by sending His precious Son, Jesus, to provide eternal life through His shed blood on the cross.<\/p>\n<p>If you have lived your life under the false assumption that you merit heaven by being good enough &#8212; think again! I invite you to pray this prayer right now. \u201cLord Jesus, I come to you as a lost sinner. I can never be good enough to earn entry into Your heaven. I invite You to come into my heart and make me Your child. I want to live for You and serve You. I pray this in Jesus&#8217;s name. Amen!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Pastor Cecil <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephesians 2:8-9 \u201cFor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,\u00a0not of works, lest anyone should boast.\u201d Do you think you can be good enough to make it into heaven? Do you think that your good deeds need to outnumber your bad deeds to [&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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephesians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","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=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}