{"id":6266,"date":"2018-05-02T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T02:11:01","slug":"stand-fast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/stand-fast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STAND FAST!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romans 12:9\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cLet\u00a0love\u00a0be\u00a0without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am scared silly by what I observe in the modern church world. Fundamentals are being sacrificed for the sake of fads. The gospel is being replaced by gadgets. Spirituality is being traded for superficiality. Discipleship is being bartered for dependency.<\/p>\n<p>This new wave of Christianity calls for little or no commitment except sending money with the selfish motive of receiving good things in return. Entire groups of churches have adopted the premise that their own decisions hold priority over the infallible Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>I am here to say that if the Bible says something is a sin\u2014it is a sin. No amount of ecclesiastical mumbo jumbo can replace what God has spoken. Now we are being subjected to efforts to form a one-world church. The book of Revelation will open your eyes to the pitfall such an organization presents.<\/p>\n<p>So what are we to do\u2014individually as well as collectively? PRAY! Not in pride but in humility. II Chronicles\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_122767750\">7:14<\/span>\u00a0should be constantly before us:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cIf My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from\u00a0their\u00a0wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive\u00a0their\u00a0sin and will\u00a0heal\u00a0their\u00a0land.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Let\u2019s obey God.<\/strong><\/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>Romans 12:9\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLet\u00a0love\u00a0be\u00a0without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.&#8221; I am scared silly by what I observe in the modern church world. Fundamentals are being sacrificed for the sake of fads. The gospel is being replaced by gadgets. Spirituality is being traded for superficiality. Discipleship is being bartered for dependency. This [&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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","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=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}