{"id":6487,"date":"2018-09-18T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:26:26","slug":"righteous-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/righteous-example\/","title":{"rendered":"RIGHTEOUS EXAMPLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 13:15-17<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cFor<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is impossible to change people by preaching at them. That may sound like a strange comment coming from a preacher, but I find it to be true.\u00a0 You cannot line people up and preach them into doing anything.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that is what we have been trying to do for years, both in our homes as well as in our churches.\u00a0 It just does not work!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is a carry-over from how we deal with our children.\u00a0<strong>We yell and scream at them to quit yelling and screaming!<\/strong>\u00a0 Please read that last sentence over and over until you get the drift of what I am saying.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t work with our children or other people.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that we teach others by what we\u00a0<strong><em>do<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0much more than by what we\u00a0<strong><em>say<\/em><\/strong>. We can quote Scriptures about the importance of telling the truth, but if those around us observe that we are stretching the truth, then we have revealed more by our actions than by our words. That is not good!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts.\u00a0\u00a0May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0&#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 13:15-17 \u201cFor\u00a0I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.\u00a0Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.\u00a0If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.\u201d It [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","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=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}