{"id":6757,"date":"2019-02-26T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:25:17","slug":"doing-his-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/doing-his-will\/","title":{"rendered":"DOING HIS WILL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 5<\/strong><strong>:43<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>I have come in My Father\u2019s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I once received a fictitious story that sadly describes how easy it is to escape personal responsibility to do the will of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThere were once four brothers:\u00a0<u>Every-one<\/u>,\u00a0<u>Some-one<\/u>,\u00a0<u>Any-one<\/u>\u00a0and\u00a0<u>No-one<\/u>. They had a very important task to do.\u00a0<u>Every-one<\/u>\u00a0was sure that\u00a0<u>Some-one<\/u>\u00a0would do it.\u00a0<u>Any-one<\/u> could have done it, but <u>No-one<\/u>\u00a0did it in the end.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Some-one<\/u>\u00a0was angry because it could have been\u00a0<u>Every-one&#8217;s<\/u>\u00a0job.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Every-one <\/u>thought that\u00a0<u>Any-one<\/u>\u00a0could have done it, but\u00a0<u>No-one<\/u>\u00a0realized that\u00a0<u>No-one<\/u>\u00a0will do it in the end.\u00a0\u00a0In the end,\u00a0<u>Every-one<\/u>\u00a0was angry at\u00a0<u>Some-one<\/u>\u00a0because\u00a0<u>No-one<\/u>\u00a0did what\u00a0<u>Any-one<\/u>\u00a0could&#8217;ve done.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does that sound familiar to you?\u00a0\u00a0I do not mean this humorous vignette, but the reality of the situation it describes.\u00a0\u00a0We are prone to expect others to do the job that the Lord calls us to do.\u00a0\u00a0Even when we accept responsibility for doing God\u2019s work, we put off and put off, sometimes so long that we leave the job undone.<\/p>\n<p>What is God putting in your heart to accomplish for Him?\u00a0\u00a0If you see a ministry that needs to be performed and wonder why someone is not doing it, it may well be that you are the one for the task. Are you faithful in doing God\u2019s will for your life?<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts!\u00a0\u00a0Walk with God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 5:43 \u201cI have come in My Father\u2019s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.\u201d\u00a0 I once received a fictitious story that sadly describes how easy it is to escape personal responsibility to do the will of God. \u201cThere were once four brothers:\u00a0Every-one,\u00a0Some-one,\u00a0Any-one\u00a0and\u00a0No-one. They [&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-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}