{"id":7019,"date":"2019-07-30T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:58:13","slug":"follow-my-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/follow-my-example\/","title":{"rendered":"FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Philippians 4:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cThe things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I miss so many things about my wife, Joyce. Each Saturday morning we used to go to a favorite spot for coffee. It was a chance to reflect on what the Lord was doing in our lives. We often observed a young father who was there with his three children. The family was a delight to watch. The kids seemed to reflect the peaceful nature of their dad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s Scripture, Paul lays himself out as a living example. He asks the church to use his life as an example of living for the Lord Jesus Christ. It was certainly not from an attitude of pride, but a confidence that his faith would never waiver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul names four actions for the believers at Philippi to emulate:\u00a0<strong><u>Learn<\/u>,\u00a0<u>receive<\/u>,\u00a0<u>hear<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<u>see<\/u><\/strong>. These might also be taken in reverse order. They would have\u00a0<strong><u>seen<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0his life and actions before they\u00a0<strong><u>heard<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0his message. Having\u00a0<strong><u>seen<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>the way Paul lived, they were open to\u00a0<strong><u>hear<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0his words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same\u00a0is true for us as well. People will see what we do before they hear what we say.\u00a0You may recall the old saying: \u201cYour actions speak so loud, I can\u2019t hear your words!\u201d What are people seeing and hearing in your life? We can only live and speak it. Having done our part, we pray for fruit from our labors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 4:9 \u201cThe things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.\u201d I miss so many things about my wife, Joyce. Each Saturday morning we used to go to a favorite spot for coffee. It was a chance to reflect on [&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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}