{"id":852,"date":"2009-11-10T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=852"},"modified":"2009-11-09T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:20:21","slug":"the-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-example\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EXAMPLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John 13:15-17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cI have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to change people by preaching at them. That may sound like a strange comment\u00a0coming 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 do much more than by what we say.\u00a0We can quote Scriptures about the importance of telling the truth\u2014but if those around us\u00a0observe that we are stretching the truth, then we have revealed more by our actions rather than by our words. That is not good!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 13:15-17 \u201cI have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.\u201d [&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-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}