{"id":17961,"date":"2023-01-15T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=17961"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:22:17","slug":"adversaries-we-all-have-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/pastors-word-for-the-week\/adversaries-we-all-have-them\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVERSARIES&#8230;WE ALL HAVE THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>As you respond to God&#8217;s invitations, don&#8217;t be caught by surprise when adversaries try to thwart what you are doing. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you concentrate on your opponents, you will be sidetracked from God&#8217;s activity. Don&#8217;t base your decisions on what people are doing. They cannot prevent you from carrying out God&#8217;s will (Rom.8:31).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Many times the most rewarding spiritual work is done in the crucible of persecution and opposition. Look beyond what people are saying to find what God is doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Paul lived this kind of victorious life. He wrote, &#8220;For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.&#8221; (1 Cor. 16:9)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;] As you respond to God&#8217;s invitations, don&#8217;t be caught by surprise when adversaries try to thwart what you are doing. If you concentrate on your opponents, you will be sidetracked from God&#8217;s activity. Don&#8217;t base your decisions on what people are doing. They cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors-word-for-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17963,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions\/17963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}