{"id":18025,"date":"2023-03-05T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2023-03-05T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T19:18:55","slug":"completely-devoted-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/pastors-word-for-the-week\/completely-devoted-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETELY DEVOTED TO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>“Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God, that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.” Acts 27:25<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>From the time that my kids were young I would joke with them that ” I knew everything.”<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I usually said it when I came up with a right answer to a question, found something lost, or in some cases had that parental sense to catch them just before they were about to get into trouble or get<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The truth is, as a husband, Dad, or Pastor, I know very little compared to all there is to know and all that needs to be known. I am desperately dependent upon a faithful God to give me wisdom and knowledge at the proper time to help save, heal, and guide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Like Paul, I have to daily stand before God seeking His perspective, insight, and help to accomplish all that is before me whether it is smooth sailing or rough seas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>But also like Paul, I can have the confidence to know that God does speak to us according to our needs that we can continue to be successful and a witness for Him. Trust Him. “He is a very present help in a time of trouble.\u201d Psalm 46:1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”] “Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God, that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.” Acts 27:25 From the time that my kids were young I would joke with them that ” I knew everything.” I usually said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18025","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\/18025","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}