{"id":18777,"date":"2024-10-26T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=18777"},"modified":"2024-10-26T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:21:30","slug":"does-god-prefer-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/personal-growth\/does-god-prefer-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"DOES GOD PREFER LOSERS?"},"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>\u201cSuccess is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can\u2019t lose.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Bill Gates)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s why God prefers losers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The less we are, the more He becomes to us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Winners think they don\u2019t need God very much. If we think we\u2019re moderately strong, all we need is a \u201cmoderately strong God\u201d to help us out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But when we see how little we bring to the table, then we cry out, \u201cLord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Those simple words, prayed in hours of deep darkness, receive an answer from heaven because they touch the heart of God.<\/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;] \u201cSuccess is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can\u2019t lose.\u201d (Bill Gates) That\u2019s why God prefers losers. The less we are, the more He becomes to us. Winners think they don\u2019t need God very much. If we think we\u2019re moderately strong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777","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=18777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18779,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions\/18779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}