{"id":14449,"date":"2016-05-31T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:54:04","slug":"put-god-first-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14449","title":{"rendered":"Put God First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesus did not commit Himself to them\u2026for He knew what was in man. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=John+2%3A24-25\" target=\"_blank\">John 2:24-25<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VgGP3g1rjA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\"><strong>Put Trust in God First.<\/strong> Our Lord never put His trust in any person. Yet He was never suspicious, never bitter, and never lost hope for anyone, because He put His trust in God first. He trusted absolutely in what God\u2019s grace could do for others. If I put my trust in human beings first, the end result will be my despair and hopelessness toward everyone. I will become bitter because I have insisted that people be what no person can ever be\u2014 absolutely perfect and right. Never trust anything in yourself or in anyone else, except the grace of God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Put God\u2019s Will First.<\/strong> \u201cBehold, I have come to do Your will, O God\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Hebrews+10:9\">Hebrews 10:9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A person\u2019s obedience is to what he sees to be a need\u2014 our Lord\u2019s obedience was to the will of His Father. The rallying cry today is, \u201cWe must get to work! The heathen are dying without God. We must go and tell them about Him.\u201d But we must first make sure that God\u2019s \u201cneeds\u201d and His will in us personally are being met. Jesus said, \u201c\u2026tarry\u2026until you are endued with power from on high\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+24:49\">Luke 24:49<\/a>). The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the \u201cneeds\u201d of God and His will. Once God\u2019s \u201cneeds\u201d in us have been met, He will open the way for us to accomplish His will, meeting His \u201cneeds\u201d elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put God\u2019s Son First.<\/strong> \u201cWhoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+18:5\">Matthew 18:5<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>God came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a \u201cBethlehem.\u201d Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transformed by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God\u2019s ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus did not commit Himself to them\u2026for He knew what was in man. \u2014John 2:24-25 Put Trust in God First. Our Lord never put His trust in any person. Yet He was never suspicious, never bitter, and never lost hope for anyone, because He put His trust in God first. He trusted absolutely in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14452,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}