{"id":3616,"date":"2010-12-16T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:12:00","slug":"approved-to-god-12-15-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Approved to God&#8221; 12-15-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;Approved to God&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div><!-- module-wrapper-id --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-751\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>December15,2010<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KwsvqVmFV6Y&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KwsvqVmFV6Y&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"key-verse-box\">Be diligent to present yourself  approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly  dividing the word of truth \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/nkjv\/2%20Timothy%202.15\">2 Timothy 2:15<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If you cannot express yourself well on each of your  beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don\u2019t, other people may  miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to  re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and  God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else.  But you must be willing to go through God\u2019s winepress where the grapes  are crushed. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to  express God\u2019s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very  expression will become God\u2019s wine of strength to someone else. But if  you are not diligent and say, \u201cI\u2019m not going to study and struggle to  express this truth in my own words; I\u2019ll just borrow my words from  someone else,\u201d then the words will be of no value to you or to others.  Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of  God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through  you to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think  through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours  until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or  speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you  something you didn\u2019t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth  with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it  clearly and boldly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Approved to God&#8221; December15,2010 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth \u20142 Timothy 2:15 If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don\u2019t, other people may miss out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"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=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}