{"id":1312,"date":"2012-11-10T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:12:00","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-11-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/10\/pearls-of-wisdom-11-10-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 11-10-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WHAT IS YOUR REASON FOR BEING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Him we live and move and have our being\u2026.(Acts 17:28).<\/p>\n<p>Our whole reason for existing is to love and honor and praise God.\u00a0 He is our dear heavenly Father.\u00a0 He is the Source of all our life.\u00a0 He is the very breath we breathe.\u00a0 He created us to lavish His love and His gifts upon us.\u00a0 We are the apple of His eye.\u00a0 We are the beat of His heart.\u00a0 We are His children.\u00a0 He is ours and we are His.\u00a0 What a way to live!<\/p>\n<p>David said in the Psalms that his heart pants after God like the deer pants after the water.\u00a0 Think of how thirsty that deer is when he comes to the water to drink.\u00a0 Even so, we are thirsty for the water of God.\u00a0 His Word is called the water of the Word.\u00a0 We drink deeply of Him when we drink of His Word.<\/p>\n<p>He is also our Bread of Life for which we are hungering.\u00a0 He is our sustenance, our reason for living.\u00a0 We eat of Him as we eat of His Word, His Bread, His manna for us.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on Him.\u00a0 Think about Him.\u00a0 Think about His goodness.\u00a0 Think about His all-encompassing love.\u00a0 Think about His greatness.\u00a0 Think about His mighty awesome power.\u00a0 Think about His caring for you.\u00a0 Even as I type this, I am overwhelmed with His never-ceasing desire for me as His child.\u00a0 My heart overflows with love and joy in response to my Creator, to my Lord, to my King.\u00a0 What a God we serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT IS YOUR REASON FOR BEING In Him we live and move and have our being\u2026.(Acts 17:28). Our whole reason for existing is to love and honor and praise God.\u00a0 He is our dear heavenly Father.\u00a0 He is the Source of all our life.\u00a0 He is the very breath we breathe.\u00a0 He created us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}