{"id":1684,"date":"2012-12-30T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2012-12-30T01:01:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:01:45","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-12-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/30\/pearls-of-wisdom-12-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 12-30-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">FAITH PLEASES GOD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is a beautiful day for all of us to be alive and to love the Lord.\u00a0 He showed me something today about a very familiar scripture.\u00a0 I am standing in awe at the reality of it.<\/p>\n<p>We have all heard the scripture that says that without faith it is impossible to please God.\u00a0 In fact, let\u2019s look at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hebrews 11:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But without faith it is impossible to please him:\u00a0 For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.<\/p>\n<p>We all have looked at this scripture through fleshly, earthly eyes.\u00a0 Do you know why it is impossible to please God without faith?\u00a0 That word please does not mean to satisfy Him or perform for Him mighty acts to prove our faith.\u00a0 No, a thousand times no!\u00a0 It means that it brings our dear heavenly Father, our God, great pleasure when He sees us enjoying the fullness of the life that He has provided for us.\u00a0 It gives Him great joy when He sees us basking in the benefits that He has provided for us as His children.\u00a0 Those benefits, the good life, come as a result of believing that God has provided all of them for us.\u00a0 That is faith, and that gives God great joy and pleasure to watch us.\u00a0 He loves to give, and we in turn must love to receive from Him.\u00a0 That pleasure of receiving turns us into joyful givers who take pleasure in the joy that others get from our giving.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about the circle of giving and receiving, receiving and giving.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that good news!<\/p>\n<p>Your faith pleases your Father!\u00a0 It is a good thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH PLEASES GOD Today is a beautiful day for all of us to be alive and to love the Lord.\u00a0 He showed me something today about a very familiar scripture.\u00a0 I am standing in awe at the reality of it. We have all heard the scripture that says that without faith it is impossible 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\/1684"}],"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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}