{"id":1992,"date":"2013-01-16T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2013-01-16T01:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:08:05","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-01-16-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/16\/pearls-of-wisdom-01-16-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 01-16-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>FREEDOM HAS A PRICE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The greatest freedom we have is the freedom that Jesus Christ has given us as sons and daughters of God.\u00a0 He paid the ultimate price for that freedom &#8212;- His blood.\u00a0 Likewise, we must remember that the freedom of our nation came with a great price, the blood of many men and women who fought in wars both past and present.<\/p>\n<p>As a person who loves peace, I hate war.\u00a0 It destroys.\u00a0 But war is a consequence of man\u2019s sin-driven desires for power and prestige.\u00a0 Today we see this drive for power in governments all over the world, in businesses everywhere, in families and yes, even in the church.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest power in the universe is God Who is Love.\u00a0 If mankind could only see, have the veil removed from their eyes, they would see that anything that they strive for will ultimately be removed and replaced with another greater and bigger earthly \u201cthing.\u201d\u00a0 What a waste our striving is!\u00a0 When we lean on Him and allow His Love power to take over, He brings each of us to a place of peace and victory and prosperity, the very things that we are aiming for in our personal lives when we are attempting to do it in our own human ability.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus declared in<strong> John 8:31 and 32<\/strong> that if we continue in God\u2019s Word, then we are His disciples and we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free.\u00a0 That is true freedom, the freedom of God that comes from knowing the truth of His Word in our lives.\u00a0 He also said that he whom the Son sets free is free indeed.\u00a0 We are forever free in Jesus, regardless of where we are or what our circumstances are.\u00a0 Remember that you are free in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Declare that freedom and value it as more precious than all that earth can offer you!<\/p>\n<p>Today, let us take inventory of our true freedom in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREEDOM HAS A PRICE The greatest freedom we have is the freedom that Jesus Christ has given us as sons and daughters of God.\u00a0 He paid the ultimate price for that freedom &#8212;- His blood.\u00a0 Likewise, we must remember that the freedom of our nation came with a great price, the blood of many men [&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\/1992"}],"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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}