{"id":10220,"date":"2011-12-18T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=10220"},"modified":"2011-12-18T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:32:37","slug":"bear-fruit-luke-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/bear-fruit-luke-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Fruit! Luke 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/luke-1-part-1\/luke-post\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10036\" title=\"Luke in 26 Days\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/luke-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/luke-post.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/luke-post-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/luke-post-200x115.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Today our reading is Luke 13.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I heard:<\/p>\n<h2>Scripture: Luke 13: 8-9<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSir,\u2019 the man replied, \u2018leave it alone for one more year, and I\u2019ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then I\u2019ll cut it down.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Observation:<\/h2>\n<p>The man wanted to give the tree one more chance to bear fruit before tearing it down.<\/p>\n<h2>Application:<\/h2>\n<p>Am I bearing fruit with what I have been given? And am I helping others to bear fruit? Or am I just wasting resources?<\/p>\n<h2>Prayer:<\/h2>\n<p>Lord, please guide me in using the resources you continually give me to bear fruit. I don\u2019t want to just be a waste in your vineyard, but one who blossoms and helps others to do the same. Help me to shepherd my children so that they will blossom and please also guide me in helping other bloggers to blossom in sharing your Word.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord.<\/p>\n<h2>What about you?<\/h2>\n<p>How are you blossoming?<\/p>\n<p>And what else stood out to you in today\u2019s reading?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our reading is Luke 13. Here is what I heard: Scripture: Luke 13: 8-9 \u201cSir,\u2019 the man replied, \u2018leave it alone for one more year, and I\u2019ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then I\u2019ll cut it down.\u2019\u201d Observation: The man wanted to give the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luke-in-26-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}