{"id":2399,"date":"2009-12-08T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:57:52","slug":"soap-training-for-the-present-life-and-the-life-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/soap-training-for-the-present-life-and-the-life-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"SOAP: Training for the present life and the life to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:7-8<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>7<\/strong>Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives\u2019 tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. <strong>8<\/strong>For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> Train your heart and mind in the Word of the Lord rather than relying on myths and legends which hold little truth. In the long run, it is God\u2019s Word which will benefit you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> How can you know what is an old wives\u2019 tale and what is the truth if you do not spend time for yourself in the Word, reading and studying it?<\/p>\n<p>And how can you be sure what you read, even in analysis of the scripture, is accurate and trustworthy if you don\u2019t read the Word yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you owe it to yourself to spend some time building up your spiritual muscles by actually reading the Bible?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, thank you for bringing Ted Cooper and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblein90days.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bible in 90 Days <\/a>program to me. By reading your true Word, I can hold other tales up to it and see what is truth. By familiarizing myself with your Word and reading all of it, it is easy for me to go back and look up things when I have questions. And because I read your Word, when I hear a supposed piece of wisdom that supposedly came from the Bible, I can better dismiss it if it is in fact simply an old wives\u2019 tale.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Lord, help more people see that they, too, need to read your entire Word. And embolden them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Guide me as I develop my plan to follow your plan in inviting readers of many blogs to join me in an online reading community January 1- March 31 so we will all know your true Word and will be better off in our present lives, and the life to come.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you, Lord, for the gift of the Holy Bible that I can access at any time.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:7-8 7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives\u2019 tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. Observation: Train your heart and mind in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-in-90-days","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","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=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}