{"id":1229,"date":"2011-01-20T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dadcents.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:09:10","slug":"1-20-2011-proverbs-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/2011\/01\/1-20-2011-proverbs-204\/","title":{"rendered":"1.20.2011 Proverbs 20:4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #29-\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I was reading in chapter 20, treatment<\/a> and verse 4 jumped out to me today.\u00a0 It says:<\/p>\n

20:4<\/strong> The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, try<\/a> <\/address>\n
so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.<\/address>\n
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I have an admission to make!\u00a0 I am guilty as charged.\u00a0 What was I charged of you ask?\u00a0 I am guilty of being a sluggard.\u00a0 I want great things for my daughters, but I struggle with following up with every way I should be preparing them for life!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ok, my wife and I are being intentional, but we are not as successful as I know we should be.\u00a0 There are several areas in which I struggle with my daughters.\u00a0 I struggle with having regular devotions, reading to them and the list goes on. \u00a0The gist of the verse above is that if we do not work or put forth the effort, we will not get results.\u00a0 The application to parents and kids would be something like this.\u00a0 If you do not teach your children biblical principles while they are in your home as adults they will live according to worldly standards and not follow God!<\/p>\n

What about you?\u00a0 I noticed a great disconnect in our country when I ask parents what they want for their children and what they are actually doing for their children.\u00a0 They have big aspirations, but they are falling short in the application stages.\u00a0 I want to encourage you to look at your family and ask yourself the following question.<\/p>\n

Are you being a sluggard? \u00a0<\/p>\n

I want to challenge you to take up reading the Proverb of the day and the entire chapter as well.\u00a0 Lord, please help each one of us to keep our focus on things above and not the things of this earth.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

I am using the\u00a0Net Bible<\/a>\u00a0to quote from for these posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #29-\u00a0\u00a0 Today I was reading in chapter 20, treatment and verse 4 jumped out to me today.\u00a0 It says: 20:4 The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, try so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing. \u00a0 I have an admission to make!\u00a0 I am guilty as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[130,15,131,128,129],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs-2","tag-biblical","tag-kids","tag-principles","tag-sluggard","tag-teaching-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}