{"id":594,"date":"2020-11-11T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2020-11-09T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:23:32","slug":"surrender-and-submit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/surrender-and-submit\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrender and submit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, November 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Surrender and submit\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you. <strong>James 4:7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two paradoxes of the Christian faith \u2013 submission is a sign of great strength and weakness. One verse says submission brings victory, as seen in the above scripture from James 4:7, \u2018<em>Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you<\/em>\u2019, and the other is that weakness brings strength, \u2018<em>My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness<\/em>\u2019 (2 Corinthians 12:9).<\/p>\n<p>Although the world may see submission as a sign of weakness, in God\u2019s eyes, it is a voluntary choice that we make to come under His protection and His guidance. If we hide ourselves under God\u2019s wings then His authority and power protect us.<\/p>\n<p>God can and will use terrifying experiences to teach you spiritual lessons. It\u2019s in these moments we understand the fullness of God&#8217;s strength to achieve what we thought was impossible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Dear God help me to remain firm in You as I surrender to your testing. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 11 Surrender and submit\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you. James 4:7 There are two paradoxes of the Christian faith \u2013 submission is a sign of great strength and weakness. One verse says submission brings victory, as seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}