{"id":1806,"date":"2024-10-27T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2024-10-27T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T01:14:18","slug":"area-of-growth-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/2024\/10\/27\/area-of-growth-oct-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Area of Growth (Oct 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verses for the day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prov 25:11-12 Timely advice is lovely, like golden apples in a silver basket. To one who listens, valid criticism is like a gold earring or other gold jewelry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over the past few years as we have continued to learn how to do this job of orientation, I have become aware of a bad habit I have. Partly because of our role, and the need to write a report at the end of the program, but I realize that I have been quick to be critical in my observations of people. In our first couple programs we had people finish our program feeling \u201cover evaluated\u201d and even \u201ccriticized.\u201d Our heart was to prepare them to become better church planters, and equip them to become God\u2019s effective instruments. But, instead of seeing our advice as \u201cgolden apples\u201d (Prov 25:11) of truth to help them, it was seen as judgment and they felt we were just being critical of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As I think about others we have tried to minister to, I wonder how many have felt that way? My heart has always been to help others become what God wants them to be. But, I\u2019m afraid that, just like our orientation students, instead of my input coming across as \u201cvalid criticism that is like a gold earring or other jewelry\u201d (Prov 25:12) (something you value and see it will enhance you), it\u2019s more like Prov 25:24 \u201cIt\u2019s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I don\u2019t ever want you to feel like I am just a \u201cquarrelsome wife\u201d that you can never please.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lord, this morning as I start my day, I ask that you will enable me to learn to communicate in such a way that my advice is seen more like precious jewelry than quarrelsome talk to be avoided.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As I interact with the orientatees I don\u2019t want them to feel criticized, or over evaluated\u2026 treated like children. I want what I say and do be like a lovely basket full of golden apples that bring delight and encouragement and hope.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Father, I pray the same for those who read this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses for the day Thoughts Prayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130594],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-the-word-for-the-day","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}