{"id":1547,"date":"2016-02-02T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:26:09","slug":"ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2016\/02\/02\/ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2016\/02\/DSCN1227cropped-600-x-431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1570\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2016\/02\/DSCN1227cropped-600-x-431.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1227cropped (600 x 431)\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2016\/02\/DSCN1227cropped-600-x-431.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2016\/02\/DSCN1227cropped-600-x-431-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not only outside circumstances or hardness in other people\u2019s hearts that can present a barrier to ministry. Hardness in our own hearts can tie our hands and make us ineffective, too.\u00a0 In fact, this may be the greatest obstacle of all.\u00a0 Pride, disunity, fear, prayerlessness, lack of self-discipline,&#8230;these are only a few of the enemies that can come out of our own hearts to oppose the work that we so want to do for the Kingdom here. A lifestyle of humility, repentance, and dependence on the Lord is the only answer. If we will be effective here, it will only be by the power of the Spirit daily transforming our own lives. So please pray for us. A great door of opportunity is standing open for us here. We don\u2019t want to miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only outside circumstances or hardness in other people\u2019s hearts that can present a barrier to ministry. Hardness in our own hearts can tie our hands and make us ineffective, too.\u00a0 In fact, this may be the greatest obstacle of all.\u00a0 Pride, disunity, fear, prayerlessness, lack of self-discipline,&#8230;these are only a few of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"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":[4],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-1547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}