{"id":2825,"date":"2011-03-29T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2011-03-20T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:15:42","slug":"chosen-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Chosen to Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light\u201d\u00a0 (1 Peter 2:9).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Praise God both Jews and Gentiles are chosen to shine for Him. All His children are to be His \u201cpeculiar\u201d people. We are going to be different because we now belong to God. We were once nothing, walking aimlessly in darkness until God called us out of that darkness.\u00a0 We are called to take His light to those who still walk in darkness. With a humble and thankful heart we should count it a privilege to shine for Him.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER:<\/strong> Contentment should be based on our relationship with Christ\u2014not on circumstances. Pray for quietness and contentment today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light\u201d\u00a0 (1 Peter 2:9). Praise God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}