{"id":3550,"date":"2011-11-29T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:02:01","slug":"covet-the-best-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Covet the Best Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBut covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew\u00a0 I unto you a more excellent way\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:31).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the Corinthians were apparently seeking status through the exercise of the gifts that seemed to them to be more important.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul now shows the right way to exercise spiritual gifts\u2014the way of love\u201d (from the commentary in the NIV Study Bible).<\/p>\n<p>Paul was going to show the Corinthians something that would surpass all gifts.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t call love a gift, but rather a fruit of the Spirit.\u00a0 As with the Corinthians, Love will also be evidence of the Spirit working in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER:<\/strong> Pray for development of spiritual gifts within young believers in mission churches in the U.S. Ask God to give home missionaries wisdom and discernment in developing leaders characterized by love.<em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew\u00a0 I unto you a more excellent way\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:31). \u201c\u2026the Corinthians were apparently seeking status through the exercise of the gifts that seemed to them to be more important.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3550\">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-3550","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\/3550","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=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}