{"id":4550,"date":"2012-11-29T00:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T06:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2012-11-20T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:49:34","slug":"grace-to-the-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"Grace to the Humble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBut he giveth more grace, Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble\u201d\u00a0 (James 4:6).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A simple definition of grace contains the words, \u201cmercy\u201d and \u201cpardon.\u201d\u00a0 I was always told grace was God\u2019s unmerited favor toward man. We didn\u2019t do a thing to earn this favor. We are humbled by His grace because we are unworthy to receive it.\u00a0 If we live in humility, God will extend more grace\u2014yet another humbling factor.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you hate to feel God\u2019s resistance because you were too proud to accept His mercy and grace? Would you be ready to face the judgment without His grace?\u00a0 How you answer these questions may be a means of testing whether you are prepared to stand before God.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for Tammy Powers as she leads Virginia Women Active for Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut he giveth more grace, Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble\u201d\u00a0 (James 4:6). A simple definition of grace contains the words, \u201cmercy\u201d and \u201cpardon.\u201d\u00a0 I was always told grace was God\u2019s unmerited favor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4550\">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-4550","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\/4550","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=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}