{"id":547489,"date":"2020-02-16T03:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.163.82.222\/?p=547489"},"modified":"2020-02-16T03:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T09:31:16","slug":"seeking-god-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwenshamblinbooks.com\/?p=547489","title":{"rendered":"Seeking God First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyTextBody\">May we all emulate Christ. May we find others who are imitating Christ and copy them. Your life will have purpose, and you will find that Living Water when all you want is to be like Christ, whose only focus was to seek God and do His will! We should all beg in our hearts to be the apple of God\u2019s eye like King David. Do you want to have a purpose? Do you want to have a blessed life? Or are you just focused on the here and the now, grabbing what you want but never getting answered prayers? We are here to find God. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that other activities do not dominate your days, but instead, your days are dominated with seeking after God. Then when God grants you fun recreation time and great meals, He will make the recreation incredible and the food delightful. If you seek the recreation and the food first<span class=\"Bodytextitalics\">\u2014<\/span>before seeking God<span class=\"Bodytextitalics\">\u2014<\/span>it will not be fun, and the food will not taste good, and you will have a disappointing day. But if you will seek God first, then you will have an amazing, blessed, beautiful day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more on this topic, read <a href=\"http:\/\/weighdown.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">History of the One True God &#8211; Volume III God-Fearing Families\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May we all emulate Christ. May we find others who are imitating Christ and copy them. 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