{"id":93,"date":"2011-10-12T03:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T03:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-10-12T03:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T03:27:25","slug":"will-you-join-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Will You Join Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, after talking with a few people and getting some of your thoughts on a post on Monday, I thought I would start a series of blog posts that focus on how one can grow their personal relationship with the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal relationship with God is the most important relationship a person can foster.\u00c2\u00a0 Without this relationship being healthy, no other relationship has a chance to remaining healthy.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how long these series of posts will be, but I can guarantee you three things.<\/p>\n

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  1. The struggles that you are having are the same struggles that I have had or am having.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 I will share some of those struggles from my personal life, to help you see that everyone deals with spiritual challenges.<\/li>\n
  2. The application piece of each blog will be something that I have tried and have worked, at some point, for me.<\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t encourage you to do something if I am not or have not done it myself.\u00c2\u00a0 I have tried a lot of different things to ignite and grow my spiritual life.\u00c2\u00a0 I will share those in hopes of sparking a new experiment in your life.<\/li>\n
  3. You will need to participate.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 This blog is not simply for reading pleasure\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6what blog really is?\u00c2\u00a0 These posts are going to be designed to give you ideas for how to grow your personal relationship with God.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0If you find yourself in a spiritual funk or you want to prevent from getting into one, then attempt the ideas that will be shared and see what God can do.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it.\u00c2\u00a0 Plain and simple.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too difficult, even for a southern boy like myself.<\/p>\n

    I will be posting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.\u00c2\u00a0 Every Monday and Friday will be a posting on this topic, as well as some Wednesdays.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope you check back each posting to learn and grow in a different way.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0If God speaks to you through the blog, share it with others and let others know what God is saying.<\/p>\n

    (Side note: If you want to make it easy on yourself, subscribe to the blog and you will receive e-mail updates when new posts go up)<\/p>\n

    See ya on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, after talking with a few people and getting some of your thoughts on a post on Monday, I thought I would start a series of blog posts that focus on how one can grow their personal relationship with the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal relationship with God is the most important relationship a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}