{"id":5097,"date":"2015-03-29T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:42:19","slug":"sunday-thots-its-not-by-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Thots: It&#8217;s Not By Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the most important things I&#8217;ve learned in life is that it\u00a0is wiser to build our dependence on God than building it on people, because people can disappoint\u00a0us at any moment. Not only that, we can disappoint ourselves! When we\u00a0find ourselves in a rut or facing difficult situations, we sometimes try to use our own &#8216;power&#8217; to find solutions, but only end up failing.<\/p>\n<p>We should rather\u00a0choose to leave God because He is ever present and there for those who need and seek Him with a sincere Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat you.<\/p>\n<p>We must live our life Not by Might nor by Power but by His Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blessed Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. One of the most important things I&#8217;ve learned in life is that it\u00a0is wiser to build our dependence on God than building it on people, because people can disappoint\u00a0us at any moment. Not only that, we can disappoint ourselves! When we\u00a0find ourselves in a rut or facing difficult situations, we sometimes try to use our own &#8216;power&#8217; to find solutions, but only end up failing. We should rather\u00a0choose to leave God because He is ever present and there for those who need and seek Him with a sincere Heart. Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat you. We must live our life Not by Might nor by Power but by His Spirit. Have a blessed Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[705,297],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sunday-thots","tag-its-not-by-power","tag-sunday-thots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}