{"id":7555,"date":"2011-06-28T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T22:33:12","slug":"apprehended-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/06\/28\/apprehended-god\/","title":{"rendered":"APPREHENDED BY GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>If that I may apprehend that for which also I am<br \/>\n    apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8212; Philippians 3:12<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on<br \/>\nyou, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. We<br \/>\nare not here to work for God because we have chosen to do so, but<br \/>\nbecause God has apprehended us. There is never any thought of &#8211; &#8220;Oh,<br \/>\nwell, I am not fitted for this.&#8221; What you are to preach is determined<br \/>\nby God, not by your own natural inclinations. Keep your soul<br \/>\nsteadfastly related to God, and remember that you are called not to<br \/>\nbear testimony only, but to preach the gospel. Every Christian must<br \/>\ntestify, but when it comes to the call to preach, there must be the<br \/>\nagonizing grip of God&#8217;s hand on you, your life is in the grip of God<br \/>\nfor that one thing. How many of us are held like that?<\/p>\n<p>Never water down the word of God, preach it in its undiluted<br \/>\nsternness; there must be unflinching loyalty to the word of God; but<br \/>\nwhen you come to personal dealing with your fellow men, remember who<br \/>\nyou are &#8211; not a special being made up in heaven, but a sinner saved<br \/>\nby grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended. &#8212; Philippians 3:12 Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on you, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. We are not here to work for God because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}