{"id":2905,"date":"2018-08-02T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T08:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T08:51:45","slug":"what-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/2018\/08\/02\/what-people-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What People Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nWhat God knows about me is more important than what others think about me.<br \/>\n&#8211; Surgeo Bell (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/4473040-what-god-knows-about-me-is-more-important-than-what\">Goodreads<\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s companion Timothy was a young man when he came to the faith. We know this, because Paul wrote a word of encouragement to him about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1 Timothy 4:12-14 (WEBBE): <sup>12<\/sup>Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. <sup>13<\/sup>Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching. <sup>14<\/sup>Don\u2019t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God knew Timothy, and He knew what He had in store for him. It didn&#8217;t matter that people might think him too young to be a spiritual leader. Because Timothy walked in a close relationship with God, he could live out God&#8217;s love for people despite what they might expect of him since he was so young.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let human expectations stand between you and God&#8217;s plan for your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What God knows about me is more important than what others think about me. &#8211; Surgeo Bell (from Goodreads) Paul&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24,25,85],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/DSCN4659.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I1MG-KR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}