{"id":3939,"date":"2011-08-11T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-08-16T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T10:56:17","slug":"pleasing-god-pleasing-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"Pleasing God, Pleasing Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God?\u00a0 Or am I striving to please people?\u00a0 If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.&#8221; Galatians 1:10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At times you will have to make a choice between pleasing God and pleasing those around you, for God&#8217;s ways are not man&#8217;s ways (Isaiah 55:8-9).<\/li>\n<li>It is important to get alone in quietness with God so that you understand what pleases Him.\u00a0 The world&#8217;s thinking will mislead you more easily when you are not clear about what God desires.<\/li>\n<li>Determine that you will please your Lord regardless of the opinion of others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Experiencing-God-Day---Day-Devotional\/dp\/0805462988\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313492047&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Experiencing God Day by Day Devotional<\/a> by Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God?\u00a0 Or am I striving to please people?\u00a0 If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.&#8221; Galatians 1:10 At times you will have to make a choice between pleasing God and pleasing those around you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}