{"id":4016,"date":"2011-09-02T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2011-09-02T06:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:21:28","slug":"working-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"Working Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Moses&#8217; father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, &#8220;What is this thing that you&#8217;re doing for the people?\u00a0 Why are you alone sitting as a judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?&#8221; Exodus 18:14<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In our zeal to please God and advance His kingdom, we Christians often take on responsibilities that God never intended us to have.<\/li>\n<li>One of the great challenges of the Christian life is determining what God does <em>not<\/em> want us to do.<\/li>\n<li>When you become aware of a need, do not automatically assume God wants you to meet it.\u00a0 The only reason to perform a ministry is that God clearly tells you it is His will.<\/li>\n<li>Pray carefully about the assignments you take on, so that you don&#8217;t rob yourself and others of God&#8217;s best.<\/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;When Moses&#8217; father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, &#8220;What is this thing that you&#8217;re doing for the people?\u00a0 Why are you alone sitting as a judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?&#8221; Exodus 18:14 In our zeal to please God and advance His kingdom, we Christians [&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-4016","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\/4016","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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}