{"id":1879,"date":"2012-02-05T22:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2012-02-05T22:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:01:57","slug":"renewing-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/renewing-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewing your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can function and live a decent life, even active in the church, &#8220;serving God&#8221;, and even do a good job in vocational ministry, yet have no real fellowship with God.<\/p>\n<p>But I find that if I go weeks without focused prayer (merely surviving on quick prayers and public prayers that are usually impersonal), holes begin to show.<\/p>\n<p>I act out of my own view of what is best, rather than seeking God&#8217;s best. I go with the pragmatic rather than what glorifies God. I choose ministries based on personal satisfaction rather than for the sake of the gospel. I lack true compassion and don&#8217;t see people as God sees them.<\/p>\n<p>It really helps me when I see other people genuine in their faith and radiating a life of intimacy with God. I don&#8217;t know how to explain it, but some people are &#8220;spiritual&#8221; without sounding spiritual. They exude a life of faith without being forced somehow.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I appear to other people, I hope I inspire others. But often I find myself short, because I am lacking in my intimate times with God. And once again I go to the Cross, and ask to be filled with the mind of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can function and live a decent life, even active in the church, &#8220;serving God&#8221;, and even do a good job in vocational ministry, yet have no real fellowship with God. But I find that if I go weeks without focused prayer (merely surviving on quick prayers and public prayers that are usually impersonal), holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}