{"id":2805,"date":"2019-03-15T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2019-03-15T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:27:26","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled in preparing for the message for Awana tonight. The theme is courage, Joshua 1:9. I didn&#8217;t want to teach the usual that the children have heard many times. Praise God He gave me a message about Paul&#8217;s courage. After thinking about it since last week, I made the final revision this afternoon and gave the message tonight. The children were all engaged, it went well. A leader told me that the message spoke to her, she needs courage in serving more. That was a big blessing.<\/p>\n<p>When my teaching goes well, I know it is God&#8217;s work through me. I would like to think I am naturally talented, but I know I&#8217;m not. Whenever I start to pat myself on the back, I remember Deuteronomy 8, it is God who gives us the ability to produce. Thank you God, for affirming the leadership position I&#8217;m in. You put me in this position, and you help me do what you&#8217;ve called me to do. Apart from you, I can do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed around church talking to people till almost 10:30pm. I like it when no one wants to leave. My old church was like that too. I&#8217;ll have a day of rest tomorrow to prepare for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled in preparing for the message for Awana tonight. The theme is courage, Joshua 1:9. I didn&#8217;t want to teach the usual that the children have heard many times. Praise God He gave me a message about Paul&#8217;s courage. After thinking about it since last week, I made the final revision this afternoon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}