{"id":811,"date":"2016-12-21T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:14:35","slug":"god-can-use-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2016\/12\/god-can-use-you\/","title":{"rendered":"God CAN Use you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God can use you. \u00a0God wants to use you. \u00a0God is able to use you.<\/p>\n<p>The devil will tell you God can&#8217;t use someone like you. \u00a0Or God is done with you.<\/p>\n<p>The devil will get you to want to quit. \u00a0The grace of God will keep you going and going and going.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Energizer bunny, but Jesus is the Lamb of God, so maybe it is the Energizer Lamby.<\/p>\n<p>And more realistically God keeps you going and going and going. \u00a0And you fall and Jesus picks you up and dusts you off and cleans you up. \u00a0And encourages you again to keep going and then you keep going and going and going.<\/p>\n<p>And if it wasn&#8217;t for Jesus you&#8217;d mess up 6 times a day. \u00a0Or more. \u00a0So to mess it up every once in a while when we simply take our eyes off of Jesus shouldn&#8217;t get us to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes on the ball, not on the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever give up.<\/p>\n<p>A preacher said, God will use you. \u00a0If he can use Peter who denied the Lord, he can use you. \u00a0Noah got drunk, Moses stuttered, Jonah ran from God, Timothy was too young, \u00a0James and John were hot heads, Jacob was a day dreamer, David was an adulterer and a murderer, Samson had long hair and was a womanizer, \u00a0Joseph was abused, Leah was ugly, Rachel stole her father&#8217;s idols, Rahab was a prostitute, the woman at the well was divorced multiple times, \u00a0Elijah was suicidal, Abraham was too old, Thomas doubted, the disciples fell asleep, Martha was worried about everything, Mary Magdaline &#8212; you know what she was, the Mad Man of Gadara was crazy, Bartimaeus was blind, the women with the issue of blood was too sick, Zacchaeus was too short, Paul was too religious.<\/p>\n<p>And Lazurus was dead.<\/p>\n<p>If God can use a dead man, he can use you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God can use you. \u00a0God wants to use you. \u00a0God is able to use you. The devil will tell you God can&#8217;t use someone like you. \u00a0Or God is done with you. The devil will get you to want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2016\/12\/god-can-use-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}