{"id":1488,"date":"2017-09-28T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:11:59","slug":"the-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/the-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lord, I want to be all that you want me to be\u2026<\/h6>\n
Let me pray for others, feed the hungry, go to foreign lands and preach your word\u2026<\/h6>\n
I want to be a soul-winner and tell great tales of how you set men free and tell what I\u2019ve heard\u2026I\u2019m sold out and committed, there is no doubt\u2026I will follow thee.<\/h6>\n
Lord, why have you sent me to this place? I\u2019m alone most of time and all I do is write, pray and go to church\u2026read your word and as I search, I don\u2019t understand why I\u2019m here at all\u2026<\/h6>\n
Listen God, I\u2019ve prayed and cried and done everything but everything I try\u2026seems small and insignificant I can\u2019t see where I\u2019ve helped at all\u2026<\/h6>\n
GOD I\u2019M ASKING PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT WITH ME\u2026WHERE ARE YOU GOD\u2026JUST TELL ME, PLEASE\u2026DIDN\u2019T YOU HEAR ME WHEN I SAID, I\u2019M READY TO DO ANYTHING YOU ASK\u2026?<\/h6>\n
If you aren\u2019t going to use me here, then please let me go home to family\u2026I miss them terribly\u2026five years I\u2019ve cried and prayed for guidance\u2026I\u2019m still alone and miss my home, where grandbabies play and grow and roam\u2026but not with me, Oh can\u2019t you see, I miss them terribly\u2026<\/h6>\n
OK Lord, I get it\u2026It\u2019s your will\u2026not mine\u2026be done\u2026I\u2019m open Lord and I give my heart in total surrender to you\u2026you\u2019re the one\u2026who calls the shots\u2026I\u2019m here Lord, this is all I\u2019ve got\u2026but what I have is yours\u2026<\/h6>\n
In\u00a0the stillness of a breath upon my heart\u00a0I hear\u2026Child I know what\u2019s best for you and here is where I\u2019ve sent you\u2026to be a light in a tiny place where no one can see the tears on your face\u2026only me and you have shared, these, last five years, and for this purpose I\u2019m brought you here\u2026obedience is better than sacrifice<\/strong>\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Growing up is hard to do\u2026but patient-heart I promise you\u2026will know in due season what it takes to live this life and what is true\u2026on the journey I\u2019ve charted out for you\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
You see time is not relevant in the realm where I dwell\u2026 all that\u2019s important is your heart so I\u2019ll tell\u2026you, the perfect sacrifice has already been met\u2026that all I ask is obedience and let, my love be the motive of your heart\u2026then those who are weak and without will see that it is I, not you, living inside of thee\u2026in grace and long suffering, with humility, that\u2019s where you will find serenity and peace throughout eternity\u2026Obedience is all I ask of thee\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
I hear you daddy God\u2026I surrender to the call\u2026the sacrifice I thought you wanted, wasn\u2019t that at all\u2026<\/h6>\n
Obedience only comes through suffering, producing the fruit of humility \u2026 only then will we\u00a0be used for God\u2019s glory\u2026<\/h6>\n
~M. S. O\u2019Neill September 28, 2017<\/h6>\n
While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. Because he honored God, God answered him. Though he was God\u2019s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him.<\/em> Hebrews 5:7-10 <\/em>The Message (MSG)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n

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\u00a0 Lord, I want to be all that you want me to be\u2026 Let me pray for others, feed the hungry, go to foreign lands and preach your word\u2026 I want to be a soul-winner and tell great tales of how you set men free and tell what I\u2019ve heard\u2026I\u2019m sold out and committed, there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-o0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}