{"id":3311,"date":"2018-07-20T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2020-12-13T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T21:51:22","slug":"a-willing-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/a-willing-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Willing Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How I need the <em>&#8220;joy of salvation restored&#8221;<\/em> to me some days. To be reminded of:\u00a0<i>where<\/i>\u00a0I&#8217;ve come from and <i>where<\/i>\u00a0I&#8217;m going, and all that Jesus has rescued us from, and the Heavenly home He has waiting.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;Create in a me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit with in me. Cast me not away from Your presence, O God, take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of \u00a0Your salvation! And renew a right spirit within me.&#8221; <\/i><\/b>Psalm 51<b><i>:<\/i><\/b>10-12<\/p>\n<p>One translation from the original Hebrew says: &#8220;<i style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sustain me by giving me the Desire to obey!&#8221; <\/i>&#8211; a <i><b>willing<\/b> spirit <\/i>inside me. And right there lies the key. The key to real and lasting <b>JOY<\/b> that sustains &#8211; obeying.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s all about <b>trusting<\/b> and <b>submitting<\/b>\u00a0to my Father who first loved me and sent His only Son to die in my place. It&#8217;s about the <i>only<\/i> command Jesus left us with: <b>Love GOD<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; then go,\u00a0<b>Love others <\/b>with that love.<\/p>\n<p>That enormous Love involves <b>sincerity<\/b> and <b>Truth<\/b> and <b>loyalty<\/b> to all Jesus taught. Hard stuff, yet He promised the Holy Spirit&#8217;s help with the burden. He understands it goes against my natural sway and gave an easy solution. Ask for help!<\/p>\n<p><i>O LORD, give me a desire to be willing to love like You love&#8230; I need help to ask for help. Sometimes it&#8217;s so against my nature. But You have loved me with an Everlasting Love and I want to share that incredible Joy!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>ForGlorySake! &#8211;<\/b><i>Anna<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span id=\"selectionBoundary_1531831928161_18844590597379574\" class=\"rangySelectionBoundary\" style=\"line-height: 0; display: none;\"><\/span><\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0402.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I need the &#8220;joy of salvation restored&#8221; to me some days. To be reminded of:\u00a0where\u00a0I&#8217;ve come from and where\u00a0I&#8217;m going, and all that Jesus has rescued us from, and the Heavenly home He has waiting. &#8220;Create in a me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/a-willing-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1420,9,10],"tags":[1637,841,890],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-spiritual-growth","category-trust","tag-psalm-5110-12","tag-trust-god","tag-willing-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-Rp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}