{"id":828,"date":"2014-03-27T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=828"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:00:59","slug":"he-makes-all-things-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"He makes all things new!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first thought, prayed and wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?page_id=36\">Our Best Life<\/a>, I have changed, I am different&#8230; I think I am becoming new. \u00a0I have told friends that I don&#8217;t know why this change has come about, but I am starting to realize that I \u00a0do know why&#8230; it is because of Him, and only Him.<\/p>\n<p>When I first starting praying for Our Best Life, someone very close to me was going through two very difficult and life changing events. \u00a0Her suffering and pain finally opened my eyes to my own selfishness and allowed me to step outside of myself for a moment and begin thinking of and praying for others by praying for <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?page_id=36\">Our Best Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This changed my direction, but He in His infinite humility still didn&#8217;t step in until I invited Him in through a <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?page_id=25\">prayer<\/a>\u00a0to be the seed that has been sown on good soil.<\/p>\n<p>He heard my prayer and came running to help me. \u00a0Regardless of how much work there is to do in me, He pushed up His sleeves and began working to make me new! \u00a0Anything kind, loving, patient, thoughtful, considerate, generous that I do is because of Him&#8230; it is NOT me! \u00a0There is still so much to be done, but He is here and my thoughts run to Him as I talk with my husband and my children, work on homework and play with my children, read, listen to music, wash dishes, fold and iron clothes, clean our home, make our dinner and even while kneeling on the floor a few weeks ago to clean up my daughters vomit.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You My Love for being here with me&#8230; I do not just need You, I desire You from the depths of my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first thought, prayed and wrote about Our Best Life, I have changed, I am different&#8230; I think I am becoming new. \u00a0I have told friends that I don&#8217;t know why this change has come about, but I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,130,138,123],"tags":[54,19,992,67,994,987,988,995,92,990,985,989,1465,15,627,55,297,116,53,12,703,986,51,10,991,996,547,993,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-humility","category-love-2","category-prayer","tag-best","tag-change","tag-changing","tag-christ","tag-considerate","tag-desire","tag-desired","tag-generous","tag-god","tag-he","tag-he-makes-all-things-new","tag-him","tag-humility","tag-jesus","tag-kind","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-need","tag-needed","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-the-seed-sown-on-good-soil","tag-thoughtful","tag-work","tag-working","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}