{"id":30425,"date":"2020-12-20T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30425"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:47:54","slug":"disciples-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30425","title":{"rendered":"Disciples in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/><br \/>&#8220;All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children&#8221; (Romans 8:19, GNB)<br \/><br \/>Which are these children of God? They are His disciples, made in His image after His likeness (Romans 8:29)<br \/><br \/>They are ever seeking the Lord rather than His blessings, and things of eternal life (Jn. 1:38-39; 6:68)<br \/><br \/>&#8220;They manifest God&#8217;s glory by being full of grace and truth (John 1:14)<br \/><br \/>They are known by their love for God and their love for one another, manifest in their obedience to God, love and care for one another (Jn. 13:35; 14:15)<br \/><br \/>And most importantly, they bear fruits for Christ, fruits that abide: &#8220;You give glory to my Father when you produce a lot of fruit and therefore show that you are my Disciples&#8221; &#8211; Jn. 15:58, GWT<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Kputu, the International Director of Calvary Ministries (CAPRO), lives in Lagos and sent this via WhatsApp<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu &#8220;All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children&#8221; (Romans 8:19, GNB) Which are these children of God? They are His disciples, made in His image after His likeness (Romans 8:29) They are ever seeking the Lord rather than His blessings, and things of eternal life (Jn. 1:38-39; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}