{"id":61820,"date":"2023-01-22T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61820"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:35:04","slug":"altars-or-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61820","title":{"rendered":"Altars or monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saul went to Carmel to set up <strong>A<\/strong> <strong>MONUMENT IN HIS HONOR<\/strong>. Then he left there and went to Gilgal.&#8221; (1 Sam. 15:12, GWT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the greatest challenges, and often also the greatest undoing<\/strong>, of many seeking to serve the Lord is who gains the glory &#8211; SELF or The LORD?<\/p>\n<p><strong>While Saul would dedicate his victory to himself, Samuel had dedicated his victory against the Philistines unto the Lord.<\/strong> &#8220;Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, named it EBENEZER, saying, HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US. [1Sam. 7:12, NKJV]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The sons of Noah displeased the Lord<\/strong>\u00a0by building their tower as monument to self rather than an altar of worship to the Lord. (Gen. 11:4, NKJV)<\/p>\n<p><strong>May our labours, successes and testimonies be ALTARS of worship to God rather than MONUMENTS of glory unto ourselves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saul went to Carmel to set up A MONUMENT IN HIS HONOR. Then he left there and went to Gilgal.&#8221; (1 Sam. 15:12, GWT) One of the greatest challenges, and often also the greatest undoing, of many seeking to serve the Lord is who gains the glory &#8211; SELF or The LORD? While Saul would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61820","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\/61820","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=61820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}