{"id":806,"date":"2014-03-26T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2014-03-26T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:14:12","slug":"love-your-ememies-wow-write-on-wednesdays-reading-time-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/26\/love-your-ememies-wow-write-on-wednesdays-reading-time-2-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE YOUR EMEMIES &#8211; WOW! (Write On Wednesdays) (reading time: 2 minutes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stupefied-maxwell.66-175-236-136.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-807 aligncenter\" alt=\"fun\" src=\"https:\/\/stupefied-maxwell.66-175-236-136.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fun-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fun-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fun-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fun.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">\u201cBut I tell you who hear me; love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.\u201d\u00a0Luke 6:27-28<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Do you relate at all to this verse?\u00a0 Do any of the following apply to you?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0I have a co-worker that is confrontational with me.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I have a neighbor that is always angry with me.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I have a family member that criticizes me even when I do good.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I have a person that I thought was my friend who is very nasty to me.<\/li>\n<li>I have a friend that betrayed me with lies, gossip, and slander.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">I remember someone sharing at a conference, \u201c1\/3 of the people you\u2019ll meet will love you. 1\/3 of the people you\u2019ll meet won\u2019t like you at all. 1\/3 of the people you meet could care less about you. So why do we work to please the 2\/3?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We probably all have someone who&#8217;s upset with us or perhaps even hates us. How we treat that 2\/3, however, is very important! Do we react to them or respond to them? The Bible gives us a clear way to respond and that is to (continue) to do good to those who hate you.<\/p>\n<p>Often the best <em>response\u00a0<\/em>is to\u00a0pray for those that mistrust and even hate us. \u00a0We can practice ways to bless others without being doormats that \u201cask\u201d for mistreatment, by responding to mistreatment that shows God is in control. He can help us to show love even though it\u2019s so difficult to do so. We can ask Him to help us obey Roman 12:21 \u201cDon\u2019t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone probably came to your mind &#8211; if\u00a0you\u2019re still struggling with a particular person, what will you do to begin to start responding properly?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut I tell you who hear me; love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.\u201d\u00a0Luke 6:27-28 Do you relate at all to this verse?\u00a0 Do any of the following apply to you? \u00a0I have a co-worker that is confrontational with me. \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,80,103,109],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enemies","tag-love","tag-react","tag-respond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindiferrini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}