{"id":1252,"date":"2014-10-07T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2014-10-07T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:00:57","slug":"the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/10\/07\/the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>\u201cBut <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">none of these things move me<\/span>, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">finish my course<\/span> with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.\u201d\u00a0 Acts 20:24<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paul\u2019s desire was to finish the course that God had set before him; he would not allow \u201cthese things\u201d\u2026in this case, further persecution\u2026to move him off course. Will we allow <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GOD<\/span> to determine when we have reached our finish line, or will we allow people or circumstances to determine when we are done? God\u2019s finish line is when He calls us home. Let\u2019s not stop short, but determine to live for Him ALL our days.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cI have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:\u201d\u00a0 II Timothy 4:7<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.\u201d\u00a0 Acts 20:24 Paul\u2019s desire was to finish the course that God had set before him; he would not allow \u201cthese things\u201d\u2026in this case, further persecution\u2026to move him off course. Will we allow GOD to determine when we have reached our finish line, or will we allow people or circumstances to determine when we are done? God\u2019s finish line is when He calls us home. Let\u2019s not stop short, but determine to live for Him ALL our days. \u201cI have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:\u201d\u00a0 II Timothy 4:7 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,36,6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courage","category-faithfulness","category-perseverance","category-serving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-kc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}