{"id":1814,"date":"2015-01-21T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:02:25","slug":"ye-can-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2015\/01\/21\/ye-can-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ye Can Do Nothing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A deep conviction of the truth of this passage,<em><strong> &#8220;Except ye abide in me&#8230;ye can do nothing&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> (John 15:4-5), lies at the very root of a strong spiritual life. As much as I created myself, as much as I could raise a man from the dead, can I give myself the divine life and maintain or increase it. Every motion is the work of God through Christ and His Spirit. As a man believes this, he will take up that position of entire and continual dependence that is the very essence of the life of faith. His whole heart says &#8220;Amen&#8221; to the passage <em><strong>&#8220;Ye can do nothing.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>And because he does so, he can also say, <em><strong>&#8220;I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>(Phil. 4:13).\u00a0 (taken from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>God&#8217;s Power For Today<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; Andrew Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep conviction of the truth of this passage, &#8220;Except ye abide in me&#8230;ye can do nothing&#8221; (John 15:4-5), lies at the very root of a strong spiritual life. As much as I created myself, as much as I could raise a man from the dead, can I give myself the divine life and maintain or increase it. Every motion is the work of God through Christ and His Spirit. As a man believes this, he will take up that position of entire and continual dependence that is the very essence of the life of faith. His whole heart says &#8220;Amen&#8221; to the passage &#8220;Ye can do nothing.&#8221; And because he does so, he can also say, &#8220;I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me&#8221; (Phil. 4:13).\u00a0 (taken from God&#8217;s Power For Today &#8211; Andrew Murray)<\/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":[3,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-growing","category-humility"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-tg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}