{"id":9755,"date":"2018-11-13T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:25:51","slug":"character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2018\/11\/13\/character\/","title":{"rendered":"Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9755-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NOV-13.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NOV-13.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NOV-13.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/97\/PRO.11.5-6\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Prov. 11:<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i><sup>5<\/sup><\/i><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/97\/PRO.11.5-6\"> (MSG)<\/a> \u201cMoral character makes for smooth traveling; an evil life is a hard life. <\/i><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><i><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i>Good character is the best insurance; crooks get trapped in their sinful lust.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">An anonymous quote defines character as, \u201c\u2026who you are when no one is watching.\u201d Examples of character would be, a woman that overcomes shyness to testify before God\u2019s people that,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0\u201cWhereas I was blind but now I can see!\u201d That is courage and that is character.<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Courage<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> is one of the six bedrocks of character. When a man decides to wake up twenty minutes earlier to work out and he actually follows through, that is discipline and that is character. <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Discipline<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> is another bedrock of character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A teacher that is able to discern that the student causing all the trouble in class is actually just bored with the current activities and then channels the child and brings out the genius from a student that would otherwise have been tagged as delinquent. That is <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Vision<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and it is character. When someone continues to sit for an examination in spite of recurring failure and then eventually passes the examination, that is <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Endurance<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">; endurance is another bedrock of character. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">When someone is able to see beyond the fa\u00e7ade of \u201cI am fine\u201d and identifies the pain people are going through. And goes even further to extend a helping hand and offer a listening ear. That happens a lot in God\u2019s Favourite House. That is <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Compassion<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and that is character. A parent refuses to take a lucrative job just because he or she wants to have more time for his or her family. That is <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Self-sacrifice<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and that is character. People without character will go for the job and let the television train their children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Courage, discipline, vision, endurance, compassion, and self-sacrifice are the six bedrocks of character. Meaning, to have character you need courage, discipline, vision, endurance, compassion, and self-sacrifice. There may be more but these are the six we will be looking at over the next couple of weeks. I believe God that by the time this season is over, the world will be a better place because our own character will be stronger. You and I will grow stronger in courage, discipline, vision, endurance, compassion, and self-sacrifice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Prayer<\/b>: Holy Spirit, I pray that courage, discipline, vision, endurance, compassion, and self-sacrifice will be found and strengthened in me, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prov. 11:5 (MSG) \u201cMoral character makes for smooth traveling; an evil life is a hard life. 6\u00a0Good character is the best insurance; crooks get trapped in their sinful lust.\u201d &nbsp; An anonymous quote defines character as, \u201c\u2026who you are when no one is watching.\u201d Examples of character would be, a woman that overcomes shyness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,79,217,34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courage","category-discipline","category-endurance","category-sacrifice","category-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10166,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}