{"id":2114,"date":"2020-05-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2020-05-14T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T02:05:30","slug":"joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was chatting recently with my friend Joel, and he reminded me of something I sometimes forget. I&#8217;m always encouraging people and pushing people and doing whatever I can to get them engaged in discipleship disciplines such as <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2084\">daily time with God and mission<\/a> such as investing in others. I seem to live by Paul&#8217;s word to Timothy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reprove, rebuke, and exhort&#8230; (2 Timothy 4.2, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Joel, as we were discussing the challenge of helping people in these areas, said simply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If they only knew the joy of meeting with God every day and helping others do the same!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15.16, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. (3 John, verse 4, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The fruit of the Spirit is&#8230;joy&#8230; (Galatians 5.22)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting recently with my friend Joel, and he reminded me of something I sometimes forget. I&#8217;m always encouraging people and pushing people and doing whatever I can to get them engaged in discipleship disciplines such as daily time with God and mission such as investing in others. I seem to live by Paul&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-joy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}