{"id":338321,"date":"2023-06-23T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=338321"},"modified":"2023-11-16T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T17:15:35","slug":"who-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/who-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two sources to consider in the battle for salvation: good and evil. The Spirit of God is the source of everything good, and the evil spirits are the source of everything evil.\u00a0<\/span>How can a person confront evil forces if that person is on their side or doing their bidding? Whoever wants to overcome evil needs to be on God’s side. Who wants?<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people think they get saved just because they’ve accepted Jesus. No, they are not!<\/span><\/p>\n

We must give, renounce, surrender, and sacrifice our lives to Him. Surrendering our lives to the Lord Jesus means abandoning evil and coming to God’s side.<\/span><\/p>\n

It requires immediate changes that are simple yet extremely important.<\/span><\/p>\n

First: <\/b>get rid of bad habits;<\/span><\/p>\n

Second:<\/b> abandon bad company;<\/span><\/p>\n

Third:<\/b> read and, most importantly, meditate on the Word of God;<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth:<\/b> put its teachings into practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people would like to change their wrong behavior. Still, they will never succeed if they continue hanging around with people who do not share the same faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it going to be easy? No! But how much is a soul worth? Have you ever seen anything valuable that costs little?<\/span><\/p>\n

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” (Mark 8.36)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Anyone who wants to find the treasure hidden in the field must pay the price.<\/span><\/p>\n

“And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart…” (Jeremiah 29.13)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bishop Edir Macedo <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two sources to consider in the battle for salvation: good and evil. The Spirit of God is the source of everything good, and the evil spirits are the source of everything evil.\u00a0How can a person confront evil forces if that person is on their side or doing their bidding? Whoever wants to overcome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":339836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[6126,133],"site":[],"class_list":["post-338321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","tag-bible","tag-holy-spirit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338323,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338321\/revisions\/338323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338321"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=338321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}