{"id":351648,"date":"2026-06-17T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351648"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:26:39","slug":"pleasing-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/pleasing-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasing to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. (Romans 14:17-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThere are people who live to eat and drink and think that life is just that. But know that there is a Kingdom to live in, which the Heavenly Father offers through Jesus, and which is of justice, peace and joy.<\/p>\n<p>And He delights in bringing justice to the lives of His chosen ones, bringing much peace and complete joy, for to this purpose His Son came into the world: to redeem lost souls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. (Romans 14:17-18) &nbsp; There are people who live to eat and drink and think that life is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351648","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=351648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351651,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351648\/revisions\/351651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351648"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}