{"id":351800,"date":"2026-07-02T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351800"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:02:55","slug":"self-reliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/self-reliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Reliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>He has said in his heart, \u2018I shall not be moved;<br \/>\nI shall never be in adversity.\u2019<br \/>\nHis mouth is full of cursing and\u00a0deceit and oppression;<br \/>\nUnder his tongue is trouble and iniquity. (Psalm 10:6-7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nA self-reliant person believes they will never fail and considers themselves highly capable of survival and independence. Always cursing, deceiving, and using cunning, they have a malicious, spiteful tongue. They don&#8217;t see themselves as miserable sinners in dire need of God&#8217;s mercy. If you are one of these, humble yourself before God and call upon Him with sincerity, and you will see the true life that is in Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; He has said in his heart, \u2018I shall not be moved; I shall never be in adversity.\u2019 His mouth is full of cursing and\u00a0deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity. (Psalm 10:6-7) &nbsp; A self-reliant person believes they will never fail and considers themselves highly capable of survival and independence. Always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351800","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\/351800","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=351800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351803,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351800\/revisions\/351803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351800"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}