{"id":6729,"date":"2021-10-06T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:48:35","slug":"you-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/you-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"poet1-vn-sp\">&#8220;Commit your actions to the <span class=\"sc\">Lord<\/span>, and your plans will succeed.&#8221; Proverbs 16:3, NLT<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6609 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tyndale-DaySpring-Hulthen-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"186\" \/>Devotional from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/hopeandencouragementbible\/\"><em>DaySpring Hope and Encouragement Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever have moments when you wonder whether you\u2019re somehow missing the spiritual boat? Maybe at church, while listening to a sermon, everyone else seems enthralled but . . . you just aren\u2019t feelin\u2019 it. Or how about this one? All your friends are into this new inspirational book (\u201cIt\u2019s a must-read!\u201d they say), so you order it, crack it open, and . . . no fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing? you wonder. The answer may very well be nothing. Most of us have discovered that faith isn\u2019t an exact science. There\u2019s no spiritual equation that guarantees a certain outcome; our hearts aren\u2019t made that way. What speaks to you one day may not register with the friend beside you. What lights your friend\u2019s fire may not even make yours flicker. And that\u2019s good! We\u2019re God\u2019s workmanship, not his minions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6588 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tyndale-DaySpring-Hulthen-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" \/>We\u2019re kind of like specially made locks, and he possesses the one-of-a-kind key to each of us. The more we embrace that about ourselves, the more authentic our faith journeys will be.<\/p>\n<p>As we fix our eyes on him and stop comparing ourselves with those around us, we lose the pressure of conforming in ways that don\u2019t speak to our hearts. Then we can encourage and celebrate each other without compromising ourselves.<br \/>\nby Shanna Noel and Paige DeRuyscher , <em>100 Days of Prayer<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<em>Lord, help me to see all the ways you made me special.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Guide me as I use my unique gifts to helps others experience<\/em><br \/>\n<em>your everlasting love. In Jesus name, amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/hopeandencouragementbible\/\">Learn more about the\u00a0<em>DaySpring Hope and Encouragement Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.&#8221; Proverbs 16:3, NLT Devotional from the\u00a0DaySpring Hope and Encouragement Bible Do you ever have moments when you wonder whether you\u2019re somehow missing the spiritual boat? Maybe at church, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,338,30,119],"tags":[340,345],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6732,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/6732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}