{"id":118,"date":"2010-02-11T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:13:15","slug":"knowing-what-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Knowing what you believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may say: but, Oh! I believe! Every word from Genesis to Maps is true!<\/p>\n<p>Saying is easy. The truth of one&#8221;s belief is actually only observable by seeing how one acts.\u00a0 That is; we all act according to our beliefs. If you really believed you had a million dollars in your bank account and desired to buy that new suit of clothes for your daughter, you would NOT say. I have no money.\u00a0\u00a0 You would not say, we&#8217;ll have to wait for better times. You would not say, sorry &#8211; we can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>In time, everything you believe is ALWAYS demonstrated in what you do.<\/p>\n<p>But this is nothing new.\u00a0 James said the same when he said: You say you have faith, I&#8217;ll show you my faith by what I do. Faith without doing is dead.\u00a0\u00a0 My own version.<\/p>\n<p>So why does NOT our actions show we believe: What things soever we desire when we pray, believe we receive them and we shall have them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0 our actions do NOT show agreement with the word, we are NOT in belief.\u00a0 Unless of course you&#8217;ve never had a desire &#8230; but then if you try to make that claim, we simply shift our problem to the realization that you do not know yourself or you&#8217;re dishonest.\u00a0 But those are other thoughts for other posts&#8230; Believe it!\u00a0\u00a0and you&#8217;ll Realize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may say: but, Oh! I believe! Every word from Genesis to Maps is true! Saying is easy. The truth of one&#8221;s belief is actually only observable by seeing how one acts.\u00a0 That is; we all act according to our beliefs. If you really believed you had a million dollars in your bank account and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefs-form-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}