{"id":1761,"date":"2014-05-30T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:43:49","slug":"proverbs-chapter-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs Chapter 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poor are spoken about a lot here and throughout Proverbs.\u00a0 We are to encourage and care for the poor and those in need.\u00a0 We are also given instruction to what causes\u00a0<strong>some, not all,<\/strong>\u00a0to be poor.\u00a0 We are told some are poor because of procrastination, laziness, the lack of understanding as well as not taking in wise counsel.\u00a0 This is not the reason for everyone\u2019s situation.\u00a0 Some are born in Ghana or Mexico without resources or the opportunity to make a living.\u00a0 Having riches is not an enemy, we all need resources to live.\u00a0 However, riches without integrity and the fear of God are useless.\u00a0 If you have a close relationship with God and feel \u201cpoor\u201d, rejoice you have the best part!\u00a0 On the other hand if you have riches without God your money becomes a stumbling block to God.\u00a0 So at least praise God you now have opportunity to have them both, which is a very blessed life.<\/p>\n<p>If you struggle with poverty find godly people who are there to help you on your journey.\u00a0 There can be easy solutions that God has placed within the body of Christ for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}