{"id":395,"date":"2014-11-06T06:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=395"},"modified":"2014-11-06T06:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:21:33","slug":"spiritual-warfare-or-discipline-from-exp-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Warfare &#8230; or Discipline?  (from Exp God)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Spiritual%20Warfare%20...%20or%20Discipline%3F%20%20%28from%20Exp%20God%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[6]\u00a0For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.&#8221;\u00a0 (Heb 12:6 NLTse)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[11]\u00a0My child, don&#8217;t reject the LORD&#8217;s discipline, and don&#8217;t be upset when he corrects you.\u00a0 [12]\u00a0For the LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.\u00a0 ( Pr 3:11-12 NLTse)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a tendency among Christians to view anything unpleasant that happens to them as the result of \u201cspiritual warfare.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;rather than admitting that we are merely reaping what we have sown and are being disciplined by our heavenly Father <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Ga 6:7)<\/span>. What is often mistaken as Satan&#8217;s attack may actually be chastisement from our loving Father. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; God&#8217;s discipline will not help you if you dismiss it as Satan&#8217;s doing or spiritual warfare. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Not every hardship you face is the chastisement of God, but Scripture indicates that God will discipline you.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;warning you of the danger you face because of your sin. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[7]\u00a0Don&#8217;t be misled\u2013you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.\u00a0 (Ga 6:7 NLTse)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Spiritual%20Warfare%20...%20or%20Discipline%3F%20%20%28from%20Exp%20God%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>[6]\u00a0For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.&#8221;\u00a0 (Heb 12:6 NLTse) [11]\u00a0My child, don&#8217;t reject the LORD&#8217;s discipline, and don&#8217;t be upset when he corrects you.\u00a0 [12]\u00a0For the LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.\u00a0 ( Pr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-excerpts-from-experiencing-god-day-by-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}