{"id":10,"date":"2021-10-28T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:42:44","slug":"love-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Love &#038; Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning!!<br>&nbsp;<br>For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.&nbsp; -2 Timothy 1:7<br>&nbsp;<br>We don\u2019t have to be influenced and tossed around by our surroundings but can take control and choose power, love, and discipline in our life.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cSelf-discipline starts with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don\u2019t control what you think, you can\u2019t control what you do.\u201d&nbsp; -Napoleon Hill<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cDiscipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.\u201d&nbsp; -Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dad Joke of the Day:<br>Balloons are so weird\u2026..<br>\u201cHappy birthday, here\u2019s a plastic sack of my breath.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>Have a great Thursday! In fact let\u2019s make it so great that last Thursday will be jealous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning!!&nbsp;For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.&nbsp; -2 Timothy 1:7&nbsp;We don\u2019t have to be influenced and tossed around by our surroundings but can take control and choose power, love, and discipline in our life.&nbsp;\u201cSelf-discipline starts with the mastery of your thoughts. 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