{"id":356,"date":"2022-06-27T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:40:27","slug":"bless-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Bless Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bless those who persecute you [who cause you harm or hardship]; bless and do not curse [them]. &nbsp;-Romans 12:14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How tough is this? To bless the people that are persecuting you, that are working against your every move. Our flesh\/mind tend to, by seemingly default, go straight to cursing someone that works against us. We tend to want to tell everyone around us how bad they have treated us. What if, instead, we blessed them? 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