{"id":3552,"date":"2022-05-12T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:00:36","slug":"10-decisions-of-the-spiritual-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"10 Decisions Of The Spiritual Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Psalms 116:9<em>&nbsp;\u201cI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.\u201d<br><\/em><\/strong><br>A spiritual leader must live by spiritual decisions. I\u2019m going to the let the Psalmist write the devotion today. This was a spiritual man, and he lays out for us in Psalm 116 Ten Spiritual decisions. I encourage you to read each verse in its fullness to understand what he is saying. The spiritual leader will decide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I will LOVE the Lord \u2013 vs. 1 I love the LORD\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will ENDURE through Trouble \u2013&nbsp;vs. 3 \u2026.I found trouble and sorrow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will PRAY \u2013&nbsp;vs. 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will RELY on God \u2013&nbsp;vs. 6 and 7 \u2026and he helped me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will WALK with God \u2013&nbsp;9 I will walk before the LORD\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will BELIEVE God &amp;&nbsp;SPEAK for Him (no matter the consequences) \u2013&nbsp;vs. 10 I believed, therefore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have I spoken\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will Do what is RIGHT \u2013&nbsp;vs. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will be a SERVANT for God (Not a Show Pony) \u2013&nbsp;vs. 16 \u2026truly I am thy servant;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will be THANKFUL \u2013&nbsp;vs. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Will be in God\u2019s HOUSE with God\u2019s PEOPLE \u2013 vs. 18 and 19 \u2026in thepresence of all his people, 19 In the courts of the LORD\u2019S house\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>A spiritual leader must live by spiritual decisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal.jpg 960w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-600x599.jpg 600w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pophal-750x749.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Robert Pophal<br>Rose Park Baptist Church | Holland, Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 116:9&nbsp;\u201cI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.\u201dA spiritual leader must live by spiritual decisions. I\u2019m going to the let the Psalmist write the devotion today. This was a spiritual man, and he lays out for us in Psalm 116 Ten Spiritual decisions. I encourage you to read each verse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"0","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_food_recipe":[],"enable_food_recipe":"0","food_recipe_title":"","food_recipe_description":"","food_recipe_serve":"","food_recipe_time":"","food_recipe_prep":"","food_recipe_level":"","food_recipe_keywords":"","food_recipe_category":"","food_recipe_cuisine":"","food_recipe_yield":"","food_recipe_calories":"","enable_print_recipe":"0","ingredient":[{"item":""}],"instruction":"","jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_podcast_option":{"enable_podcast":"0","podcast_duration":"","upload":""},"jnews_podcast_series":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"jnews-series":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-the-yp"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ten-decisions-of-a-Spiritual-leader-1024x683.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ten-decisions-of-a-Spiritual-leader-300x200.jpg","large":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ten-decisions-of-a-Spiritual-leader-1024x683.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"jnews-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjnews-series&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}