{"id":47457,"date":"2022-10-01T02:54:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-not-waste-our-breath-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:54:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:54:03","slug":"lets-not-waste-our-breath-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-not-waste-our-breath-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Not Waste Our Breath! &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When God created man out of the dust of the earth, He created a living, breathing being capable of thinking, feeling, dreaming, loving, and living forever (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 37:5; Genesis 29:18; 1 Corinthians 15:35-53).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important to note that when God breathed into Adam, He gave more than the breath of life  He gave him an important reason to live, and that is to <strong>worship and praise Him<\/strong>. As the Psalmist declares:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that we waste our breath when we use it for something that doesnt honor the Lord in whom &#8220;we live and move and have our being&#8221; (Acts 17:28).<\/p>\n<p>Although we cannot blow life into a handful of dirt as God did, we can use our breath to speak words of encouragement to the discouraged, help the sick (Matthew 25:36), and console those who grieve (John 11:14-19) .<\/p>\n<p>When we use our breath to honor our Creator with the unique combination of talents, abilities, and opportunities that He has given us, we will never be wasting it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Our God-Given Talents<\/li>\n<li>Our Greatest Ability<\/li>\n<li>Open Doors Of Opportunity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God created man out of the dust of the earth, He created a living, breathing being capable of thinking, feeling, dreaming, loving, and living forever (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 37:5; Genesis 29:18; 1 Corinthians 15:35-53). It&#8217;s also important to note that when God breathed into Adam, He gave more than the breath of life He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-not-waste-our-breath-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#039;s Not Waste Our Breath! &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}