{"id":1719,"date":"2020-07-06T04:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2020-07-07T04:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T04:18:43","slug":"friend-go-up-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/06\/friend-go-up-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIEND, GO UP HIGHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 14:10 &#8220;But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, &#8216;Friend, go up higher.&#8217; Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.<\/p>\n<p>The parable is about being invited to a wedding feast. Some seats are normally reserved for the most important people and other seats for the general public. The most important guests normally arrives last. If one made a mistake of sitting on the seat reserved for the most important guest,  the host would have to ask him\/her to move to a less honourable seat.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, the honourable guest who sat in the less honourable seat would be requested to move up and sit at the reserved seats.<\/p>\n<p>Christian friends, God will always honor those who honor him (1Sa 2:30).Regardless of the season, He will always elevate those who are humble to the reserved seats . Your blessings cannot be possessed by any other person!<\/p>\n<p> There is a reserved seat with your name tag on it! This is the time to upgrade and move up higher in creativity, in innovation, in our careers, in our businesses , in prayers and in our  relationship with God. Friend, go up higher!<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings:<br \/>\nPro 25 :6, 7<br \/>\nMat 5:4, 11:29<br \/>\nLuk 14:11<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffdBlessed day\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 14:10 &#8220;But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, &#8216;Friend, go up higher.&#8217; Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. The parable is about being invited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}