{"id":1746,"date":"2013-02-07T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2013-02-07T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:34:20","slug":"proverbs-2528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 25:28"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To cultivate restraint over our appetites brings us great gain, because it builds in us the reserves that we need when we are tempted to cross a boundary that we will later regret. In the ancient world, a city without walls was vulnerable to any enemy who wanted to attack or loot the city treasures. In the same way, a life that does not cultivate boundaries is vulnerable to any distraction or seduction that comes its way. Don\u2019t give up the treasures of godliness in your life easily. Adding small measures of discipline into your daily lifestyle will bring a huge return.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. To cultivate restraint over our appetites brings us great gain, because it builds in us the reserves that we need when we are tempted to cross &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,1],"tags":[56,22],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-old-testament","tag-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}