{"id":8235,"date":"2026-10-14T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:10:16","slug":"preacher-teacher-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8235","title":{"rendered":"PREACHER, TEACHER,  WRITER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anyone trying togive others advice and answers to life questions&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with an audience, whether large or small&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone aware of inspiration beyond your own ability or understanding&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone recognized as a leader, a hero, with extraordinary revelation and motivation&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone at the top of his game&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s got it all together, and tells you how to get it all together&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone super-blessed, to bless others&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow !<br>That&#8217;s the way to go !<br>Great example !<br>Follow them !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>What about inside the &#8216;anyone(s)&#8217; above ?<br>What could possibly go wrong ?<br>Is there a &#8216;flip side&#8217; for the person described ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about hearing from them in their own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.&#8221;<br>&#8212;&#8211;Paul, writer of a lot of the Bible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.<br>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:<br>Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.<br>For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.&#8221;<br>&#8212;&#8211;Soloman, richest and wisest person in the world, wrote lots on wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>God does amazing things in my life, and He gives me amazing things to write (more and more) . . .<br>. . . and He gives me a boatload of &#8216;the flip side&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;God works in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone trying togive others advice and answers to life questions&#8212; Anyone with an audience, whether large or small&#8212; Anyone aware of inspiration beyond your own ability or understanding&#8212; Anyone recognized as a leader, a hero, with extraordinary revelation and motivation&#8212; Anyone at the top of his game&#8212; Anyone who&#8217;s got it all together, and tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,4,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}