{"id":2714,"date":"2013-06-16T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:45:58","slug":"how-to-ensure-a-fathers-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/how-to-ensure-a-fathers-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ensure a Father&#8217;s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my <b>Happy Father&#8217;s Day!<\/b> tip to all of us fathers:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">Walk humbly with your heavenly Father.<\/div>\n<p>This morning, that&#8217;s my <strong>number one tip for being a successful father<\/strong>. If we don&#8217;t walk humbly with the Father, He will resist us instead of helping us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:50px\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: &#8216;God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble'&#8221;<\/span> (James 4:6, NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>And now for links and\/or excerpts from five fatherhood posts from the archives&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/fathers-and-children\/\" title=\"Father's and Children\">Fathers and Children<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nurture your children; don&#8217;t provoke them.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t exasperate your children or they&#8217;ll lose heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/fathers-day-message\/\" title=\"Father's Day Message\">Father&#8217;s Day Message<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, this isn\u2019t a message to my father.<\/p>\n<p>This is a message from me as a father:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/like-a-mother-and-a-father\/\" title=\"You look like your mother!\">Like a Mother. (And a Father.)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So \u2014 again \u2014 I ask: Let me look and love and lead and live like a father should.<\/p>\n<p>And like the Father does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/how-to-pray-for-your-children\/\" title=\"How to Pray for Your Children\">How to Pray for Your Children<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our children need and prosper by our prayers for them.<\/p>\n<p>Be they unborn or married with grandchildren, our offspring benefit from our prayerful watchfulness over them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/happy-pappy\/\" title=\"Father's Day cards I got once upon a time\">Happy Pappy!<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My number one tip for being a successful father<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[389,4,12],"tags":[404,894,547],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-family","tag-inspirational","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-HM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}