{"id":17710,"date":"2023-03-13T04:47:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=17710"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:57:06","slug":"is-god-well-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=17710","title":{"rendered":"Is God Well Pleased?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really want that “well pleased and beloved child” endorsement from God. You know the feeling if you\u2019re a parent, grandparent, proud aunt, uncle or friend \u2013 and you love that one so much that you can\u2019t help yourself. You exclaim: “That one’s mine! I am so proud of him\/her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Matthew 17:5, we hear the second time when God\u2019s booming voice declares: \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him.\u201d This time it was at the transfiguration <\/a>of Jesus. The first time it was at Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist when Father God’s booming voice declared from heaven: “\u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We take after our Heavenly Father. He was a proud Papa and wanted the world to know He was proud of His boy. It was sort of like His birth announcement. He flung one colossal star in the sky to let us know that He was giving us mere mortals the STAR of the show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all my heart I want to hear: \u201cYou are My beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased\u201d because I have brought God so much pleasure with my life. Those words about Jesus were obviously an endorsement by God the Father for His Son. But as we hear it again, hear it as an endorsement by God over OUR lives. Imagine if God announced you as \u201cMy beloved son or daughter.” The fact is we are His beloved children. We are not His beloved slaves, or servants, or employees. We are His beloved children!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is the challenge for us: \u201cIs our life measuring up to the last part, \u201cwith you I am well pleased\u201d? We literally need to think of each action that we take during our day and ask ourselves, \u201cWhat is God saying about me?\u201d Is He taking pleasure over us with our actions and when we acknowledge Him, when we visit with Him, when we choose the fruit of the Spirit during our day (love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) and those times we put others before ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a feeling each time He says the same thing about us as He did His only Son: “I am well pleased.\u201d And when we fail and even sin, He is still saying \u201cYou are my beloved child\u201d but He reminds us that we can do better. Daily, we should strive for hearing those words to us: “You are my beloved son or daughter. I am well pleased with you.” I want to make Papa God proud. You, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I really want that “well pleased and beloved child” endorsement from God. You know the feeling if you\u2019re a parent, grandparent, proud aunt, uncle or friend \u2013 and you love that one so much that you can\u2019t help yourself. You exclaim: “That one’s mine! I am so proud of him\/her.\u201d In Matthew 17:5, we hear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26192,1],"tags":[9496,8874,16746,1210,1769,22701,26188,40,3750,25228,26190,26191,728,5598,26189],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfiguration","category-uncategorized","tag-baptism","tag-beloved-child","tag-beloved-son","tag-blog","tag-christian","tag-endorsement","tag-god-is-pleased","tag-inspiration","tag-matthew-317","tag-please-god","tag-proud-father","tag-proud-mother","tag-star","tag-transfiguration","tag-well-blessed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17723,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions\/17723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}