{"id":10704,"date":"2023-02-02T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","slug":"motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"MOTIVATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"color: #333333;font-family: georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont\">&#8220;Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Stephen R. Covey<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does a person reach the point where he or she is motivated from the inside to grow in faith?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it purely a work of the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps it is more aptly described as a cooperation with the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And a related question: Is there <i><b>nothing <\/b><\/i>which can be done to light the fire of motivation from the outside?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.&#8221; \u2014 Stephen R. Covey How does a person reach the point where he or she is motivated from the inside to grow in faith? Is it purely a work of the Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}