{"id":9911,"date":"2022-11-20T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9911"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"heart-and-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9911","title":{"rendered":"HEART AND HEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always linger over the prayers the Apostle Paul records in his letters, because they represent his greatest desires for his fellow believers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take a look, for example, at Paul&#8217;s prayer for the Philippians in 1:9-11 and imagine him praying for YOU what he prayed for them:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pray that your LOVE may abound more and more in:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>KNOWLEDGE and<\/li>\n\n\n<li>DEPTH of INSIGHT<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SO THAT you &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>May be able to DISCERN what is BEST and<\/li>\n\n\n<li>May be PURE and BLAMELESS until the day of Christ,<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filled with the FRUIT of RIGHTEOUSNESS<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That comes THROUGH Jesus Christ<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the glory and praise of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you were to summarize this prayer in one sentence, it might look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pray that your LOVE would grow in KNOWLEDGE so that your RIGHTEOUSNESS would increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even shorter: Heart + Head = Right Actions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My study Bible plainly states the main takeaway: &#8220;Christian love is not mere sentiment; it acts to benefit others on the basis of knowledge and insight.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always linger over the prayers the Apostle Paul records in his letters, because they represent his greatest desires for his fellow believers.\u00a0 Take a look, for example, at Paul&#8217;s prayer for the Philippians in 1:9-11 and imagine him praying for YOU what he prayed for them: &#8220;I pray that your LOVE may abound more [&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-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","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=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9912,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions\/9912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}