{"id":5622,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/run-to-win\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:58","slug":"run-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/run-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Run To Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from the locker room.  Let&#8217;s bring them together: If you are going to compete in the race of life, run to win.  And that means committing yourself to a life of discipline.  It means seeking to be all God has created you to be.  It means knowing where you are going &#8212; focusing in on the tasks at hand.  It means avoiding distractions.  It means getting rid of any sin in your life that may serve as a hindrance.  And it means running your race with the anticipation that you&#8217;re not headed down a dead end street.  You&#8217;re running to cross God&#8217;s finish line.  Keep these rules in mind and you will finish a winner in everything you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from the locker room. Let&#8217;s bring them together: If you are going to compete in the race of life, run to win. And that means committing yourself to a life of discipline. It means seeking to be all God has created you to be. It means knowing where you are going &#8212; focusing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1736,56,3023,3022,703,605,255],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}