{"id":4500,"date":"2013-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/humble-yourselves-before-the-lord-and-he-will-exalt-you-james-410\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:00:00","slug":"humble-yourselves-before-the-lord-and-he-will-exalt-you-james-410","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/humble-yourselves-before-the-lord-and-he-will-exalt-you-james-410","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you&#8221; (James 4:10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corollary to this might be stated &#8220;Exalt yourself and God will humble you.&#8221; Or as James said, &#8220;God opposes the proud, but give grace to the humble.&#8221; So, how do you &#8220;humble yourselves?&#8221; Here are 12 ways: 1) Confess your sin to God, 2) Acknowledge your sin to others, 3) Take wrong patiently, 4) Submit to authority, 5) Receive correction from others graciously, 6) Accept a lowly place, 7) Associate with people of lower state than you, 8 ) Choose to serve others, 9) Be quick to forgive, 10) Speak well of others, 11) Cultivate a grateful heart, and 12) Embrace the cross (These 12 ways to humble yourself are from http:\/\/billygraham.org\/story\/twelve-ways-to-humble-yourself\/).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corollary to this might be stated &#8220;Exalt yourself and God will humble you.&#8221; Or as James said, &#8220;God opposes the proud, but give grace to the humble.&#8221; So, how do you &#8220;humble yourselves?&#8221; Here are 12 ways: 1) Confess your sin to God, 2) Acknowledge your sin to others, 3) Take wrong patiently, 4) Submit to authority, 5) Receive correction from others graciously, 6) Accept a lowly place, 7) Associate with people of lower state than you, 8 ) Choose to serve others, 9) Be quick to forgive, 10) Speak well of others, 11) Cultivate a grateful heart, and 12) Embrace the cross (These 12 ways to humble yourself are from http:\/\/billygraham.org\/story\/twelve-ways-to-humble-yourself\/).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1326],"scripture-chapter":[1337],"oyb_day":[1851],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4500","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-james","scripture-chapter-1337","oyb_day-november-20"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}