{"id":125,"date":"2009-09-03T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-09-03T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:35:51","slug":"bible-study-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/2009\/09\/03\/bible-study-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Study Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not certain where this originated.  I found it in several places on the web and none of the ones I checked annotated it&#8217;s origin.<br \/>\nThis is a procedure to follow which will facilitate meditation of a verse.  The acrostic, SPACE PETS, will help you remember the steps.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself, <em>Do I have a<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>in to confess? Do I need to make any restitution?<br \/>\n<strong>P<\/strong>romise to claim? Is it a universal promise? Have I met the condition(s)?<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong>ttitude to change? Am I willing to work on a negative attitude and begin building toward a positive one?<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>ommand to obey? Am I willing to do it no matter how I feel?<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>xample to follow? Is it a positive example for me to copy or a negative one to avoid?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P<\/strong>rayer to pray? Is there anything I need to pray back to God?<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>rror to avoid? Is there any problem that I should be alert to, or beware of?<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>ruth to believe? What new things can I learn about God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or the other biblical teachings?<br \/>\n<strong>S<\/strong>omething to praise God for? Is there something here I can be thankful for?<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to journal your answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not certain where this originated. I found it in several places on the web and none of the ones I checked annotated it&#8217;s origin. This is a procedure to follow which will facilitate meditation of a verse. The acrostic, SPACE PETS, will help you remember the steps. Ask yourself, Do I have a: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[21,20,22],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study-method","tag-bible-study-method","tag-space-pets-acrostic","tag-verse-study-method"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}