{"id":1183,"date":"2010-04-27T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2010-04-27T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T09:31:10","slug":"grappling-with-the-gods-mammon-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/grappling-with-the-gods-mammon-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Grappling with the gods: Mammon (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts bit here and there&#8230;in fact scattered all over place.<\/p>\n<p>The topic that I&#8217;m passionate and proposing to write paper on it.<\/p>\n<p>And now in midst of doing it, and much prayer about it, that all these things happen.<\/p>\n<p>But then, it brings me to see it more clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s so much clearer than first time I did my research on it.<\/p>\n<p>Experience is always a very good teacher for me.<\/p>\n<p>Now few things that I can say with true conviction:<\/p>\n<p>1. Mammon is very powerful god.<\/p>\n<p>2. We seldom realized how much we&#8217;re overpowered by it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, this first entry serves as my introduction.<\/p>\n<p>How much I long, desire, and sell myself into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That my God is more powerful than Mammon.<\/p>\n<p>And my life a showcase of the victory over it.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned earlier, that Mammon is very powerful.<\/p>\n<p>And we never realized how much we are under the grip of it.<\/p>\n<p>The moment we try to break out from it, then the power struggle.<\/p>\n<p>It desires to master&#8230;to put us under&#8230;with all it&#8217;s might and power.<\/p>\n<p>And I pray, we won&#8217;t bow down to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know that final victory will only come last.<\/p>\n<p>In this life time, I probably would never be able to completely defeat it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet i know that on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>I will triumph over it. Will tramp on it with my foot.<\/p>\n<p>And how i long for that day.<\/p>\n<p>And the sweeter the victory, when now on earth, I shall fight with all my strength and heart.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeter the sound of final victory.<\/p>\n<p>When i see my God triumph over it. Defeat it completely.<\/p>\n<p>And there i know, really know, the taste of true victory.<\/p>\n<p>Till then, may the Lord strengthen our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts bit here and there&#8230;in fact scattered all over place. The topic that I&#8217;m passionate and proposing to write paper on it. And now in midst of doing it, and much prayer about it, that all these things happen. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/grappling-with-the-gods-mammon-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,263],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-money","tag-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/the-god-of-abraham\/","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":0},"title":"The God of Abraham","author":"clay","date":"April 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Often heard and said in the Bible, the phrase \"God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob\". 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