{"id":197,"date":"2021-08-09T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drbobnichols.calvarycathedral.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2021-07-26T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:52:08","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/08\/09\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s up to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b>\u201cC<\/b>hange begins with me.<b>\u201d<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><i><sup>14<\/sup><\/i><i>If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>II Chronicles 7:14<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><sup>18<\/sup><\/i><i>But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.&nbsp;<sup>19<\/sup>Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>Acts 3:18-19<\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"theQuote\">Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book has ever so dramatically changed the individual lives and society in general.<\/div>\n<div class=\"theQuote\" style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; John F. Walvoord<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b>Victory Decision<\/b><\/h2>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b>With&nbsp;God\u2019s help, I will change one small thing in me each day. This will allow God to improve my world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChange begins with me.\u201d 14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14 18But those things, which God before had shewed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/08\/09\/change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s up to me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-one-liners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Change800x533.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8lc9u-change","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":258,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2022\/01\/03\/learning-is-part-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":197,"position":0},"title":"Learning is Part of Life","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"January 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cWise people are those who learn from their mistakes; fools never learn.\u201d \u00a0A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Proverbs 1:5 \u00a0Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;One Liners&quot;","block_context":{"text":"One Liners","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/category\/one-liners\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LearnfromMistakes.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LearnfromMistakes.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LearnfromMistakes.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LearnfromMistakes.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1113,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2022\/06\/06\/change-begins-with-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":197,"position":1},"title":"Change Begins With Me","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"June 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t know why it is but we always want to see somebody else change. 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