{"id":6275,"date":"2025-06-03T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:34:17","slug":"receiving-a-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2025\/06\/03\/receiving-a-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving a Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our divine rewards generally do not include a rebate or a new car. But there are benefits.<\/p>\n<p>God has His own unique way of honoring His servants. Should you minister in His name, God will repay you. If you bless another of God&#8217;s servants, it will not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to appreciate the reward of a righteous man. Greedy people seek greedy rewards. Lustful people seek lustful pleasures. Vindictive people pursue the satisfaction of revenge. But a righteous person seeks a righteous reward.<\/p>\n<p>Our problem at times is that a reward of righteousness can seem inadequate to us. We want to be righteous, but we also want much more! Yet, the reward of a prophet as well as that of a righteous man, are priceless. They will bring great joy not only in this life, but also in the life to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet&#8217;s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man&#8217;s reward.      Matthew 10:41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14107,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/14107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}