{"id":358,"date":"2018-05-23T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=358"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:43:56","slug":"chase-the-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/23\/chase-the-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase the Lion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel,\u00a0performed great exploits. He struck down Moab\u2019s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.&#8221;\u00a0 1 Chronicles 11:22<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe above verse was in my Bible reading today.\u00a0 It\u00a0is a hidden gem of a verse which was unpacked beautifully for me by Mark Batterson in his book, &#8220;Chase the Lion&#8221;.\u00a0 Benaiah was one of David&#8217;s three mighty warriors.\u00a0 As Mark talks about in his book, Benaiah had chasing lions on his resume.\u00a0 No wonder he was one of the three!<br \/>\nBelow is the Lion Chaser&#8217;s Manifesto from the book.\u00a0 It is truly words to live by if at all possible.\u00a0 I just wanted to share it with you in case you were thinking about chasing some lions.\u00a0 It will give you a good start!<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lion Chaser\u2019s Manifesto<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Mark Batterson<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Run to the roar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Set God-sized goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pursue God-ordained passions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go after a dream that\u2019s destined to fail unless God intervenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stop\u00a0pointing out problems, become part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stop repeating the past and start creating the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Face your fears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fight for your dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grab opportunity by the mane and don\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Live like today is the first day and last day of your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Burn sinful bridges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blaze new trails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Live for the applause of nail-scarred hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t let what\u2019s wrong with you keep you from worshipping what\u2019s right with God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t try to be who you aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Laugh at yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dare to fail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dare to dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dare to be different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chase the lion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel,\u00a0performed great exploits. He struck down Moab\u2019s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.&#8221;\u00a0 1 Chronicles 11:22 The above verse was in my Bible reading today.\u00a0 It\u00a0is a hidden gem of a verse which was unpacked&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/23\/chase-the-lion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chase the Lion!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}