{"id":1955,"date":"2025-01-16T00:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2025-01-15T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:48:55","slug":"planting-spiritual-seeds-day-16-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/planting-spiritual-seeds-day-16-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 16\u2014Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 16\u2014Kindness<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; <\/em>2Corinthians 6:6 ESV<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Seed is:\u00a0 Kindness<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter 6 of 2Corinthians Paul is speaking about us believers working together with God as His servants for the time of salvation is now.\u00a0 He goes on to give specific ways of how we should act in all situations and in our verse today he speaks of kindness as being one of the ways we can work with God to share the message of salvation.<\/p>\n<p>While we should always practice kindness, as it is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, today let\u2019s specifically focus on showing kindness to everyone we meet for that is today\u2019s seed we are to plant.<\/p>\n<p>So, wherever you are today share seeds of kindness to everyone you meet.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, <\/em>Galatians 5:22 ESV<\/p>\n<p>SGLY Ministry @2025<br \/>\nwww.smilegodlovesyou.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 16\u2014Kindness \u2026by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 2Corinthians 6:6 ESV Today\u2019s Seed is:\u00a0 Kindness In this chapter 6 of 2Corinthians Paul is speaking about us believers working together with God as His servants for the time of salvation is now.\u00a0 He goes on to give specific ways of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2971,2973,3,2972,2912,584,2974,2907,30,32,2911],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planting-spiritual-seeds","tag-2corinthians-66","tag-be-kind","tag-daily-devotionals","tag-fruit-of-the-holy-spirit","tag-january-2025","tag-kindness","tag-plant-seeds-of-kindness","tag-planting-spiritual-seeds","tag-sgly-ministry","tag-smile-god-loves-you","tag-spiritual-seeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kindness-2Corinthians-6_6-.png?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1942,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/planting-spiritual-seeds-day-12-harvest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":0},"title":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 12\u2014Harvest","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"January 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 12\u2014Harvest And he who provides seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.\u00a0 2Corinthians 9:10 ESV Today\u2019s Spiritual Seed is: \u00a0Harvest Today\u2019s verse is so encouraging!\u00a0 God is saying He will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Planting Spiritual Seeds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Planting Spiritual Seeds","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/category\/planting-spiritual-seeds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Harvest-2Corinthians-9_10.png?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1964,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/planting-spiritual-seeds-day-19-mercy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1955,"position":1},"title":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 19&#8211;Mercy","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"January 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Planting Spiritual Seeds\u2014Day 19--Mercy \u00a0Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.\u00a0 Luke 6:36 AMP Today\u2019s Seed is:\u00a0 Mercy \u201cBe merciful just as your heavenly Father is.\u201d That is our goal today as we go out planting seeds of Mercy. 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