{"id":11160,"date":"2026-03-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:33:04","slug":"starting-your-week-with-faithful-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Starting Your Week With Faithful Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday means one thing: it&#8217;s time to get to work.<br>So I\u2019ll just ask one question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever tried to drive at night with your high beams on in fog?<br>You can&#8217;t see anything.<br>But switch to low beams, and suddenly the road right in front of you becomes clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes less light is more.<br>We want the full map, the five-year plan, the guaranteed outcome.<br>But that craving pulls us off course, and we reach for distractions to numb the uncertainty.<br>We stumble because we stopped looking at what was right in front of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God doesn&#8217;t hand you a floodlight. He hands you a lamp.<br>That&#8217;s intentional.<br>He wants you present in the step you&#8217;re taking today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here&#8217;s your focus for the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ground yourself<\/strong>: Ask God for wisdom for this step, not the one 10 steps from now.<br><strong>Cut the fog<\/strong>: Name one distraction pulling your gaze backward. Set it down.<br><strong>Take one step:<\/strong>&nbsp;Do today the thing you&#8217;ve been putting off because the timing doesn&#8217;t feel right.<br><strong>Anchor your week in this truth<\/strong>: &#8220;Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.&#8221; \u2014 Psalm 119:105<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your purpose is forward.<br>Step into the light of God\u2019s word.<br>And march on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday means one thing: it&#8217;s time to get to work.So I\u2019ll just ask one question: Have you ever tried to drive at night with your high beams on in fog?You can&#8217;t see anything.But switch to low beams, and suddenly the road right in front of you becomes clear. Sometimes less light is more.We want the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"coauthors":[398],"class_list":{"0":"post-11160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inspirational-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}