{"id":275,"date":"2014-08-28T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-08-29T07:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:11:35","slug":"perilous-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Perilous Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jesus answered, \u201cThe work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.\u201d<\/div>\n
John 6:29<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,\u00a0who loved us\u00a0and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,\u00a0encourage\u00a0your hearts and strengthen\u00a0you in every good deed and word.<\/div>\n
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The times are perilous and dark storms lay before us. \u00a0Troubling is what we see. \u00a0How do we respond to this? \u00a0What of the night coming? \u00a0With the Truth of God within and being strengthened by His Holy Spirit releasing meaning of His Word within us, we cling to the gifts we have been given. The gift of God’s Holy Word Jesus Christ and the gift of His Holy Word the scriptures, both within us. \u00a0We are loving and humble, knowing the reason we stand in faith. \u00a0Yet we are dangerous snarling lions with fangs bared when the enemy attacks our faith. \u00a0We guard the prize that the Lord God has given to His own. \u00a0That is our greatest possession, the salvation of God given to us by God Himself. Having the salvation of God, we know that God is good all the time and all the time God is good and we know that God loves us. \u00a0These things we hold fast and guard above all else. \u00a0We are fierce in the Spirit, and also deep down in our souls, to guard these things so that when trials come, be what comes an inconvenient rain or or the fiercest hurricane, what is most precious to us is safe and guarded. \u00a0If we lose everything else, we cling to our God and the knowledge that He is good all the time and all the time He is good, and that HE LOVES US! \u00a0Having done that, though ravaged by this world, peace will reign in our hearts. \u00a0Having guarded our precious pearl, a song remains in our heart and a smile deep down in our souls. Like saints of old, though the worst come, we have the Best within, and the Best that we have, we cannot lose! \u00a0He has promised to hold us tight!<\/div>\n
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36\u00a0For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?<\/div>\n
Mark 8:36<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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For God so loved\u00a0the world that he gave\u00a0his one and only Son,\u00a0that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\u00a0\u00a0For God did not send his Son into the world\u00a0to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.<\/div>\n
John 3:16-17<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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35\u00a0And Jesus said to them,\u00a0\u201cI am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.\u00a036\u00a0But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe.\u00a037\u00a0All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.\u00a038\u00a0For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.\u00a039\u00a0This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.\u00a040\u00a0And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.\u201d<\/div>\n
John 6:35-40<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Jesus answered, \u201cThe work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.\u201d John 6:29\u00a0 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,\u00a0who loved us\u00a0and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,\u00a0encourage\u00a0your hearts and strengthen\u00a0you in every good deed and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 The times are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[315,694,156,768,786,226,724,760,777,778,758,268,80,789,92,771,774,23,776,133,7,334,43,552,775,482,62,46,60,787,38,780,8,100,275,286,1019,784,13,41,93,135,766,53,20,782,762,773,772,785,498,756,781,767,765,126,769,755,783,770,779,763,759,757,788,761,764,15,196],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-believe","tag-best","tag-christ","tag-cling","tag-condemn","tag-dangerous","tag-dark","tag-deed","tag-deep","tag-down","tag-encouragement","tag-enemy","tag-eternal","tag-everlasting","tag-faith","tag-fangs","tag-fast","tag-father","tag-fierce","tag-gift","tag-god","tag-good","tag-grace","tag-greatest","tag-guard","tag-hearts","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-humble","tag-hunger","tag-hurricane","tag-inconvenient","tag-jesus","tag-john","tag-knowledge","tag-lion","tag-lord","tag-lose","tag-love","tag-loving","tag-mark","tag-meaning","tag-night","tag-one","tag-peace","tag-pearl","tag-perilous","tag-possession","tag-prize","tag-promised","tag-rain","tag-ravaged","tag-reign","tag-releasing","tag-respond","tag-salvation","tag-scriptures","tag-sent","tag-smile","tag-snarling","tag-souls","tag-storms","tag-streghten","tag-thessalonians","tag-thirst","tag-times","tag-troubling","tag-truth","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}