{"id":199,"date":"2017-01-01T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=199"},"modified":"2017-01-01T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T17:10:23","slug":"its-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/01\/01\/its-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were brought into God&#8217;s Kingdom for such a time as this. It&#8217;s time for us to stop living our lives the way we want, but instead to start living for the Kingdom. God desires to bring life, where there is death.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lord saw and ordained our path and our days before we were ever created.<\/li>\n<li>He has worked out the plan for our lives.\n<ul>\n<li>He will perfect that which concerns us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Father chose us to be adopted before the foundation of the world.<\/li>\n<li>Symbol of the Christmas tree\n<ul>\n<li>The first part is choosing the perfect\u00a0tree for your purpose; God chooses us as the perfect ones for His purposes<\/li>\n<li>The tree represents life.\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s green and living when it comes into the house, but is slowly dying.<\/li>\n<li>Our natural bodies are dying, but our inward spirits are being renewed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We hang ornaments to enhance the beauty of the tree.\n<ul>\n<li>The ornaments represent the fruit of the Spirit &#8211; they are a form of beauty that we did not have on our own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The real beauty in a Christmas tree is evident when the lights are on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Verses:\u00a0<\/strong>Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Psalm 139, Psalm 138, Ephesians 1:3. John 15:16, 2 Corinthians 4:16, John 15:8, Isaiah 60:1-2; 61:3<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-199-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were brought into God&#8217;s Kingdom for such a time as this. It&#8217;s time for us to stop living our lives the way we want, but instead to start living for the Kingdom. God desires to bring life, where there&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/01\/01\/its-your-time\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}