{"id":456,"date":"2018-01-07T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:26:39","slug":"things-to-overcome-for-our-faith-to-operate-at-the-highest-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2018\/01\/07\/things-to-overcome-for-our-faith-to-operate-at-the-highest-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Overcome for our Faith to Operate at the Highest Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it better to build a protective wall before or during an attack? It&#8217;s much easier to keep sickness out than it is to get healed after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>The following are hindrances that we need to overcome in order for our faith to operate at the highest level<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unbelief\n<ul>\n<li>Determined refusal to believe God and a spiritual blindness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Little faith\n<ul>\n<li>This doesn&#8217;t refer to a small amount of faith, but a lack of determination to press into God until seeing the fulness.<\/li>\n<li>It can allow fear to control your life.<\/li>\n<li>It causes us to miss God&#8217;s provision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Double-mindedness\n<ul>\n<li>This brings instability to a person&#8217;s character as well as actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Doubt\n<ul>\n<li>To lack confidence in what God said and to find it unlikely that His word will come to pass in our lives.<\/li>\n<li>It will cause us to stop trying<\/li>\n<li>It begins in the mind &#8211; the devil successfully brought it into Eve&#8217;s mind in the Garden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures:<\/strong> 1 Corinthians 11:27-30, Psalm 105:37, Isaiah 53:4-5, Galatians 3:14-15, Deuteronomy 28:59-61, Isaiah 31:1, Mark 6:5-6, Matthew 17:19-20, Hebrews 3:12-14, Matthew 8:26, Matthew 6:24; 30, James 1:2-4, Joshua 24:14-15, 1 Kings 18:20-21, 1 John 2:15, Matthew 14:29-32, James 1:5-8, Mark 11:22-24, 2 Corinthians 10:5-6<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-456-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-07-18.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-07-18.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-07-18.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it better to build a protective wall before or during an attack? It&#8217;s much easier to keep sickness out than it is to get healed after the fact. The following are hindrances that we need to overcome in order&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2018\/01\/07\/things-to-overcome-for-our-faith-to-operate-at-the-highest-level\/\">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\/456"}],"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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}