{"id":934,"date":"2019-12-08T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=934"},"modified":"2019-12-08T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:22:28","slug":"time-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2019\/12\/08\/time-to-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Try"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/12-8-19.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scripture tells us that we have a part to play in our salvation &#8211; we are commanded to work out our salvation. We need to take care of our salvation, so that we don&#8217;t come short. We need to be like Peter. He took the step of faith onto the water with Jesus. He didn&#8217;t just wait in the boat &#8211; he moved. We need to be willing to take that step and know that Jesus will be there to catch us if we fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also the woman with the issue of blood. She had no other choice other than to try to push through the crowd and get to Jesus. She wasn&#8217;t going to blend into the crowd &#8211; she was going to do what she had to do. We can&#8217;t afford to blend in either. We need to try &#8211; to step out onto the water like Peter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our outward actions and expressions should be the evidence of our inward relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures: <\/strong>Philippians 2:12-13, Hebrews 4:1, Hebrews 5:9, Matthew 14:22-29, Mark 5:25-34, Isaiah 41:10-13; 43:1-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture tells us that we have a part to play in our salvation &#8211; we are commanded to work out our salvation. We need to take care of our salvation, so that we don&#8217;t come short. We need to be&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2019\/12\/08\/time-to-try\/\">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\/934"}],"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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}