{"id":127,"date":"2016-09-04T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-09-04T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:59:59","slug":"how-to-stay-connected-to-god-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2016\/09\/04\/how-to-stay-connected-to-god-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Connected to God &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We may think that we are connected to God, that nothing can separate us, but we may not always be as connected as we thought.\n<ul>\n<li>Peter &amp; the disciples all swore that they would never be made to stumble when Jesus said He&#8217;d be executed.\n<ul>\n<li>They all ran<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be complacent\n<ul>\n<li>The lazy man&#8217;s vineyard gets overgrown with weeds, and crumbles to ruins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Signs we&#8217;re not connected\n<ul>\n<li>The following progression in our lives:<\/li>\n<li>We get away from our first love (Jesus).\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve replaced Him with ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>Things are done out of religious obligation, not out of love<\/li>\n<li>Tell Him daily that we love Him.<\/li>\n<li>Ask Him to help keep the love fresh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We become lukewarm.\n<ul>\n<li>No zeal, no rush to Him; we can take Him or leave Him.<\/li>\n<li>Repent; ask for His fire and zeal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Our hearts turn cold.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t endure sound doctrine.\n<ul>\n<li>We look for people to preach to us things we want to hear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Verses:\u00a0<\/strong>Matthew 26:31-35, 1 Corinthians 10:12, Revelation 2:1-6, Revelation 3:14-16, Matthew 24:12, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Prov. 24:30-34<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-127-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/09-04-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/09-04-16.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/09-04-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points We may think that we are connected to God, that nothing can separate us, but we may not always be as connected as we thought. Peter &amp; the disciples all swore that they would never be made to&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2016\/09\/04\/how-to-stay-connected-to-god-part-ii\/\">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\/127"}],"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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}