{"id":228,"date":"2017-02-12T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2017-02-12T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T16:50:10","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/12\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the body of Christ are sick, hurting and otherwise suffering as the world does. God&#8217;s promises are yea and amen, and we need to understand why it is that we don&#8217;t see the fullness of His promises in our lives. We can&#8217;t expect other people or circumstances to change by natural means. When we were saved, it was by the Spirit and it is the Spirit who can change people and situations.<\/p>\n<p>To see the promises of God in our lives, we need to be fully persuaded that we are sons and daughters of God, the way that Abraham was fully persuaded that God would honor His promises.<\/p>\n<p>Keys to success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We need to diligently seek Him on a regular basis and believe that He will reward us.<\/li>\n<li>Meditate on God&#8217;s Word day and night. Speak it with faith and confidence.<\/li>\n<li>Set our minds on things above not the things beneath.<\/li>\n<li>Have patience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures:<\/strong> Galatians 3:1-9; 26-29, Romans 4:13-21, Hebrews 11:6, Joshua 1:5-9, Colossians 3:1-3, Hebrews 6:9-12<\/p>\n<p>Audio is unavailable for this sermon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the body of Christ are sick, hurting and otherwise suffering as the world does. God&#8217;s promises are yea and amen, and we need to understand why it is that we don&#8217;t see the fullness of His promises in&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/12\/why\/\">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\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}