{"id":34,"date":"2011-01-16T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-01-16T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:22:27","slug":"the-speaking-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The Speaking Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recap of the exhortation I gave at the end of the meeting on January 16, 2011. It was not recorded, so I&#8217;ll summarize it here.<\/p>\n<p>AnnaMarie used the analogy of going through customs at an airport and having to declare certain items that you have in your possession.\u00a0 I could see a line of Christians passing by Satan and declaring to him what we have in God &#8211; salvation, eternal life, everlasting love, hope,\u00a0a future, and on and on and on. And Satan can only say &#8220;Go ahead, what you have I cannot confiscate or even touch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, when she spoke of God watching over His Word, I envisioned Him anxiously listening for someone, a son or daughter, to speak His Word on the earth. He turns His ear to it and declares &#8220;That&#8217;s My Word that I hear!&#8221; Then, without hesitation, He draws from His infinite resources to accomplish that Word. For it for His sake that He moves on our behalf &#8211; showing Himself to be the only true God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recap of the exhortation I gave at the end of the meeting on January 16, 2011. It was not recorded, so I&#8217;ll summarize it here. AnnaMarie used the analogy of going through customs at an airport and having to declare certain items that you have in your possession.\u00a0 I could see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}