{"id":374,"date":"2009-03-04T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T10:06:43","slug":"lent-devotions-2009-wednesday-4th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2009\/03\/04\/lent-devotions-2009-wednesday-4th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2009: Wednesday 4th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.\u201d<\/em> Romans 10:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like this verse because I find that it resonates with me long after I have read it. During my years in the wilderness, I always believed in God and felt that He was near me. At the back of my mind and under my skin; an imprint on my soul.<\/p>\n<p>But this knowledge about my true self was something that only I knew about. It was a kind of secret me. In my daily life I struggled under layers of worldly vices, and I looked for answers in bottomless pits.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how it happened but one day when things had been gloomy for a long time, God called me back. Not long after that I went to church.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when I let my inner belief manifest itself in my outward actions that I could truly step out from the shadow of an old identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Lord, we thank You for the miracle of changed hearts, enabling us to turn, confess and be saved. Thank You for never giving up on us, but giving us a way back. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.\u201d Romans 10:10 I like this verse because I find that it resonates with me long after I have read it. During my years in the wilderness, I always believed in God and felt that He was near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}