{"id":917,"date":"2010-03-06T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=917"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T10:30:46","slug":"lenten-devotions-2010-saturday-6-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/06\/lenten-devotions-2010-saturday-6-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Devotions 2010: Saturday 6 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our God is a loving God, a forgiving God, who listens to our prayers and watches over all that we do.\u00a0 God\u2019s love for us is unconditional and unlike any one love that we can comprehend.\u00a0 A parent loves their child, a wife loves her husband, and a friend loves a friend.\u00a0 All these are examples that we can relate to, understand or may have experienced.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0God\u2019s shows His love for us through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Jesus came down to earth and died for our sins.\u00a0 God then raised Him from death, to life, demonstrating His power over death and His love for us all.\u00a0 This love would last eternally, as payment for our sins, through what Jesus had done.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0So when we pray sincerely, respectfully and repentantly, we acknowledge the wrong we have done.\u00a0 Because God is a forgiving God, He relieves us from the burden that sin puts on us, and gives forgiveness through Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All gifts from God are blessings bestowed on us.\u00a0 They are full of God\u2019s love, because God is Love and His mercy endures forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>For these many blessings we thank and praise You, Lord God.\u00a0 Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our God is a loving God, a forgiving God, who listens to our prayers and watches over all that we do.\u00a0 God\u2019s love for us is unconditional and unlike any one love that we can comprehend.\u00a0 A parent loves their child, a wife loves her husband, and a friend loves a friend.\u00a0 All these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}