{"id":5223,"date":"2019-03-17T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T08:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2019-03-17T08:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T08:41:52","slug":"a-pure-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5223","title":{"rendered":"A Pure Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pure Faith<br \/>\nTodd Nibert<br \/>\nWhen I was on chemo-therapy, I took the liberty to change some<br \/>\nmedications that I was on without notifying my doctor. The change in<br \/>\nmedicines had an adverse effect. I was plunged into depression and<br \/>\ndespair. All I could see was blackness and darkness. Everything seemed<br \/>\nhopeless. I was even questioning the existence of God. If He did exist I<br \/>\nhad no assurance that I knew Him.<\/p>\n<p>During that time I knew that the only way I could be saved was if Christ<br \/>\ndid everything in my salvation. I could not even come up with the faith.<br \/>\nPerhaps that is the purest my faith has ever been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pure Faith Todd Nibert When I was on chemo-therapy, I took the liberty to change some medications that I was on without notifying my doctor. The change in medicines had an adverse effect. I was plunged into depression and despair. All I could see was blackness and darkness. Everything seemed hopeless. I was even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}