{"id":5296,"date":"2019-04-21T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:59:45","slug":"faith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nFaith<br>Contrary to popular opinion, true faith is not the courage, strength,&nbsp;<br>fortitude, and power of its possessor. True faith is what God gives to&nbsp;<br>the poor and needy. True faith is the only hope the fearful, the weak,&nbsp;<br>and the helpless have. True faith is the admission of one\u2019s total&nbsp;<br>inability. True faith is the acknowledgment of one\u2019s total dependence.&nbsp;<br>It does not boast of its confidence. True faith is humble and quiet. It&nbsp;<br>cannot be judgmental of others while it stands in such doubt of itself.&nbsp;<br>It dare not act outwardly religious and pious, in fear that the true&nbsp;<br>nature of its own weakness be exposed. The Lord said; \u201cmy grace is&nbsp;<br>sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.\u201d To&nbsp;<br>which the child of God says; \u201cmost gladly therefore will I glory in my&nbsp;<br>infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me\u2026 for when I am&nbsp;<br>weak, then I am strong.\u201d ~Greg\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FaithContrary to popular opinion, true faith is not the courage, strength,&nbsp;fortitude, and power of its possessor. True faith is what God gives to&nbsp;the poor and needy. True faith is the only hope the fearful, the weak,&nbsp;and the helpless have. True faith is the admission of one\u2019s total&nbsp;inability. True faith is the acknowledgment of one\u2019s total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-greg-elmquist","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}