{"id":1549,"date":"2020-05-25T04:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2020-05-25T04:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:06:20","slug":"that-you-may-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/25\/that-you-may-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 20:30-31<br \/>\n&#8220;And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gospel writers, under inspiration, had God -given ability to select, arrange, adapt and summarize Jesus works and deeds in order to effectively communicate to selected audiences. <\/p>\n<p>John 20:25  &#8221; And there were so many things which Jesus did, which if they were written in details, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.&#8221; This was a Jewish way of saying that there would be many ,many books.<\/p>\n<p>The stated purpose of the Biblical writings was and still is to give man all that is necessary and sufficient for his redemptive rescue and obedient service to his maker. <\/p>\n<p>Today I choose to believe! &#8230;. I believe that indeed Jesus was the son of God , that He died for my sins, that He rose again on the third day and He ascended to heaven and one day He will come for me. <\/p>\n<p>Today I choose to believe&#8230;&#8230; that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I will overcome all the challenges ahead of me. I will be at the top and not at the bottom. The blessings of the Lord will follow me all the days of my life. I am a believer!<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings;<br \/>\nJn 21:25<br \/>\nJn 3:15,18,36<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed week\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 20:30-31 &#8220;And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:&#8221; &#8220;But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.&#8221; The gospel writers, under inspiration, had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}