{"id":94,"date":"2021-03-24T03:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/2021\/03\/24\/abundant-life\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:47:43","slug":"abundant-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/2021\/03\/24\/abundant-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Abundant  Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_50217\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuxRPVaHKnk?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roy Cypher<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 16:17-19<br \/>\n17 Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cBlessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah,<br \/>\nfor flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.<br \/>\n18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.<br \/>\n19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth<br \/>\nwill be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rob Canet<br \/>\nThe Reason for Your Loss of Hope and Joy<br \/>\nSatan comes to steal, kill, and destroy (first part of John 10:10). The result is a<br \/>\nloss of hope and doubt in God. This is especially prevalent in our present times.<br \/>\nConstant messages of doom and gloom in the context of world events beat on our<br \/>\nhearts and minds like heavy, unceasing rain. We\u2019ve only human, and can\u2019t take<br \/>\nthe unending battering forever.<br \/>\nThe only antidote or remedy is to turn our thoughts back to Jesus. He never left<br \/>\nor forsook us, but rather we let our focus drift away from Him. He is yearning for<br \/>\nus to come back to His arms, the Harbor of Peace. He gives us the peace that<br \/>\npasses all understanding. \u201cBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer<br \/>\nand supplication, with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God; and<br \/>\nthe peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and<br \/>\nminds through Jesus Christ (Phil. 4:-7). Also see John 14:27. \u201cPeace I leave with<br \/>\nyou, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your<br \/>\nheart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. We need not know how or why it<br \/>\nworks, but just believe it works by faith.<br \/>\nJust as a tiny rudder turns a big ship, so a tiny amount of faith can move a<br \/>\nmountain. See Matthew 17:20. \u201cSo Jesus said to them, \u201cBecause of your<br \/>\nunbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will<br \/>\nsay to this mountain, \u2018Move from here to there,\u2019 and it will move; and nothing will<br \/>\nbe impossible for you.\u201d Also see John 14:1. \u201cLet not your heart be troubled; you<br \/>\nbelieve in God believe also in me.\u201d The last part of the answer is in the last part of<br \/>\nJohn 10:10. \u201cI have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more<br \/>\nabundantly.\u201d If you have life abundantly, there is no room in your mind to dwell<br \/>\non loss of hope and joy.<br \/>\nSo let these scriptures be the answer to your loss of hope and joy. In the name of<br \/>\nJesus, there is power, more power than any weapon man or the Devil has, has<br \/>\nhad, or ever will have. Call on that precious name, truly believe, and have faith<br \/>\nthat Satan has to flee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Roy Cypher Matthew 16:17-19 17 Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cBlessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rob-canet","category-teaching","category-worship_music","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-22-id","wpcat-35-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}