{"id":720,"date":"2016-12-22T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/?p=720"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T10:49:31","slug":"words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/2016\/12\/22\/words\/","title":{"rendered":"Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nMark 11:22-26 (WEBBE): <sup>22<\/sup>Jesus answered them, <font color=\"aa0000\">\u201cHave faith in God. <sup>23<\/sup>For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, \u2018Be taken up and cast into the sea,\u2019 and doesn\u2019t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. <sup>24<\/sup>Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. <sup>25<\/sup>Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. <sup>26<\/sup>But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.\u201d<\/font>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The words that we speak have power. Jesus said that what we speak in faith will happen, even big things like moving a mountain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEphesians 4:23-24 (WEBBE): <sup>23<\/sup>and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, <sup>24<\/sup>and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are supposed to put on the new man, becoming like Jesus in every way. If our lives represent Jesus, then whatever we do or say will be in line with Love. Because God is Love. This doesn&#8217;t happen instantly though &#8211; renewing the mind is a continuous process. While we are still working on renewing our minds, we do have wonderful guidelines that we can live by, written by Paul to the Ephesians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEphesians 4:29-32 (WEBBE): <sup>29<\/sup>Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. <sup>30<\/sup>Don\u2019t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. <sup>31<\/sup>Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. <sup>32<\/sup>And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our words have the power to build up or to break down &#8211; the choice is ours how we use that power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 11:22-26 (WEBBE): 22Jesus answered them, \u201cHave faith in God. 23For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,9,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/DSCN3716.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7I1MG-words","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}