{"id":2437,"date":"2014-07-31T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:37:05","slug":"mark-chapter-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=2437","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapter 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?resize=341%2C311\" alt=\"bible\" width=\"341\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?w=341 341w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?resize=300%2C274 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/>Faith, what is it?\u00a0 Faith is not about me but me being void of self and surrendered to Christ.\u00a0 Because I must believe who Jesus is, do what Jesus said, and trust Jesus will do that which is best for His glory and honor.\u00a0 A life of faith is not a conjuring up of something but a taking in of God\u2019s Word so my confidence rests no longer in me, but in Christ.\u00a0 My mind becomes transformed through His Word so I stop living in the realm of the flesh, but I allow the Spirit that Christ gave me at salvation to have control.\u00a0 Yes they did not have faith, because they thought it depended on them.\u00a0 Trust in God\u2019s grace which gave us salvation and this wonderful gift of faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does this faith make sense?\u00a0 Faith does not mean we do not fear, it means we continue trusting even in our fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}