{"id":4173,"date":"2014-12-24T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2014-12-24T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T17:18:55","slug":"genesis-chapter-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Genesis\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We are told at this set time God allows Abraham to have his promised son, Isaac, at the age of 100.\u00a0 We are also told that Hagar, and Ishmael are protected, and blessed because of Abraham.\u00a0 Abimelech is also blessed because he recognizes the hand of God on Abraham and therefore he makes a treaty with Abraham.\u00a0 The only way we can be blessed is to get in the covenant of God through Salvation.\u00a0 The only way to stay blessed is to live in the protection of God\u2019s covenant.\u00a0 Living outside of the Spirit of God and the Word of God causes us to miss out on the blessings of God.\u00a0 God has a plan; we can join in and be blessed or live outside and be chastened as His children.\u00a0 Jesus came because He loves us and wants us to live daily as His covenant people.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this Christmas season, God has invited us and allows us to be part of His magnificent plan.\u00a0 Rejoice that we get to live as His Child.<\/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-4173","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\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}