{"id":4185,"date":"2015-01-02T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2015-01-02T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:25:07","slug":"genesis-chapter-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 25"},"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>How valuable is your kingdom birthright?\u00a0 As children of God we are part of His eternal family, placed in it by the blood of Christ.\u00a0 We\u2019re joint heirs with Jesus! This gives us special privileges from our heavenly Father.\u00a0 We have continual access and help in every situation.\u00a0 Yet, as Esau, we are willing to surrender this spiritual blessing to satisfy our temporary physical urges.\u00a0 As if we would really die physically and eternally without our worldly fix.\u00a0 Remember, as a new born child of God, that greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.\u00a0 Hold on to your birthright, and live in the power of God\u2019s Spirit.\u00a0 You\u2019re part of an amazing eternal kingdom, and family.\u00a0 This is why God calls us to fast, so we can break free from the world\u2019s hold on us.\u00a0 We are also called to sacrifice our life as a living sacrifice, and to die daily to these desires of the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>I am praying God allows us to see and experience the joy of living in the power of God\u2019s Spirit.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never want to go back when you taste and see how good the Lord really is.<\/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-4185","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\/4185","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=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}