{"id":1687,"date":"2020-12-06T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2020-12-07T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:20:10","slug":"1-peter-16-7-faith-refined-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"1 Peter 1:6-7 Faith Refined by Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-6-20.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Peter 1:6 <strong>In this you rejoice<\/strong>, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t be fixated on your pain; be focused on your joy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Peter 1:7 <strong>so that the tested genuineness of your faith\u2014more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire<\/strong> \u2014may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Untested faith may be true faith, but it is sure to be small faith, and it is likely to remain little as long as it is without trials.&#8221; ~Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A faith refined by fire is more genuine, valuable and pure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Peter 1:7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith\u2014more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire\u2014 may be found to <strong>result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Job 23:10 \u201cHe knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-6-20.mp3\">1 Peter1:6-7 Faith Refined By Fire<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-6-20.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 1:6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, Don\u2019t be fixated on your pain; be focused on your joy. 1 Peter 1:7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith\u2014more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 Peter 1:6-7 Faith Refined by Fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-peter","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}