{"id":1692,"date":"2020-12-13T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:25:03","slug":"1-peter-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"1 Peter 1:8-9 Blind Faith, True Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-20.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, <strong>you love him<\/strong>.]Though you do not now see him,<strong> you believe in him<\/strong> and <strong>rejoice with joy <\/strong>that is inexpressible and filled with glory,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t be fixated on your pain; be focused on your joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Corinthians 4:8-12<br>2 Corinthians 4:16-18<br>2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT 16That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%204%3A16-18&amp;version=NLT#fen-NLT-28836a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;being renewed every day.&nbsp;<sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>For our present troubles are small and won\u2019t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!&nbsp;<sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>So we don\u2019t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Peter:19 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge for us is to actually DO THIS [rejoice with joy]!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-20.mp3\">1 Peter 1:8-9 Blind Love, True Faith<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-20.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him.]Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, Don\u2019t be fixated on your pain; be focused on your joy. 2 Corinthians 4:8-122 Corinthians 4:16-182 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT 16That is why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 Peter 1:8-9 Blind Faith, True Love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","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\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}