{"id":313,"date":"2021-01-20T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:18:39","slug":"the-upward-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"the upward call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>T<em>he call to bridal preparation. That\u2019s you and me, folks. Will we be ready?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 29th August this year I received a very special e-mail.&nbsp; &nbsp;I was out in Jerusalem at the time.&nbsp; The e-mail contained the question, \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d Immediately I clicked \u2018reply\u2019 and wrote the words, \u201cYes, I will!\u201d I believe that the Lord is putting out His call to us, His sons and daughters,\u201cWill you be ready to marry me?&nbsp; Will you prepare yourself for when I come?\u201d What is our reply going to be?.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call to bridal preparation. That\u2019s you and me, folks. Will we be ready? On 29th August this year I received a very special e-mail.&nbsp; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}