{"id":558,"date":"2021-01-20T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:26:09","slug":"to-worship-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"To worship and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Church needs to loosen up and rediscover true rejoicing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently I was speaking to a group about knowing God, specifically 1 Cor 2 v 16 \u2018For who has known the mind of the Lord that He will instruct him? But we have the mind of Messiah.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>I am worshipping this great eternal magnificent Being, who funnelled His powerful loving heart into His Son, whom He sent in perfection and humility, to get us finally connected up with His enormous purposes. Then He had to leave us in order to send Himself in the Person of the Holy Spirit and said: \u2018See how you get on with me \u2018inside you!\u2019 So, tiptoeing before His great Throne into the blinding light; my response, a pathetic \u2018God. Who are you?\u2019 Are there clues to God\u2019s character that we are just missing?<\/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 Church needs to loosen up and rediscover true rejoicing Recently I was speaking to a group about knowing God, specifically 1 Cor 2 v [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,68],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}