{"id":86,"date":"2021-01-19T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=86"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:33:28","slug":"a-hope-fulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"A Hope FULFILLED &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Hopes and dreams are a fine thing, even more so when the Lord is at the centre of our plans. Chris Hill explains<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The call of the Lord on the life of John the Baptist came early. In fact, according to Luke 1:15, it came in the womb! But it seems John did not give voice to his ministry until he emerged from the Judean wilderness at the age of thirty (Luke 3:2ff). Some gap \u2013 but clearly a godly gap. That lengthy period was essential preparation for what followed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>When there is a gap between promise and fulfilment it can test us sorely.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h3>A moving experience?<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/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>Hopes and dreams are a fine thing, even more so when the Lord is at the centre of our plans. Chris Hill explains The call [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}