{"id":4789,"date":"2014-10-16T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2014-10-14T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:42:06","slug":"testimonies-of-gods-faithfulness-can-be-tricky-to-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4789","title":{"rendered":"TESTIMONIES OF GOD&#8217;S FAITHFULNESS CAN BE TRICKY TO COMMUNICATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As Christians, we love hearing testimonies of God&#8217;s faithfulness.\u00a0 It encourages us when our own faith is failing.\u00a0 We are reminded that God still works in peoples&#8217; lives.\u00a0 All this is good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The tricky thing is the hearer must be careful to not become like Simon Magus.\u00a0 You may recall how he wanted to do miracles just like Peter and John.\u00a0 Simon erroneously thought he could pay for something like this.\u00a0 We are not as crass, but we hear how God answered someone&#8217;s prayer and we look for the secret which made it all come about.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say the person communicates that God convicted her to fast one day a week.\u00a0 Ah, that is the trick.\u00a0 If I fast one day a week, I can also count on God answering some of my most cherished prayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christians, we love hearing testimonies of God&#8217;s faithfulness.\u00a0 It encourages us when our own faith is failing.\u00a0 We are reminded that God still works in peoples&#8217; lives.\u00a0 All this is good. The tricky thing is the hearer must be careful to not become like Simon Magus.\u00a0 You may recall how he wanted to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}