{"id":37010,"date":"2018-03-31T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=37010"},"modified":"2018-03-31T03:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T10:01:22","slug":"endured-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/endured-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Endured the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201clooking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romans 5:2-5<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.\u00a0\u00a0Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,\u00a0\u00a0and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,\u00a0\u00a0and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 12:1<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,\u00a0looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 31:1<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!<\/p>\n

The hymn “Because He lives”<\/p>\n

God sent His son, they called Him Jesus
\nHe came to love, heal and forgive
\nHe lived and died to buy my pardon
\nAn empty grave is there to prove my savior lives<\/p>\n

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow
\nBecause He lives, all fear is gone
\nBecause I know He holds the future
\nAnd life is worth the living, just because He lives<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Jesus lived, was crucified, raised on the third day, and was seen by many. The Jewish authorities tried to cover it up with money. The Roman government tried to silence it with violence. Modern skeptics try to argue it away. But there is no theory that can explain the eye-witness accounts except that Jesus really was resurrected. Because of that, we can have hope that we, too, will rise one day and meet Him.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201clooking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.\u201d Romans 5:2-5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and … Continue reading “Endured the Cross”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6365,2775,5659,2406,323,519,2348,2,6776,2346,6368,2627,83,2247,232,42,198,6772,4660,5917,2347,5739,5660,65,2333,250,6774,6321,6775,517,120,5202,289,5891,6231,3639,6771,6,6773,618,2332],"class_list":["post-37010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-access","tag-character","tag-clings","tag-consult","tag-cross","tag-endurance","tag-endured","tag-faith","tag-for-help","tag-founder","tag-given-to-us","tag-glory-of-god","tag-grace","tag-holy-one","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-joy","tag-lay-aside","tag-looking-to-jesus","tag-obtained","tag-perfecter","tag-poured-into-our-hearts","tag-race","tag-rejoice","tag-rely","tag-right-hand","tag-run-with-endurance","tag-seated","tag-set-before-us","tag-shame","tag-sin","tag-stand","tag-strong","tag-sufferings","tag-surrounded","tag-through-him","tag-throw-of-god","tag-trust","tag-weight","tag-witnesses","tag-woe"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37012,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010\/revisions\/37012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}