{"id":48,"date":"2016-02-19T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-03-17T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T22:20:22","slug":"focused-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/19\/focused-on-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Focused on God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Keeping our eyes focused on God and His promises may not immediately remove the current pain or struggle we are going through, but it does give us hope. \u00a0Hope founded in faith. \u00a0Trusting Him, clinging to Him, and relying on Him. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Isaiah\u00a0 65:17<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor behold, I create new heavens<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">and a new earth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">and the former things shall not be remembered<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">or come into mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2 Peter 3:13<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since all these things are thus to be dissolved,<b> what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,<\/b> waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. <b>Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping our eyes focused on God and His promises may not immediately remove the current pain or struggle we are going through, but it does give us hope. \u00a0Hope founded in faith. \u00a0Trusting Him, clinging to Him, and relying on Him. \u00a0 Isaiah\u00a0 65:17 \u201cFor behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/19\/focused-on-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Focused on God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,41,42],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-faith","tag-focus","tag-hope"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}