{"id":84928,"date":"2020-03-31T04:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=84928"},"modified":"2020-03-30T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:43:30","slug":"9-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/31\/9-s\/","title":{"rendered":"9.s. &#8220;The hour has come for you to wake from sleep&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:45.13.11\"><b>Romans 13:11<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. \u00a0The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. \u00a0Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. \u00a0But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Today a bit of change from minor prophets.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This verse has struck me as a wake-up call. \u201cWake from sleep\u201d \u201cNearer to us now than when we first believed \u201cthe day is at hand\u201d and \u201clet us walk properly as in the daytime\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When we allow the world to influence us and cast a shadow over our walk with Christ, we walk in darkness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We are not exposing ourselves to His Word and we are hiding from the light.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When we walk in the light we are able to more clearly see and navigate this world appropriately.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our conduct is exposed to His Word because we are seeking to be in the light of it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We begin and continue to mature and understand what it means to live in this world as a light for others to see Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 13:11\u00a0\u00a0Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. \u00a0The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/31\/9-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;9.s. &#8220;The hour has come for you to wake from sleep&#8221;&#8221;<\/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":[13325,777,3843,12393,304,7181,445,3482,1375,13327,13324,7180,13326,533,3120,456,446,13323,5477],"class_list":["post-84928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-arm-of-light","tag-darkness","tag-desires","tag-first-believed","tag-flesh","tag-gratify","tag-hour","tag-immorality","tag-jealousy","tag-lord-jesus-christ","tag-nearer","tag-provision","tag-quarreling","tag-salvation","tag-sensuality","tag-sleep","tag-time","tag-wake","tag-walk-properly"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928","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=84928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84932,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928\/revisions\/84932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}