{"id":3920,"date":"2019-05-27T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2019-05-27T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:31:31","slug":"hope-for-the-hurting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/hope-for-the-hurting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope For The Hurting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our church\u2019s motto is <strong>Hope for the Hurting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"center\">2 Corinthians 1:3-4,<br><em> \u201cBlessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God.\u201d<\/em><\/blockquote><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hope we have today is in Jesus Christ. There are so many today who are hurting. We as a body of believers are called to extend a hand to help, encourage, pray and teach them. People need to know they are loved. There is a saying, \u201cPeople don\u2019t care how much you <g class=\"gr_ gr_21 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"21\" data-gr-id=\"21\">know,<\/g> until they know how much you care\u201d.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our world is so full of hate and evil. There is deliverance. Jesus is the only<br> answer. <em>\u201cFor all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus\u201d<\/em>,<br> Romans 3:23-24.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God bless you and may the Lord awaken everyone to what it is, to the blessed hope of our Lord\u2019s coming for His bride that hath made herself ready.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cHas anybody told you they loved you today?\u201d Jesus does and we do too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our church\u2019s motto is Hope for the Hurting. The Hope we have today is in Jesus Christ. There are so many today who are hurting. We as a body of believers are called to extend a hand to help, encourage, pray and teach them. People need to know they are loved. There is a saying, \u201cPeople don\u2019t care how much you know, until they know how much you care\u201d. Our world is so full of hate and evil. There is deliverance. Jesus is the only answer. \u201cFor all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus\u201d, Romans 3:23-24. God bless you and may the Lord awaken everyone to what it is, to the blessed hope of our Lord\u2019s coming for His bride that hath made herself ready. \u201cHas anybody told you they loved you today?\u201d Jesus does and we do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-hope"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1280x1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithfieldchurchofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}