{"id":1271,"date":"2021-08-31T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:15:38","slug":"purchased-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/purchased-by-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchased by God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, August 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchased by God \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. <strong>Romans 3:23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jessy Dixon sings \u2018<em>I am redeemed, bought with a price, Jesus has changed my whole life. If anybody asks you, just who I am, tell them I am redeemed<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is a truth that we all must remind ourselves every now and then. The fight has already been won. Yet I too often live as if my self-effort is required to make up for past struggles and efforts. I sometimes feel that I need to earn the grace that is already mine. But this is a lie that the enemy plants in our minds to make us feel less of. Sing yourself the lyrics, I am redeemed.<\/p>\n<p>Paul says\u2026. \u201c<em>Formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy&#8230;for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life<\/em>.&#8221; (1 Timothy 1:13,16)<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s love has come in and given us meaning, beauty, redemption, and purpose. It is through God loving us that we become sons and daughters; we become saints. I hope today you\u2019ll open your heart up to this life-changing love, and never be the same again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:<em> Thank You Heavenly Father that we who trust in Christ as our Savior have redemption through the blood of Christ Jesus our Lord and the forgiveness of all our sins, in accordance with Your grace. Cleanses me and keeps on cleansing me from all my sin. Thank You. Father, that in Christ I am cleansed of all my unrighteousness by grace through faith in Him. Amen <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 31 Purchased by God \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 Jessy Dixon sings \u2018I am redeemed, bought with a price, Jesus has changed my whole life. If anybody asks you, just who I am, tell them I am redeemed.\u2019 This is a truth that [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}