{"id":2928,"date":"2023-11-16T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2023-11-10T22:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T22:56:30","slug":"a-personal-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/a-personal-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, November 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Personal Encounter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Come near to God and he will come near to you. <\/em><strong>James 4:8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Explaining faith in God is a challenging endeavor. It&#8217;s an intangible and indescribable quality that can be difficult to put into words. The real essence of faith often eludes description until you&#8217;ve had a personal encounter with God. Faith is a journey, a continuous walk with God that requires us to trust and believe even when we cannot see the path ahead.<\/p>\n<p>When you come to know God on a profoundly personal level, you experience His reality firsthand. Your faith deepens because it&#8217;s no longer built solely on what others have conveyed to you but is now an intrinsic part of your being. This underscores the significance of each believer having a &#8220;God moment&#8221; \u2014 a personal encounter with God that allows you to truly know Him. Such an experience awakens the Holy Spirit within your life and unlocks the boundless power of God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your boundless favor. Today, I acknowledge that everything flows from You, and for this reason, I will forever extol Your name. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 16 A Personal Encounter Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:8 Explaining faith in God is a challenging endeavor. It&#8217;s an intangible and indescribable quality that can be difficult to put into words. The real essence of faith often eludes description until you&#8217;ve had a personal encounter [&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-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}