{"id":3915,"date":"2017-08-24T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/24\/first-faith\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:58:46","slug":"first-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/first-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"First faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) &#8211; 2 Corinthians 5:7<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">Faith comes before sight. The order is extremely important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">First you believe it, and <i>then <\/i>you see it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(It = the Word of God that is the basis for your faith action step)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">First you step out of the boat (because the Word said &#8220;Come&#8221;)&#8230;and then you see that you can walk on that which is supposed to drown you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">First you throw away your coat (because, blind Barthimeus, the Word has called you &#8211; Mark 10:49)&#8230;and then you receive your sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">You don&#8217;t wait for a feeling before you step out. Instead, you look for a Word, act in faith on it, and then you get to see, feel and experience its reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">If you want to see it, you&#8217;ve got to step out in faith on what the Word says first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">First faith&#8230;and then sight.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) &#8211; 2 Corinthians 5:7 Faith comes before sight. The order is extremely important. First you believe it, and then you see it. (It = the Word of God that is the basis for your faith action step) First you step out of the boat (because the Word &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/first-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First faith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}