{"id":742,"date":"2016-04-15T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2016-04-15T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T20:15:46","slug":"pretend-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/15\/pretend-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. &#8211; 1 Peter 5:8<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, you&#8217;ve got an opponent: <em>someone who competes against or fights another in a contest, game, or argument; a rival or adversary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And your opponent is <em>not <\/em>a lion, but he&#8217;s not afraid or shy about acting like one.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, you are Satan&#8217;s opponent&#8230;because you carry the same nature of the One who &#8221; went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.&#8221; (Acts 10:38)<\/p>\n<p>And unlike Satan, you actually <em>are <\/em>a lion, it&#8217;s just you&#8217;ve been brainwashed into a tame, timid pretence of being something far less bold and majestic.<\/p>\n<p>Satan your opponent is not a lion. You are.<\/p>\n<p>So when you get up in the morning, let him hear your roar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. &#8211; 1 Peter 5:8 First of all, you&#8217;ve got an opponent: someone who competes against or fights another in a contest, game, or argument; a rival or adversary. And your opponent is not a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/15\/pretend-lions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretend lions&#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-742","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\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}