{"id":1484,"date":"2023-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2023-01-04T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T04:38:20","slug":"january-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2023\/01\/01\/january-1-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"January 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=640%2C360&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?resize=1568%2C882&ssl=1 1568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?w=2016&ssl=1 2016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-2.jpg?w=1920&ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Job 25-27, Isaiah 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What God said to me \u2013 <\/strong>The day is coming soon when you will be holy \u2013 not just in standing, but in practice.\u00a0 Until that day comes you must continue to walk with Me.\u00a0 I know you feel defeated by this continual habit of walking with Me and then falling away and then repenting and returning, but don\u2019t be discouraged.\u00a0 I designed you to long for holiness \u2013 that is why you are so critical of yourself and easily discouraged.\u00a0 Walking in holiness is not easy when you are surrounded by ungodliness.\u00a0 You must not give up or give in to discouragement.\u00a0 Keep repenting and walking with Me.\u00a0 There is no limit to My forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 25-27, Isaiah 4 What God said to me \u2013 The day is coming soon when you will be holy \u2013 not just in standing, but in practice.\u00a0 Until that day comes you must continue to walk with Me.\u00a0 I know you feel defeated by this continual habit of walking with Me and then falling … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2023\/01\/01\/january-1-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “January 1, 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","category-isaiah","category-job","category-old-testament","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}