{"id":13507,"date":"2016-08-18T00:26:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-development-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:26:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:26:57","slug":"faith-development-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-development-of\/","title":{"rendered":"FAITH, DEVELOPMENT OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The desert is seemingly void of all life, but given a little rainfall, life springs into existence and beauty. Life is there, but it is dormant. Unbelief is like that. It is the desert of one\u2019s being. But the potential for life is there and needs only to be watered by faith to spring into existence and beauty.452<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>George Muller, a great man of faith, once said, \u201cGod delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God\u2019s hand as a means. I say\u2014and say it deliberately\u2014trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.\u201d453<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desert is seemingly void of all life, but given a little rainfall, life springs into existence and beauty. Life is there, but it is dormant. Unbelief is like that. It is the desert of one\u2019s being. But the potential for life is there and needs only to be watered by faith to spring into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-development-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FAITH, DEVELOPMENT OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}