{"id":5793,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/water-of-healing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:46","slug":"water-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/water-of-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"WATER\n  OF HEALING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Confession; Healing; Help; Homelessness; Honesty; Needs; Thirst<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> John 4:1\u201315; 7:38; Revelation 21:6<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Mike, who works with homeless people, tells me that those who have hit bottom don\u2019t waste time building up an image or trying to conform. And they pray without pretense, a refreshing contrast to what is found in some churches.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I asked for an example. He said, \u201cMy friend and I were playing guitars and singing \u2018As the Deer Panteth for the Water\u2019 when David, a homeless man, started weeping. \u2018That\u2019s what I want, man,\u2019 he said. \u2018I want that water. I\u2019m an alcoholic, and I want to be healed.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Philip Yancey, \u201cThe Word on the Street,\u201d <i>Christianity Today<\/i> (January 2006)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>PART 12: HEALTH AND BEAUTY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Confession; Healing; Help; Homelessness; Honesty; Needs; Thirst References: John 4:1\u201315; 7:38; Revelation 21:6 Mike, who works with homeless people, tells me that those who have hit bottom don\u2019t waste time building up an image or trying to conform. And they pray without pretense, a refreshing contrast to what is found in some churches. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/water-of-healing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WATER<br \/>\n  OF HEALING&#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-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}