{"id":9911,"date":"2016-08-17T00:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/happinessdiscouragement-spiritual-victory\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:27","slug":"happinessdiscouragement-spiritual-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/happinessdiscouragement-spiritual-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPINESS;\nDISCOURAGEMENT; SPIRITUAL VICTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I am quite sure that people in the average church are not the happy people that they ought to be.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The mood in most congregations is not a high, bright, happy key, but instead a low, growling, and gloomy key!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Many people who are professing Christians try to retain a cordiality socially, while inwardly they are heavyhearted, beaten and defeated. Inwardly they are bound and shackled, unhappy and a little bit frightened\u2014yet they are Christians!\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'><i>It isn\u2019t the Lord that has us bound and discouraged<\/i>\u2014<i>it is the devil. One simple act of the Holy Ghost will set a man free and give him victory.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Lamentations 3:19\u201323; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Philippians 4:4<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1, Book 1,<\/i> 141, 143.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am quite sure that people in the average church are not the happy people that they ought to be. The mood in most congregations is not a high, bright, happy key, but instead a low, growling, and gloomy key! Many people who are professing Christians try to retain a cordiality socially, while inwardly they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/happinessdiscouragement-spiritual-victory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HAPPINESS;<br \/>\nDISCOURAGEMENT; SPIRITUAL VICTORY&#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-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","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=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}