{"id":46,"date":"2007-11-22T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/archives\/46"},"modified":"2007-11-22T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T18:28:00","slug":"the-battle-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-battle-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"the battle is on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that we have felt the heat of the battle. We have the sense that in these days we are in a battle against a foe that uses tactics that are very subtle and subversive. I&#8217;m reminded of the words of David &#8220;With your help I can advance against a troop, with my God I can scale a wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we continue on this journey we are &#8220;attacked&#8221; by many things. Discouraging thoughts and opinions of why we should not be heading in this direction. Opinions like: &#8220;the nationals should do it&#8221;, &#8220;you just want to be close to your family&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s too costly&#8221; and &#8220;you&#8217;re not considering your children&#8221;. These are just a few of the comments we have heard recently. <\/p>\n<p>It is as if these opinions have a life of their own and come against us in our heart and mind. They are the troop that we are advancing against. But David, who knew just a little about battles, declared &#8220;with my God I can scale a wall&#8221;. And by faith I declare too &#8220;with my God I can scale a wall&#8221; and attain the goal that is in front of us!<\/p>\n<p>Check out 2 Samuel 22 it&#8217;s a great victory song written by King David 3000 years ago! <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that we have felt the heat of the battle. We have the sense that in these days we are in a battle against a foe that uses tactics that are very subtle and subversive. I&#8217;m reminded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-battle-is-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}