{"id":649528,"date":"2009-01-23T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/01\/23\/the-path-of-the-believer\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:06:00","slug":"the-path-of-the-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/01\/23\/the-path-of-the-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path of the Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Recently, I listened to an experience shared by a friend.\u00a0 While thinking about what she had told me, the Lord brought this new understanding:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong>The Believer<\/strong> will hear a story and will marvel at God&#8217;s glory, grace, providence, discipline&#8230;whatever applies.\u00a0 Eyes will mist over, chills up their spine, goosebumps on their arms, and they know, they just <strong><em>KNOW<\/em><\/strong> that what this person speaks is <strong>Truth<\/strong> and it, once again, confirms God&#8217;s presence and love in our world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong>The Seeker<\/strong> hears the same story and is not quite sure what to make of it.\u00a0 They may or may not comment on it, but the experience will be filed away, and will possibly come back around with new understanding should they ever decide to take that step in faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong>The Non-Believer<\/strong> will hear the story and think the person telling it is either seriously deluded or is lying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Where are you on this spectrum?\u00a0 I can tell you that I have been all three and I praise God that I can say I was one a Non-Believer who now Believes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong><em>&#8220;Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.\u00a0 I once was lost, but now I am found, was blind, but now I see&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I listened to an experience shared by a friend.\u00a0 While thinking about what she had told me, the Lord brought this new understanding: The Believer will hear a story and will marvel at God&#8217;s glory, grace, providence, discipline&#8230;whatever applies.\u00a0 Eyes will mist over, chills up their spine, goosebumps on their arms, and they know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}