{"id":3864,"date":"2019-01-23T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:29:49","slug":"cant-program-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"CAN&#8217;T PROGRAM THE WIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one can influence the wind in any way whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wind blows where it wills . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by the church to create and promote formulas for salvation, fall short and mislead millions of members to think they are okay with God, if they obeyed the church.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting church requirements, usually for the benefit and continuation of the church, often bypasses the Spirit&#8217;s prerogative to move in individuals&#8217; lives, in ways that give God all the credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can influence the wind in any way whatsoever. &#8220;The wind blows where it wills . . .&#8221; &#8220;So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.&#8221; Efforts by the church to create and promote formulas for salvation, fall short and mislead millions of members to think they are okay with God, if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}