{"id":9584,"date":"2021-03-05T04:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9584"},"modified":"2021-03-05T04:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:39:34","slug":"the-crucial-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9584","title":{"rendered":"THE CRUCIAL MOMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Taking every thought captive_<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/2%20Corinthians10%3A5\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Corinthians 10:5<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>The following is an excerpt from \u2018Igniting Faith in 40 Days\u2019 by Steve Backlund<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are the most important moments in the life of a growing Christian? Is it a powerful God encounter? Is it a fresh dedication to the purposes of God? Is it when we hear what the Spirit is saying to the church?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While these are important, I propose that there is another \u201cGod moment\u201d that will have a greater effect on our destiny than these. What is it? It\u2019s when we fail or have experiences that do not line up with the promises of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In that moment, we have a choice. Do we keep our identity (and God\u2019s identity) in His promises, or do we use experience to empower a negative identity for us and for God? We must remember that negative strongholds are created and strengthened when we put our experiences above God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When failure happens, we must think like this: \u201cI may have sinned, but I am not a sinner. I may have had an accident, but I have a covenant of protection. I may be in lack, but I am a prosperous person. Healing may not have manifested, but Iam healed and bring healing to others.\u201d I don\u2019t deny my experience, I just don\u2019t create my identify from it. I may need help from others concerning the failure, but I resist the temptation to make negative conclusions from it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who passively rely on experience to identify who they are (and who God is) will greatly limit God in their lives; however, those who seize these crucial moments by taking thoughts captive will powerfully break down restrictive strongholds and enter into their promised land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Make this declaration over your life:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I rejoice in apparent times of failure. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>These are my crucial moments in life. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am who the Bible says I am.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking every thought captive_2 Corinthians 10:5 The following is an excerpt from \u2018Igniting Faith in 40 Days\u2019 by Steve Backlund What are the most important moments in the life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,76,51,71,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-hope","category-identity","category-kingdom","category-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}