{"id":4365,"date":"2021-10-05T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:34:28","slug":"a-victorious-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4365","title":{"rendered":"A Victorious Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. (1 John 5:4-5 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What has and will overcome this world; our faith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are told this right here in scripture. But so often Christians go through life feeling defeated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know how this feels. As I begin a new job today, my prayer has been that I thrive and not just survive. This has been my prayer for some time now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life is more than survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We, especially as Christians, are to live a victorious life. The game is won, the price is paid and we have eternity to look forward to. Yes, a little pain now in this lifetime which will be exchanged for an eternity with Christ, living in heavenly perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why is it so hard to get by while we are here at times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As has been mentioned to me of late a few times; there is no testimony without a test. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This life is our test and how we live it is our testimony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So you can go out today defeated, or you can go out victorious. Live a life where you thrive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\u00a0because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. (1 John 5:4-5 CSB) What has and will overcome this world; our faith. We are told this right here in scripture. But so often Christians go through life feeling defeated. I know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}