{"id":3495,"date":"2021-12-22T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T19:21:36","slug":"declaring-his-glory-this-christmas-and-into-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2021\/12\/22\/declaring-his-glory-this-christmas-and-into-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaring His Glory This Christmas And Into The New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-600x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3496\" width=\"698\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-600x461.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-1536x1181.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-2048x1575.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-125x96.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-250x192.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-329x253.jpg 329w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/Declare-His-Glory-1920x1476.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"DeclareHisGlory\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-red-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3498 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-83x110.jpg 83w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited-190x253.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2021\/12\/US-Christmas-2021-edited.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Merry Christmas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">:<\/span><\/strong> From our house to yours, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this atmosphere of fear that many are experiencing these days, God has appointed each of us to be His light bearers to dispel fear and to \u201cDeclare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.\u201d 1 Chronicles 16:24 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One does not have to ask God for opportunities to bear that light to others as opportunities abound. That would be like asking the sun to shine on a cloudless day. We just have to be faithful to share the good news of Christ. After all, isn&#8217;t that what Christmas is really all about?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Translation work:<\/strong><\/span> Lance has been rechecking all the Old Testament books that are considered finished by the consultant. He\u2019s looking for anything that he thinks needs attention. He finished Genesis through Leviticus last year and in January he began in the book of Numbers and now he\u2019s working on Isaiah. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please pray for wisdom.<\/span><br>&nbsp;<br><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Typhoon: <\/strong><\/span>The Philippines was hit by a super typhoon December 14. Thankfully it did not hit our village but did cause much destruction and death in the country. Please pray for our aviation team as they are delivering relief to hard hit areas. Thousands have lost homes and have little food and drinking water. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thank you for praying.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A big <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>thank you<\/strong><\/span> to each of you who partner with us in prayer and finances allowing us to do the work God has given us to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secure in Christ&#8217;s love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lance &amp; Laura<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2021\/11\/15\/so-much-for-which-to-be-thankful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here to read our previous update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas: From our house to yours, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. In this atmosphere of fear that many are experiencing these days, God has appointed each of us to be His light bearers to dispel fear and to \u201cDeclare His glory among the nations, His wonders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":3496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,3621,143],"tags":[133474,115203,238,753,49246,61839,1623,133263,133771,383,115205,61841,61836,6244],"class_list":{"0":"post-3495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"category-ministry","9":"category-news-article","10":"category-prayer-request","11":"tag-1chron-1624","12":"tag-declare-his-glory","13":"tag-fear","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-happy-new-year","16":"tag-higaunon","17":"tag-isaiah","18":"tag-merry","19":"tag-odette","20":"tag-partnership","21":"tag-rei","22":"tag-translation","23":"tag-travel","24":"tag-typhoon","25":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}