{"id":3785,"date":"2023-12-11T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2023-12-11T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T22:08:19","slug":"merry-christmas-from-the-ostmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2023\/12\/11\/merry-christmas-from-the-ostmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from the Ostmans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans15:13 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Peace is the word God was impressing on my heart and mind the other day. I was feeling stressed, and it was as clear to me as if HE spoke audibly. I need to keep my focus on HIM to have His peace, joy, and hope, and to experience the Holy Spirit, regardless of the situation I find myself in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lance and I are thinking of you this Christmas Season. Our wish for you is a most BLESSED INCARNATION DAY – the day we celebrate JESUS coming to this earth to save us from sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet\u2026there are still billions in this world who have no knowledge of the Savior. As advisors for Equip Asia, we are excited to see God raising up laborers for the harvest around the world, not just in Asia! Please join us in praying for workers who will give their lives to reach the yet unreached peoples of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Time is flying by, and we are excited about having our daughter and family come to spend Christmas with us here in Oklahoma, the Lord willing. Then only a couple of weeks after that, we head off once again to the Philippines. Please pray for our time with family and our preparation to leave. As we learned when we went over in 2020 – things can change very quickly in this world of ours. How thankful we are that we know our lives are in God\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for partnering with us to see the Higaunon people have the Scriptures, as well as the role we play in Equip Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of you plays a vital part in our lives and the ministry. We pray for you and if you have something specific that we can pray with you about, please jot us a note so we can add it to our prayers for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secure in Christ alone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lance and Laura<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to read our last blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What my translation assistant shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans15:13 (NKJV) Peace Peace is the word God was impressing on my heart and mind the other day. I was feeling stressed, and it was as clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":3786,"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":[649,133808,61834,133807,1083,1505,1016,95280,240,45,112335,350,61836],"class_list":{"0":"post-3785","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-church-planting","12":"tag-fa","13":"tag-family","14":"tag-incarnation-day","15":"tag-lance-laura","16":"tag-merry-christmas","17":"tag-ostman","18":"tag-peace","19":"tag-philippines","20":"tag-pray","21":"tag-romans-1513","22":"tag-thank-you","23":"tag-travel","24":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","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=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}