{"id":2714,"date":"2021-12-23T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:32:50","slug":"we-still-praise-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2021\/12\/23\/we-still-praise-god\/","title":{"rendered":"We still praise God . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the midst of such a disaster that took place last Friday by typhoon Odette (Rei), a believer in our village just wrote these words, \u201cWe still praise God no matter what happened.\u201d\u00a0 Totally amazing, don\u2019t you think so?\u00a0 Another believer wrote us and said, \u201cWe are not weak but strong . . . we give thanks to the everlasting God.\u201d \u00a0This last statement is from a believer who lost her home and probably most of her earthly belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The church building was a place of refuge for many during the storm.\u00a0 And now it is a place of shelter for several families in the village who lost their homes, both believers and unbelievers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheltered in the church<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the church, there are banners that survived the storm.\u00a0 On one banner is the verse John 20:31, \u201cBut these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.\u201d\u00a0 On another banner is 1 Timothy 2:5, \u201cFor there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 May those who sleep under these banners not just read these words, but truly see their need for Jesus as their Savior.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under the banners at the church<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Please continue to pray for those in the village and those throughout the Philippines who are still struggling.\u00a0 We hear that clean-up and restoring of power will take up to 6 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the midst of such a disaster that took place last Friday by typhoon Odette (Rei), a believer in our village just wrote these words, \u201cWe still praise God no matter what happened.\u201d\u00a0 Totally amazing, don\u2019t you think so?\u00a0 Another believer wrote us and said, \u201cWe are not weak but strong . . . we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":2715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}