{"id":2490,"date":"2020-09-03T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:27:02","slug":"what-we-havent-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"What we haven&#8217;t lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we move into September and yet another month of COVID restrictions and fears, <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/2020\/08\/5-things-we-havent-lost-during-covid-19\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LiveWithFlair+%28Live+with+Flair%29\">this blog from Heather Holleman<\/a> is too good not to pass on. She lists five things that we haven&#8217;t lost due to COVID-19:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Supernatural peace<\/strong>: <em>\u201cNow may the Lord of\u00a0peace\u00a0himself give you\u00a0peace\u00a0at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.\u201d (2 Thessalonians 3.16)<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Love<\/strong>: <em>\u201cGod\u2019s\u00a0love\u00a0has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.\u201d (Romans 5.5)<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: <em>For we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to\u00a0do. (Ephesians 2.10)<\/em><\/li><li><strong>The ability to worship<\/strong>. She cites Romans 12.1: <em>Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship.<\/em> And <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2134\">I have written<\/a> that worship has nothing to do with whether or not we can gather in a church building. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1910\">alternatives<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Growth.\u00a0<\/strong>Heather writes, &#8220;We haven\u2019t lost our ability to learn and grow and mature. We haven\u2019t lost our ability to self-reflect, listen to the Holy Spirit, read the Bible, and pray.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/2020\/08\/5-things-we-havent-lost-during-covid-19\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LiveWithFlair+%28Live+with+Flair%29\">Heather Holleman, August 30, 2020<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith\u2014of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire\u2014may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. (1 Peter 1.6, 7, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1.2 &#8211; 4, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we move into September and yet another month of COVID restrictions and fears, this blog from Heather Holleman is too good not to pass on. She lists five things that we haven&#8217;t lost due to COVID-19: Supernatural peace: \u201cNow may the Lord of\u00a0peace\u00a0himself give you\u00a0peace\u00a0at all times and in every way. The Lord be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we haven&#8217;t lost<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Ea","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}