{"id":35995,"date":"2023-11-29T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=35995"},"modified":"2023-11-27T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:35:20","slug":"november-29-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2023\/11\/29\/november-29-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"November 29, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-7.27.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-7.27.34-PM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-7.27.34-PM-400x599.png 400w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-7.27.34-PM.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Hope &#8211; Day 3<\/h2>\n<p class=\"Body\">Imagine this: You\u2019re Mary, and an angel comes to you and tells you that you\u2019re going to have a baby (even though you\u2019re a virgin and engaged to be married!)<\/p>\n<p><em>How would you respond?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What is my fianc\u00e9 going to think?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What will his family think?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What about my family?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet, what Mary said to the angel reveals her trust in God and the hope she held in her heart: <i>\u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant, may it be to me as you have said.<\/i>\u201d With these words, we see how interconnected hope and trust truly are. Trust is reliability, a confidence that can be depended on, and we can only truly hope in something or someone when we fully trust. After all, without trust, any <i>hope<\/i> is just a pipe dream. Let us, like Mary, say, \u201cI am the Lord\u2019<span lang=\"FR\">s servant,<\/span>\u201d knowing fully that our hope is not worthless but is built on the truth that God is faithful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Prayer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><i>Father God, You are sovereign, and Your Word never returns to You empty. What You say is always true. I know my hope is not in vain because it is rooted in You \u2013 and You are faithful. Like Mary, I confidently declare: \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant!\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Call to Action<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">Take a moment to reflect. What is something you once hoped for that you have given up on? Perhaps your prayer was never answered, or you think it\u2019s too big for God? Whatever it is, recommit your heart to hope. Remember, nothing is too big for God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-9mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35998,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions\/35998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}