{"id":7171,"date":"2021-07-30T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2021-07-30T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:33:57","slug":"if-you-love-me-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/if-you-love-me-3\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Love Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>If You Love Me&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Testament Passage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>1 \u201cTherefore you shall love the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always\u2026<\/p><p>13 \u2018And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,\u00a0 14\u00a0then\u00a0I\u00a0will give\u00a0you\u00a0the rain for your land in its season,\u00a0the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.\u00a0 15\u00a0And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may\u00a0eat and be filled.\u2019<\/p><cite>Deuteronomy 11:1, 13-15<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quote<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt is good to say that you love God, but your love for Him appears in your labour for His sake, and He will reward you for your love and labour\u201d <\/p><cite>H.H. Pope Shenouda III<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1. How can we love the Lord and serve Him with all our heart and soul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. If we do love Him and serve Him, the Lord promises \u2018rain for our land in season\u2019 and \u2018grain, new wine and oil\u2019. What do these rewards mean to us? How can we claim His promises? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Love Me&#8230; Old Testament Passage 1 \u201cTherefore you shall love the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always\u2026 13 \u2018And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God and serve Him with all your heart and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/if-you-love-me-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If You Love Me&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}