{"id":8455,"date":"2025-12-21T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:01:41","slug":"gods-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8455","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">&#8220;But the angel reassured him, \u201cDon\u2019t fear, Zachariah. Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You\u2019re going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you\u2014many will delight in his birth. He\u2019ll achieve great stature with God. \u201cHe\u2019ll drink neither wine nor beer. He\u2019ll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother\u2019s womb. He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God. He will herald God\u2019s arrival in the style and strength of Elijah, soften the hearts of parents to children, and kindle devout understanding among hardened skeptics\u2014he\u2019ll get the people ready for God.\u201d Zachariah said to the angel, \u201cDo you expect me to believe this? I\u2019m an old man and my wife is an old woman.\u201d But the angel said, \u201cI am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news. But because you won\u2019t believe me, you\u2019ll be unable to say a word until the day of your son\u2019s birth. Every word I\u2019ve spoken to you will come true on time\u2014God\u2019s time.\u201d LUKE 1:13-20 (The Message)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But the angel reassured him, \u201cDon\u2019t fear, Zachariah. Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You\u2019re going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you\u2014many will delight in his birth. He\u2019ll achieve great stature with God. \u201cHe\u2019ll drink neither wine nor beer. He\u2019ll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother\u2019s womb. He will turn many sons and daughters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8455\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}