{"id":4301,"date":"2020-09-18T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T22:41:16","slug":"devotional-sept-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/2020\/09\/devotional-sept-18-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional &#8211; Sept 18, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We use the phrase 'open door' all the time in our prayers as Christians. Where does that come from? Spend 5 minutes with me - you may find something in common with the little church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Devotional   Sept 18, 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tdnSDO5UtqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Devotional - Sept 18, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Today: Pete Townsend, 'Let My Love Open the Door'. While old Pete probably didn't have this mind, these lyrics would be a good fit for Jesus' encouragement to the fearful church of Philadelphia.<br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxryzVVxFHI&amp;fbclid=IwAR14HwaQJ8VVYj4OyYgVkQA9v_h2sGwg0ZF8e6GrRq9l-Ed-LHf-P0YT6fY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxryzVVxFHI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also: 'Light the Fire Again', Brian Doerkson.A praise song from the '80s, it's one of my favorites because it's one of the rarer contemporary songs that calls for personal repentance: 'Naked and poor, wretched and blind I come\/ Clothe me in white, so I won't be ashamed.' This is based on Jesus' bracing call to the church in Laodecia.<br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d0rthdHtf64&amp;fbclid=IwAR0ScrVI7xzjdRYFwvDE6WGff5D42xf7YL3ZYTbGQaEdajXK3WClfjOt1Jw\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d0rthdHtf64<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use the phrase &#8216;open door&#8217; all the time in our prayers as Christians. Where does that come from? Spend 5 minutes with me &#8211; you may find something in common with the little church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3! Music Today: Pete Townsend, &#8216;Let My Love Open the Door&#8217;. While old Pete probably didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}