{"id":8,"date":"2004-09-20T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T04:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=9"},"modified":"2004-09-20T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T04:47:21","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY&#8230; I choose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I choose to not give in to fear, to not allow it to paralyze me.<br \/>\nI choose to stand.<br \/>\nI choose to fight the good fight.<br \/>\nI choose to believe the Truth and not succumb to the lies.<br \/>\nI choose to believe, even though my emotions do not believe.<br \/>\nI choose to believe, even though my reason does not believe.<br \/>\nI choose to walk by my faith and not by my sight.<\/p>\n<p>No more excuses for me! I know the Truth, but I must choose to walk in it, every day. Too easily I have allowed lies to rule my life. No more! I choose to base my life on what God&#8217;s word says. Not on my past experience, not on what makes sense to me, not on what is comfortable for me. I am a new creation in Christ and I must choose to believe that it is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY&#8230; I choose&#8230; I choose to not give in to fear, to not allow it to paralyze me. I choose to stand. I choose to [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=8\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}