{"id":11373,"date":"2013-04-24T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2013-04-24T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T16:27:28","slug":"girls-with-swords-the-croise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/24\/girls-with-swords-the-croise\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls With Swords: Chapter 5 – “The Croise” (pgs 72-76)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t like math. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand it, and whoever invented the calculator is an awesome person.\u00a0 But I do understand the equation Lisa gave in this chapter. \u00a0I understand what it meant for me, what it means for my children, and what it means for all of us.<\/p>\n

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Moment = Force x Vertical Distance<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can picture standing there…watching His hands being nailed to the Cross; that moment meant so much more than an arm being stretched across a piece of wood, \u201cin a moment the Cross spanned the unfathomable distance between God and humanity, and overcame every<\/span><\/i><\/b> force of hostility.\u201d Every person, place or thing that may stand in our way from becoming who He created us to be was taken care of that day; that\u2019s what that equation means to me. It means that nothing placed in my path will stop what God has planned for me.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ephesians 2:13-16<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.<\/i><\/p>\n

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\"on<\/p>\n

Jesus died on the Cross, so we could be the person He created us to be. \u00a0God gave His only Son so that we could one day fulfill our potential.<\/p>\n

The Cross, out of all the symbols out there, is one that most people recognize.\u00a0\u00a0We were driving to school the other day and my 4 year old little boy said \u201cMom, I know why there are so many crosses around the church.\u201d \u00a0I asked why and he responded by saying\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s because Jesus died on the cross.\u201d\u00a0 From this to an elderly gentleman, kneeling in front of a cross in the hospital chapel, praying for his sick wife…to images of the Cross appearing everywhere when tragedy strikes, the Cross spans the distance. This image is a source of comfort, a defense in our times of trouble, a reassurance that everything will be ok in the end.<\/p>\n

The name of Jesus is one lever that lifts the world<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

– Author Unknown<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The Cross, and what Christ did for us, brings us together.\u00a0\u00a0The Cross, and what Christ did for us, lifts us up above any attack used against us.\u00a0 Christ created the bridge needed between our neighbors and ourselves, between races,\u00a0between genders, between ages, between\u00a0classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cross has the power to unify all who are willing to embrace it. In Christ the far off and wandering come near.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Let’s Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Cross! \u00a0Help us to remember what Your Cross means to us. Your Cross rid us of any hostility that may stand in our way. Your Cross has power that we cannot always see but, standing on Your word, we will walk in faith with our swords held high, knowing that Your Cross, and what Christ did for us on that Cross ensured that we will walk in our full potential. \u00a0In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t like math. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand it, and whoever invented the calculator is an awesome person.\u00a0 But I do understand the equation Lisa gave in this chapter. \u00a0I understand what it meant for me, what it means for my children, and what it means for all of us. Moment = Force x Vertical Distance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":11375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[144,147,2083,2082,218,2087,2322,365,370,379,394,425,1985,436,2081,554,1986,620,723,879,1617,2085,2084,1075,1135],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-choice","tag-choose","tag-christianity","tag-destroy","tag-ephesians-213-16","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-fellowship","tag-friendship","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-girls-with-swords","tag-god","tag-hero","tag-jesus","tag-lisa-bevere","tag-love","tag-online-bible-studies","tag-relationships","tag-satan","tag-steal","tag-target","tag-tonya-ellison","tag-womens-bible-studies","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/on-the-Cross.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-2Xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}