{"id":25772,"date":"2015-05-11T00:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25772"},"modified":"2015-05-11T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:19:23","slug":"dying-with-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/11\/dying-with-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"DYING WITH CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, <\/span>
\nbut Christ lives in me. <\/span>
\nThe life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, <\/span>
\nWho loved me and gave Himself for me. <\/span>
\nGalatians 2:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this Scripture I hear Paul telling us that those who have faith in Christ live their lives in intimate relationship with their Lord\u2014both in His death and Resurrection. \u00a0As Christians we have died to the Law as a means of salvation and now live through Christ for God. \u00a0Sin no longer has control over us.<\/p>\n

Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,
\nwhy, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules?
\nColossian 2:20<\/p>\n

As Christ was risen from the dead we also now live with Him in Resurrection life. \u00a0Christ and His Strength lives within us becoming the Source of all life and the center of all our thoughts, our words, and our deeds. \u00a0It is through the Holy Spirit that Christ\u2019s risen life is \u00a0continually communicated to us.<\/p>\n

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
\nColossians 3:3<\/p>\n

Here is a trustworthy saying:
\nIf we died with Him,
\nwe will also live with Him;
\n2 Timothy 2:11<\/p>\n

Our sharing in Christ\u2019s Resurrection is appropriated through faith. \u00a0The confident belief, the love, the devotion, and the loyalty we have in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us (John 3:16).<\/p>\n

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Lord, we thank You, we bless You for Your grace and lovingkindness. \u00a0We bless You because You are a good God, who loved us unconditionally and let Christ die for us Whose death paid the highest price of our sins. \u00a0His death gave us salvation which is the biggest testimony every Christian believer has. \u00a0We thank You for this price\u2014the greatest price ever paid\u2014for mankind. \u00a0We honor You for everything, Lord. \u00a0Help us, Lord, to appreciate this love for us by loving You back, Lord. \u00a0For as we love You, we cannot do anything that You do not want us to do but always we strive to please You. \u00a0We pray for Your grace so that we can be in an intimate relationship with You always and obey Your commands. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":13840,"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":[3020],"tags":[8850,3188,6159,3367,2440,1287,425,566,3174],"class_list":["post-25772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-2-timothy-211","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-colossians-33","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-galatians-220","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-john-316","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6HG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772","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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}