{"id":13527,"date":"2018-11-18T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2018-11-18T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:47:26","slug":"sunday-nugget-of-wisdom-a-new-song-for-a-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13527","title":{"rendered":"Sunday nugget of wisdom: A new song for a new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>At the heart of humanity is a song of the soul<\/strong>&#8230;Music continues to inspire spiritual expression as sound reflects and affects faith and values.&#8221; (Unknown)<br \/>\n<strong>The songs we sing are often a personal reflection of how and what we feel\u00a0<\/strong>about things or people &#8211; even God! Thus our\u00a0 songs are either a prayer, a praise or a lamentation.<br \/>\n<strong>Good songs then must be real and personal<\/strong>\u00a0to us; they should be correct expressions of the\u00a0 echoes of our hearts, not mere rehearsals of tunes, tones and choruses of others.<br \/>\n<strong>As we daily walk with the Lord<\/strong>, and dwell in His word, fresh encounters\u00a0 and revelations of Him should\u00a0 naturally result in new songs\u00a0 that reflect our new experiences of Him.<br \/>\n<strong>One sign of spiritual\u00a0 stagnation and decadence<\/strong>\u00a0is when our hearts are dried of new songs of praise, or just filled with old tunes and sighs of lamentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu &#8220;At the heart of humanity is a song of the soul&#8230;Music continues to inspire spiritual expression as sound reflects and affects faith and values.&#8221; (Unknown) The songs we sing are often a personal reflection of how and what we feel\u00a0about things or people &#8211; even God! Thus our\u00a0 songs are either a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}