{"id":57014,"date":"2022-04-10T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57014"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:26:06","slug":"living-debt-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57014","title":{"rendered":"Living debt-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living debt-fre<\/p>\n<p>Zendie (not her real name), came bursting into my office with her hands up in the air screaming, &#8220;free at last, free at last&#8221;. She had finally had her school loan and car debt paid off by her father. Her joy was palpable, boundless and infectious. What a relief.<\/p>\n<p>Like Zendie, we were all born in debt to sin, and in deficit of God&#8217;s righteousness. &#8220;By the one man&#8217;s (Adam) disobedience the many were made sinners&#8230;&#8221; (Rom. 5:19b). We became prey to Satan and all manner of demonic operations and manipulations. It is a debt we could not pay.<\/p>\n<p>God, in His love and mercy, sent Jesus\u00a0 as\u00a0 the propitiation for our sins (1John 2:2). On the cross He victoriously\u00a0 declared, \u201cIT IS FINISHED\u201d. The word in Greek is &#8216;tetelestai&#8217;, an accounting term that means \u201cpaid in full.\u201d We are now DEBT-FREE AT LAST! That is the message and blessing of EASTER. REJOICE<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living debt-fre Zendie (not her real name), came bursting into my office with her hands up in the air screaming, &#8220;free at last, free at last&#8221;. She had finally had her school loan and car debt paid off by her father. Her joy was palpable, boundless and infectious. What a relief. Like Zendie, we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57014","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\/57014","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=57014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}