{"id":59052,"date":"2022-07-31T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59052"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:06:04","slug":"let-there-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59052","title":{"rendered":"Let there light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our world and times appear to be engulfed in darkness, thick darkness &#8211; hardships, violence, wars, confusion and uncertainty. The end result is anxiety, fear and hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s answer and solution to a dark, formless, turbulent world has always been light. &#8220;Now the earth was formless and empty,\u00a0darkness was over the surface of the deep&#8230; And God said,\u00a0\u201cLet there be light,\u201d and there was light&#8221; (Gen. 1:2-3)<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s light in our world today is encapsulated in the life and ministry of His people &#8211; the Church. His plan and desire is that wherever His people and Church go, they will be &#8220;a burning and shining lamp&#8221; (John 5:35)<\/p>\n<p>Darkness reigns where and when light is absent or fails to shine. Let us arise and shine and defeat this crippling darkness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9\u00a0 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our world and times appear to be engulfed in darkness, thick darkness &#8211; hardships, violence, wars, confusion and uncertainty. The end result is anxiety, fear and hopelessness. God&#8217;s answer and solution to a dark, formless, turbulent world has always been light. &#8220;Now the earth was formless and empty,\u00a0darkness was over the surface of the deep&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59052","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=59052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}