{"id":505,"date":"2022-12-19T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:20:55","slug":"there-is-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There is God\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do you like to collect Bible promises for challenging times? When your collection seems inadequate, do you add to it, thinking, \u2018I just haven\u2019t found the right promise yet\u2019? Claiming the promise without understanding the all-sufficiency of the Promiser can disappoint you. Since there is no lack in God, He is all you need. And He is all you will ever need! The Bible says, He can do \u2018immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine\u2019 (Ephesians 3:20 NIV). Seeking relief during a difficult time in life, author Hannah Whitall Smith visited a respected Bible teacher, hoping to find an answer. After listening attentively, the teacher told her, \u2018Yes, all you say may be very true, but then, in spite of it all, there is God.\u2019 Frustrated, Hannah responded, \u2018Surely you did not understand how very serious\u2026my difficulties are.\u2019 \u2018Oh yes, I did, but then, as I tell you, there is God.\u2019 Several disappointing visits later, after hearing the same response, \u2018There is God,\u2019 the light dawned. She realised she had received the answer she needed; God alone was enough for all her needs! She writes: \u2018The all-sufficiency of God ought to be\u2026[to us], as the all-sufficiency of a good mother is to [her] child\u2026[Her] presence and\u2026love\u2026make all fears\u2026disappear. [She doesn\u2019t need] to make any promises and\u2026explanations, [she alone] is all that the child needs.\u2019 All God\u2019s blessings come in one package \u2013 Himself! Paul reminds you,<em> \u2018Everything belongs to you, [because] you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God<\/em>\u2019 (1 Corinthians 3:22-23 CEV). You will get what you need because you are His redeemed child.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God is for us, who can be against us? Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son\u2014will he not also freely give us all things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-church","category-word-for-today"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}