{"id":1431,"date":"2015-05-13T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-gift-is-coming-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4906478\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T07:01:11","slug":"a-gift-is-coming-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4906478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-gift-is-coming-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4906478\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift is Coming http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4906478"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Gift is Coming <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/%3Fp%3D4906478#amp;h=uAQHl1TJz#amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4906478<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/a-gift-is-coming\/#amp;h=6AQFQFrJu#amp;s=1\" title=\"\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQCt_hAdTHh_ZVAz#amp;w=158#amp;h=158#amp;url=http%3A\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/log-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/a-gift-is-coming\/%3Ffb_ref%3DDefault%26fb_source%3Dmessage#amp;h=HAQE5Dw2q#amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Gift is Coming | The Community of Jesus<\/a><br \/>www.communityofjesus.org<br \/>By Melodious Monk Even a brief watching of the nightly news shows a world in need, and inwardly, we are never far from a spiritual battle between our human natures and God\u2019s divine purposes.  Here we are at Ascension, a time when Jesus tried to explain to his closest followers why he had to leave them.  He said, \u201cIf I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you.\u201d  The word Advocate can be derived from the Greek word Parakletos, also phrased as \u201cone called alongside.\u201d Or, as the NIV translates the word, \u201cone who speaks in our defense.\u201d  I forget regularly that Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit, our advocate, to help, to comfort, and to defend us.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gift is Coming http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4906478 A Gift is Coming | The Community of Jesuswww.communityofjesus.orgBy Melodious Monk Even a brief watching of the nightly news shows a world in need, and inwardly, we are never far from a spiritual battle between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-gift-is-coming-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4906478\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}