{"id":223,"date":"2015-05-05T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/05\/05\/why-do-we-think-life-is-intended-to-be-easy\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:00:28","slug":"why-do-we-think-life-is-intended-to-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/05\/05\/why-do-we-think-life-is-intended-to-be-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Think Life Is Intended To Be Easy? (Suffering Part 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The western church is programmed for thinking the \u201cEasy<br \/>\nButton\u201d has been pressed when you sign up for Jesus, when by example history<br \/>\nshows this to be false. The man himself was beaten and hung on a cross to die a<br \/>\npainful and humiliating death. That is not the model \u201cProsperity Preachers\u201d<br \/>\nwhen preaching their version of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong MANY life prosperous lives as believers<br \/>\nin Jesus. But our example was Jesus and the disciples with Paul. Think about it<br \/>\none committed suicide, 11 were martyred and one was imprisoned on an island<br \/>\nwhen they failed to kill him. Not a rosy outlook no matter how much you try to<br \/>\ntie in<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+14%3A13&amp;version=VOICE;NIV;ESV;KJV\" target=\"_blank\"> John 14:13<\/a><\/b> it doesn&rsquo;t work the way you think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever you ask in my name, this I<br \/>\nwill do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The PP\u2019s in the world want you to pray for that Porsche<br \/>\nwhile tithing to be in obedience in God. If you don\u2019t get it you MUST have been<br \/>\ndisobedient and therefore need to give more to the PP. It doesn&rsquo;t make sense<br \/>\nwhen you read this and think it opens heavens treasure chest. Why didn&rsquo;t James<br \/>\nor Paul or any of the others keep their lives? I would assume they prayed for<br \/>\nthem in the name of Jesus before losing it. <\/p>\n<p>So when we suffer and go through trials understand that we<br \/>\nare building character and stories for the kingdom. From this we must look at<br \/>\nJ<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James%201%3A2-4&amp;version=VOICE;NIV;ESV;KJV\" target=\"_blank\">ames 1:2-4<\/a><\/b> to understand that we will have joy in the end and therefore stop \u201cbelly<br \/>\naching\u201d over the problems at hand. Have peace and even joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The western church is programmed for thinking the \u201cEasy Button\u201d has been pressed when you sign up for Jesus, when by example history shows this to be false. The man himself was beaten and hung on a cross to die a painful and humiliating death. That is not the model \u201cProsperity Preachers\u201d when preaching their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/05\/05\/why-do-we-think-life-is-intended-to-be-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do We Think Life Is Intended To Be Easy? (Suffering Part 7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}