{"id":56,"date":"2009-06-20T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:44:02","slug":"a-young-pastors-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/06\/a-young-pastors-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Young Pastor&#8217;s Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Young Pastor in Zimbabwe, Africa, later martyred for his faith in Christ<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I<br \/>\nhave the Holy Spirit power. The die has been<br \/>\ncast. I have stepped over the line. The decision<br \/>\nhas been made&#8211;I&#8217;m a disciple of his, I won&#8217;t<br \/>\nlook back, let up, slow down, back away, or be<br \/>\nstill.\u00a0 My past is redeemed, my present makes<br \/>\nsense, my future is secure. I&#8217;m finished and<br \/>\ndone with low living, sight walking, smooth<br \/>\nknees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, worldly<br \/>\ntalking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer need preeminence, prosperity,<br \/>\nposition, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have to be right, first, tops, recognized,<br \/>\npraised, regarded or rewarded. I now live by<br \/>\nfaith, lean in his presence, walk by patience, am<br \/>\nuplifted by prayer, and I labor with power.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8230; Men&#8217;s Devotional Bible, Zondervan, Pg. 1177, 1993 quoted from &#8220;Signature of Jesus&#8221; by Brennan Manning, Multnomah Press, 1992.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[print_link]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Pastor in Zimbabwe, Africa, later martyred for his faith in Christ I&#8217;m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit power. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made&#8211;I&#8217;m a disciple of his, I won&#8217;t look back, let up, slow down, back&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/06\/a-young-pastors-declaration\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,27],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-anonymous","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}