{"id":20030,"date":"2020-11-03T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=20030"},"modified":"2020-11-01T00:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:33:34","slug":"sincerely-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2020\/11\/03\/sincerely-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerely Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20030-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-3.mp3\">http:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/November-3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians+6%3A2&amp;version=TLB\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gal.6:<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (TLB) \u201cShare each other\u2019s troubles and problems, and so obey our Lord\u2019s command.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/406\/jas.5.16\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James 5:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ERV)<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cSo always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.\u201d<\/span><\/i> <!--more-->Permit me to paraphrase this scripture to read, \u201cSo always tell (the Godly people you do life with about your struggles). <i>Then pray for each other.<\/i> <i>Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.\u201d<\/i> How can your response to the question, \u2018how are you\u2019, be \u2018I am fine\u2019 when you are in fact hurting?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make up your mind, to be honest, and vulnerable to the people you do life with. I am not saying you should tell everyone you meet that you are hurting. The emphasis is on the people you do life with. Can we for once hear a response like, \u2018I am hurting, and I need someone to talk to&#8217;? Do I get an Amen? Instead of, \u2018how are you?&#8217; and the response is, \u2018All is well!&#8217; Master Christianesse. People can see that things are really bad, but your response is still, \u2018All shall be well&#8217;. That is the foundation of hypocrisy. When a husband can lie to his wife that all will be well when all is not well. I am not talking about faith here. This is different and I am sure you get what I am saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might stay in depression alone, you might sit in depression alone, but you are not designed to make it through depression alone. You are not! And that kind of vulnerability is critical to healing. From the story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/1SA.1.1-18\">1 Sam.1:1-18<\/a>, there were two people Hannah opened up to. These two people are symbolic of the two kinds of people you must open up to if you want to be healed of depression. The two people Hannah opened up to were Elkanah (her husband) and Eli (the man of God).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/105\/1sa.1.8\"> 1 Sam.1:<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NCV) \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her husband Elkanah would say to her, \u2018Hannah, why are you crying and why won\u2019t you eat?\u00a0 Why are you sad?\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t I mean more to you than ten sons<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u201d (emphasis added)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not think Elkanah was trying to ridicule Hannah or to make light of what she was going through. I know every woman would say, give me a son first or perhaps ten. Yet, Elkanah was not playing with Hannah&#8217;s emotions. What I think he meant was, \u2018Hannah, I love you. Even if God does not give us a child, I will still love you. It does not matter whether you have a son or ten sons.&#8217; I pray for every single lady reading this, that you marry someone that will love you regardless and you will be fruitful, in the Mighty Name of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Holy Spirit, I ask for the courage to be vulnerable to God-chosen people I do life with about my struggles and find healing and support, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gal.6:2 (TLB) \u201cShare each other\u2019s troubles and problems, and so obey our Lord\u2019s command.\u201d James 5:16 (ERV) \u201cSo always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,146,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acknowledge-god","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20227,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions\/20227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}