{"id":2579,"date":"2010-12-27T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:10:29","slug":"anticipate-his-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Anticipate His Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cLooking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;\u00a0 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a\u00a0 peculiar people, zealous of good works\u201d\u00a0 (Titus 2:13-14).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the last week of our study let&#8217;s draw some comparisons between Anna and us today.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way of allowing this \u201chidden jewel\u201d to continue to shine.<\/p>\n<p>Anna had such a longing for the first coming of Christ. She served Christ until the day she saw Him face to face.\u00a0 Jesus will come a second time to bring His children home.\u00a0 Do you anticipate His return as much or more than Anna did when He first came to earth? How eager are you to see Him face to face? Are you willing to serve Him until He comes? If you answered \u201cyes\u201d to the above questions, then you can relate to Anna.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray that God would give Shannon Little opportunities to effectively share God&#8217;s work in Japan during her stateside assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLooking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;\u00a0 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a\u00a0 peculiar people, zealous of good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}