{"id":581,"date":"2008-09-30T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T06:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-09-04T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:41:03","slug":"the-spirit-of-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6But ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em>(Romans 8:15).<\/p>\n<p>I have talked with people who have been adopted. They feel very special because someone chose them to live in their family. They have the same rights and privileges as if they were naturally born into that family. In a sense, this is a picture of us when we are born into the family of God. By the grace of God, we \u00e2\u20ac\u0153have received the Spirit of adoption.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We can have a close family relationship with God by this adoption. Just like an earthly adoption, the adopted one shares in any inheritance as well. Someday we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153joint-heirs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Jesus. Until Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s return we have been given the privilege to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cry Abba, Father.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Some commentaries translate this phrase as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Daddy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We would never think of calling Him that but isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it wonderful to know we can have that close of a relationship?<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong> Take time to reflect on September\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s TWG study. Have you felt the Holy Spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6But ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Romans 8:15). I have talked with people who have been adopted. They feel very special because someone chose them to live in their family. They have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=581\">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-581","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\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}