{"id":1290,"date":"2004-05-04T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2004-05-04T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T07:05:16","slug":"present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Present and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Father&#8217;s world. That is that we&#8217;re here to preserve and take care. And that&#8217;s man&#8217;s destiny. We&#8217;re created as king to rule.<br \/>\nSo Pastor Chris&#8217; sermon on Jesus wept over Lazarus.<\/p>\n<p>He wept because man is destined to live, and not die.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the cruel reality of sin and death that He conquered on the Cross.<\/p>\n<p>And so that, we will reign with Him in His kingdom.<br \/>\nHow i long, so long, that one day His kingdom will be my kingdom.<br \/>\nI long for that day Lord, where the kingdom of our God becomes our kingdom, and we reign together with Him forever and ever.<br \/>\nNo more death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Father&#8217;s world. That is that we&#8217;re here to preserve and take care. And that&#8217;s man&#8217;s destiny. We&#8217;re created as king to rule. So Pastor Chris&#8217; sermon on Jesus wept over Lazarus. He wept because man is destined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/present-and-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35],"tags":[145,156,218],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","category-life","tag-death","tag-eternity","tag-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/thought-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":0},"title":"Thought of the day","author":"clay","date":"March 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, we look at one location, and it brought not small sadness to our hearts. 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