{"id":1876,"date":"2023-01-02T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:09:57","slug":"behold-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Behold The Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lots of things are made better by fire. \u00a0What would a flame broiled Whopper be without fire: yucky! \u00a0What would a hot and gooey s\u2019more sandwich be without a fire crisped marshmallow: disappointing! \u00a0What would a bon fire be without the fire: boring! \u00a0What would a Christian\u2019s life be without the fire of God: yucky, disappointing and boring. \u00a0Isaac, when he was walking with his father Abraham, up to Mount Moriah, said \u201cBehold the fire.\u201d \u00a0They were on their way to offer a sacrifice for God and they needed fire. \u00a0They had the fire. \u00a0Isaac could see the fire. Young adults, can I be very direct with you? \u00a0If you are reading this devotional, it is probably because you go to Bible believing church. \u00a0You probably have a Bible preaching Pastor and Youth Director who care about you. \u00a0You may even be fortunate enough to live in a Christian home where church, the Bible, and the things of God are a regular part of your life. \u00a0So, where\u2019s the fire? The problem may not be with your Pastor, Youth Director, Church or Parents, the problem may be with YOU. \u00a0America\u2019s Christian youth doesn\u2019t need another Christian bookstore, they don\u2019t need another so called Christian \u201crock band for Jesus\u201d, and they don\u2019t need another activity center, or even an all-night rally. \u00a0What they really need is for you, the average Christian teenager, to get serious about being on fire for God. \u00a0I\u2019m not talking about just the preacher boys, or the Pastor\u2019s kids, or the girls who have surrendered their lives to serve the Lord. \u00a0I\u2019m talking to you, the ordinary teenager with parents that go to ordinary jobs and have ordinary lives. \u00a0Your youth group, your peers at school, the teens in your neighborhood need to see you get real about loving God, hating sin, and getting on FIRE for Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pastor Robert Pophal
Rose Park Baptist Church| Holland MI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of things are made better by fire. \u00a0What would a flame broiled Whopper be without fire: yucky! \u00a0What would a hot and gooey s\u2019more sandwich be without a fire crisped marshmallow: disappointing! \u00a0What would a bon fire be without the fire: boring! \u00a0What would a Christian\u2019s life be without the fire of God: yucky, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"0","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_food_recipe":[],"enable_food_recipe":"0","food_recipe_title":"","food_recipe_description":"","food_recipe_serve":"","food_recipe_time":"","food_recipe_prep":"","food_recipe_level":"","food_recipe_keywords":"","food_recipe_category":"","food_recipe_cuisine":"","food_recipe_yield":"","food_recipe_calories":"","enable_print_recipe":"0","ingredient":[{"item":""}],"instruction":"","jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_podcast_option":{"enable_podcast":"0","podcast_duration":"","upload":""},"jnews_podcast_series":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"jnews-series":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth-truth"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Yellow-Black-Modern-Fire-No-More-Day-Album-Cover-1-1024x1024.png","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Yellow-Black-Modern-Fire-No-More-Day-Album-Cover-1-300x300.png","large":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Yellow-Black-Modern-Fire-No-More-Day-Album-Cover-1-1024x1024.png"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"jnews-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjnews-series&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}