{"id":4017,"date":"2025-10-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:00:58","slug":"stand-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/stand-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Future Hope, part 4. When difficult times hit, we often pray for an escape \u2014 a way out. But God quite often seeks to strengthen us in the battle instead, causing us to rely on him, and not on ourselves.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WCSMr_KL1Pw\n\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2205185515&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/stand-firm-sam-arnold\" title=\"Stand Firm \u2014 Sam Arnold\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Stand Firm \u2014 Sam Arnold<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Hope, part 4. When difficult times hit, we often pray for an escape \u2014 a way out. But God quite often seeks to strengthen us in the battle instead, causing us to rely on him, and not on ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[419],"tags":[161,420,394,80,426,81,402,162,78,95,335,425,424,82,104,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}