{"id":324,"date":"2015-12-22T04:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2015-12-22T04:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:21:57","slug":"poem-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Poem #40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced this most poignantly during my college years.  I discovered firsthand that without regular fellowship, a Christian will inevitably tire and wither.<\/p>\n<p>The Importance of Fellowship (#40)<\/p>\n<p>Oh God, You know all things, there is nothing You do not know.<br \/>\nYou created me-made my flesh and bone; please tell me-why do I feel so alone?<br \/>\nI try to follow You, but continually fail; it\u2019s impossible to be a Christian solo.<br \/>\nI need You first in my life, but You also tell me that I need fellow believers to know.<br \/>\nThere is great wisdom in fellowship-in sharing my burdens in life.<br \/>\nIt also gives me a chance to recuperate from the world\u2019s hectic lifestyle and strife.<br \/>\nBesides these reasons, it helps to build me up, and refresh my faith in the Lord.<br \/>\n\u201cAs iron sharpens iron\u201d the Word describes it: a chance to sharpen my spiritual sword.<br \/>\nSo guide my steps, O Lord Jesus Christ, to a group of Your followers true.<br \/>\nI pray that You would work through them upon my soul, and make me more like You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I experienced this most poignantly during my college years. I discovered firsthand that without regular fellowship, a Christian will inevitably tire and wither. The Importance of Fellowship (#40) Oh God, You know all things, there is nothing You do not know. You created me-made my flesh and bone; please tell me-why do I feel so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem #40<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5w0VP-5e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}