{"id":7103,"date":"2012-12-15T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2012-12-15T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:14:53","slug":"a-heart-broken-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":"A Heart Broken Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Believers Perspective.<\/span> \u00a0Our entire country is reeling from the senseless acts of supreme violence and evil perpetrated on the innocent yesterday in Connecticut.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I would ask everyone to spend significant time on their knees praying for the families that have suffered this horrible loss. \u00a0This is why it is so vital that we seek to reach as many people as possible for Christ. \u00a0What happened yesterday is proof of the sheer evil that exists in this world. \u00a0It is vital that we understand that we are truly in a spiritual war, there are forces of evil and they are getting their way, all to often. \u00a0In the big picture, they are already defeated, but they are still the cause of \u00a0havoc in this world day. \u00a0 I pray that these families will be comforted by those around them, and will feel God’s love though out \u00a0this unbelievably difficult time. \u00a0I am heart broken for these families, \u00a0who have suffered such a great loss.<\/p>\n

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I have no idea what the reason is for the act of hate that happened yesterday. \u00a0I do believe that as more and more people have turned their lives away from God, and become worshipers of self, we open the door to unspeakable acts of selfishness and evil. \u00a0As I travel, I see more and more examples of people who have lost all concern and empathy for their fellow man. \u00a0So many people exhibit behavior, that states in their actions, that as long as they get what they want, others are irrelevant, and invisible. We’ve spent centuries seeking to find ways to “fix” man, and it has all come down to this. \u00a0 I’ve stopped watching TV news because I’m so weary of seeing example after example of how far we have fallen from God’s grace. \u00a0Were it not for God’s love, I would find no comfort in our world today. \u00a0There is no solution in man, we must turn to God.<\/p>\n

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Please pray, please love others with His love, and please ask God to bring healing to our land.<\/p>\n

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a sad,<\/p>\n

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pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Believers Perspective. \u00a0Our entire country is reeling from the senseless acts of supreme violence and evil perpetrated on the innocent yesterday in Connecticut.     I would ask everyone to spend significant time on their knees praying for the families that have suffered this horrible loss. \u00a0This is why it is so vital that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}