{"id":29698,"date":"2011-03-07T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:24:46","slug":"alive-word-almost-persuaded-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/alive-word\/alive-word-almost-persuaded-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ALIVE WORD: Almost persuaded (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29699\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29699\" title=\"pastors\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pastors1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pastors1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pastors1-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ministers Wilbert and Jacqueline Richardson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuades me to be a Christian.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Acts 26:28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I sought the Lord for a Word for today, I received the words of Acts 26:28: \u201c\u2026almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This  devotional today is mainly for non-Christians, but many Christians are  also falling in this category. They\u2019re at a point of turning their backs  on God, and they\u2019re almost persuaded that the Christian life is not  worth living.<\/p>\n<p>God has created within each all us a desire that can only be filled by Him.<\/p>\n<p>Because  of sin and human desires, there is always this need for people to be  satisfied. People try all sorts of things to try and fill this void.  Some try illicit sex, some try drugs, some try money, some try worldly  lusts. The truth is, only Jesus can satisfy the longing that\u2019s in our  souls. We were made and we were created to serve the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>No  matter who you are today and no matter where you are today, Jesus Christ  loves you and He died that you might have everlasting life. God is a  merciful God, and although you may not have given your heart to the Lord  as yet, I know that you can look at many situations in your life and  know that it\u2019s just the mercy and grace of God that you\u2019re still alive.<\/p>\n<p>God  is merciful. God has been good to you. Reflect today on the goodness of  the Lord. If it had not been for the Lord, who is on your side, where  would you have been today? You could have died and gone to hell, but God  is merciful. He intervened and when the devil was about to destroy you,  God stopped him and allowed you to live. You might be alive today  because of the prayers of many friends and loved ones. Right now, it may  not seem like your life is worth much to you. You may have lost your  hopes, dreams, and desire to live. It may not seem like it\u2019s even  possible for you to really go on. But there is hope in Jesus Christ.  There is new life in Jesus Christ. You can begin to live again.<\/p>\n<p>The  Spirit of the Lord has really been ministering to you and you have been  thinking about serving the Lord. You have been seriously thinking about  turning your life over to the Lord, but then there\u2019s that element of  doubt. You say to yourself at times, \u201cWhat if I cannot remain a  Christian? People have already given up on me and said I will never  change. What if God feels the same way about me? With a past like mine,  how can Jesus possibly change me? I used to be a Christian and I  backslid. What are people going to think about me now if I try to come  back to God? \u201d<\/p>\n<p>God wants to really minister to you today and to  let you know that there is no better time than now to accept Him into  your heart and life. Today is the day of salvation. The mere fact that  God has allowed you to be reading this devotional is a sign that the  Spirit of the Lord is saying to you that \u201cToday is the day of  salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thing or person that you might be holding onto  that\u2019s preventing you from accepting the Lord is not worth losing your  soul. God is able today to deliver you and to set you free from the  bondage of sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuades me to be a Christian.\u201d &#8211; Acts 26:28 As I sought the Lord for a Word for today, I received the words of Acts 26:28: \u201c\u2026almost thou persuadest me to be a&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alive-word"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ALIVE WORD: Almost persuaded (Part 1) - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/alive-word\/alive-word-almost-persuaded-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ALIVE WORD: Almost persuaded (Part 1) - 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