{"id":3576,"date":"2017-03-13T06:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2017-03-13T06:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:31:59","slug":"holding-firmly-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Holding Firmly to Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cLet us hold firmly to what we believe\u201d (Hebrews 4:14b).<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Money, opportunities, good relationships, hopes for our future \u2013 we have all allowed these things to slip through our fingers. And if we don\u2019t hang on tightly to Truth, if we listen to lies, half-truths, and pander to our doubts, we can lose our hold of it. Some things lost can never be found, but, thank God, His truth is always readily available when we seek it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Holding firmly to what we believe is possible if we review the truth in the Word and make it our daily charge. If we declare Truth over ourselves, we can hold on to it and it to us, and His Truth will always set us free. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Join us in making this declaration today, straight from the organic, God-originated Scripture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins\u201d (Colossians 1:13,14).<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">A Declaration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Thank you, Lord, for rescuing me from darkness and despair. You beamed me out of a very dark place and beamed me into a Kingdom of love and beauty \u2013 the Kingdom of Jesus, your dear Son and my beloved Lord and King! He paid the price for this big change in my life, and he forgave me of the sin that kept me in that place of darkness! Help me today to keep a firm hold of what is true \u2013 that I am loved by you, that you have empowered me to love others in my thoughts, words, and deeds, and that, above all else, I will love you and seek your constant, divine presence in my life. Amen!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet us hold firmly to what we believe\u201d (Hebrews 4:14b). Money, opportunities, good relationships, hopes for our future \u2013 we have all allowed these things to slip through our fingers. And if we don\u2019t hang on tightly to Truth, if we listen to lies, half-truths, and pander to our doubts, we can lose our hold&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,7,4,25,3],"tags":[2014,1590],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-jesus","category-prayer","tag-daily-charge","tag-declarations-of-faith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holding Firmly to Truth<\/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:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holding Firmly to Truth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cLet us hold firmly to what we believe\u201d (Hebrews 4:14b). Money, opportunities, good relationships, hopes for our future \u2013 we have all allowed these things to slip through our fingers. And if we don\u2019t hang on tightly to Truth, if we listen to lies, half-truths, and pander to our doubts, we can lose our hold&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Prayer, Plain and Simple\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-13T10:31:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark and Jill Herringshaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Holding Firmly to Truth","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Holding Firmly to Truth","og_description":"\u201cLet us hold firmly to what we believe\u201d (Hebrews 4:14b). Money, opportunities, good relationships, hopes for our future \u2013 we have all allowed these things to slip through our fingers. And if we don\u2019t hang on tightly to Truth, if we listen to lies, half-truths, and pander to our doubts, we can lose our hold&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html","og_site_name":"Prayer, Plain and Simple","article_published_time":"2017-03-13T10:31:59+00:00","author":"Mark and Jill Herringshaw","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html","name":"Holding Firmly to Truth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-03-13T10:31:59+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-13T10:31:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/#\/schema\/person\/29563cda917dd596f93dba2ff3a7fedf"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2017\/03\/holding-firmly-truth.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Holding Firmly to Truth"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/","name":"Prayer, Plain and Simple","description":"Prayer, Daily Prayer, Simple Prayers, Quick Prayers, Prayer Requests","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/#\/schema\/person\/29563cda917dd596f93dba2ff3a7fedf","name":"Mark and Jill Herringshaw","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/94f\/94fb184ea80985d82e603e3d8dd0056bx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/94f\/94fb184ea80985d82e603e3d8dd0056bx96.jpg","caption":"Mark and Jill Herringshaw"},"description":"Mark and Jill Herringshaw and their four children have been ministering in their local church since 1990. Jill is an accomplished worship leader and recording artist with several CDs in Target stores\u2019 \u201cLifescapes\u201d collection. Mark is the former pastor of the 7,000 member North Heights Lutheran Church. He holds a Ph.D. in leadership from Regent University, is the author of three books and a recognized conference speaker.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/author\/mherringshaw1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}