{"id":9319,"date":"2021-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/sermon-reflection-jesus-a-better-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:56:23","slug":"sermon-reflection-jesus-a-better-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/sermon-reflection-jesus-a-better-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Reflection &#8211; Jesus: A Better Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Posted by Michelle Chuah \u2022 Sep 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_10 vc_sep_border_width_5 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_custom_1653980010483\" ><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l\"><span  style=\"border-color:#b11f24;\" class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r\"><span  style=\"border-color:#b11f24;\" class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming from a large extended family of believers and pre believers, I have had bad experiences with &ldquo;Christians&rdquo; as a young child. This was further reaffirmed through my mum who was a pre-believer but later in life came to admit that Christians are kind people.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, on the other hand, had come to discover the Truth of Life when I was having challenges in my adult life as I left home to work and stayed on my own. Christian colleagues where I started work had been kind and helpful to a young and inexperienced young woman. The saying that troubles come like a torrent was surely true at that time. I met Christians who truly practised the love of Jesus during these times and one even gave me a Gideons New Testament, which enabled me to turn to the Word as a guide when faced with challenges. The Word gave me peace as I faced and overcame the challenges.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I entered into marriage I faced another challenge with my spouse as he had lost his job when we were preparing for our wedding. This was during the economic downturn of the early 1980s. But I thank Jesus that as I continued to focus on Him and seek Him through prayer, He led us to a CG which was starting a study on the book&nbsp; &lsquo;Lord Change Me&rsquo; and we were truly blessed by it. We learn to accept each other for who we are and I also learn to accept the ways of my in-laws as we were staying with them. I learn to trust the Lord instead of trying to do things my way. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I must say that at present I face the challenge of patience and perseverance working from home as work sometimes becomes a distraction from God. Yet I seek Him for forgiveness whenever I fall short of spending time with Him. Truly I can say that I have learned to surrender our financial needs and also challenges we face such as health issues of my spouse and children into His hands. Each day I come to His Sanctuary through my quiet time as He leads me one day at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a large extended family of believers and pre believers, I have had bad experiences with &ldquo;Christians&rdquo; as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}