{"id":1429,"date":"2020-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:34","slug":"be-ready-to-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/be-ready-to-receive\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Ready To Receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible doesn\u2019t tell us how long the lame man in Acts chapter 3 had sat begging at the Temple gate, but it was a daily occurrence. When he saw Peter and John, the odds are he wasn\u2019t expecting anything\u2014it was just another day, trying to survive. Then Peter said, <i>\u2018Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.\u2019<\/i> (Acts\u00a03:6<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) Here\u2019s what happened next: <i>\u2018He, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them\u2014walking, leaping, and praising God.\u2019<\/i> (Acts\u00a03:8<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an important lesson here for you. God has set times for doing certain things. He has a calendar and your name is on it: <i>\u2018For the time to favour her [or him]\u2026 the set time, has come.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a0102:13<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>)  If you\u2019re not spiritually attuned you can miss your \u2018set time\u2019 and forfeit what God has for you. That means you must learn to live in expectation, because God\u2019s blessings are either coming towards you or passing you by. Miracles happen to those who believe in them, ask for them, expect them, and receive them. The enemy will try to keep you so preoccupied, cynical, and hopeless that when God sends the answer you prayed for, you won\u2019t recognise it, reach for it, or receive it. <\/p>\n<p>Jesus said, <i>\u2018Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a016:23\u201324<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) So, be ready to receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible doesn\u2019t tell us how long the lame man in Acts chapter 3 had sat begging at the Temple gate, but it was a daily occurrence. When he saw Peter and John, the odds are he wasn\u2019t expecting anything\u2014it was just another day, trying to survive. Then Peter said, \u2018Silver and gold I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}