{"id":1567,"date":"2021-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2021-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:00:00","slug":"have-you-stumbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/have-you-stumbled\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Stumbled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the night before His death, Jesus made this announcement: <i>\u2018All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: \u201cI will strike the Shepherd, and the\u2026 flock will be scattered.\u201d But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a026:31\u201332<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) Think about it! If the disciples who had spent three-and-a-half years walking and talking with Jesus, hearing His messages and seeing His miracles could stumble, then any of us can. <i>\u2018You will all stumble.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>But the promise was lost on Peter. <i>\u2018Even if all are made to stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a026:33<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) This was not one of Peter\u2019s finer moments. <i>\u2018Even if all\u2026\u2019 <\/i> Arrogant. <i>\u2018I will never be made to stumble.\u2019<\/i> Self-sufficient. Peter\u2019s trust was in Peter\u2019s strength. Yet Peter\u2019s strength would peter out. Jesus knew it: <i>\u2018Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.\u2019<\/i> (Luke\u00a022:31\u201332<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>Satan would attack and test Peter. But Satan would never claim him. Why? Because Peter was strong? No\u2014because Jesus was. <i>\u2018I have prayed for you.\u2019<\/i> And here\u2019s a wonderful truth\u2014Jesus prays for you too: <i>\u2018Father, You have given Me Your name; now protect them by the power of Your name\u2026 I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in Me.\u2019<\/i> (John 17:11, 20<sup>\u00a0NLT<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p> Will God answer Christ\u2019s prayer on your behalf? What do <i>you<\/i> think? Of course He will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night before His death, Jesus made this announcement: \u2018All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: \u201cI will strike the Shepherd, and the\u2026 flock will be scattered.\u201d But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.\u2019 (Matthew\u00a026:31\u201332\u00a0NKJV) Think about it! [&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\/1567"}],"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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}