{"id":105,"date":"2012-12-09T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mihelichs.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-01-03T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:12:10","slug":"fearless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Fearless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often allow those times to\u00a0go by rather than\u00a0seizing upon them\u00a0when we have an opportunity to share our faith.\u00a0 We get nervous that we will be rejected, or worse yet, we may get asked questions we don&#8217;t have an answer to.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we fear something so petty?\u00a0 The worst thing that will happen is that we get rejected, or we have to tell someone that they have a great question, and we need to research that and get back to them.\u00a0 Is that so bad that we would rather preserve our &#8220;pride&#8221; in front of someone rather than serve and obey the God of the Universe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>We fear people more than we fear God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has been bothering me a lot lately, and I am realizing that where God is concerned, I need to be fearless in my willingness to share my faith and no longer be afraid of what someone may think.\u00a0 When I am alone at home thinking about this, I often think that I don&#8217;t care what other people think, so why when I&#8217;m in the moment do I choke?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m praying daily to God that He will help me to be &#8220;Fearless&#8221; as I go through life and become a substantial influence for Him.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pray for those of you who read this too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often allow those times to\u00a0go by rather than\u00a0seizing upon them\u00a0when we have an opportunity to share our faith.\u00a0 We get nervous that we will be rejected, or worse yet, we may get asked questions we don&#8217;t have an answer to. Why do we fear something so petty?\u00a0 The worst thing that will happen is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fearless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mihelichs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}