{"id":52,"date":"2025-12-09T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/?p=52"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:35:40","slug":"52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/52\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 9."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>As you light your first and second candles of Advent, take time to ponder this verse:<br \/>\n<em>For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: <\/em><em>and the government shall be upon his shoulder:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and his name shall be called <\/em><em>Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.\u00a0 <\/em><em>Isaiah 9:6.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for peace in your life, come to Jesus who is the Prince of Peace, God&#8217;s Son.\u00a0 He will give you His peace, which is so much better than the world can give,<br \/>\nfor He will also be your Wonderful Counselor, a Mighty God who is The Everlasting Father.\u00a0 He will be with you always.\u00a0 Just come to Him and receive His peace.\u00a0 Follow Him,<br \/>\nand He will lead you to green pastures, and still waters in peaceful valleys, where your cup will overflow with His goodness and mercy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He makes me to lie down in green pastures;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He leads me beside the still waters.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He restores my soul;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name\u2019s sake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I will fear no evil; For You are with me;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.<\/em><br \/>\nPsalm 23.<\/p>\n<p>As the Advent candles burn bright and chase the darkness away, ponder upon Jesus who is the Prince of Peace, the Good Shepherd, Emmanuel, God with Us, and so much more.<br \/>\nHe is our Peace and Hope always.<\/p>\n<p>SGLY Ministry. Smile God Loves You Org.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92025\u00a0 SGLY Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince of Peace. As you light your first and second candles of Advent, take time to ponder this verse: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[14,135,60,62,58,63,57,4,56,59,51,52,64,61],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-peace","tag-advent","tag-advent-2025","tag-counselor","tag-emmanuel","tag-everlasting-father","tag-god-with-us","tag-good-shepherd","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-mighty-god","tag-peace","tag-prince-of-peace","tag-psalm-23","tag-wonderful"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PEACE-9-Prince-Isaiah-9.6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}