{"id":9,"date":"2025-12-01T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:05:42","slug":"advent-day-1-hope-is-a-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/advent-day-1-hope-is-a-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent-Day 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOPE is a Promise.<br \/>\nAs you light your first candle of Advent reflect upon this scripture:<br \/>\n<em>Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0Hebrews 10:23.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, God is faithful to His Promises.\u00a0 If He has promised something, you can count on it happening somehow, someway, in His timing.<br \/>\nSo, hold fast, keep the faith, do not doubt, for<em> &#8220;God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em> Numbers 23:19.<\/p>\n<p>As the Advent candle burns bright and chases the darkness away, so let Hope fill your heart today with the knowledge that God is always faithful to His promises.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings in Christ,<br \/>\nSGLY Ministry. Smile God Loves You Org.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92025 SGLY Ministry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOPE is a Promise. As you light your first candle of Advent reflect upon this scripture: Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)\u00a0 \u00a0Hebrews 10:23. Yes, God is faithful to His Promises.\u00a0 If He has promised something, you can count on it happening somehow, someway,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45],"tags":[135,13,11,10,9,7,5,12,4,6,8],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-hope","tag-advent-2025","tag-do-not-waver-or-doubt","tag-faith","tag-god-does-not-lie","tag-god-is-faithful","tag-gods-promises","tag-hebrews-1023","tag-hold-fast-to-your-faith","tag-hope","tag-hope-is-a-promise","tag-numbers-2319"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOPE-1-Promise-Hebrews-10.23.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}