{"id":1079,"date":"2017-06-15T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:04:17","slug":"the-dead-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/the-dead-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dead man listened, but how can a dead man\u00a0hear? But there he is walking and talking, but he is in darkness, and blind until\u00a0a tiny light is revealed and he begins to see…<\/h6>\n
Dead ears come alive to words he hears spoken<\/h6>\n
I breathe and sleep and function fully, yet, I am in darkness<\/h6>\n
I do not realize it as being dark; I do not know I\u2019m dead<\/h6>\n
Suddenly<\/h6>\n
My eyes are open and I see a brilliant light<\/h6>\n
Heart pounding<\/h6>\n
Someone speaking, \u201cDo you want to accept\u2026?\u201d<\/h6>\n
My nerves are tingling<\/h6>\n
My senses heightened\u2026 \u201cWhat is this?\u201d<\/h6>\n
I hear the words spoken, \u201cDead in trespasses and sin\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n
Time stands still\u2026and again I hear, \u201cDo you accept Jesus the son of God into your heart?\u201d<\/h6>\n
A tug of war rages within my mind<\/h6>\n
Death and life are fighting<\/h6>\n
Darkness tries to snuff out the light\u2026but the light is too strong\u2026<\/h6>\n
I try to speak, my mouth is dry, then I cry\u2026 \u201cYes! Yes I do!\u201d<\/h6>\n
A gust of wind blows into my dead heart, and instantly God breathes new life into me, and I become a living soul\u2026<\/h6>\n
New Birth~<\/h6>\n
First heartbeat, felt\u2026pulse begins to beat\u2026<\/h6>\n
I burst forth in exuberant joy\u2026all the darkness vanishes and light comes pouring in from all directions\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am no longer dead\u2026I, am, alive!<\/h6>\n
God has redeemed me. Bought me back from the stone cold fingers of death. Bought me back with the blood of His son Jesus\u2026more precious than gold or silver, that blood\u2026<\/h6>\n
His blood poured out on Calvary now\u00a0flows within me and\u00a0I am no longer a\u2026<\/h6>\n
Dead man\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am ALIVE!<\/h6>\n
O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 New Living Translation (NLT)<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
And when my body is laid to rest, I will not be in a cold dark grave, Oh No!<\/h6>\n
I will enter into heavens portals alive, vibrant, singing the song of the redeemed, alive forevermore!<\/h6>\n

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~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 15, 2017<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dead man listened, but how can a dead man\u00a0hear? But there he is walking and talking, but he is in darkness, and blind until\u00a0a tiny light is revealed and he begins to see… Dead ears come alive to words he hears spoken I breathe and sleep and function fully, yet, I am in darkness…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-hp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}