{"id":741,"date":"2026-04-22T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:02:24","slug":"april22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/april22-26\/","title":{"rendered":"April22-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acts 26:29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And Paul said, \u201cI would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.\u201d There was something about Paul that even in his circumstances, he witnessed like no other. Our circumstances should never be the reason we don\u2019t witness to others. These were kings that Paul was brought before because of his witness of who Jesus was. It may have been his chains that made the most impact on king Agrippa in verse 28 as he said, \u201cYou almost persuade me to become a Christian.\u201d Your most powerful witness may be in those circumstances as others look on to see how you handle them. Do they make you stressed or confident? Could you persuade someone to become a Christian while you&#8217;re going through difficult circumstances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 26:29 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And Paul said, \u201cI would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.\u201d There was something about Paul that even in his circumstances, he witnessed like no other. Our circumstances should never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}