{"id":342559,"date":"2024-09-19T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=342559"},"modified":"2024-09-25T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:35:47","slug":"night-vigil-in-pajamas-special-time-dedicated-to-seeking-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/night-vigil-in-pajamas-special-time-dedicated-to-seeking-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Night Vigil in Pajamas\u2019\u2014Special Time Dedicated to Seeking the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Monday, September 2nd, at 2 AM ET, Bishop Edir Macedo led another special \u2018Night Vigil in Pajamas\u2019 international broadcast with the aim of people seeking and receiving the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>No One Is Deserving\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the initial message, the Bishop made a point of warning about the tactics used by evil to discourage the sincere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cGod works with the Word of faith, security, and certainty. The devil works with the word of doubt, of fear. Many people are caught between two words: that of God or that of the devil. Understand: the Lord Jesus did not come for those who deserve it; He came for those who do not deserve it. Because if a person thinks they are worthy, they are no longer worthy. God loves those who are fallen, prostrated, excluded from society, those who no one wants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Importance of Repentance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, \u201cHow\u00a0<i>is it<\/i> that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d When Jesus heard it, He said to them, \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mark 2:16-17<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A New Person<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After all the guidance, Bishop Macedo also reinforced that the Holy Spirit desires to dwell within each <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">one<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> of us so that we can become living eyewitnesses of His presence, exuding the good perfume of Christ to everyone around us.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Follow the \u2018Night Vigil in Pajamas\u2019 in Full<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ikvn1GB9_uQ?rel=0;controls=0;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Monday, September 2nd, at 2 AM ET, Bishop Edir Macedo led another special \u2018Night Vigil in Pajamas\u2019 international broadcast with the aim of people seeking and receiving the Holy Spirit. &nbsp; No One Is Deserving\u00a0 In the initial message, the Bishop made a point of warning about the tactics used by evil to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":342561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[6220,6121],"site":[],"class_list":["post-342559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","tag-night-vigil","tag-the-holy-spirit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343403,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342559\/revisions\/343403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342559"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=342559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}