{"id":351587,"date":"2026-06-08T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351587"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:58:54","slug":"to-be-a-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/to-be-a-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be a Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u201d (Acts 1:8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Holy Spirit lives in the righteous and places in their hearts the desire to go out into the world and give back to the lost what they have received from their Lord. He strengthens them with the courage to testify that He is alive and has brought the joy of salvation to all.<\/p>\n<p>The Redeemer calls those who believe in Him to a life of peace and permanent joy in their being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u201d (Acts 1:8) &nbsp; The Holy Spirit lives in the righteous and places in their hearts the desire to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351587","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=351587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351589,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351587\/revisions\/351589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351587"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}