{"id":352298,"date":"2026-08-04T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=352298"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:09:35","slug":"sword-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/sword-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Sword of the\u00a0Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>And he said to them, \u2018Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: When I blow the trumpet, I and all who arewith me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, \u201cThe sword of the Lord and of Gideon!\u201d \u2019 (Judges 7:17-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe ancestors assumed faith in the Living God and fought their wars confident that they would be victorious, with the Lord fighting for them. And so they won.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are in that same faith, raising the Sword of the Lord, which is His Word, which assures us that He will act powerfully on our behalf in all our battles. With the strength of the Holy Spirit, we will always be victorious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; And he said to them, \u2018Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: When I blow the trumpet, I and all who arewith me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":352300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[6126,6223,6224],"site":[],"class_list":["post-352298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women","tag-bible","tag-meditation","tag-the-word-of-god"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352298","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=352298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352299,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352298\/revisions\/352299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352298"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=352298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}