{"id":1116,"date":"2018-02-17T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:00:44","slug":"have-you-lost-your-first-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Have you lost your first love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the book of Revelation 2 v 4, the Lord had a message for the church in Ephesus :<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Yet, I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question to us as believers now is this &#8211; Have we lost \u00a0our first love ? Below are some of the signs\u00a0that may help us realize that we have possibly lost our first love :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you still think about HIM?<\/li>\n<li>Do you still talk about HIM?<\/li>\n<li>Have you stopped praying ?<\/li>\n<li>Do you go on for days without studying HIS word?<\/li>\n<li>Is your worship dry?<\/li>\n<li>Do you worry more about physical things than spiritual things?<\/li>\n<li>Do you\u00a0measure Christianity by performance rather than by heart condition?<\/li>\n<li>Do you enjoy secular music over Christian songs that edify?<\/li>\n<li>Desensitized against sin?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the book of Revelation 2 v 4, the Lord had a message for the church in Ephesus : &#8220;Yet, I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first&#8221;. So, the question to us as believers now is this &#8211; Have we lost \u00a0our first love ? Below are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcovenantchurch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}