{"id":495,"date":"2008-05-19T21:17:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/19\/a-conversational-walk-with-god-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T01:17:59","slug":"a-conversational-walk-with-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"A Conversational Walk with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intimate, conversational walk with God is available.\u00c2\u00a0 Is normal, even.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, at least, is <em>meant <\/em>to be normal.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m well aware that a majority of people do not enjoy that . . . yet.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is certainly what God desires and what he offers.\u00c2\u00a0 My assumption is based on the nature of God and the nature of man made in his image.\u00c2\u00a0 We are communicators.\u00c2\u00a0 My assumption is also based on the nature of relationship &#8212; it requires communication.\u00c2\u00a0 It is based on the long record of God speaking to his people of various ranks in all sorts of situations.\u00c2\u00a0 And finally, it is based on the teachings of Jesus, who tells us that we hear his voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Eldredge, <em>Walking with God, <\/em>p. 17-18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intimate, conversational walk with God is available.\u00c2\u00a0 Is normal, even.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, at least, is meant to be normal.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m well aware that a majority of people do not enjoy that . . . yet.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is certainly what God desires and what he offers.\u00c2\u00a0 My assumption is based on the nature of God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}