{"id":1277,"date":"2012-02-05T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2014-02-24T01:52:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T06:52:48","slug":"a-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/a-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00197_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1291 alignleft\" title=\"DSC00197_2\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00197_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Ever since Elizabeth and I began praying for a child we knew that our baby was a gift and that she truly belonged to God. \u00a0Our Abbie is in God&#8217;s hands and couldn&#8217;t be in better care!<\/strong><strong>\u00a0On February 5th, \u00a0we publicly dedicated Abigail to God and gave her back to Him.\u00a0<\/strong> We don&#8217;t know what God&#8217;s plan is for Abigail but we trust Him to guide and use her life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s our job, as the parents, to raise her to the best of our ability and let God take control of her life.\u00a0 Maybe someday God will use her on a mission field away from us or call her back to the States!\u00a0 Whatever His will, we have to obey God and let Him guide our daughter.\u00a0 Children certainly are a blessing and we&#8217;re so happy that the Lord gave us our special bundle.\u00a0 It&#8217;s our prayer that Abigail will get saved early in life and love the Lord all her years!\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;For this child I have prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD&#8230;&#8221; I Samuel 1:27-28<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Elizabeth and I began praying for a child we knew that our baby was a gift and that she truly belonged to God. \u00a0Our Abbie is in God&#8217;s hands and couldn&#8217;t be in better care!\u00a0On February 5th, \u00a0we publicly dedicated Abigail to God and gave her back to Him.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know what God&#8217;s plan is for Abigail &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/a-dedication\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}