{"id":1540,"date":"2014-05-19T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2014-05-20T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:27:11","slug":"jesus-heals-a-possessed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Heals a Possessed Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #373737;\">In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His life each week. Scrooge isn\u2019t the only one who can\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"Vision Climb\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=55\" target=\"_blank\">make a change for the better<\/a>. I can and you can. Elder Richard G. Scott promised, \u201cThe best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life\u201d (<a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"A Personal Study Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=238\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe Lives! All Glory to His Name!\u201d<\/a>). Please join me and invite your family and friends to join us in keeping Christmas all the year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VbfrS45U-Xs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let\u00a0us\u00a0alone; what have we to do with thee,\u00a0thou\u00a0Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word\u00a0is\u00a0this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/luke\/4.33-37?lang=eng#32\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 4:33-37<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Jesus came to save us from sin and destruction. How does this example of Jesus&#8217;\u00a0power to cast Satan and his influence out of our lives apply to you?<\/li>\n<li>Are there times we push God or Jesus or even our family or friends away and tell them to &#8220;let us alone&#8221;? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click <a title=\"New Testament\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=673\">here<\/a> for additional New Testament posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,24,11,16,25,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-freedom","category-happiness","category-jesus-christ","category-mission","category-new-testament","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}