{"id":9485,"date":"2024-07-28T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=9485"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:42:20","slug":"does-god-bring-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/sermons\/does-god-bring-good-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God Bring Good Luck?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Too often people see God as a good luck charm. If they are facing a difficult situation they think that they can call on God like calling on a genie in a lamp, to grant their wish to get out of their problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They think that just a little God in their life will grant them good luck and allow them to avoid difficulties in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Pastor Tommy takes a look at the question, Does God Bring Good Luck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Look at these wicked people\u2014enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply. Did I keep my heart pure for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for no reason? I get nothing but trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Psalm 73:12-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper. But what a difficult task it is! Then I went into your sanctuary, O God, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked. &nbsp;Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Psalm 73:16-18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often people see God as a good luck charm. If they are facing a difficult situation they think that they can call on God like calling on a genie in a lamp, to grant their wish to get out of their problems. They think that just a little God in their life will grant them good luck and allow them to avoid difficulties in life. Today Pastor Tommy takes a look at the question, Does God Bring Good Luck? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[83],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9485","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-tommy-sprinkle","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9485\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}