{"id":1892,"date":"2025-12-25T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:21:43","slug":"when-god-became-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"When God Became Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John 1:14<br>\u201cAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When God became man, heaven stepped into earth. The eternal Word did not send a message\u2014He became the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus Christ is God clothed in humanity, walking our streets, feeling our pain, and carrying our burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God became man not to impress us, but to redeem us. He took our weakness so He could give us His strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He entered time so He could rescue us to enter into eternity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Jesus, divinity touched humanity, and hope was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Incarnation tells us this truth: God is not distant. He is Emmanuel\u2014God with us. He understands temptation, suffering, rejection, and sorrow, yet without sin. That is why He is able to save completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because God became man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can know God personally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sin has been defeated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humanity has been restored and Destiny has been reopened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Takeaway:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If God became man for you, then your life is never ordinary again. This is the essence of Christmas and beyond\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prophetic Declaration:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I declare that because Christ entered humanity, I walk in divine purpose, restored identity, and eternal hope. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\">Rev. Timothy Afful<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 1:14\u201cAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.\u201d When God became man, heaven stepped into earth. The eternal Word did not send a message\u2014He became the message. Jesus Christ is God clothed in humanity, walking our streets, feeling our pain, and carrying our burden. God became man not to impress us, but to redeem us. He took our weakness so He could give us His strength. He entered time so He could rescue us to enter into eternity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makaya-makaya","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}