{"id":17354,"date":"2025-09-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=17354"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:12","slug":"who-are-we-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/who-are-we-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we waiting for?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JWAG6_Vq83K5MJvjFZSZk7mR38jEmkSm\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h4><b>Read<\/b>:<\/h4>\n<p>Psalm 40<\/p>\n<h4><b>Prayer<\/b>:<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Psalm 45:1-2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cI waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord, teach us to wait patiently for you and hear our cry. Lord, in the midst of challenges and difficulties, we ask for you to be present with us &amp; for us to experience your glorious presence. Thank you that you are unchanging. Amen.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Diving Deeper:<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>How can we live closer WITH God in our lives?<\/p>\n<p>How are we being TRANSFORMED to be more like Christ?<\/p>\n<p>How is the Holy Spirit empowering us to imitate Christ in what we DO this week?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 40:1-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[55],"ctc_sermon_series":[587],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[552],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17354\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=17354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}