{"id":4019,"date":"2019-10-03T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:21:27","slug":"reader-storyits-like-im-sitting-across-the-kitchen-table-from-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2019\/10\/03\/reader-storyits-like-im-sitting-across-the-kitchen-table-from-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Story:&#8221;It&#8217;s Like I&#8217;m Sitting Across the Kitchen Table from Jesus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>What joy to hear how the NLT is bringing people closer to Jesus. So close it&#8217;s like they&#8217;re sitting across the table from him. Read these thoughts from our friend Virgie as she shares what the NLT means to her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the NLT! It was introduced to me back in 2010 when I recommitted my life back to Christ. I had been a fallen believer for almost 20 years, before I started hearing the voice of the Lord profoundly whispering in my ear, that it was time to turn back to my first Love, Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, I had fallen so hard I didn&#8217;t think I was worthy of His unconditional love, grace and mercy but He profoundly showed me one morning in the book of Psalms 147:3, &#8220;He heals the broken-hearted and bandages their wounds.&#8221; NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took this scripture and ran with it, holding it like a baton, everything that was broken inside me had been healed and He still binds up my wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NLT speaks to me, like I&#8217;m sitting across the kitchen table from Jesus, I love the NLT.<br>&#8211; Virgie C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What joy to hear how the NLT is bringing people closer to Jesus. So close it&#8217;s like they&#8217;re sitting across the table from him. Read these thoughts from our friend Virgie as she shares what the NLT means to her. I love the NLT! It was introduced to me back in 2010 when I recommitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- LIVE: wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt//wp-json/wp/v2/posts/4019 -->