{"id":7155,"date":"2020-12-14T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T21:00:06","slug":"the-christ-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christ Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If we\u2019re truly honest one of the ways that we can approach words of knowledge and personal prophecy is to just sit back, relax and let the magic happen. Ps Lyall Carter reminds us that prophecy has T + C\u2019s attached, that there\u2019s a few added clauses.<\/p>\n<p>We are going to see that prophecy is not a kind of magic, that personal prophecy is practical, painful but joyous and that it\u2019s out of our control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>CLICK BELOW TO WATCH SUNDAY&#8217;S MESSAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube fusion-aligncenter\" style=\"--awb-max-width:880px;--awb-max-height:520px;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:59.09%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03vK319fais?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"880\" height=\"520\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>LISTEN VIA AUDIO HERE<\/b><\/p>\n<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17175587\/height\/60\/width\/780\/theme\/standard\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/no\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/forward\/\" height=\"60\" width=\"100%\" placement=\"bottom\" theme=\"standard\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"podcast-class\" frameborder=\"0\" libsyn_item_id=\"0\" custom_color=\"75942D\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we\u2019re truly honest one of the ways that we can approach words of knowledge and personal prophecy is to just sit back, relax and let the magic happen. Ps Lyall Carter reminds us that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":6822362,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"none","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"no","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"2018-07-17 20:39:21","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"false","libsyn-new-media-media":"http:\/\/libsyn-upload-22776689","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"[]","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If we\u2019re truly honest one of the ways that we can approach words of knowledge and personal prophecy is to just sit back, relax and let the magic happen. Ps Lyall Carter reminds us that [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter Morton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Peter Morton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Peter Morton\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/739d40bfe1557b85219b40841f4d0ffb\"},\"headline\":\"The Christ Claus\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Pakuranga Sunday Message\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\",\"name\":\"The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Christ Claus\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/\",\"name\":\"The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ\",\"description\":\"We&#039;re a church in East Auckland, NZ, that loves God, and loves people \u2014 and we believe that with God ALL THINGS are possible! We&#039;d love to see you at one of our Sunday services.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The River Christian Church\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RIVER-LOGOx1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RIVER-LOGOx1.png\",\"width\":224,\"height\":129,\"caption\":\"The River Christian Church\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/739d40bfe1557b85219b40841f4d0ffb\",\"name\":\"Peter Morton\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65552aa1e5d039d793b862c6dbac3f8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65552aa1e5d039d793b862c6dbac3f8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Peter Morton\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/author\/peterm\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ","og_description":"If we\u2019re truly honest one of the ways that we can approach words of knowledge and personal prophecy is to just sit back, relax and let the magic happen. Ps Lyall Carter reminds us that [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/","og_site_name":"The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ","article_published_time":"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Peter Morton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Peter Morton","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/"},"author":{"name":"Peter Morton","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/739d40bfe1557b85219b40841f4d0ffb"},"headline":"The Christ Claus","datePublished":"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/"},"wordCount":170,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png","articleSection":["Pakuranga Sunday Message"],"inLanguage":"en-NZ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/","url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/","name":"The Christ Claus - The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png","datePublished":"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-13T21:00:06+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-NZ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-NZ","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Come-Up-Here-v2-1.png","width":1920,"height":1080},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/the-christ-claus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Christ Claus"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#website","url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/","name":"The River Church | Church in East Auckland, NZ","description":"We&#039;re a church in East Auckland, NZ, that loves God, and loves people \u2014 and we believe that with God ALL THINGS are possible! We&#039;d love to see you at one of our Sunday services.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-NZ"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#organization","name":"The River Christian Church","url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-NZ","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RIVER-LOGOx1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RIVER-LOGOx1.png","width":224,"height":129,"caption":"The River Christian Church"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/739d40bfe1557b85219b40841f4d0ffb","name":"Peter Morton","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-NZ","@id":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65552aa1e5d039d793b862c6dbac3f8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/65552aa1e5d039d793b862c6dbac3f8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Peter Morton"},"url":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/author\/peterm\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriver.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}