{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Faith","title":"New Year's Eve // The Invitation // Mark Davies // December 31, 2023","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3513,"description":"The Invitation                                                                                              Matthew 4:1-4 (ESV)“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to hm ‘if you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’ But he answered, It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Deuteronomy 8:1-3 (ESV)“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every wordthat comes from the mouth of the Lord.” Every word that flows for God’s mouth contains life-sustaining power.  Live is the Hebrew word  חָיָה   /  ḥāyâ Meanings:1.     Power to continue to live2.    To be sustained by a word3.    To prosper 4.    To revive from Sickness, Discouragement, Faintheartedness, Death5.    Preserve alive 6.    Create life from nothing - Psalm 119:377.    Cause to grow and multiply, like planted grain8.    Deliver from destruction 9.    Revive with fullness of life in his favor - Psalm 119:2510.  Revive the crushed heart (emotions) and spirit 11.   Restore a ruined city Isaiah 55:1-3 (ESV)“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xe5ZmqsbRK_eg3Aa1aaHkwMagjXYQWPYjJYhv8jTcBI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMDUw/MGUwMDE1NzNlYTc4/ZWM2Y2YzZWJjMjQy/MmQ2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}