{"id":1247,"date":"2020-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/jan24fast\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:29:04","slug":"jan24fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/jan24fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Day Fast: Day 5 Devotional: &quot;Citizens of an Everlasting Kingdom&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truly, truly, we are not citizens of the United States of America; \u201cour citizenship is from heaven\u201d (Philippians 4:20). We are part of Christ\u2019s kingdom; and more than mere citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, we are ambassadors for His Kingdom. Therefore, we do not pray and fast for America as if our destiny is tied to the destiny of our nation. No, our destiny is already determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly, truly, we are not citizens of the United States of America; \u201cour citizenship is from heaven\u201d (Philippians 4:20). We are part of Christ\u2019s kingdom; and more than mere citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, we are ambassadors for His Kingdom. Therefore, we do not pray and fast for America as if our destiny is tied to the destiny of our nation. No, our destiny is already determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,225],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fasting","tag-layout_color_line_orange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}