{"id":55186,"date":"2018-10-24T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=55186"},"modified":"2018-10-23T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:44:20","slug":"it-is-not-easy-being-a-christian-efia-odo-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/it-is-not-easy-being-a-christian-efia-odo-confesses\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Not Easy Being A Christian \u2013 Efia Odo confesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and TV presenter, Efia Odo talks about her Christian walk. She admitted that she is having a difficult time living as a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>The actress insists in an interview\u00a0on \u2018This Is Gospel\u2019 on Hitz FM that she is a devoted Christian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen I was in my early 20s\u2026I played Sonnie Badu\u2019s \u2018Covenant Keeping God\u2019 in my room after watching a sermon by Juanita Bynum. I started praying\u2026The Holy Spirit took over\u2026I started speaking in tongues. I just heard a voice saying \u2018I am with you\u2019. Nobody touched me\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, she added that her Christian walk has not been easy in today\u2019s world. This is because she constantly battles with sin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2018It was like I was lukewarm. My flesh and spirit were always fighting\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am in love with Him but I am struggling. To live in this world that we live in now and to be a pure Christian, worshipping God in spirit and in truth is not something that is so easy to do\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, Odo stated that her journey began when she was a teenager and also a member of a church choir in New York in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, she desired to discover God on her own so she refused to attend the same Church with her mum before joining the choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and TV presenter, Efia Odo talks about her Christian walk. She admitted that she is having a difficult time living as a Christian. The actress insists in an interview\u00a0on \u2018This Is Gospel\u2019 on Hitz FM that she is a devoted Christian. \u201cWhen I was in my early 20s\u2026I played Sonnie Badu\u2019s \u2018Covenant Keeping God\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":55189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55186\/revisions\/55190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}