{"id":684,"date":"2013-01-30T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.225.232.228\/us\/store\/uncategorized\/the-secret-key-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:42:54","slug":"the-secret-key-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/us\/store\/christian-living\/the-secret-key-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Key to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Book Description<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies.\u2019 This was the deeply held conviction of Thomas Brooks. 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