{"id":4130,"date":"2022-07-27T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2022-07-27T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:42:14","slug":"devotional-on-genesis-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-genesis-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-B5wFdxe3z1k\/XOSbmm8S-aI\/AAAAAAAA7fA\/tfVT5jqTARE62KX96aBIym6lWhM9Zg9hACKgBGAs\/s1600\/2013-10-04%2B15.39.58.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"902\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 &#8211; Natchez Trace Thousand Trails, Hohenwald, TN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ve got to be kidding!<br \/>\nGenesis 44: God was behind it. God sent me here ahead of you to save lives.<br \/>\n\u201cGod was behind it\u201d?? Joseph, you\u2019ve got to be kidding! This was a bad series of events. You&#8217;ve been sold into slavery, lied about, imprisoned, forgotten \u2013 and God was behind it? What school of theology did you attend anyway? Do you really believe God would send you into such difficult circumstances? God only sends nice things into our lives \u2013 you know, \u201cGod is love,\u201d \u201cName it and claim it,\u201d \u201cHealth and wealth\u201d &#8212; that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, what\u2019s that I see? It\u2019s a shadow that looks a lot like a cross. The cross\u2026God was behind it&#8230;saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind\u2026I get it.<br \/>\nTake away: God will do whatever is necessary to bring grace into the world and into our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve got to be kidding! Genesis 44: God was behind it. God sent me here ahead of you to save lives. \u201cGod was behind it\u201d?? Joseph, you\u2019ve got to be kidding! This was a bad series of events. You&#8217;ve been sold into slavery, lied about, imprisoned, forgotten \u2013 and God was behind it? What school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,7],"tags":[127,487,518,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}