{"id":4430,"date":"2022-12-13T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:20:51","slug":"devotional-on-joshua-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-joshua-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B9MKFmJWzHM\/XZkyyiQyyWI\/AAAAAAABB1w\/xi_NKeLZFLoLTElXG4OwH01ca69iQe0mgCKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/P8269723.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1002\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Yosemite National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGod keeps his promises<br \/>\nJoshua 21: Not one word failed from all the good words God spoke to the house of Israel.  Everything came out right.<br \/>\nThe battles are over, the land divided, and the special cities designated.  It\u2019s a time now for reflection.  Soon Joshua will call the people together and preach a &#8220;conclusive&#8221; sermon of his own, even as Moses did decades earlier.  Here&#8217;s the thing: God has kept all the promises he made to them.  Today, I operate under certain promises: &#8220;believe and be saved,&#8221; &#8220;I am with you to the end of the age,&#8221; &#8220;I will come back and take you to be with me.&#8221;  Sometimes just the receiving of God&#8217;s promises takes an effort on my part.  Beyond that it almost always calls for my patience and trust as I wait to realize it in my life.  The great phrase before me today is this: &#8220;Everything came out right.&#8221;  With that in mind I stay the course.  God has made promises and everything will, indeed, come out right.<br \/>\nTake Away: Receiving God\u2019s promises almost always takes patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God keeps his promises Joshua 21: Not one word failed from all the good words God spoke to the house of Israel. Everything came out right. The battles are over, the land divided, and the special cities designated. It\u2019s a time now for reflection. Soon Joshua will call the people together and preach a &#8220;conclusive&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,7],"tags":[136,485,811,1108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430"}],"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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14118,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/14118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}