{"id":5413,"date":"2020-12-28T03:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T09:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2020-12-28T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T09:47:52","slug":"devotional-on-isaiah-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-isaiah-143\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WFZQISilNHM\/X-kDBa4d5cI\/AAAAAAABIEM\/hUAYCmAyrv8mEOBjXoSbBEh111NWjZ7TACPcBGAsYHg\/s1280\/P9082407.JPG\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>2007 &#8211; Alluvial Fan area &#8211; Rocky Mtn Natl Park, CO<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe positive, encouraged people of God<br \/>\nIsaiah 41: I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty.<br \/>\nSome folks apparently think that spiritual talk is the language of need and complaint.  To them, an evidence of their belief in God is constant requests for prayer: &#8220;Pray for me, life is so hard that I sometimes don&#8217;t think I\u2019ll make it another day.&#8221;  Now, I say this carefully, because challenging difficulties and temptations do come into life and sometimes, that kind of desperate prayer request is, indeed, an evidence of belief in God.  However, that isn&#8217;t the everyday language of the follower of God.  This awesome God satisfies his people.  Even when life isn\u2019t perfect, they\u2019ve found a Source that provides a foundation for their life.  The native language for the one who trusts the Lord is the language of satisfaction: &#8220;In my distress I sought the Lord and he was there for me.&#8221;  Personally, that means I must major on the goodness of God and not on the difficulties of life.  It also may mean that I have a responsibility to help other believers remember that God is there for them and help them learn this language of praise and thanksgiving.<br \/>\nTake Away: The native language of the people of the Lord is the language of satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The positive, encouraged people of God Isaiah 41: I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty. Some folks apparently think that spiritual talk is the language of need and complaint. To them, an evidence of their belief in God is constant requests for prayer: &#8220;Pray for me, life is so hard that I sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,7],"tags":[106,131,843,845,1070],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413"}],"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=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}