{"id":7233,"date":"2020-12-22T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2020-12-22T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:53:05","slug":"devotional-on-isaiah-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-isaiah-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PSQ9sk2Y90A\/X-Dnbm8wv3I\/AAAAAAABH8I\/3dX3ldncO2EH_vCGsknsQzXJ8T8IbHyaQCPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/P5281811.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>2007 &#8211; Blanchard Caverns, Arkansas<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Extraordinary favors from God<br \/>\nIsaiah 38: I&#8217;ll add fifteen years to your life.<br \/>\nHezekiah is one of the good guys who trusts in the Lord; a king who has his priorities right. When he gets sick Isaiah visits him and tells Hezekiah that this is it, he needs to prepare to die. Hezekiah prays a simple, trusting prayer that touches the heart of God who grants the king fifteen more years of life. As I read this story I remember that my life is in the hands of God. He has the final say. In Hezekiah&#8217;s case, the illness that comes to him is a natural one but God trumps it by granting him a supernatural healing. I know that the Lord doesn&#8217;t always do that, even in the lives of people just as good and trusting as Hezekiah. Still, this incident reminds me that I can ask for extraordinary favors from the Lord while trusting him in his wisdom to answer according to his grace.<br \/>\nTake Away: Sometimes, the Lord\u2019s answer is \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinary favors from God Isaiah 38: I&#8217;ll add fifteen years to your life. Hezekiah is one of the good guys who trusts in the Lord; a king who has his priorities right. When he gets sick Isaiah visits him and tells Hezekiah that this is it, he needs to prepare to die. Hezekiah prays a [&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":[131,442,502,518,547,845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233"}],"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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}