{"id":2963,"date":"2013-01-14T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2013-01-14T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:22:15","slug":"our-powerful-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/our-powerful-god\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR POWERFUL GOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Isaiah 41:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the years I have found my mind going back to today\u2019s verse. It was one of the first verses I ever memorized. Come to think about it, it may very well be the reason that I am known as more optimistic than pessimistic. It is not me, but the Lord that makes the difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">God gives us a tremendous promise in this verse. He promises to <em>strengthen us<\/em>, to <em>help us<\/em> and to <em>uphold us<\/em>. Do you realize what that promise should mean to each of us in our daily walk? It means that we can claim victory over every situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">As I read this verse again, I see that <strong>our requirement is very minimal<\/strong>. We are not called upon to do great and mighty works. We do not even have to possess super human abilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">So what is our part? To <em><strong>not fear<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and to <em><strong>not be dismayed<\/strong><\/em>.The reason our Scripture gives us for <em>not fearing<\/em> or <em>not being dismayed<\/em> is that <strong>God is with us and He is our own personal God<\/strong>. With such a powerful God in control we are free to praise Him and give Him the glory even before we see His completed work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>&#8212;Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Over the years I have found my mind going back to today\u2019s verse. It was one of the first verses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}