{"id":3558,"date":"2014-01-09T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:58:59","slug":"make-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/make-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKE THE CALL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Isaiah 55:6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Over my many years of ministry I have urged individuals, couples and congregations to call on the name of the Lord at the earliest sign of difficulty. In fact I have gone so far as to beg them to keep in such close contact with the Lord that they talk with Him all through the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">I wish I could report that my recommended counsel has been followed. That is just not the case. Many times I have had people come and weep bitter tears because they had met with chaos in their life and things were falling apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">What do you do when your life has come unraveled and hopes have been crushed? The answer is always the same. <strong>Call on the name of the Lord.<\/strong> There is no way I have the power to restore and put the broken pieces of their life back together, but I know that when a life is totally surrendered to God, He gives hope for the hopeless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">You may be at a critical juncture of your life at this very moment. Your marriage or your job or your health or your children or your . . . do I need to go on? You get the idea. Regardless of what you face right now, I urge you to memorize Isaiah 55:6 and then do what it says!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8212;Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Over my many years of ministry I have urged individuals, couples and congregations to call on the name of the Lord at the earliest sign of difficulty. In fact I have gone so far as to beg them [&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-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}