{"id":4763,"date":"2015-11-25T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2015-11-24T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:03:06","slug":"just-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/just-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST A\u00a0 MINUTE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Esther 4:14<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father\u2019s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a boy I often employed the phrase \u201cjust a minute\u201d when my mom had asked me to do something. Strange as it may seem, I often heard the same phrase repeated by our three children when either Joyce or I had asked them to do something.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite television programs is &#8220;Texas Country Reporter.&#8221; I was watching a recent episode when Bob Phillips and his wife Keli visited the <em>Buffalo Soldiers Museum<\/em>. It was there that I heard a poem by Dr. Benjamin Mays. Let me share it with you and allow you to let it sink in. I hope it has the same impact on you as it did on me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>God\u2019s Minute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve only just a minute, Only sixty seconds in it.<br \/>\nForced upon me, can&#8217;t refuse it, Didn&#8217;t seek it, didn&#8217;t choose it,<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it,<br \/>\nGive an account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute,<br \/>\nBut eternity is in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther 4:14 \u201cFor if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father\u2019s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?\u201d As a boy I often employed the phrase \u201cjust [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esther"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}