{"id":4819,"date":"2015-12-28T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T17:02:06","slug":"dispatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/dispatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"DISPATCHER!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew 8:9<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes; and to another, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes; and to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in the 50\u2019s when I worked for the Nampa, Idaho Police Department, there was no such thing as an emergency call center. You had to dial a number for the fire, police, ambulance, or just dial 0 and the operator would connect you with the service appropriate for the call (fights, drunkenness, domestic disturbances, etc. etc, etc!)<\/p>\n

For the most part I was the dispatcher on the graveyard shift (11 pm to 7 am). Any calls that I received I would respond by dispatching one of our patrol officers. Through my own frequent work as a patrol officer I knew what information they needed to receive from the dispatcher.<\/p>\n

At certain times of the year we experienced some confusion on the graveyard shift when we would get \u201cskips\u201d in the atmosphere. Radio communications from the Lakeland, Florida Police Department sounded as clear and strong as our calls. Not only that, their cars had the same call signs. If you received a call to remove an alligator from someone\u2019s back yard, you knew it was not from Nampa, Idaho!<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit is our \u201cDispatcher!\u201d We need to keep our spiritual ears tuned in so we will be able to hear where we are needed. This requires having our spiritual antenna tuned in to station BIBLE! When He calls we need to respond immediately!<\/p>\n

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew 8:9 \u201cFor I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes; and to another, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes; and to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it.\u201d Back in the 50\u2019s when I worked for the Nampa, Idaho Police Department, there […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}