{"id":4866,"date":"2016-01-26T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:27:10","slug":"steps-and-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/steps-and-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPS AND STOPS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 37:23<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>The steps of a good man are ordered by the <\/em><em>Lord<\/em><em>, and He delights in his way.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever noticed that God\u2019s timing is different than ours? \u00a0 There are times when we roar through life at a frantic pace and wonder why God is not keeping up with us. He promised to direct our steps, so where is <strong><em>He<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>The better question would be: \u201cWhere are <strong><em>we<\/em><\/strong>?\u201d God is the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The same cannot be said about us. We are prone to vacillate back and forth, both in our physical life and in our spiritual life.<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems, as I see it, is the reality that God places &#8220;stops&#8221; in our life just as frequently as He orders our steps. We seem to believe He will be pleased if we stay busy, but if God is not in it, He will not be pleased if we <strong><em>step<\/em><\/strong> when He wants us to <strong><em>stop<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My experience has shown me that those &#8220;stops&#8221; of the Lord provide the greatest times of spiritual growth as well as the times when He brings about the most fruitful ministry. The next time you feel God telling you to stop &#8230; STOP!<\/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>Psalm 37:23 \u201cThe steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way.\u201d Have you ever noticed that God\u2019s timing is different than ours? \u00a0 There are times when we roar through life at a frantic pace and wonder why God is not keeping up with us. He promised [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","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=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}