{"id":4883,"date":"2016-02-04T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:25:37","slug":"come-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/come-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"COME TO ME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 11:28-30<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.<\/em><em> <sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><em>Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.<\/em> <em>For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you ever get weary? If you are honest, I am sure that you would respond in the affirmative to that question. These bodies of ours are amazing, but at some point we feel fatigue set in and we need rest.<\/p>\n<p>There have been times in my life when I was so tired that I felt as if I could not move one more step. I recall a time many years ago when I felt that way. It was at that moment that the Lord seemed to draw me near to Him in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>Physically, I certainly did not feel inclined to respond in a positive way. But I am so glad I did. It was a new step to discover a deeper walk with the Lord. He taught me a lesson I have carried with me all these years. When we come to Him and take up His yoke, we feel strength we never felt before.<\/p>\n<p>If you are at that point in your life right now, I want to encourage you to take the step of faith in forgetting all of your aches, pains, and weariness. Say &#8220;yes&#8221; to the Lord in any and everything He is telling you to do. THAT IS BEING YOKED WITH HIM!<\/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>Matthew 11:28-30 \u201cCome to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. \u00a0Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.\u201d Do [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}