{"id":5219,"date":"2016-08-25T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2016-08-24T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:56:06","slug":"alert-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/alert-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT DUTY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 37:34<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cWait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was in the military there were times when I was assigned to \u201calert duty.\u201d What that meant was that those of us who were on duty could not sleep, but were in a constant state of readiness. We would be the ones who would alert the other members of the unit who would spring into action.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Scripture, the psalmist is calling us to take on the assignment of being on alert. We are to be the watchmen (watchwomen) who keep our eyes open to the threats of the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are we called to be alert to spiritual danger, but we are also to be aware of the leading of the Lord. When He is working in our midst, we need to rush to His side in order to respond to His call.<\/p>\n<p>Are you on Alert Duty for the Lord? Are you spiritually aware of what God is doing in your midst in order to join with Him in bringing about His purposes? Now is the time to shake off the spiritual slumber and be alert.<\/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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 37:34 \u201cWait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.\u201d When I was in the military there were times when I was assigned to \u201calert duty.\u201d What that meant was that those of us who were [&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-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}