{"id":5587,"date":"2017-03-22T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2017-03-21T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:35:40","slug":"sanctified-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/sanctified-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"SANCTIFIED GOSSIP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 18:8<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cThe words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was many years ago when I was a pastor of a church with an active prayer chain that I received a call from a woman I did not know. She asked to see me and we arranged a time to meet at a local caf\u00e9 where I often met with people for counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Since I had never met this woman I was in the dark about what she wanted to discuss. She began our conversation by stating that she was &#8220;the other woman.&#8221; I was still at a loss. Then she asked if our prayer chain had not identified her as the woman who was having an affair with a certain man in our congregation. She had heard rumors that we named her as the guilty party that needed prayer. I assured her that she was not on our prayer chain and that we would never allow such requests.<\/p>\n<p>That encounter reminded me that it is possible to indulge in <em>sanctified <\/em>gossip. It disguises itself as legitimate concern, while having an underlying prurient interest. Anytime we hear a prayer request that is met with <strong><em>&#8220;Really?!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> get rid of it and pray for the Lord to cleanse our hearts of <strong>SANCTIFIED GOSSIP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 18:8 \u201cThe words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.\u201d It was many years ago when I was a pastor of a church with an active prayer chain that I received a call from a woman I did not know. She asked to see me and we [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}