{"id":5713,"date":"2017-06-12T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:21:51","slug":"led-by-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/led-by-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"LED BY A CHILD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 11:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some dear friends of mine own a cabin in a small community on the Pacific coast. They are very generous in allowing others to use the cabin to rest, relax, and restore themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the owner was doing some clean-up after a few families had used the cabin. As she was sweeping out under one of the bunks, she noticed a note that had been left behind. It actually was a letter to God written by a young seven-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>I do not have a copy of the letter, but in essence it read: <em>\u201cDear God, please help me be nicer to people especially my friends and my mom.\u00a0 I hope you can make this be true.\u00a0 Please watch me at school. Love, xxxxxx.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The simplicity and openness of this letter must have touched the heart of God. There are those who try to impress by high-sounding words, but God hears the honest prayers of a sincere heart. I want that to exemplify my prayers!<\/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>Matthew 11:6 \u201cThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.\u201d Some dear friends of mine own a cabin in a small community on the Pacific coast. They are very [&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-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","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=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}