{"id":6171,"date":"2018-03-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:07:16","slug":"salted-oats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/salted-oats\/","title":{"rendered":"SALTED OATS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1690488852\">9:50<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Salt\u00a0is\u00a0good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Salt is very valuable and across the centuries it has had many uses.\u00a0\u00a0It was used to preserve and season foods and for its medicinal qualities.\u00a0\u00a0In Roman times the soldiers were paid in salt.\u00a0\u00a0That is where the word\u00a0<em>salary<\/em>\u00a0came from.\u00a0\u00a0When you hear the expression \u201che\u2019s not worth his salt\u201d it refers to the payment in salt that was received.<\/p>\n<p>I once heard a preacher use a wonderful illustration.\u00a0\u00a0He said something like this: \u201cWhile it is true that you can lead a horse to water, you can\u2019t make him drink &#8212; but you can salt his oats!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I cannot begin to tell you the number of times I have thought of that illustration since first hearing it.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us in Christian ministry wear ourselves out trying to force people to drink when they show no inclination and, in fact, refuse to drink.\u00a0We heap on guilt or glitter, but there are still no slurping sounds.<\/p>\n<p>What is the answer?\u00a0\u00a0<strong>SALT THE OATS!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Right!\u00a0\u00a0How do we do that?\u00a0\u00a0It is a good question and deserves careful consideration. Are you salting the oats of those you come in contact with?\u00a0\u00a0Are you creating such a desire that people must drink from God\u2019s well that never will run dry?\u00a0Spend time in God\u2019s Word and experience the thrill that will make you want more and more of Him.<\/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>Mark\u00a09:50 \u201cSalt\u00a0is\u00a0good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.\u201d Salt is very valuable and across the centuries it has had many uses.\u00a0\u00a0It was used to preserve and season foods and for its medicinal qualities.\u00a0\u00a0In Roman times the soldiers were paid [&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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}