{"id":6271,"date":"2018-05-07T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2018-05-07T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:06:25","slug":"a-quiet-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/a-quiet-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A QUIET PLACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 46:10\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cBe still, and know that I\u00a0am\u00a0God;\u00a0I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you have a quiet place &#8212; a place far away from the stress and turmoil of life?\u00a0 This quiet place should be more than a physical location, it should be a spiritual oasis.\u00a0 We can experience quietness and peace even in the midst of the battles of life.\u00a0 We know what our battlegrounds are; what we need is peace!<\/p>\n<p>From time to time I observe groups frenziedly waving placards promoting peace. More often than not these are the very people who cause conflicts and dissention. As far as I know they never establish peace.<\/p>\n<p>But what about our life right now?\u00a0 The Lord desires for us to enter into a blessed quietness with Him.\u00a0 It may require a commitment on our part to find the time and place where we can experience Him in serenity.<\/p>\n<p>We can hear the Lord call to us from today&#8217;s passage of Scripture:<em><strong>\u00a0\u201cBe still, and know that I am God.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>If we fail to take the time to be alone with God, we will never experience the knowledge of His Lordship in our life. Wait in silence to hear the quiet voice of the Lord whispering peace and blessing within your inner being.\u00a0 Ahhhhh!\u00a0 How sweet the quiet!<\/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>Psalm 46:10\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBe still, and know that I\u00a0am\u00a0God;\u00a0I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!&#8220; Do you have a quiet place &#8212; a place far away from the stress and turmoil of life?\u00a0 This quiet place should be more than a physical location, it should be a spiritual oasis.\u00a0 [&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-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","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=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}