{"id":6351,"date":"2018-06-21T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2018-06-20T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:16:08","slug":"be-prepared-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/be-prepared-5\/","title":{"rendered":"BE PREPARED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1980897377\">3:16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten\u00a0Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1980897378\">Sunday<\/span>\u00a0morning a young girl stunned me with a very astute question: \u201cWhy do we have to give our heart to the Lord?\u201d It was an electric moment and the Holy Spirit seemed to impress me to forget everything and everyone in the room and speak directly to her.<\/p>\n<p>I explained that the Lord tells us that it is the only way we will be born again and be with Him in heaven. One after another questions streamed from her. I blocked out everything else and gave her my undivided attention.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot recall all of the questions she asked, but I do know that I was praying that the Lord would give me wisdom to answer them in such a way that this small girl would know that there is a God in heaven who cares about her.<\/p>\n<p>This exchange seemed to draw us all close together and closer to Jesus who loves the little children. In Luke\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1980897379\">18:16<\/span>\u00a0we read of how Jesus felt concern for children:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>But Jesus called them to\u00a0Him\u00a0and said,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2018Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>of such is the kingdom of God.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>I always want to be prepared to answer the sincere questions of either an adult or a little child!<\/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>John\u00a03:16 \u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten\u00a0Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\u201d One\u00a0Sunday\u00a0morning a young girl stunned me with a very astute question: \u201cWhy do we have to give our heart to the Lord?\u201d It was an electric moment and the Holy [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}