{"id":6590,"date":"2018-11-27T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2018-11-27T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:11:08","slug":"thirsty-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/thirsty-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"THIRSTY FOR GOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 42:1<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thirst is something that cannot be ignored. The dehydration of the body can quickly lead to death, as we have seen with the tragic deaths of athletes who over exerted themselves in hot temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>What about spiritual dehydration in believers?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s try to imagine what that looks like to see if you may be suffering from the ailment.<\/p>\n<p>One of the symptoms of spiritual dehydration is prolonged absence from assembling in the house of the Lord.\u00a0 It leads to isolation and vulnerability to the temptations of the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Another symptom of spiritual dehydration is not spending time with God in personal communion, praying in the power of the Holy Spirit and reading His Word to hear Him speak to us.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a choking sound I hear?\u00a0 How long has it been since you and God met for a visit?<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts! 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 42:1 \u201cAs the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.\u201d Thirst is something that cannot be ignored. The dehydration of the body can quickly lead to death, as we have seen with the tragic deaths of athletes who over exerted themselves in hot temperatures. What about spiritual [&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-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}