{"id":6929,"date":"2019-06-04T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2019-06-04T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:29:12","slug":"gods-perfect-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/gods-perfect-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S PERFECT PEACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Isaiah 26:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cYou will keep\u00a0him\u00a0in perfect peace,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>whose\u00a0mind\u00a0is\u00a0stayed\u00a0on You, because he trusts in You<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We once owned a hamster whose cage had a hamster wheel. The hamster would get on the wheel and run like crazy &#8230; but got nowhere. Many times I fear that we Christians are very much like a hamster spinning on a hamster wheel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things are making us uncomfortable so we panic and try to fix them in our own strength. We\u2019ve gotta worry! We\u2019ve gotta work! We\u2019ve gotta do something!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is that we are doing things our way rather than doing things God\u2019s way. He never desires us to run ourselves ragged in order to please Him or to merit salvation. In today\u2019s Scripture we see that what God wants us to do is to place our trust in Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord calls us to have purpose in our service for Him. If we are not involved in serving Him, we are to relax and enjoy the blessing of just being with Him. When opens the door of service for Him we need to respond eagerly. Until He calls us to do His bidding we need to wait expectantly for Him\u2014it is worth the wait!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blessings dear hearts!\u00a0Walk with God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 26:3 \u201cYou will keep\u00a0him\u00a0in perfect peace,\u00a0whose\u00a0mind\u00a0is\u00a0stayed\u00a0on You, because he trusts in You.\u201d We once owned a hamster whose cage had a hamster wheel. The hamster would get on the wheel and run like crazy &#8230; but got nowhere. Many times I fear that we Christians are very much like a hamster spinning on a [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","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=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}