{"id":833,"date":"2009-10-29T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=833"},"modified":"2009-10-28T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:44:47","slug":"showers-of-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/showers-of-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOWERS OF BLESSING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ezekiel 34:26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">&#8220;I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to share the depths of my feelings experienced over the past two days. Never in all of my years of ministry have I been so overwhelmed by love and appreciation. I know I certainly do not deserve it, but it has been refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>When I sent out Tuesday\u2019s E-Votional titled \u201cLive Daily!\u201d, I honestly was not feeling downhearted or in any way slighted. But as I re-read the sentence, \u201c<em>I wonder how many people take the time to read them and if it is a waste of time,\u201d <\/em>I can see how it might appear that I was depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I was trying to get across the idea that the impact we have on others is not <em>our<\/em> responsibility, but God\u2019s. One of our readers really hit it on the head: <em>\u201cA friend of mine was asking one day &#8220;Where is my fruit?&#8221;\u00a0 I told her that we don&#8217;t always see the fruit.\u00a0 Recently she explained that God has showed to her that she need not look for fruit and that he was the fruit inspector; she was the one who plants seeds and helps to water other lives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow! That says it all! I just want to thank all of you who wrote to share your love and appreciation. May God\u2019s richest blessings shower down upon you and give you peace.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 34:26 &#8220;I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.&#8221; It is impossible to share the depths of my feelings experienced over the past two days. Never in all of my years of ministry have I been so overwhelmed by [&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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ezekiel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}