{"id":1053,"date":"2018-06-12T05:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-06-12T05:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:56:59","slug":"devotion-proverbs-35-6-unfold-our-fists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Devotion      Proverbs 3:5-6       Unfold Our Fists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Proverbs 3:5-6<\/b>\u00a0<i>&#8220;Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\">Please watch the video (A little over three minutes). I\u2019ve seen it before, but the message is good<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/video.ntdin.tv\/old-mans-reply_af0bc04c4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/video.ntdin.tv\/old-mans-reply_af0bc04c4.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\">God knows all of history, the present and all the future. Why judge a small piece of time instead of trusting God who knows everything? To trust oneself instead of God is the height of hubris! Be humble and have peace. Trust God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Isaiah 40:31<\/b>\u00a0<i>&#8220;But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 91:1-2<\/b>\u00a0<i>&#8220;Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, \u201cHe is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77text\">Though it is against our nature, being humble brings peace and being proud brings continual strife.\u00a0 To be humble we fight only against our own fallen nature.\u00a0 To be proud we fight the world.\u00a0 It is better to be humble and trust God, in this is great peace.\u00a0\u00a0<b>James 4:10<\/b>\u00a0<i>\u201c<\/i><\/span><i>Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Let God bring favor to you.\u00a0 It is infinitely better to trust in God than to trust in self.\u00a0 Let\u2019s unfold our fists, free our hearts and minds and trust God.\u00a0 Trust God and therein is peace beyond understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<b>Philippians 4:4-7<\/b>\u00a0<i>\u201cRejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!\u00a0<\/i><i>Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.\u00a0Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.\u00a0And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77text\">God is good all the time and He loves us.\u00a0 Trust in Him and not in self.\u00a0 Be humble.\u00a0 Believe in the work and person of Jesus and there we find deep down peace for our souls.\u00a0 Let go.\u00a0 Trust God.\u00a0 Be at peace.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i>\u00a0<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77yiv0430691116ydp8b135d2msonospacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5066225340ydp234d0c77yiv0430691116ydp8b135d2msonospacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 3:5-6\u00a0&#8220;Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.&#8221; Please watch the video (A little over three minutes). I\u2019ve seen it before, but the message is good http:\/\/video.ntdin.tv\/old-mans-reply_af0bc04c4.html God knows all of history, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[103,1700,94,1871,88,17],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-isaiah","tag-james","tag-micah","tag-philippians","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}