{"id":1291,"date":"2018-11-10T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2018-11-10T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:45:07","slug":"devotion-matthew-123-a-word-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Devotion      Matthew 1:23     A Word From God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Matthew 1:23\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0\u201c&#8221;The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel&#8221; (which means &#8220;God with us&#8221;).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Be quiet my soul,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Attentive my ears,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Be calm my heart,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Clear yourself my mind,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">For it is your God speaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He has come to speak,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Loving comfort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Let Him be heard,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Let what is heard,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He makes aware that He,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Is aware of all,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Of Everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He hears the shouted threats,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He sees the mounted offensive<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">These disappear,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">No longer existing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Because He is present!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Everything but Him,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Is gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">I am loved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">I am protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">I am calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Peace rules my heart,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He is with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">He is with me!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Be calm my spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">The Lord God is present,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">And He is speaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Hear and know,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">God is with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Love, peace, and calm,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Overwhelm me,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Because He ever lives<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">With me, and,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Because He is ever with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Be calm,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">Own peace<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">God is with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\">God loves me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp36f247bfMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<div><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv5644075723ydp626ff934MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 1:23\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201c&#8221;The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel&#8221; (which means &#8220;God with us&#8221;).\u201d Be quiet my soul, Attentive my ears, Be calm my heart, Clear yourself my mind, For it is your God speaking. He has come to speak, Loving comfort. Let Him be heard, Let&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":[101,94,17],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","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=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}