{"id":2129,"date":"2020-04-03T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:57:58","slug":"devotion-zephaniah-312-17-in-god-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"Devotion           Zephaniah 3:12, 17          In God Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNormal\"><b>Zephaniah 3:12, 17<\/b>&#8211;\u00a0<i>But I will leave within you the meek\u00a0and humble. The remnant of Israel will trust\u00a0in the name of the\u00a0Lord.\u00a0 The\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.\u00a0 He will take great delight\u00a0in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNoSpacing\">In what is my comfort?\u00a0 In what is my delight?\u00a0 How fragile and empty if in anything or anyone other than God?\u00a0 Every other thing in which one places their faith, joy or confidence in, is grasping at the wind.\u00a0\u00a0When hands are opened they are found to be empty. \u00a0\u00a0Oh Lord God, may my eyes be ever searching, my ears ever listening, my heart ever longing only for You.\u00a0 You and only You Almighty God are the \u201cI AM\u201d whom I seek.\u00a0 I need You Lord and I must pursue You every day.\u00a0 I must be in Your presence every waking and sleeping moment of my life or my life is out of focus, unbalanced, lacking and searching.\u00a0 I love You Lord!\u00a0 It is You I seek.\u00a0 May You give to me the infinite presence that is You.\u00a0\u00a0 May the river flow and may there be no still water between You to me.\u00a0 Oh Lord please anoint my soul with the beauty of You.\u00a0 You are my meal!\u00a0 You are my drink!\u00a0 Without You my soul perishes and with it my body.\u00a0 I reach to You with outstretched and desperate arms!\u00a0\u00a0 Oh Lord fill me ever more and cause me to walk in the awareness of Your presence, Your love and Your grace.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9yiv2838824599ydpa9175395text\"><b>P<\/b><\/span><b>salm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNoSpacing\"><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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNoSpacing\"><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<p class=\"yiv1978436625ydp2b9aa0f9MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zephaniah 3:12, 17&#8211;\u00a0But I will leave within you the meek\u00a0and humble. The remnant of Israel will trust\u00a0in the name of the\u00a0Lord.\u00a0 The\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.\u00a0 He will take great delight\u00a0in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.\u201d In what&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":[94,1874,17,837],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm","tag-zephaniah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}