{"id":22535,"date":"2014-10-28T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22535"},"modified":"2014-10-27T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T01:29:16","slug":"just-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/28\/just-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13840\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg\" alt=\"SeekingHimLogo\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg 560w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Answer me when I call to you,<br \/>\nO God, Who declares me innocent.<br \/>\nFree me from my troubles.<br \/>\nHave mercy on me and hear my prayer.<br \/>\nPsalm 4:1<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I almost get the feeling that the psalmist is trying to rush God in Psalm 4:1. \u00a0In my mind, I picture God just shaking His head thinking, &#8220;Rest, my child. I see your troubles and I have handled them.&#8221; \u00a0Then again, the psalmist could just be making a sincere plea to God for Him to answer the prayer. \u00a0Regardless of how I decide to perceive this verse, I feel the Lord&#8217;s verbal response would be the same\u2014<em><strong>Rest!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.<br \/>\nTake My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,<br \/>\nand you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.<br \/>\nMatthew 11:28-30<\/p>\n<p>This verse says that if you come to the Lord, He will give you rest. So, take your request to Him and then rest. {Do not forget about the resting part!}<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace.<br \/>\nIn this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.<br \/>\nJohn 16:33<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"> * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lord, help me take my requests to You and then to rest. \u00a0Thank You for the ability to rest in the midst of troubles, knowing that I am adequately taken care of. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer me when I call to you, O God, Who declares me innocent. Free me from my troubles. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer. Psalm 4:1 I almost get the feeling that the psalmist is trying to rush God in Psalm 4:1. \u00a0In my mind, I picture God just shaking His head thinking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3146,3367,1287,425,7646,1477,654,7645,5046,3174],"class_list":["post-22535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-gives-us-rest","tag-john-1633","tag-matthew-1128-30","tag-nicodemus-and-jesus","tag-psalm-41","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5Rt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22539,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions\/22539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}