{"id":21170,"date":"2017-10-22T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:28:55","slug":"october-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/10\/22\/october-22-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"October 22, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div style=\"background: transparent url('http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/October17-1-1.jpg'); background-size: 1200px 600px; left top repeat 0 100% width: 600px; margin: 10px auto; padding: 50px 200px 50px 200px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cBut David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so weary that they could not cross the Brook Besor.<\/em>\u201d 1 Samuel 30:10<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Gracious Giving<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Part 1\u2014A mini devotional <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know many of you, like me, can become weary in this life. There are so many things to be \u201ctired of,\u201d and there is always more work to do, not to mention the emotional aspect of sometimes just feeling \u201cso done\u201d with life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good news! God cares about our weakness and weariness, as we can see in His many promises to graciously give us rest. A life hidden in Christ isn\u2019t meant to be tiresome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In today\u2019s Scripture, David\u2019s men had been fighting battles, and journeying, and hiding in caves. Two hundred of them were, at one point, just too weak and weary to keep going. He allowed them to stay back and rest, while the stronger ones kept moving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David was a man after God\u2019s own heart\u2014and isn\u2019t this God\u2019s heart for us all? We are not only \u201callowed\u201d to rest, but commanded to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are tired and weary, rest in the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFather, thank You for Your rest. Amen.\u201d<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-5vs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21185,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}