{"id":25138,"date":"2019-03-05T03:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=25138"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:44:32","slug":"march-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2019\/03\/05\/march-5-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"March 5, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--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-background-image:url(&quot;http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/March-2019-Devo-Template.jpg&quot;);--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_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAre not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father\u2019s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Matthew 10:29-31<\/p>\n<h2><strong>My Portion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Today God placed a song in my heart. He often does this with me as He knows my heart and my mind better than I know myself. He knows what will comfort me and give me assurance that He is near\u2014His eye is on me, and He\u2019s watching me and drawing me closer to Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cI sing because I\u2019m happy, I sing because I\u2019m free, For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.\u00a0Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come, Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heav\u2019n and home,\u00a0When Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He: His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.\u201d*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These little birds, so minute, so insignificant to the human eye at times\u2014God never overlooks them. They are never forgotten\u2014He feeds them\u2014His eye is on them. And ever so much more than the sparrows\u2014He has His eye on you and me at all times. We are so valuable to God\u2014we are never overlooked from His divine care.<\/p>\n<p>God places the food on the ground for these little birds. They land on the ground because our Heavenly Father already placed it there for them.<\/p>\n<p>God is my portion; therefore I am happy. I am free because I know He watches me, and I know that He has already placed whatever I need in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>He shows us the way when we keep our hearts and minds on Him as we follow Him faithfully. He leads us through sufferings and we give Him glory. He is our portion\u2014our morsel\u2014our all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cJesus, we thank You for this reminder that Your eye is always upon us. You have a plan to take care of us as we live our lives for You in whatever task is set before us. We continue to set our dependence on You while You teach us along our journey on this earth and prepare us for the life to come. In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Charles Hutchinson Gabriel | Civilla Durfee Martin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a9 Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-25138","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-6xs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138","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=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25163,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions\/25163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}