{"id":34999,"date":"2023-02-11T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=34999"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:25:28","slug":"february-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2023\/02\/11\/february-11-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"February 11, 2023"},"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;https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-February-2023.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\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2><strong>A Bothersome Word <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSet your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.\u201d <\/em>Colossians 3:2-3<\/p>\n<p>In 1 Samuel 29, before David was crowned king of Israel, he defected for a time to the side of the enemy, the Philistines, and served them well as a dependable soldier and servant. But when the Philistines went to fight against Israel, and David offered to go along and help them fight, some of the Philistines leaders said, \u201cNo way!\u201d They did not trust that David would not turn against them at the last minute and fight for his own people, Israel.<\/p>\n<p>David complained to King Achish, the Philistine king he had been serving. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve served you well. Why don\u2019t you trust me?\u201d Achish said in verse 10 that David should go back to the home that Achish had given to him in the Philistine territory. In our modern translation, something very important has been left out of that verse.* What Achish actually said to David is this: <em>\u201cSet no bothersome word in your heart.\u201d<\/em> He was concerned for David\u02bcs feelings and did not want him to spend time worrying about this matter.<\/p>\n<p>He was saying, \u201cDon\u02bct let this fester. Just let it go, and be on your way.\u201d What a great word for us today! All too often, words are spoken that hurt or annoy us. We allow someone\u02bcs words to settle in, making themselves at home in our heart and mind. To \u201cset\u201d a bothersome word in our heart is to make a place for it; we bring the bothersome word into our home, so to speak, and even clear off a shelf on which to display it.<\/p>\n<p>We must make decisions about words spoken to or about us. Let us not set the bothersome words in our hearts, but rather, set our mind on things above\u2014because we are hidden with Christ in God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lord, this is sometimes so hard to do, but with Your help, I will recognize bothersome words, and I will purpose to set my mind on things above instead of giving those words a place in my heart. In Jesus\u02bc Name, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"Body\">*Nelson, Thomas. Hayford, Jack. <em>The Spirit Filled Life Bible<\/em>. Thomas Nelson Publishing. 2018.<\/h6>\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-34999","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-96v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999","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=34999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35002,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999\/revisions\/35002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}