{"id":2513,"date":"2015-08-14T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:02:00","slug":"your-will-in-your-time-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Your Will in Your Time Lord&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus\u2019 mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration. The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus\u2019 mother told him, \u201cThey have no more wine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cDear woman, that\u2019s not our problem,\u201d<\/span> Jesus replied. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cMy time has not yet come.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But his mother told the servants, \u201cDo whatever he tells you.\u201d\u201d \u2013 John 2:1-5 (NLT)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I prayed over these verses the other morning, it dawned on me how often in my daily life I resemble Mary in this passage; insistent in my desire that things happen on my timing, instead of looking to God for His direction to be revealed in the proper moment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heavenly Father,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I pray that You grant me the patience to seek <strong><u>Your will in Your time<\/u><\/strong>\u2026 That I&#8217;m able to see through the clouds of my earthly situations, and draw comfort from the knowledge that Your promise to never leave me nor forsake me hasn\u2019t changed simply because You didn\u2019t show up when or how I expected.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For it\u2019s in Your precious name I pray Jesus\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~Phather Phil<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus\u2019 mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration. The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus\u2019 mother told him, \u201cThey have no more wine.\u201d \u201cDear woman, that\u2019s not our problem,\u201d Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[3192,3065,1572,269,2211,3193,1270],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-cana","tag-gods-timing","tag-gospel-of-john","tag-jesus","tag-mary","tag-patience","tag-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}