{"id":387,"date":"2010-11-29T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-11-29T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:58:03","slug":"inspiration-for-a-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration for a Monday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 To start off with, I want to Thank You for a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with my family and friends.\u00a0 It never ceases to amaze me that when I focus on the blessings in my life, how truly rich I feel.\u00a0 Thank You for that.<\/p>\n<p>This morning however, I\u2019ve been having a difficult time getting motivated Lord.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s just the \u201ccoming down\u201d effect following a four-day weekend, but I started the day feeling a little rough.\u00a0 After a little searching for inspiration though, I found Psalm 18:32-36 :<\/p>\n<p>It is God who arms me with strength<br \/>\nand keeps my way secure.<br \/>\nHe makes my feet like the feet of a deer;<br \/>\nhe causes me to stand on the heights.<br \/>\nHe trains my hands for battle;<br \/>\nmy arms can bend a bow of bronze.<br \/>\nYou make your saving help my shield,<br \/>\nand your right hand sustains me;<br \/>\nyour help has made me great.<br \/>\nYou provide a broad path for my feet,<br \/>\nso that my ankles do not give way.<\/p>\n<p>I love this one\u2026 I know that no matter what Lord, You are my strength, my heart, and my salvation and you never leave my side, and this Psalm describes that perfectly for me.\u00a0 While I know this week is going to be filled with personal difficulties, I can approach it knowing You\u2019re there for me.\u00a0 May everyone that\u2019s dealing with fear, uncertainty or personal turmoil feel Your Loving Presence, and know that all Your Children are Blessed with Your Grace.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 To start off with, I want to Thank You for a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with my family and friends.\u00a0 It never ceases to amaze me that when I focus on the blessings in my life, how truly rich I feel.\u00a0 Thank You for that. This morning however, I\u2019ve been having [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[256,12,132,255,4,6,42,24,59,140,13,61,41,253,252,254,86,225,106,8,49],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-blessed","tag-blessings","tag-children","tag-difficulties","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-focus","tag-friends","tag-grace","tag-heart","tag-inspiration","tag-motivation","tag-presence","tag-psalm","tag-rich","tag-salvation","tag-strength","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turmoil","tag-uncertainty","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-6f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}