Dear Lord; Well Father, it never ceases to amaze me where my thoughts are led when I\u2019m communing with You.\u00a0 For whatever reason, this morning on my drive into the office I was thinking about how the news lately seems to be filled with nothing but tragedy and heartache, and the general despair and discord of our citizens.\u00a0 Senseless shootings, hateful protests, skyrocketing unemployment, financial hardships, a rising crime rate, natural disasters, and the list goes on and on.\u00a0 What the world needs I decided, is a Superhero.\u00a0 Someone who can swoop in and inspire hope, bring some righteous justice and order to things, and act as a beacon for people to rally around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave you one.\u201d<\/strong> You whispered.<\/p>\n So You did!\u00a0 You gave us the single most impressive \u201cSuperhero\u201d that the world could possibly know; Your Son, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.\u00a0 \u2013 Acts 10:38<\/strong><\/p>\n Wow\u2026 Even the fictional \u201cman of steel\u201d himself didn\u2019t wield the Power of God.\u00a0 What an amazing Hero and Role Model You\u2019ve given us!<\/p>\n Ok, so if we\u2019ve been given the Ultimate Hero why are so many people in such despair??\u00a0 Unfortunately, it\u2019s because those folks just don\u2019t know Him, and allow themselves to focus on earthly worries instead of allowing Him to lighten their burdens.\u00a0 If all of us use the \u201cBat-Phone\u201d of prayer to call Him into our lives, the day (as well as our eternal souls) would indeed be Saved.<\/p>\n So as Christians, here\u2019s our chance to be Heroes as well.\u00a0 If we live by His example, let God\u2019s Light show through our words and actions, and share the Praises of His Good Works then we can bring that amazing power to more people.\u00a0 We can change the world, through Him.<\/p>\n Now that\u2019s power.<\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Well Father, it never ceases to amaze me where my thoughts are led when I\u2019m communing with You.\u00a0 For whatever reason, this morning on my drive into the office I was thinking about how the news lately seems to be filled with nothing but tragedy and heartache, and the general despair and discord […]<\/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":[724,720,459,100,321,722,701,710,382,716,711,704,702,245,42,726,237,707,525,719,592,464,475,269,713,104,717,648,714,587,725,205,708,715,591,718,721,706,705,117,455,712,703,709,723,424],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-actions","tag-bat-phone","tag-beacon","tag-burdens","tag-christ","tag-christians","tag-communing","tag-crime","tag-despair","tag-devil","tag-disaster","tag-discord","tag-drive","tag-financial","tag-focus","tag-good-works","tag-hardships","tag-hateful","tag-heartache","tag-hero","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-inspire","tag-jesus","tag-justice","tag-light","tag-man-of-steel","tag-office","tag-order","tag-power","tag-praises","tag-prayer","tag-protests","tag-rally","tag-righteous","tag-role-model","tag-saved","tag-senseless","tag-shootings","tag-son","tag-souls","tag-superhero","tag-tragedy","tag-unemployment","tag-words","tag-worries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}