Dear Lord; Good morning Father.\u00a0 For the last day or so Lord, I\u2019ve had a Bible verse on my heart.\u00a0 It\u2019s always been one of my favorites, but I\u2019m feeling like I should be paying particular attention to it at the moment; That somehow it\u2019s important that I keep it at the front of my mind.\u00a0 The verse is from the Book of Joshua :<\/p>\n
\u201cHave I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.\u201d \u2013 Joshua 1:9 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, I\u2019ll admit to having been discouraged about a number of things as of late so maybe that\u2019s the key here, but I just feel there\u2019s more to it than that.\u00a0 I went back this morning and reread Joshua 1<\/strong> in it\u2019s entirety to put the verse in full context, and found another passage that set off bells in my head as well :<\/p>\n \u201cBe strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.\u201d \u2013 Joshua 1:7 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n This immediately clicked with a blog posting I read last night on the website \u201cA Mile in My Schu\u2019s\u201d<\/em><\/a> about how we can get \u201cOff Course\u201d<\/em><\/a> from our path to You.\u00a0 I always find it fascinating how when You need to get a point across to me, I seem to see it repeated and led to in so many places.<\/p>\n Ok Father, I get that this verse is important for me at the moment.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly a positive message, and one I try to remember when my life heads in uncertain directions.\u00a0 However I still feel there\u2019s more behind Your insistence to me to focus on this missive than I\u2019m seeing right now.<\/p>\n For example, these verses both enforce the command to \u201cBe strong and courageous\u201d<\/em>\u2026 Hmmm, have I been that lately?\u00a0 If I\u2019m honest with myself Lord, probably not so much as I should be.\u00a0 There\u2019s so much to contemplate and pray about here\u2026<\/p>\n Heavenly Father, thank You for Your constant Presence and Guidance in my life.\u00a0 Please give me the clarity and focus to serve Your Will as You intend me to, and to see through my own flaws so I can focus on Your Glory.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father.\u00a0 For the last day or so Lord, I\u2019ve had a Bible verse on my heart.\u00a0 It\u2019s always been one of my favorites, but I\u2019m feeling like I should be paying particular attention to it at the moment; That somehow it\u2019s important that I keep it at the front of my […]<\/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":[99,359,970,358,969,107,45,450,43,915,36,541,394,173,442,619,42,33,966,21,731,140,593,916,313,78,355,141,506,845,670,887,81,197,445,217,41,609,627,103,114,504,348],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-attention","tag-bible","tag-bible-verse","tag-blog","tag-book-of-joshua","tag-care","tag-clarity","tag-contemplate","tag-courage","tag-dear-lord","tag-direction","tag-example","tag-fascinating","tag-father","tag-favorite","tag-feeling","tag-focus","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-guidance","tag-head","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-joshua","tag-life","tag-message","tag-mind","tag-morning","tag-need","tag-night","tag-passage","tag-path","tag-places","tag-positive","tag-pray","tag-presence","tag-remember","tag-servant","tag-success","tag-thank-you","tag-will","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-9A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}