Dear Lord; Happy Friday Father!<\/p>\n
Well Father, once again another work-week lies behind me.\u00a0 It\u2019s truly been a period of transition, with some changes for the positive, and others not so much.\u00a0 However, through all of the highs and lows this roller-coaster of a week has brought I\u2019ve been Blessed to have felt Your Presence beside me the entire time.\u00a0 You are truly ever-faithful to Your Children, and even though I may not understand why things happen the way they do, I have complete Faith that You\u2019re always in control and guiding us along the proper path.<\/p>\n
As I alluded to yesterday, due to a chain of events outside my control I faced a nerve-wracking situation at work this week that tried desperately to consume my spirit.\u00a0 More than once, in my communing with You over the last several days I bluntly heard you tell me to do something that seemed strangely out of context, so I foolishly allowed my besieged heart to put the message aside while I focused on my immediate crisis.\u00a0 Finally, worn and tired yesterday evening I listened to Your Insistent Voice and made the call You had been telling me to make.<\/p>\n
In a ten minute conversation, the nightmare situation I had been dwelling on all week was taken care of.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n You were trying to tell me all along what I needed to do Father, I just didn\u2019t put the two things together.\u00a0 Once again, I\u2019m humbled and reminded that only You have the \u201cBig Picture\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201c”For my thoughts are not your thoughts, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, Thank You Father, for shining Your light in my dark moments, for teaching and guiding me (even when I\u2019m being stubborn), and for Blessing me with Your Presence in my life each day.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Happy Friday Father! Well Father, once again another work-week lies behind me.\u00a0 It\u2019s truly been a period of transition, with some changes for the positive, and others not so much.\u00a0 However, through all of the highs and lows this roller-coaster of a week has brought I\u2019ve been Blessed to have felt Your Presence […]<\/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":[359,243,168,256,419,107,639,286,132,701,503,581,556,915,308,487,15,173,42,754,628,847,444,964,140,47,808,1144,478,466,879,904,907,78,104,682,880,664,355,141,203,845,670,418,1143,81,1145,445,41,732,95,476,544,781,114,730,697,1019,71,481,138],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-bible","tag-big-picture","tag-bless","tag-blessed","tag-blessing","tag-care","tag-changes","tag-child","tag-children","tag-communing","tag-consume","tag-control","tag-conversation","tag-dear-lord","tag-dwell","tag-earth","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-focus","tag-foolish","tag-friday","tag-guiding","tag-happy","tag-happy-friday","tag-heart","tag-heavens","tag-high","tag-highs-and-lows","tag-humbled","tag-isaiah","tag-just","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-life","tag-light","tag-listen","tag-long","tag-mess","tag-message","tag-mind","tag-moments","tag-need","tag-night","tag-nightmare","tag-nightmare-situation","tag-path","tag-period-of-transition","tag-positive","tag-presence","tag-situation","tag-spirit","tag-teach","tag-teaching","tag-telling","tag-thank-you","tag-thoughts","tag-understand","tag-used","tag-voice","tag-week","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nneither are your ways my ways,”
\ndeclares the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nso are my ways higher than your ways
\nand my thoughts than your thoughts.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n