{"id":60,"date":"2013-09-02T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-09-02T00:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:06:01","slug":"if-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/if-then\/","title":{"rendered":"If &#8230;.then&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading a book, Miraculous Movements, by Jerry Trousdale, about God&#8217;s work among Muslims in very high percentage Muslim areas.<\/p>\n<p>He said they teach the participants to ask themselves a question during the Discovery Bible Studies which they use in discipleship, &#8220;If this is truly from God, then what must change in my life?&#8221;  Therefore, for this month of September, 2013, I do not plan to comment on Scripture as I post it on<br \/>\nFacebook, apart from posting that question along with the Scripture.  This month, I hope to regularly share the impact of the posted Scriptures in my life through my blog, Passage to Higher Ground.  I want the reader to let God impact them with the Scripture before they read of God&#8217;s impact on me through the Scripture.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s selections are Psalm 1:1-4; Proverbs 1:1-6, and Joel 2:28-34:  <\/p>\n<p>Bible Study Tools Bible Versions NAS Psalm 1:1-4<br \/>\nPsalm 1:1-4 (New American Standard)View In My Bible<\/p>\n<p>The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted.<br \/>\n&#8220;1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers !<br \/>\n2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.<br \/>\n3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither ; And in whatever he does, he prospers.<br \/>\n4 The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, what awesome blessings God bestows on those who follow Him, delight in His law, and meditate on his law and grace day and night!  I have noticed these blessings when I think about God&#8217;s Word through the day and obey Him.  I must continually do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading a book, Miraculous Movements, by Jerry Trousdale, about God&#8217;s work among Muslims in very high percentage Muslim areas. He said they teach the participants to ask themselves a question during the Discovery Bible Studies which they use in discipleship, &#8220;If this is truly from God, then what must change in my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/if-then\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If &#8230;.then&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5z4LD-Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}