{"id":3861,"date":"2019-01-23T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:07:05","slug":"our-father-who-art-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3861","title":{"rendered":"OUR FATHER WHO ART IN WASHINGTON . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we say, &#8220;Our father who art in Washington, give us this day our daily bread,&#8221; now, how can we pray, &#8220;Deliver us from evil,&#8221; when needed?<\/p>\n<p>If Washington is our provider-god now, we can&#8217;t expect to switch gods at the moment of crisis, for the true God to deliver us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Trust In God&#8221; is a long-term commitment&#8212;personally and nationally&#8212;in order to experience &#8220;God Blessing America&#8221; in the long term as well.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, &#8220;God is a very present help in time of trouble,&#8221; but He is not manipulated into an emergency-only god.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of that Bible promise says, &#8220;God is our Refuge and Strength, . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That, my fellow Americans, is a daily, ongoing relationship of dependence on the One Who runs the universe&#8212;and our beloved country, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">founded on Him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we say, &#8220;Our father who art in Washington, give us this day our daily bread,&#8221; now, how can we pray, &#8220;Deliver us from evil,&#8221; when needed? If Washington is our provider-god now, we can&#8217;t expect to switch gods at the moment of crisis, for the true God to deliver us. &#8220;We Trust In God&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}