{"id":6711,"date":"2024-07-19T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:26:21","slug":"saturday-july-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next day at Church In The Park in Temple, Texas, a dear friend, a veteran in his later seventies with health issues that challenge to the limit&#8212;asked me what went through my mind when I learned that Donald Trump was shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONE<br>America is at the boiling point, and it will spill over into more violence, if we don&#8217;t return to what made this country great for 250 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TWO<br>I remembered what Trump said at the picturesque America rally at Mt. Rushmore&#8212;<br>&#8220;They&#8217;re not coming after me&#8212;they&#8217;re coming after you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THREE<br>I prayed that this would be a wake up call for Donald Trump, to personally turn to God&#8212;a life-changing time, spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s speech last night, Thursday, July 18, was an answer to my prayer, and the prayers of millions of other Christians.<br>He rewrote his speech because of the attempt on his life.<br>Trump acknowledged in detail how it was a miracle that he was even there last night.<br>He mentioned God a number of times, and not casually in passing.<br>&#8220;I am here by the grace of Almighty God.&#8221;<br>That&#8217;s good enough for me, for now.<br>I share Franklin Graham&#8217;s prayer that Donald Trump will commit his heart and life to Jesus.<br>I believe God is working on that in Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next day at Church In The Park in Temple, Texas, a dear friend, a veteran in his later seventies with health issues that challenge to the limit&#8212;asked me what went through my mind when I learned that Donald Trump was shot. ONEAmerica is at the boiling point, and it will spill over into more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,14,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711"}],"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=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}