{"id":8084,"date":"2026-07-29T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:17:53","slug":"damascus-road-butler-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8084","title":{"rendered":"DAMASCUS ROAD &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; BUTLER RALLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, many times, God intervenes dramatically in the lives of individuals He chooses and appoints for a special purpose, a specific task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God arranged something spectacular to first get Saul&#8217;s attention, then change his heart and mission from terrorizing Christians to the number one spokesman for Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of Saul&#8217;s conversion (and his name-change to Paul), God told Annanias to baptize him and said,<br>&#8220;I will show him how much he must suffer for Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>God arranged a dramatically close encounter with death for Donald Trump in Butler, PA, to get his attention.<br>God put Trump in the White House by way of an unprecedented mandate from American voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God had a mission, a definite task for Trump to accomplish.<br>Trump got the message.<br>Over and over he said,<br>&#8220;God saved my life so I can save America.&#8221;<br>Amen to that !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe the ongoing overwhelming opposition to Trump is confirmation of that mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, many times, God intervenes dramatically in the lives of individuals He chooses and appoints for a special purpose, a specific task. God arranged something spectacular to first get Saul&#8217;s attention, then change his heart and mission from terrorizing Christians to the number one spokesman for Jesus. At the time of Saul&#8217;s conversion (and his [&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-8084","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\/8084"}],"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=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}