{"id":404,"date":"2011-08-03T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2014-07-06T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:12:14","slug":"but-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"But God."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But God<br \/>\nIn this morning\u2019s meditation two interesting words came while praying:<br \/>\nBut God. These two words appear 44 times in the KJV translation, first in Genesis 20:3, the last 1Thessalonians 4:8.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the verse,<br \/>\n1Jo 5:19 \u201cAnd we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My thinking is that Satan has permeated the whole world with his evil desires like what happened to Lot,<br \/>\n2Pe 2:8 \u201cFor that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are living in a polluted world and need day by day to renew our mind by meditation on Philippians 4:8 \u201c Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.\u201d I was given that verse 57 years ago and it keeps popping up in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>The words But God relate to what men have planned as their agenda for the world. Man\u2019s plans have not put God in the equation.<\/p>\n<p>Men think China will collapse when the American dollar goes down, but it will not. China will shake its head and get on with business.<\/p>\n<p>The key nations to watch are in the middle east, not North America.<\/p>\n<p>We have a hope and a future.<br \/>\nJeremiah 29:11 \u201cFor I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.\u201d  Amplified Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But God In this morning\u2019s meditation two interesting words came while praying: But God. These two words appear 44 times in the KJV translation, first in Genesis 20:3, the last 1Thessalonians 4:8. Then came the verse, 1Jo 5:19 \u201cAnd we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}