{"id":508,"date":"2010-01-12T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-01-12T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:18:00","slug":"found-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Found It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sacrifice<\/span> &#8211; the surrender, devoting or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S0zPPyfPZqI\/AAAAAAAAGI8\/zees25I2LME\/s1600-h\/DSC05547.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S0zPPyfPZqI\/AAAAAAAAGI8\/zees25I2LME\/s320\/DSC05547.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425939521232397986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Too tired to turn on the computer and look up the devotional I have been following I flipped open my favorite copy of the Bible and found Psalms&#8230; it felt like a Psalms kinda morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I sat with my younger two screaming and laughing and running around the room and tried really really hard to listen&#8230; I don&#8217;t have a word for my year&#8230;. not so far and it has been the first year in, well, years so I have been feeling a bit nervous&#8230; worried about why not!<\/p>\n<p>Looked down at the fourth Psalm and noticed scribbles.  This caught my attention as there are hardly any marks in this Bible yet.  Verse four and five had a special note dated three years ago from now.  &#8220;I need to sacrifice my TIME, to Him so I can trust him and not be distressed, disturbed&#8230;&#8221;  The verses read &#8216;When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent.  Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If I get stressed I still tend to cram my time till I am too busy for the Lord, on purpose often, and then I only become more overwhelmed by life and out of line with my life purpose, glorifying God, furthering the Kingdom, aligning myself with what He has going on&#8230;  That was the mark where this arrow of scripture hit my heart years ago and it did so again today&#8230;  After a year learning about listening I no longer think I can just learn stuff and hope it sticks or try to change&#8230; I now no it will involve coming to the Lord, waiting on the Lord&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The verse and comment where as relevant today&#8230;Phew, can I sacrifice TIME to the Lord this year?<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacrifice &#8211; the surrender, devoting or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.Too tired to turn on the computer and look up the devotional I have been following I flipped open my favorite copy of the Bible and found Psalms&#8230; it felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}