{"id":236,"date":"2008-09-24T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-09-24T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:01:13","slug":"i-am-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"I am a voice."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(Matthew 3:3 GW)\u00a0 Isaiah the prophet spoke about this man when he said, &#8220;A voice cries out in the desert: &#8216;Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, not as dramatic as John the Baptist.<\/p>\n<p>But I am a voice.<\/p>\n<p>And you are a voice.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone hearing God when we speak?<\/p>\n<p>Do we speak for God, or even better, do we allow God to speak through us?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have to be that smart or wise or even that spiritual.\u00a0 Just live God&#8217;s words, follow Christ, walk with forever in view.<\/p>\n<p>And somewhere along the way, some other person will hear God speak.<\/p>\n<p>Your physical equipment, your personality. . .God&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Zap. . .phzzzzzz.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .the light of eternity penetrates your workplace or school or neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Because you were in tune with your Creator and Redeemer someone heard God.<\/p>\n<p>Groovy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Matthew 3:3 GW)\u00a0 Isaiah the prophet spoke about this man when he said, &#8220;A voice cries out in the desert: &#8216;Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!&#8217;&#8221; Okay, not as dramatic as John the Baptist. But I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-3O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}