{"id":4085,"date":"2022-10-21T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2022-10-21T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:20:06","slug":"god-gives-raw-materials-we-finish-the-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/21\/god-gives-raw-materials-we-finish-the-products\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD GIVES RAW MATERIALS, WE FINISH THE PRODUCTS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 36:1-2 So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.\u201d Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.<\/p>\n<p>God gave  Moses specifications to be followed when constructing the tent of meeting. He also directed him to the people who were endowed with abilities ,talents and skills to put all the offered raw materials into a finished product. Bezalel and Oholiab  were  filled  with the Spirit of God,  wisdom, understanding and  knowledge in  all kinds of skills to make artistic designs of gold, silver ,bronze  and to set stones and  wood .<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, its the desire of every soul to own an already finished product ; A perfect man for a husband,noble character end woman,disciplined children,blazing beautiful cathedrals,stable marriage  etc .But very few are willing to put on dirty and  oily  overall  ,armed with hoeing and carving tools to work on already God  given ores of gold, silver ,bronze ,metal ,stone  and wood  to come up with magnificent master piece of their choice .<\/p>\n<p>Many a times ,God won&#8217;t offer finished products of our choice , but He will never fail to supply the most needed raw materials. God has given us skills, knowledge, talents and the ability to come up with beautifully finished products. In our midst we have great thinkers, architects, designers, event organizers, contra\u00e7tors , counselors, teachers,  medics, coaches, song writers, preachers , farmers, business people just to name a few. Its time to  put on our &#8221; oily overalls&#8221; and get to work!<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nExo 28:3<br \/>\nPro 14:1<br \/>\nMat 25:16-18<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Weekend \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 36:1-2 So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.\u201d Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}