{"id":593,"date":"2019-11-01T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=593"},"modified":"2019-11-01T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T09:10:03","slug":"if-the-lord-was-not-on-our-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/01\/if-the-lord-was-not-on-our-side\/","title":{"rendered":"IF THE LORD WAS NOT ON OUR SIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us,  Then they would have swallowed us alive,  When their wrath was kindled against us ( Ps 124: 2-3).<\/p>\n<p>The chapter is related to the deliverance of Israel  from a foreign invader. The enemy&#8217; s anger was kindled against them. They wanted to swallow them alive; like a predatory animal. But God came to their rescue . He broke the snare and they escaped. <\/p>\n<p>Brethren, blessed be the Lord who has not given us to be torn by their teeth ( Ps 124:6) our God is our protector and our deliverer. He who watches over Israel sleeps not and slumbers not. He is on your side.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us, Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us ( Ps 124: 2-3). The chapter is related to the deliverance of Israel from a foreign invader. The enemy&#8217; s anger was kindled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"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\/593"}],"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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}