{"id":66,"date":"2019-09-06T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-06-20T06:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:07:33","slug":"stand-in-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/06\/stand-in-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"I SOUGHT FOR A MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eze 22:30 I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it ,but I found none<\/p>\n<p>When God pronounced judgment over Jerusalem   through prophet Ezekiel ,He gave a condition under which the judgment would be nullified -having a man to build the wall  and stand in the gap . He was looking for anyone among the princes, prophets,  priests or people that would stand between a sinful people and their offended God and intreat for mercy and none was morally able for such an office.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many lapses in every corner of our lives , country,families,churches,institutions and in every sector and system .God has not called us to judge and condemn the world. We can do more than mere talks and blame game  -standing on the gap on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings:<br \/>\nIsa 59:16, 63:5-6<br \/>\nJer 5:1<br \/>\nPsa 106:23<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f.Blessed day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eze 22:30 I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it ,but I found none When God pronounced judgment over Jerusalem through prophet Ezekiel ,He gave a condition under which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"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\/66"}],"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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}