{"id":76,"date":"2020-01-01T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellaword.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-04-29T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:20:36","slug":"ifagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"If, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m a battle-scarred veteran of unsanctified covenant\u2013out alive and grateful! God has lifted my head and my future is His business. It\u2019s not up to me or anyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>Abba Father, you know my thoughts regarding that profound mystery, and my dreams of that place I\u2019ve never been: In Season, ordained, and hand-picked. I commit them to you and I trust you to return them to me, sanctified, if again.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><strong>If, Again<\/strong><br \/><br \/>I\u2019ll feast at the end of my fast<br \/><br \/>And drink deeply through parched lips<br \/><br \/>I\u2019ll relish that which was restricted<br \/><br \/>And the giving\u2026<br \/><br \/>That shall be the sweeter portion!<\/pre>\n<h3>\u201cInstead, you ought to say, \u2018If it is the Lord\u2019s will, we will live and do <br \/>this or that.\u2019\u201d <br \/>James 4:15<\/h3>\n<p>My Thoughts<br \/>The desire for human intimacy and companionship has resulted in choices that fell painfully short of our expectations. But in Christ there\u2019s grace for new beginnings: Covenant love, done God\u2019s way&#8211; in keeping with\u00a0<strong>His<\/strong>\u00a0will.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Further Study\u00a0<br \/>Ephesians 5:31-32<br \/>James 1:13-14<br \/>1 Corinthians 6:18-20<br \/>Hebrews 13:4<br \/>Song of Solomon 4:9-10<br \/>Proverbs 16:9;\u00a021:30<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a battle-scarred veteran of unsanctified covenant\u2013out alive and grateful! God has lifted my head and my future is His business. It\u2019s not up to me or anyone else. Abba Father, you know my thoughts regarding that profound mystery, and my dreams of that place I\u2019ve never been: In Season, ordained, and hand-picked. I commit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-poetryspotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}