{"id":2879,"date":"2015-07-08T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2015-07-08T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:51:32","slug":"our-daily-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/07\/08\/our-daily-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Daily Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/odb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Daily Bread<\/a> is a devotional that I follow.\u00a0 Some days it seems totally irrelevant to my life, other days spot on.\u00a0 Today is one of the latter.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s verse has to do with how God used Gideon for his purposes and how he provided Gideon with the necessary resources.\u00a0 It caused me to reflect upon the people who God brought into my life while in prison and how he used them and now how he is using me in other peoples lives.\u00a0 This comes at a time when I was feeling a bit down and really having some difficulty seeing any purpose to my existence.\u00a0 This comes to me today as I am having a conversation with a former customer, someone who had a website here more than a decade ago, and who is going through some difficult mental issues primarily with anxiety.\u00a0 Now I know that all the years I suffered with anxiety do have some purpose because otherwise I could not identify with what this person is going through.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"version-KJV result-text-style-normal text-html \">\n<h1 class=\"passage-display\"><span class=\"passage-display-bcv\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">Judges 6:11-16<\/span> \u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"passage-display-version\" style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">King James Version (KJV)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6666\" class=\"text Judg-6-11\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>And there came an angel of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6667\" class=\"text Judg-6-12\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>And the angel of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> appeared unto him, and said unto him, The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6668\" class=\"text Judg-6-13\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> bring us up from Egypt? but now the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6669\" class=\"text Judg-6-14\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6670\" class=\"text Judg-6-15\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father&#8217;s house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-6671\" class=\"text Judg-6-16\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Daily Bread is a devotional that I follow.\u00a0 Some days it seems totally irrelevant to my life, other days spot on.\u00a0 Today is one of the latter.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s verse has to do with how God used Gideon for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/07\/08\/our-daily-bread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}