{"id":3411,"date":"2014-07-18T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:28:59","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-7-18-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-7-18-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 7-18-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV) So he answered and said to me: &#8220;This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: &#8216;Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,&#8217; Says the Lord of hosts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As we walk though our lives and we encounter various situations, trials, difficulties, etc., we often call on God to help us or deliver us from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">When we do, we always seem to have preconceived ideas as to how God should do it. Most times these ideas involve God swooping down in some miraculous way, making a grand display of His power and might, crushing our problems with His awesomeness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">On the contrary, though, it&#8217;s almost never this way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>God rarely does things the way we expect Him to. He does things the way they\u00a0<\/span><i><span>need<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0to be done and in a way that we would never have figured out in advance, so we can&#8217;t take the credit for it and to build our trust and faith in Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>So if you&#8217;re in a bit of trouble right now, or if you encounter trouble in your future, go ahead and ask God to help you, but don&#8217;t expect it to be the way\u00a0<\/span><i><span>you<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0think it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Not by might nor power, but by His spirit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Seven Seas Ministries<\/span><br \/>\n<span>P.O. Box 272<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Bradford, RI 02808<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>401-315-0902<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c29;\">If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c29;\">To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please enter your email address in the box near the upper right corner of this page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV) So he answered and said to me: &#8220;This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: &#8216;Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,&#8217; Says the Lord of hosts. As we walk though our lives and we encounter various situations, trials, difficulties, etc., we often call on God to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[307,1595,1596,44,1594],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trusting-god-2","tag-letting-god-be-god","tag-letting-god-move-on-our-behalf","tag-putting-god-in-a-box","tag-trusting-god","tag-trusting-god-in-times-of-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}