{"id":702,"date":"2023-01-12T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=702"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:35:20","slug":"12th-january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"12<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 104 \u201cYou renew the face of the earth\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a day late posting my blog this week as I\u2019ve just got back from the Fresh Streams Conference, and I\u2019m taking time to rest and think about what I have heard over the past 3 days.&nbsp; Reading through my notes this morning, Psalm 68: 5-6 jumps out;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFather to the fatherless, defender of widows\u2014<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;this is God, whose dwelling is holy.<br><strong><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>God places the lonely in families;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often talk about Renew being like a family and it is.&nbsp; I was talking to one of the young people in our local Renew CYF group and when I asked what she likes about it she said \u201cit\u2019s like having your own little family on a Friday night\u201d.&nbsp; If we make people welcome, meet them where we are and bring them into our Renew family, I believe that we are fulfilling God\u2019s desire set out in Psalm 68, this is bring God\u2019s kingdom to our local communities \u2013 bless you for your part in renewing the face of the earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 104 \u201cYou renew the face of the earth\u201d I\u2019m a day late posting my blog this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}