{"id":811,"date":"2023-07-26T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=811"},"modified":"2023-07-21T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:39:53","slug":"26th-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"26th July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 132 \u201cYou are the Lord\u2019s dwelling place, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word dwell meaning to remain, make yourself at home, to stay in a secure place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 32:18<\/strong>\u201cMy people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dwelling is a house, or a place of rest so how wonderful that God chooses to dwell in us.&nbsp; I find it hard to imagine that God would want to dwell in me with all my flaws, so think how it must feel to the lonely, isolated, and rejected when they find a welcome smile and someone who is prepared to sit alongside them, perhaps for the first time that week in your Renew space.&nbsp; As someone said to me recently, \u201cthis is kingdom work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bless you as you dwell with God and others this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Prayer from A-Z of Wellbeing, Ruth Rice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dwell in me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I dwell in you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great host of this table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In pastures new<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help me accept that you want in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You choose my home, my life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite my sin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as I\u2019m racing up and down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To try to smile and erase that frown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You whisper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have come to dwell in you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as you are, so<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Child, please come, sit down too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 132 \u201cYou are the Lord\u2019s dwelling place, forever.\u201d The word dwell meaning to remain, make yourself<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}