{"id":841,"date":"2023-10-18T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=841"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:32:35","slug":"18th-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"18th October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 144 \u201cMy deliverer and my shield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I was reflecting on how difficult times in my life have caused me to behave differently.&nbsp; I realised that these days, I have a much softer and relaxed approach to most situations as my work has moved from a regular job to a ministry that I am passionate about; my newfound confidence has led me to be less defensive.&nbsp; I describe this as a contrast to times in my life when things have gone wrong, and I have felt the need to put up shields to protect myself and have perhaps been a bit less pleasant to be around.&nbsp; I guess that if I had truly known this verse, I would have realised that God is my shield and deliverer, thankfully looking back I can now see this for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you relying on your own shields at the moment? If so, there\u2019s good news! God has got it covered; you can lean on His strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 55:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><sup>22&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Give all your cares to the Lord and He will give you strength. He will never let those who are right with Him be shaken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 144 \u201cMy deliverer and my shield.\u201d Last week I was reflecting on how difficult times in<\/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-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}