{"id":2441,"date":"2006-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.gleeckit.com\/2006\/10\/24\/purposeful\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"purposeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Purposeful< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Exodus 3:1-6, Exodus 4:1-9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God is purposeful in all of His operations. He called Moses\u00d5 attention for His intention. Moses, having fled to Midian because of his murder case, became a shepherd. As a shepherd, he needed to have a rod. A man that was not exposed to a rod for forty years became a rod-specialist. For forty years, the rod was his number one companion at work. He will not go to work as a shepherd without the rod in his hand. God wants to use you and what you have closest to you. What is in your hand? Is it the hand of your wife, or your husband? Do you realize that if you do not turn your attention to what is in your hand; the possibility of missing your the entire journey of life is high? Moses, after training for eighty years (forty in the palace, forty as a shepherd), needed to gain the attention of what was in his hand to serve the intention of God. Moses\u00d5 attention began to turn around when he turned aside to the burning bush. <b><i>Exodus 3:4, \u00d2So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look , God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, \u00d4Moses, Moses!\u00d3 And he said, \u00d4Here I am.\u00d5\u00d3<\/i><\/b> After hearing and answering God, he later found out what was in his hand for God\u00d5s intention. <b><i>Exodus 4:2, \u00d2So the Lord said to him, \u00d4What is that in your hand? He said, a rod.\u00d5\u00d3<\/i><\/b> Moses had a rod for his journey for the Lord. Do you wonder what is in your hand? Maybe He has called and you did not heed to attend to His intention. Ask Him for mercy to be able to identify what He has deposited in your life that is meant for the fulfillment of your destiny. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purposeful< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> Exodus 3:1-6, Exodus 4:1-9 &nbsp; God is purposeful in all of His operations. He called Moses\u00d5 attention for His intention. Moses, having fled to Midian because of his murder case, became a shepherd. As a shepherd, he needed to have a rod. A man that was not exposed to a rod &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purposeful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}