{"id":404,"date":"2015-02-22T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2015-03-03T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:40:42","slug":"sabbath-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/sabbath-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath &#8211; #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Matthew 11:28)<\/p>\n<p>Today is the first of six Sabbath days during the Lenten season.\u00a0 These are sometimes known as feast days.\u00a0 They are the Sundays within the\u00a0 40 day observance.\u00a0 They are not counted in the 40.\u00a0 These are days to &#8220;rest&#8221; in the presence of our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, today consider the invitation of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, as you read Psalm 23.\u00a0 How has your week been?<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling stressed?\u00a0 Come to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling overwhelmed?\u00a0 Come to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling afraid?\u00a0 Come to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Are you tired?\u00a0 Come to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>In the presence of Jesus there is a rest that goes beyond words&#8230;beyond your circumstances&#8230;beyond your failures.\u00a0 Will you come today and rest in Him?\u00a0 Read the Psalm again.\u00a0 Let\u00a0it wash over you as you read it.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spend some extra time in His presence today.\u00a0 Allow His peace to fill your heart.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Matthew 11:28) Today is the first of six Sabbath days during the Lenten season.\u00a0 These are sometimes known as feast days.\u00a0 They are the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/sabbath-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenten_blog_2015","category-all_posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkwood.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}