{"id":7576,"date":"2016-07-08T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2016-07-08T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:17:42","slug":"dallas-reality-check-for-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=7576","title":{"rendered":"Dallas reality check for believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard about the Dallas shooting, I went to bed with a heavy heart. The Lord placed three Scriptures on my heart as I laid in my bed, weeping and praying.<\/p>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"fqbfu-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fqbfu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fqbfu-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"ddbat-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ddbat-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ddbat-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Jesus said, &#8220;Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.&#8221; (Matt. 24:12) He saw it coming across the millennia. He told us this not to scare us but to prepare us.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"co6ms-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"co6ms-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"co6ms-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"962ql-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"962ql-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"962ql-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Above all else, guard your heart,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"e7ti5-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e7ti5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e7ti5-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> for everything you do flows from it.&#8221; Prov. 4:23 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"79i5m-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"79i5m-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"79i5m-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"ftqpb-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ftqpb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ftqpb-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.&#8221; Matt. 10:16<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"3el37-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3el37-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3el37-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"9tb7o-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9tb7o-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9tb7o-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">You and I aren&#8217;t accountable for the conditions of anyone else&#8217;s heart. We are each accountable for our own heart, attitudes, actions, and behaviors. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"tve2-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"tve2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"tve2-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"2orqs-0-0\" data-editor=\"2pope\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2orqs-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2orqs-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Therefore, what I am telling myself I will share with you: Don&#8217;t let your love grow cold, guard your heart, be shrewd [alert] AND be innocent.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2orqs-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2orqs-0-0\">Dorothy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard about the Dallas shooting, I went to bed with a heavy heart. 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