{"id":8524,"date":"2020-06-17T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:52:22","slug":"declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Declare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a thought today while reading Romans 1:4a. &#8220;[Jesus] <em>was DECLARED the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That word DECLARED stood out to me. I thought that word always had to do with WORDS that are SPOKEN. However, here, it is a NON-VERBAL declaration by the ultimate DEMONSTRATION of GOD&#8217;S POWER\u2014raising Jesus from the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That got me to thinking. I SAY things all the time; but what is my LIFE declaring? It is certainly speaking day in and day&nbsp;out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will pray that my life, as well as my words, will declare the things God has ordained for me to declare. I am aware that this will take some discipline, self-control, and at times being brutally honest with myself and others. It will take the power of God that is beyond my ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I believe it will be well worth it.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>\u00a9 2020, Dorothy Frick <br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a thought today while reading Romans 1:4a. &#8220;[Jesus] was DECLARED the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead&#8230;&#8221; That word DECLARED stood out to me. I thought that word always had to do with WORDS that are SPOKEN. However, here, it is a NON-VERBAL declaration by the ultimate DEMONSTRATION [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-observations","category-prayerperspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}