{"id":38987,"date":"2018-05-07T04:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=38987"},"modified":"2018-05-07T04:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:16:33","slug":"where-is-their-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/where-is-their-god\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhere is their God?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:19.115.2\"><b>Psalms 115:2<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere is their God?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.42.3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 42:3<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, \u201cWhere is your God?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:2.32.12\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Exodus 32:12<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Why should the Egyptians say, \u2018With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth\u2019? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:4.14.15\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Numbers 14:15-16<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,\u00a0\u00a0\u2018It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:12.19.10\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2 Kings 19:10-19<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: \u2018Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.\u00a0\u00a0Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?\u00a0\u00a0Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?\u00a0\u00a0Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.\u00a0\u00a0And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: \u201cO LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.\u00a0\u00a0Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.\u00a0\u00a0Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands\u00a0\u00a0and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men&#8217;s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.\u00a0\u00a0So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">People on the sidelines mock and challenge God.\u00a0 They look for reasons to prove He does not exist or able or capable to intercede in the affairs of man.\u00a0 Those who&#8217;s hear, mind, and soul desire to know, honor, serve, follow and obey, continually see the hand of God at work in their lives.\u00a0 He speaks into their life.\u00a0 He guides their thoughts and leads them through a journey of faith filled action.\u00a0 Our strength is in the LORD.\u00a0 He is my Hope and my salvation.\u00a0 He alone is God and is able to do more than we ask and much more than we can imagine.\u00a0 Through His word we find peace and encouragement for each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 115:2\u00a0\u00a0Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere is their God?\u201d Psalms 42:3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, \u201cWhere is your God?\u201d Exodus 32:12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why should the Egyptians say, \u2018With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/where-is-their-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cWhere is their God?\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2371,210,2696,466,2358,806,167,2243,7057,4964,6630,7060,2699,7058,7062,1900,7061,559,4771,2723,7056,701,7064,7063,7059],"class_list":["post-38987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-all-these-things-will-be-added-to-you","tag-brokenhearted","tag-burning-anger","tag-compassion","tag-consume-them","tag-destroyed","tag-disaster","tag-earth","tag-evil-intent","tag-food","tag-hezekiah","tag-incline-you-ear","tag-kingdoms","tag-messengers","tag-mocking-the-living-god","tag-nations","tag-open-your-eyes","tag-prayed","tag-save-us","tag-tears","tag-where-is-their-god","tag-wilderness","tag-wood-and-stone","tag-work-of-mens-hands","tag-you-alone"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39404,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987\/revisions\/39404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}