{"id":5821,"date":"2016-12-11T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2016-12-11T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:28:03","slug":"behold-it-was-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/11\/behold-it-was-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold it was corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 12:1<br \/>\nSave, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psalms 6:4<br \/>\n<strong>Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me<\/strong> for the sake of your steadfast love.<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 54:1<br \/>\n<strong>O God, save me by your name,<\/strong> and vindicate me by your might.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 20:6<br \/>\n<strong>Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,<\/strong> but a faithful man who can find?<\/p>\n<p>Genesis 6:12<br \/>\n<strong>And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 1:9<br \/>\n<strong>If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew 24:12<br \/>\nAnd because lawlessness will be increased, <strong>the love of many will grow cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 59:4<br \/>\nNo one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; <strong>they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,<\/strong> they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.<\/p>\n<p>Job 22<br \/>\n<strong>They said to God, \u2018Depart from us,\u2019 and \u2018What can the Almighty do to us?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At times we feel alone and like the only one who is in need of God, who trusts Him, who calls out to Him. \u00a0We don&#8217;t hear many speak of the fact that they call out to God in their distress\/trouble\/issues. \u00a0What we do hear is how they have reached out to everyone or anything but God in search of help. \u00a0What would our lives look like if we continually reached out to God first and then patiently waited for Him. \u00a0Would we speak of how we cried out to Him? \u00a0Would others be encouraged to seek God? \u00a0Would we find our path and issue more of a blessing than a curse? \u00a0I am thankful for how David calls out to God and that God&#8217;s word tells us what others think and do apart from Him. \u00a0They do not think God exists, or if He does He does not have any control, power, or strength over the situation. \u00a0We can be the one that proclaims His love, mercy and grace to a lost world, but first we must believe it, grow in it, and obey it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.&#8221; &nbsp; Psalms 12:1 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.\u00a0\u00a0Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/11\/behold-it-was-corrupt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behold it was corrupt&#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":[1999,1062,1798,2004,1998,2002,2001,304,1996,487,2000,1799,584,2003,1997,2005],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-by-your-name","tag-corrupt","tag-deliver-my-life","tag-depart-from-us","tag-double-heart","tag-empty-pleas","tag-few-surviors","tag-flesh","tag-godly","tag-grow-cold","tag-man-proclaims","tag-save-me","tag-sodom-and-gomorrah","tag-speak-lies","tag-utters-lies","tag-what-can-the-almighty-do-to-us"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","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=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}