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Micah 4:9 \u00a0 <\/span>Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor? Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, \u201cLet her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.\u201d But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 30:6-7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?\u00a0\u00a0Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 13:8<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 22:23<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaiah 21:3<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.<\/p>\n

Hosea 13:10-11<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers\u2014 those of whom you said, \u201cGive me a king and princes\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Time and time again people of God have forsaken their love and devotion to Him.\u00a0 <\/span>He sends prophets to speak the truth, warnings, and righteousness expected.\u00a0 <\/span>What do they do? They still choose to disobey and turn their ears deaf to His calling to them.\u00a0 <\/span>Time and time again.\u00a0 <\/span>It is not as though they have not heard of the anger of God being displayed against people who have forsaken Him in the past.\u00a0 <\/span>Yet in their time of prosperity and peace, they choose to go down paths that are away from God.\u00a0 <\/span>They first become complacent and then neglectful and then disobedient.\u00a0 <\/span>It is not as though one day they woke up and said \u201cLet us be disobedient to God.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a small step up on a small step upon a small step.\u00a0 <\/span>Our growth in Jesus Christ is word upon word, line upon line, and precept upon precept.\u00a0 <\/span>When we allow ourselves to become neglectful and complacent we are not adding word upon word, line upon line, or precept upon precept.\u00a0 <\/span>We are though, taking small steps away from God and it does not take many of these steps to lose your way and\/or influence others to lose their way too.\u00a0 <\/span>We do well to search God\u2019s Word for truth for our soul\u00a0 <\/span>We do well to search it for meaning in our lives.\u00a0 <\/span>We do well to seek and desire it with all our hearts, minds, and souls.\u00a0 <\/span>In it, we will find soul-deep satisfaction.\u00a0 <\/span>In it, we will find living water that will continue to purify our sinful nature.\u00a0 <\/span>In it, we will become aware of sin in our lives.\u00a0 <\/span>In it, we will find hope for today and tomorrow.\u00a0 <\/span>In it we will be more than conquerors, we will be God-honoring faithful, trustful, and obedient followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micah 4:9 \u00a0 Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor? Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; … Continue reading “11.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13227,13652,4435,3375,10466,13650,3233,13654,13644,992,4602,813,602,2509,180,5118,1453,228,13653,1900,9647,13645,13651,735,13398,7101,8074,3017,352,3938,13649,13648,285,13646,13647,4751],"class_list":["post-88470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-aflame","tag-aghast","tag-aloud","tag-anguish","tag-babylon","tag-bear-a-child","tag-bowed-down","tag-cedars","tag-counselor","tag-cry","tag-defiled","tag-dismayed","tag-enemies","tag-groan","tag-hear","tag-jacob","tag-king","tag-labor","tag-lebanon","tag-nations","tag-open-country","tag-pain-seized","tag-pangs-of-agony","tag-perished","tag-pitied","tag-princes","tag-redeem-you","tag-rescued","tag-saved","tag-see","tag-sheaves","tag-they-do-not-know","tag-understand","tag-woman-in-labor","tag-writhe","tag-zion"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88470","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=88470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88576,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88470\/revisions\/88576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}