{"id":1420,"date":"2012-05-14T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-05-14T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:32:03","slug":"1-samuel-1619-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 16:19-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, \u201cSend me your son David, who is with the sheep.\u201d So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God\u2019s calling was not an issue for the boy who worshipped God in the sheep fields. Many people worry that they have missed their calling, but David reminds us that God can open any door that He wants when the time is right. So don\u2019t fret over your calling, focus on God and be content with Him alone. He knows where you are, even if you feel that you are alone in a field.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, \u201cSend me your son David, who is with the sheep.\u201d So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[56,44],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-old-testament","tag-samuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}