{"id":1451,"date":"2012-06-01T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-06-01T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:22:49","slug":"2-samuel-518-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 5:18-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; so David inquired of the Lord, \u201cShall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?\u201d The Lord answered him, \u201cGo, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Philistines were the enemy of the Jewish people, so you would think that their unwelcome arrival would provoke an attack. Yet David did not just react to the situation\u2014he sought the Lord. We are prone to do what seems obvious to us, but are we willing to seek God\u2019s opinion in all things? Don\u2019t just coast on your own wisdom, for God has something to say about the major obstacles that we all encounter in life.\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>Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; so David inquired of the Lord, \u201cShall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?\u201d The Lord answered him, \u201cGo, for I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1451\">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-1451","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\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}