{"id":1806,"date":"2013-03-25T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:56:38","slug":"amos-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Amos 2:11"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?\u201d declares the Lord.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of us chose where we were born or the time period in which we enter this world; those things are determined by the hand of God. This realization does a number of things. It destroys the myth that we are \u201cself made\u201d people, for we do not have the capacity to create the unique circumstances of our generation. This should also humble us, for the opportunities that we see in front of us are a result of God\u2019s mercy in our unique time. Finally, this should focus us, for our response to the challenges in front of us lead us to the fulfillment of God\u2019s purposes for our lives.\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>\u201cI also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?\u201d declares the Lord. None of us chose where we were born or the time period in which we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1806\">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":[49,56],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-amos","tag-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}