{"id":1699,"date":"2010-01-29T00:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2010-01-24T06:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:38:17","slug":"run-to-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Run to Daddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak\u201d (Matthew 26:41).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be on guard against the devil by spending much time in prayer every day.\u00a0 That makes it easier to hear Him speak with you. We face a continual battle between flesh and spirit.\u00a0 Be in tune with God so you can hear Him warn you of impending danger.<\/p>\n<p>I love the illustration our TWG study writer uses about the three-year-old who encountered a giant dog in the yard. She sensed this dog was dangerous.\u00a0 Instead of displaying fear, she ran to her daddy.\u00a0 We are going to face \u201cgiants\u201d in our lives that will scare us. Instead of giving into fear and feeling we can\u2019t win, we need to \u201crun to our Daddy.\u201d\u00a0 God will be there to help us fight the \u201croaring lion.\u201d\u00a0 When we find ourselves faced with deception, run to God and pray. I heard this expression which I thought was appropriate to include today.\u00a0 \u201cOn your knees, you are in His Arms.\u201d\u00a0 That is the safest place to be when the devil is trying to deceive you.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for our WAC leaders\u2014from the local level to international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak\u201d (Matthew 26:41). Be on guard against the devil by spending much time in prayer every day.\u00a0 That makes it easier to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1699\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}