{"id":2393,"date":"2010-10-29T00:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2010-09-30T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:38:01","slug":"the-widows-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"The Widow&#8217;s Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAnd the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of\u00a0 God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth\u201d\u00a0 (1 Kings 17:24).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To say there was rejoicing at the home of the widow of Zarephath is an understatement.\u00a0 The widow previously had reservations about Elijah.\u00a0 Perhaps the widow uttered the words of our verse as a way of telling Elijah she was sorry for doubting him. Through this miracle, she received assurance that God would always be there, no matter what she faced.\u00a0 Elijah learned of power in prayer when men remain obedient to the will of God.<\/p>\n<p>Dear friend, if you are a single or a widowed mother, God is there to provide you with whatever you need to keep pressing on for Him.\u00a0 Just like the widow of Zarephath, you can have the ability to shine like a sparkling \u201csolitaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for households struggling to stretch dollars at the end of the month. Could you share a meal or supply a need?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of\u00a0 God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth\u201d\u00a0 (1 Kings 17:24). To say there was rejoicing at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2393\">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-2393","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\/2393","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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}