{"id":2426,"date":"2010-10-31T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T06:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2010-09-30T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:47:38","slug":"celebrating-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating in the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;So Moses told the people to celebrate the Passover in the  wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the appointed day. \u00a0And they  celebrated there, just as the Lord had commanded Moses&#8221; \u00a0(Numbers 9:4-5  NLT).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A party in the desert? \u00a0God actually wanted them to be festive while wandering? \u00a0What was He thinking?<\/p>\n<p>I know.<\/p>\n<p>He knew the outcome. \u00a0He knew about the milk and honey in the new land.  \u00a0He was well aware of the great things that would happen in the new  land.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true for us.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want us to wait to sing until the sun&#8217;s shining.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want us to postpone praise until we&#8217;re holding the blessings in our hands.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want us to bide our time whimpering and wailing over the things we&#8217;ve not yet gotten.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want us to shelve the opportunities He&#8217;ll provide us to  testify to His greatness, even before the prayers are answered.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait to celebrate His goodness. \u00a0Do not defer the praise owed Him  for a brighter day, a more preferred outcome or when your hands are  full of His blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Praise Him today. \u00a0Yes, even in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Malinda Edgell<br \/>\nIllinois<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray against the powers of darkness in your community today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So Moses told the people to celebrate the Passover in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the appointed day. \u00a0And they celebrated there, just as the Lord had commanded Moses&#8221; \u00a0(Numbers 9:4-5 NLT). A party in the desert? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2426\">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-2426","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\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}