{"id":6640,"date":"2020-10-15T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:11:40","slug":"thoughtful-thursday-be-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2020\/10\/15\/thoughtful-thursday-be-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursday: Be Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this season of social and political divisiveness, maintaining a sense of peace can be difficult, but it&#8217;s exactly when we need to find some peace the most.<\/p>\n<p>We often think of the\u00a0verse &#8220;Be still and know that I am God&#8221; (Psalm 46:10a) as a reminder to take time to rest in God, but it&#8217;s so much more than that. The verse comes at the end of a Psalm that describes God as our refuge and defender in times of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>It is a reminder of where to turn in the middle of unrest.<br \/>\nIt is a reminder that the battle is not ours.<br \/>\nIt is a reminder that even when &#8220;nations are in an uproar&#8221; God will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to read Psalm 46:10 in context and be reminded that God is bigger than any of our current circumstances. My hope is that it will help you to &#8220;be still&#8221; and\u00a0in a world that tries to steal your peace.<\/p>\n<p>Read Psalm 46 <a href=\"https:\/\/church.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f1e7adbf0b966935a90a31fca&amp;id=13f9fee54b&amp;e=d5b10886d4\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this season of social and political divisiveness, maintaining a sense of peace can be difficult, but it&#8217;s exactly when we need to find some peace the most. We often think of the\u00a0verse &#8220;Be still and know that I am God&#8221; (Psalm 46:10a) as a reminder to take time to rest in God, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,59,254,292,113,281,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adults","category-church-news","category-discipleship","category-faith","category-newsletters","category-pandemic","category-thoughtful-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}