{"id":4415,"date":"2020-10-14T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2020-10-15T01:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:29:32","slug":"devotional-oct-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/2020\/10\/devotional-oct-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional &#8211; Oct 14, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you interested in getting God - and heaven's - complete attention? Do you wonder if there's any hope in the face of natural disasters, global warming, and the general chaos of 2020? Join me for a few minutes in Revelation 8, and the 'backward masking' of creation. (And yes, I'm in the dark - but that's a pretty good analogy for where we are in prayer sometimes - and hopefully the biblical story behind me becomes a little clearer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Devotional - Oct 14, 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZLwKOXncN-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Today: 'C.S. Lewis Song' by Brooke FraserOne of the best songs I know for facing the heart ripping sadness of this chapter. \"If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfyI can only conclude that I was not made for hereIf the flesh that I fight is at best only light and momentary,Then of course I'll feel nude when to where I'm destined I'm compared\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PycBrNP8dXgI&amp;fbclid=IwAR3KzBG-qXdj6PXcy30LGjlPyWGrbV66gfFA3H3dSrSzxd-OwWRiIXse7_Q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PycBrNP8dXgI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marvin Gaye: 'Mercy Mercy Me' (The Ecology)Rolling Stone's latest ranking of Rock and Pop Albums ranked 'What's Going On' as #1. This song is certainly a big reason why. 'If I knew Christ was coming back tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree today.' - Martin Luther<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI&amp;fbclid=IwAR2B8pDNUPh_H41F4XMTGgDkoL26OWF1sOp_A1V0IdTBB9SQAJ1UF6g8B9Y\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in getting God &#8211; and heaven&#8217;s &#8211; complete attention? Do you wonder if there&#8217;s any hope in the face of natural disasters, global warming, and the general chaos of 2020? Join me for a few minutes in Revelation 8, and the &#8216;backward masking&#8217; of creation. (And yes, I&#8217;m in the dark &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}