{"id":7997,"date":"2025-08-08T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:21:21","slug":"midsummer-thoughts-after-eavesdropping-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/midsummer-thoughts-after-eavesdropping-on-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer Thoughts, After Eavesdropping on God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8-11-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May I share random observations, revelations, and (I pray) inspired thoughts I recently have had, and jotted down? What percentage of each is of the Holy Spirit or \u201cme, myself, and I,\u201d is for others to debate or decide. But these thoughts have got me to thinking \u2013 perhaps a major accomplishment right there \u2013 and maybe they\u2019ll start spiritual balls rolling in your daily walk too\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><em>Contentment is something we seek.<br>\nHappiness is something we can achieve on our own.<br>\nJOY is of the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>+++<\/p>\n\n<p>Satan tempts.<br>\nGod tests.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>Pride might be the chief sin, the worst offense of all.<br>\nEvery other sin is committed because we think we know better than God, or He will give us a \u201cpass.\u201d\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>Life without Jesus can yield partial success\u2026<br>\nBut it ultimately guarantees total failure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>Not original with me, but it is in the Bible \u2013<br>\nAnd a deadly warning if you ignore it:<br>\nBe not deceived; God is not mocked.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bible has been 100 per cent correct about prophecies fulfilled.\nThe world scurries about, managing at best to predict the past.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>No offense meant to charitable impulses,<br>\nBut in God\u2019s view there is a big difference between <em>giving<\/em> and <em>forgiving<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>The James Webb Space Telescope reveals the incredible immensity of God\u2019s universe.\nWe see that Earth is, relatively, one tiny dot.<br>\nSecular people say that means we are insignificant.<br>\nGod says that means we are special!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to be Politically Correct.<br>\nWhat matters is that we be Spiritually Correct!<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>We are told that no one knows the time of Jesus\u2019s return to earth.<br>\nI do!<br>\n\u2026 It will be the time we least expect it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t lose a friend you never had.<br>\nWhat a Friend we have in Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>Jesus is never rude, but He can be annoying.<br>\nThat knocking you hear at the door \u2013 when will you open it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><em>An appropriate testimony and prayer by the autistic blind boy Christopher Duffley.<br>\nWritten by my friend Paul Baloche.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Click: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NjYeUN2zWqI\"><strong>Open the Eyes of My Heart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-11-25 May I share random observations, revelations, and (I pray) inspired thoughts I recently have had, and jotted down? What percentage of each is of the Holy Spirit or \u201cme, myself, and I,\u201d is for others to debate or decide. But these thoughts have got me to thinking \u2013 perhaps a major accomplishment right there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4035,53,4041],"tags":[586,2699,587],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-faith","category-healing","tag-christopher-duffley","tag-northland-church","tag-paul-baloche"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1bRYz-24Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}