{"id":1663,"date":"2017-11-16T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:54:42","slug":"the-backside-of-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/16\/the-backside-of-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backside of the Desert\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forty years in the desert<\/h6>\n
Sand storms and dry dusty days and nights\u2026<\/h6>\n
Shepherding a flock of sheep<\/h6>\n
Praying for family I\u2019d weep\u2026<\/h6>\n
Forty long years and then God drew me near\u2026<\/h6>\n
Standing shoeless on Holy Ground<\/h6>\n
I bowed in fear\u2026<\/h6>\n
Quaking at the burning bush I could only hear<\/h6>\n
I Am that I Am<\/em>; a voice came loud and clear\u2026<\/h6>\n
Fire that does not consume, but fills the dark, the gloom<\/h6>\n
With over powering solitude\u2026<\/h6>\n
In the desert I found my purpose\u2026<\/h6>\n
Go, set my people free<\/em>\u2026<\/h6>\n
God asked this of me!!!<\/h6>\n
I learned patience in the desert<\/h6>\n
I learned long suffering and gratitude\u2026<\/h6>\n
I learned no matter what I face in life<\/h6>\n
God is always faithful, His word cuts like a knife\u2026<\/h6>\n
But He is always right\u2026<\/h6>\n
The desert is my learning ground<\/h6>\n
For in it, I was found!<\/h6>\n
~M.S. O\u2019Neill November 16, 2017<\/h6>\n
Exodus 3:4-10 <\/em><\/strong>When the <\/em>Lord<\/em> saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, \u201cMoses! Moses!\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
And Moses said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0\u201cDo not come any closer,\u201d God said. \u201cTake off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.\u201d<\/em> Then he said, \u201cI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.\u201d At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.<\/em><\/h6>\n
The <\/em>Lord<\/em> said, \u201cI have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.<\/em> So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey\u2014the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
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  Forty years in the desert Sand storms and dry dusty days and nights\u2026 Shepherding a flock of sheep Praying for family I\u2019d weep\u2026 Forty long years and then God drew me near\u2026 Standing shoeless on Holy Ground I bowed in fear\u2026 Quaking at the burning bush I could only hear I Am that I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-qP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}