{"id":2364,"date":"2018-04-23T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:50:32","slug":"the-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/the-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n
From a dark lonely street<\/h6>\n
To a Sanctuary He brought me<\/h6>\n
Not knowing at the time<\/h6>\n
What God had in mind\u2026<\/h6>\n
Alone, but not forsaken<\/h6>\n
I opened my hearts door<\/h6>\n
It wasn\u2019t long before\u2026<\/h6>\n
I began to know, intimacy, with the Lord\u2026<\/h6>\n
Quiet seemed so loud<\/h6>\n
In my humble tiny shroud<\/h6>\n
My Sanctuary; God\u2019s presence, like a cloud\u2026<\/h6>\n
Filled up my mornings with words he asked me to write\u2026<\/h6>\n
Waiting patiently for Him to speak\u2026anticipating Him, I\u2019d seek<\/h6>\n
And then He\u2019d whisper, a story that sometimes made me weep\u2026<\/h6>\n
God was teaching me I needed to be meek\u2026<\/h6>\n
Days came and seasons changed\u2026<\/h6>\n
One life gone, new life, transformed\u2026<\/h6>\n
God\u2019s likeness was born\u2026<\/h6>\n
In the Sanctuary of His presence, I no longer mourned<\/h6>\n
My life, no longer torn\u2026<\/h6>\n
Between two worlds\u2026<\/h6>\n
Spirit comforted and Spirit complete\u2026<\/h6>\n
Writing God\u2019s messages, so others would seek<\/h6>\n
A Sanctuary of their own<\/h6>\n
Unconditional Love melted my heart of stone\u2026<\/h6>\n
I learned\u2026<\/h6>\n
Upon his head are wounds of his love<\/h6>\n
Taken there for me\u2026<\/h6>\n
Scars remain but will never regain\u2026<\/h6>\n
The place where they once caused me, bitter, pain\u2026<\/h6>\n
He brought me to the Sanctuary<\/h6>\n
Where I would come to know<\/h6>\n
The Love of the Savior and how He loves me so\u2026<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t struggle in the lonely times<\/h6>\n
Times you feel no one sees\u2026<\/h6>\n
For God has brought you to His Sanctuary\u2026<\/h6>\n
Where he longs for you to be\u2026<\/h6>\n
Open your heart and open your mind<\/h6>\n
Let Spirit, guide you and you\u2019ll see\u2026<\/h6>\n
God is our Sanctuary He is waiting there for thee\u2026<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill April 23, 2018<\/h6>\n
Psalm 63:1-4 English Standard Version (ESV)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 From a dark lonely street To a Sanctuary He brought me Not knowing at the time What God had in mind\u2026 Alone, but not forsaken I opened my hearts door It wasn\u2019t long before\u2026 I began to know, intimacy, with the Lord\u2026 Quiet seemed so loud In my humble tiny shroud My Sanctuary; God\u2019s…<\/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-2364","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-C8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","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=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}