{"id":4221,"date":"2020-06-01T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:54:24","slug":"witness-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/witness-in-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness in the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In solitude and dark of night, alone, but for the creatures in the wilderness, they lay,
\nWatching and listening to the man speaking to someone but who? He prayed.<\/h6>\n
Angels ascending and descending bringing comfort from the Father\u2019s house\u2026
\nThere in the moonlit night stirred a little mouse\u2026perched upon a tiny rock, nose twitching
\nThis way and that \u2026listening to all that was said. Mouse bowed his head\u2026<\/h6>\n
Tears like streams in the desert poured from the eyes of him\u2026
\nPraying for the people, all, of them\u2026
\nNations, within one man, woman, boy and girl\u2026
\nTreasure\u2019s more valuable than costly pearls\u2026
\nThe man lamented for them all, this is why he came to the world!<\/h6>\n
But they would not listen\u2026they would not give up their will\u2026love was all he was offering and it was not enough for them but still, he loved them.<\/h6>\n
Power and greed ran deep within their hearts\u2026pleasures of the earthly kind, kept them bound\u2026<\/h6>\n
Great sobs, unspoken sounds, were heard by heaven\u2019s hosts\u2026
\nPapa God listened to his son\u2019s pain, which hurt him most\u2026
\nPeople did not want to turn their lives around and follow what was good\u2026
\nEvil had a hold on them, Hell was where they stood\u2026<\/h6>\n
Little mouse ran to the man and squeaked, \u201cSir, I understand\u2026
\nThat if no one else will praise your name, the very rocks will cry out! I believe and I have seen you do wonderful things. I will go and tell the city mice, and we will go and sing\u2026then heaven will come down and change everything\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n
The man, drew in a deep breath, and lifted his head and sang\u2026 \u201cThank you Father for bringing to me this tiny, little, friend\u2026he\u2019s given me hope and I will go and finish everything.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Thousands gathered in the square as love was poured out and shared\u2026by the man who came that day to bless and take their sins away\u2026<\/h6>\n
Upon hearing that the crowds were changed, evil rose its ugly head\u2026took the man and killed him, now he was dead\u2026<\/h6>\n
But in solitude and dark of night, just before day-light, the stone was rolled away\u2026
\nJesus, AROSE, Victorious, and Love had conquered hate!<\/h6>\n
Tiny mouse had seen it all and lives to this very day\u2026running in the streets he sings, \u201cJesus is the truth the life and the way! And if you ask him too, he\u2019ll give, to you, eternal life that can never be taken away!\u201d<\/h6>\n
Tears are for the night, but JOY comes in the morning!<\/h6>\n
Angels in heaven rejoice, when a child is newborn\u2026<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 1, 2020<\/h6>\n
Psalm 30:1-5 English Standard Version (ESV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Joy Comes with the Morning<\/em><\/h6>\n
A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple.<\/em><\/h6>\n
1 I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. 2 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. 3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.[a] 4 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.[b] 5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.[c] Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Footnotes:<\/em>
\na. Psalm 30:3 Or to life, that I should not go down to the pit<\/em>
\nb. Psalm 30:4 Hebrew to the memorial of his holiness (see Exodus 3:15)<\/em>
\nc. Psalm 30:5 Or and in his favor is life<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In solitude and dark of night, alone, but for the creatures in the wilderness, they lay, Watching and listening to the man speaking to someone but who? He prayed. Angels ascending and descending bringing comfort from the Father\u2019s house\u2026 There in the moonlit night stirred a little mouse\u2026perched upon a tiny rock, nose twitching This…<\/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-4221","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-165","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","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=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}