{"id":350,"date":"2017-05-25T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2017-05-25T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:32:06","slug":"our-need-for-direction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Our need for Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\">How many people have ignored the truth at one time or another? I could put two hands up!<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<p>Our need for direction is instinctual because something\/someone is after you! Everything is going wrong, but some how you saw the shadow of death and God woke you up and snatched you out. Again, I can say yeah that has been me too. I then had to realize that what i was doing wasn\u2019t working yes, I too needed direction.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Psalms 34:14<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You could be the person who says, \u201cI have ignored all the signs and now I need more. \u201d It only takes one step to get on track while in pursuit of direction you will then face some tough questions, and even tougher challenges. You will also have to face something called deliverance and it is at that point you might get uncomfortable because you will have to adapt to a new normal. I say that because at some point your disfunction became normal to you. Don\u2019t get scared remember that change isn\u2019t easy, your pursuit of direction doesn\u2019t ever\u00a0really stop it can best be reflected in stages of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Going, Keep growing! He wants you to take you to your next level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>-Lady Mel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many people have ignored the truth at one time or another? I could put two hands up! Our need for direction is instinctual because something\/someone is after you! Everything is going wrong, but some how you saw the shadow of death and God woke you up and snatched you out. Again, I can say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our need for Direction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[10,49,28,45,40,21,18,8,42,52,43,27,39,53,48,56,55,36,30,58,37,54,51,35,57,5,44,50,25,26,47,33,9,41,38,31,19,22,20,23,46,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}