{"id":3001,"date":"2022-12-01T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2022-12-01T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:40:19","slug":"salient-verses-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/salient-verses-9\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>SALIENT VERSES<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p><strong>\u201cBecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.\u201d <\/strong>(Ecclesiastes 8:11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is that of a speedy trial and a speedy punishment. If every killer in America knew beforehand that, if caught he would be convicted and hung before the end of the month, the murder rate would be cut in half before the end of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do <em>it<\/em> with thy might; for <em>there is<\/em> no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.\u201d<\/strong> (Ecclesiastes 9:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anything worth doing is worth doing with passion. There is no place for half-heartedness in the life of the Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cCurse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.\u201d<\/strong> (Ecclesiastes 10:20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This where the expression \u201ca little bird told me\u201d comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>\u201c<\/sup><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>If the clouds be full of rain, they empty <em>themselves<\/em> upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>As thou knowest not what <em>is<\/em> the way of the spirit, <em>nor<\/em> how the bones <em>do grow<\/em> in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"about:blank\"><strong>In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both <em>shall be<\/em>\u00a0alike good.<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d<\/strong> (Ecclesiastes 11:1-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201dbread\u201d is the word of God Matthew 4:4 <strong>\u201cBut he answered and said,It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.\u201d,<\/strong> and the \u201cwaters\u201d are the lost people of the world, Isaiah 57:20 <strong>\u201cBut the wicked <em>are<\/em> like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.\u201d<\/strong> Revelation 17:15, <strong>\u201cAnd he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.\u201d<\/strong> That\u2019s the ministry of the word of God: sowing the seed by faith and not being deterred by circumstances. It might take years (<strong>\u201cafter many days\u201d<\/strong>), but you will reap if you will sow.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.\u201d (Ecclesiastes 8:11) The idea is that of a speedy trial and a speedy punishment. If every killer in America knew beforehand that, if caught he would be convicted and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/salient-verses-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><strong>SALIENT VERSES<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5oei-Mp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}