{"id":312,"date":"2015-02-02T00:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-02-02T04:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:07:43","slug":"fearfully-and-wonderfully-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearfully and Wonderfully made.."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"horse\"<\/a>Psalm 139: 13-16<\/p>\n

13<\/b><\/a>For you created my inmost being;<\/p>\n

you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n

14<\/b><\/a>I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;<\/p>\n

your works are wonderful,<\/p>\n

I know that full well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my choice. I could go on and on pouting and complaining about what I do not have, wish I did and may never get to have or, I can decide to deliberately focus on what I know I have and concentrate on using my gifts and skills to the best of God\u2019s grace working in me, within the windows of opportunity opened up for me.<\/p>\n

My prayer:<\/strong> Father, please don’t allow me waste away. Help me identify what is unique about me – that ability that uniquely identifies me. Help me be myself and still live to glorify you.
\nWhat makes the horse stand out? Yes, its looks but not just that, its ability to run and travel a long distance as well as the ability to face fear and never quiver.
\nWhat is unique about the Camel?
\nIt’s ability to survive harsh conditions.
\nWhat makes the Elephant stand out? The sheer size and ability to pull its weight against any obstacle.<\/p>\n

See the uniqueness of these creatures as God describes in Job 39: 5- 25;<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

5 \u201cWho let the wild donkey<\/strong>\u00a0go free?<\/p>\n

Who untied its ropes?
\n6\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>I gave it the wasteland\u00a0as its home,
\nthe salt flats\u00a0as its habitat.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>It laughs\u00a0at the commotion in the town;
\nit does not hear a driver\u2019s shout.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>It ranges the hills\u00a0for its pasture
\nand searches for any green thing.<\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>\u201cWill the wild ox<\/strong>\u00a0consent to serve you?
\nWill it stay by your manger\u00a0at night?
\n10\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?
\nWill it till the valleys behind you?
\n11\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Will you rely on it for its great strength?
\nWill you leave your heavy work to it?
\n12\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Can you trust it to haul in your grain
\nand bring it to your threshing floor?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
\nthough they cannot compare
\nwith the wings and feathers of the stork.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>She lays her eggs on the ground
\nand lets them warm in the sand,
\n15\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>unmindful that a foot may crush them,
\nthat some wild animal may trample them.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>She treats her young harshly,\u00a0as if they were not hers;
\nshe cares not that her labor was in vain,
\n17\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>for God did not endow her with wisdom
\nor give her a share of good sense.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
\nshe laughs\u00a0at horse and rider.<\/p>\n

19\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>\u201cDo you give the horse<\/strong> its strength
\nor clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
\n20\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Do you make it leap like a locust,
\nstriking terror\u00a0with its proud snorting?
\n21\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,
\nand charges into the fray.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>It laughs\u00a0at fear, afraid of nothing;
\nit does not shy away from the sword.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>The quiver\u00a0rattles against its side,
\nalong with the flashing spear\u00a0and lance.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;
\nit cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>At the blast of the trumpet\u00a0it snorts, \u2018Aha!\u2019
\nIt catches the scent of battle from afar,
\nthe shout of commanders and the battle cry.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God blessed every creature with something unique by which they are distinguished.
\nNotice that doing these things come naturally with these creatures. They do not struggle being themselves, neither do they try to copy other animals. They never compete against another specie. They are comfortable in their own skins and being what God made them to be. They are known for what they do.
\nYou will be known and rewarded for what you do and your unique way of doing them.<\/p>\n

What comes naturally to you? God wants to help you pick that up and make it a channel of supernatural blessing to others. God may also be prompting you to try something new and since He\u2019s put it in you to do, He will help you succeed.<\/p>\n

My prayer:<\/strong> Lord help me be open to you. Help me be sensitive to your Spirit. Help me to be obedient to your instructions and when I am going off track, please nudge me back on course.<\/p>\n

Stay on the winning track.<\/p>\n

Shalom<\/p>\n

\u2018Laolu Oyeyemi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 139: 13-16 13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb. 14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. It\u2019s my choice. I could go on and on pouting and complaining about what I do not have, wish … Continue reading Fearfully and Wonderfully made..<\/span> →<\/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":[66],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-february-2015","tag-horse","tag-unique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godcolours.ca\/programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}