{"id":2251,"date":"2023-12-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2023-12-30T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T21:50:36","slug":"december-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2023\/12\/20\/december-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"December 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Picture-3a-1.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ezekiel 37-39<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What God said to me \u2013 <\/strong>I do not \u201cneed\u201d you to magnify My name among the nations.\u00a0 I can and will magnify My name and make Myself known in the sight of the nations.\u00a0 There is coming a time when all will bow down and acknowledge Me.\u00a0 But you need to magnify My name for your own sake, not Mine.\u00a0 It is as you walk with Me in obedience acknowledging who \u201cI AM\u201d to the world that your faith grows and you are slowly changed into My image.\u00a0 When you see what \u201cI AM\u201d doing in the world and in people around you and you join in to participate with Me in carrying out My plans as I direct you, our relationship deepens.\u00a0 It is through this lifelong conversation and walking with Me that your faith and confidence grows and \u201cI AM\u201d magnified as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 37-39 What God said to me \u2013 I do not \u201cneed\u201d you to magnify My name among the nations.\u00a0 I can and will magnify My name and make Myself known in the sight of the nations.\u00a0 There is coming a time when all will bow down and acknowledge Me.\u00a0 But you need to magnify &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2023\/12\/20\/december-20-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December 20, 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","category-ezekiel","category-old-testament","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}