{"id":3466,"date":"2017-03-02T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:03:35","slug":"a-friend-in-high-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/a-friend-in-high-places\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend in high places"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\"><b>Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. &#8211; Psalm 147:5<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">They say it&#8217;s not what you know, but who you know. And in the Google-powered, \u00dcberified Connection economy we live in, it&#8217;s also about &#8220;who knows you&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">But whether it&#8217;s about who you know, or who knows you, you need to remember that you are connected to God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">You are one spirit with Him. And He is not just somebody who is part of your network.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">He is the Lord, He is great, He is abundant in power, He has understanding beyond measure&#8230;and He&#8217;s on your side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">So those worries and cares that you&#8217;re fretting over? They&#8217;re wearing you down by talking to you about what they&#8217;ll do to you if you don&#8217;t do what they want you to do&#8230;and they&#8217;re doing that because you&#8217;re not talking back to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">Instead of taking their trash talk, try dishing out some of your own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">Tell those bills\/worries about the God that you serve. Tall about His love for you. Brag about how you&#8217;re seated in heavenly places in Christian Jesus. Warn them out loud that they&#8217;d better get out of here before your Dad shows up to deal with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:&quot;\">You&#8217;re not alone in this. You&#8217;ve got a Friend in high places.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bGreat is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. &#8211; Psalm 147:5 They say it&#8217;s not what you know, but who you know. And in the Google-powered, \u00dcberified Connection economy we live in, it&#8217;s also about &#8220;who knows you&#8221;. But whether it&#8217;s about who you know, or who knows you, you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/a-friend-in-high-places\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Friend in high places&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}