{"id":4270,"date":"2020-04-11T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2020-04-11T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:37:10","slug":"preparation-thoughts-from-ezra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/preparation-thoughts-from-ezra\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation thoughts from Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do<span> <\/span><\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">it<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.<\/span> &#8211; Ezra 7:10<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Preparation time is never wasted time.<\/p>\n<p>And as well as guarding your heart (Proverbs 4:23), you need to be preparing your heart (mind+will+emotions).<\/p>\n<p>Ezra started by preparing his heart in order to seek, do and teach.<\/p>\n<p>A failure to prepare your heart leads to doing evil (2 Chronicles 12:14).<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts, feelings, actions&#8230;that&#8217;s the progression.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare your heart before you prepare your work.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare your heart in order to do your work.<\/p>\n<p>Preparation time is never wasted time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. &#8211; Ezra 7:10 Preparation time is never wasted time. And as well as guarding your heart (Proverbs 4:23), you need to be preparing your heart (mind+will+emotions). Ezra started by preparing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/preparation-thoughts-from-ezra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparation thoughts from Ezra&#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-4270","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\/4270","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=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}