{"id":5002,"date":"2025-09-27T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:26:55","slug":"dont-turn-your-brain-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/dont-turn-your-brain-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t turn your brain off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 27:23 KJV \u2014 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be diligent. Be shrewd. Use commonsense. Notice what&#8217;s going on. Do the maths. Connect the dots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God designed you with a brain and He expects you to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faith isn&#8217;t a substitute for thinking. Faith is a conviction that occurs through your thinking but doesn&#8217;t rely on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 27:23 KJV \u2014 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Be diligent. Be shrewd. Use commonsense. Notice what&#8217;s going on. Do the maths. Connect the dots. God designed you with a brain and He expects you to use it. Faith isn&#8217;t a substitute for thinking. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/dont-turn-your-brain-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t turn your brain off&#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-5002","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\/5002","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=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}