{"id":1527,"date":"2010-09-19T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-09-19T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T14:38:29","slug":"putting-god-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2010\/putting-god-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting God to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, just before turning out the bedroom light, I read the daily portions in <i>Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This particular selection provoked a question within me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Prove me now herewith,<br \/>\nsaith the LORD of hosts,<br \/>\nif I will not open you the windows of heaven,<br \/>\nand pour you out a blessing,<br \/>\nthat there shall not be room enough to receive it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My question was, <b>How do I do that?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, this morning I read the entire verse. Hmmmm. I see I had forgotten there is more to that verse than what&#8217;s quoted above.<\/p>\n<p>And the entire verse answers my question.<\/p>\n<p>See what you think:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it&#8221;<\/span> (Malachi 3:10).<\/p>\n<p>Oh. <i>That<\/i>!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, just before turning out the bedroom light, I read the daily portions in Daily Light on the Daily Path. This particular selection provoked a question within me: &#8220;Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[46,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-malachi","7":"tag-obedience","8":"tag-way-of-righteousness","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}