{"id":458819,"date":"2020-04-10T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weighdown.com\/EncouragementFromGwen\/?p=142"},"modified":"2020-04-10T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:03:19","slug":"delivered-me-from-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwenshamblinbooks.com\/?p=458819","title":{"rendered":"Delivered Me From Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><em>For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.<\/em><br \/>\nPsalm 56:13<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Enslavement to any master other than God &#8211; whether it is food calling your name, or TV commanding your attention, or lust controlling you, or shopping occupying your heart and mind &#8211; is still enslavement. Enslavement is a part of our nature. We are all attached or enslaved to SOMETHING, and we are good slaves &#8212; we know how to devote our time, attention, and passion to something! But when you are embracing the food or any other worldly idol, you are embracing something that will drain the life out of you\u2026these idols will NEVER love you back. Think about it. We read in the book of Exodus that God\u2019s children, the Israelites, were in bondage to a wicked master, the pharaoh of Egypt, who did not care whether they lived or died. Your idols don\u2019t care whether you live or die\u2026but God does, and He wants to give you LIFE!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Excerpt from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weighdown.com\">Rise Abov<\/a>e<\/span>, by Gwen Shamblin Lara)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enslavement to any master other than God &#8211; whether it is food calling your name, or TV commanding your attention, or sex controlling you, or shopping occupying your heart and mind &#8211; is still enslavement. 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