{"id":5824,"date":"2025-03-18T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2025-03-14T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:31:44","slug":"fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2025\/03\/18\/fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Gideon worshiped God, God&#8217;s way, fire was the result. There was no question about God being pleased with Gideon&#8217;s sacrifice. It was obvious.<\/p>\n<p>How could you tell if God was pleased with <em>your<\/em> worship of Him? If there is no physical fire, does God have any other means of assuring you He is pleased with your reverence of Him? If you can&#8217;t measure God&#8217;s pleasure of your life, how can you know if your life and your actions are acceptable to God? Or, are you merely assuming that they are?<\/p>\n<p>We may have grown far too accustomed to worshiping God without fire. We grow satisfied with humdrum church services rather than dynamic, breathtaking encounters with the living God. Once the angel of the Lord departed, Gideon knew full well He had just undergone a life changing divine encounter.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you felt that way as you left church?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.    Judges 6:21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13990,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/13990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}