{"id":1454,"date":"2011-10-03T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/03\/blessings"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:18:32","slug":"blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/blessings\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjB2skJi2co?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=1&#038;hd=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>A song for the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>I talk a lot about &#8220;The Wilderness.&#8221;\u00a0 All of us experience it and often we have no idea why we&#8217;re there or how or when we&#8217;ll ever get out.\u00a0 We ask a reasonable question: &#8220;If God loves me, why doesn&#8217;t He deliver me?&#8221;\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve often said that God is the God of the wilderness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the places His voice His heard most clearly because it&#8217;s the place where all of the other noises are drowned out and we get to a place of <em>desperate listening<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Story (writer of the hit song, <a title=\"Chris Tomlin singing Indescribable\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6bfUf9S7wY\"><em>Indescribable<\/em><\/a>, recorded by Chris Tomlin) has written a song in the midst of walking through a wilderness of her own with her husband, Martin, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006.\u00a0 She has found the God of the Wilderness to be faithful even when all the questions aren&#8217;t immediately answered.\u00a0 Does God bless in the wilderness?\u00a0 Is there more than meets the eye?\u00a0 Are blessings only related to prosperity and success?\u00a0 Listen to Laura talk about her own journey in the wilderness and then watch Laura sing her song <a title=\"Laura Story on K-Love\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pGmKC34UZ68\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/blessings\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song for the wilderness. I talk a lot about &#8220;The Wilderness.&#8221;\u00a0 All of us experience it and often we have no idea why we&#8217;re there or how or when we&#8217;ll ever get out.\u00a0 We ask a reasonable question: &#8220;If God loves me, why doesn&#8217;t He deliver me?&#8221;\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve often said that God is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,684,171,222,255,487],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1498,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/walking-through-the-wilderness-and-living-to-tell\/","url_meta":{"origin":1454,"position":0},"title":"Walking Through the Wilderness (and living to tell about it!)","date":"June 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday at The Gathering, I read part of an old post I wrote for my former blog, Espresso Roast, in which I was struggling through a wilderness experience. \u00a0Through it, I learned to trust God where I was, embrace the wilderness, and grow through it. \u00a0I hope it encourages you,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1491,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/signpost-for-the-wilderness\/","url_meta":{"origin":1454,"position":1},"title":"Signpost for the Wilderness:","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhen you persist in a spiritual vacuum, when you hang in there during ambiguity, you get to know God.\u201d ~ Paul E. 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