{"id":4300,"date":"2016-04-02T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2016-04-02T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T12:43:07","slug":"he-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4300","title":{"rendered":"He believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD&#8217;s, and He will give you into our hands.&#8221;  1 Samuel 17:47<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How could David be so sure? Did he not see and hear the same enemy as his brothers and all the army of Israel? A blood-thirsty Philistine giant, polluting the very air with his pagan cursings!<\/p>\n<p>And yet, David believed the LORD, and His promise to fight for Israel. He <em>believed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD&#8217;s, and He will give you into our hands.&#8221; 1 Samuel 17:47 How could David be so sure? Did he not see and hear the same enemy as his brothers and all the army &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He believed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}