{"id":9912,"date":"2011-11-20T06:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2011-11-20T06:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T12:48:54","slug":"waging-war-seek-guidance-proverbs-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/waging-war-seek-guidance-proverbs-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Waging war? Seek guidance. Proverbs 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/the-proverbs-in-31-days-begins-tuesday\/proverbs-post\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9645\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9645\" title=\"Proverbs in 31 Days with MomsToolbox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post-200x115.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/are-you-reading-the-proverbs-in-31-days-with-momstoolbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Proverbs in 31 Days<\/a> with us, our reading for today is Proverbs 20.<\/p>\n<h2>Scripture: Proverbs 20: 18<\/h2>\n<p>Make plans by seeking advice;<\/p>\n<p>if you wage war, obtain guidance.<\/p>\n<h2>Observation:<\/h2>\n<p>Search out good advice when you are going into a potentially challenging situation.<\/p>\n<h2>Application:<\/h2>\n<p>So much in life really can be war.<\/p>\n<p>Anything and everything we do for the glory of God is war to Satan.<\/p>\n<p>I try to pray and ask God for guidance, but I forget that I live in a battle zone and sometimes I don\u2019t give prayer for guidance the time it really needs.<\/p>\n<p>I need to really pause, and suit up with prayer. I need to ask and really, really listen. I need to consider His guidance above all else and not go with whims.<\/p>\n<p>Satan doesn\u2019t want our plans for the Lord to succeed. But with God\u2019s guidance they will prosper.<\/p>\n<h2>Prayer:<\/h2>\n<p>Lord, I need your advice. In several areas of my life I am waging war against Satan and I need your wisdom. I am just coming to realize how much of a war I am waging and I know you can help me.. if only I seek you and listen to you better.<\/p>\n<p>Guide me, please. And thank you so much for this reminder to stop, slow down and l-i-s-t-e-n to you. You\u2019ve got the best answers. If am too busy, I won\u2019t hear them.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord. And thank you for the plans you have been sharing with me.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Lord, guide all who want to listen. Let us all see how to stop, seek, listen and respond.<\/p>\n<h2>What about you?<\/h2>\n<p>How do you listen to the Lord? Do you have a set way you petition and listen? Or do you just wing it?<\/p>\n<p>Or what struck you from today&#8217;s reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading the Proverbs in 31 Days with us, our reading for today is Proverbs 20. Scripture: Proverbs 20: 18 Make plans by seeking advice; if you wage war, obtain guidance. Observation: Search out good advice when you are going into a potentially challenging situation. Application: So much in life really can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9914,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions\/9914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}