{"id":11068,"date":"2023-08-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:25:24","slug":"purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11068","title":{"rendered":"Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rules and Rulers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, August 17, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Purple Blossoms, Precious,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OR<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeds<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run Amok?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judges 8:23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gideon said to them, \u2018I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 23:11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greatest among you will be your servant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple rules over others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishops<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royalty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pharaohs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presidents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Ministers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premiers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Druglords<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warlords<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power gone amok!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is precious<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is soft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is comfort<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is a spectrum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is God\u2019s colour of grace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is exquisite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple is the colour of lord and servant turned right-side up by God\u2019s Word calling those who would lead to be servants, not rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kind of servants of Christ will we be, will others experience us to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will we live out the Holy Spirit\u2019s gifts enabling us to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a precious spectrum of comforting colours<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for all around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rules and Rulers Thursday, August 17, 2023 Purple Blossoms, Precious, OR Weeds Run Amok? Judges 8:23 Gideon said to them, \u2018I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.\u2019 Matthew 23:11 The greatest among you will be your servant. … Words of Grace For … Continue reading “Purple”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,21,38,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-holy","category-simple-beauty","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}