{"id":700,"date":"2013-11-24T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T02:58:29","slug":"still-small-voice-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Still, Small Voice, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to add a little follow-up to <a title=\"Still, Small Voice\" href=\"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/?p=658\">my last post<\/a>.\u00a0 Considering the options, I&#8217;ll attribute this to God&#8217;s sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said in the post, God&#8217;s audible voice is distinctly different that the other dozen or so voices rattling around inside my head.\u00a0 Last week while working, I was considering calling somebody and asking him for some help in a situation I was in &#8212; I had actually just gotten off the phone with the guy, and my question would&#8217;ve been an appropriate response to his call, but I had hung up the phone with the attitude of placing the situation in God&#8217;s more-than-capable hands.<\/p>\n<p>As I was considering &#8220;helping&#8221; God in the situation, I heard a voice say &#8220;call him&#8221;.\u00a0 I looked up at God and chuckled a little as I responded in my head, &#8220;God, that was <em>my<\/em> voice&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get serious, to talk to God and lay out my petition before Him, and I heard the voice, deeper this time, &#8220;just call him&#8221;.\u00a0 This time, I laughed out loud, and responded out loud, &#8220;God, that&#8217;s <em>still<\/em> my voice, only <em>deeper<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does my subconscious think I&#8217;m that stupid?\u00a0 Have I given it reason to think I&#8217;m that dull?\u00a0 Probably!\u00a0 One of my prayers of late has been for God to bind my Spirit with His, to soften mine so that I don&#8217;t miss any of His promptings.\u00a0 He sent His Spirit as a Comforter, Counselor, Truth-revealer.\u00a0 I want to take absolute advantage of everything God&#8217;s offered, in order that I might better serve Him in all the ways that He demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to add a little follow-up to my last post.\u00a0 Considering the options, I&#8217;ll attribute this to God&#8217;s sense of humor. Like I said in the post, God&#8217;s audible voice is distinctly different that the other dozen or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/?p=700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craytonclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}