{"id":1149,"date":"2019-06-30T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2019-06-30T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:50:31","slug":"june-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/june-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.\u201d \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Psalm 127:1<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 127 is said\u00a0to be written by Solomon.\u00a0This is the same\u00a0King\u00a0Solomon who\u00a0ordered the construction of the\u00a0magnificent House of worship in Jerusalem, which history calls &#8220;Solomon&#8217;s Temple&#8221;. Solomon understood that no matter how much wealth or wisdom\u00a0a man may have,\u00a0&#8220;unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain.&#8221; These days, I also find myself\u00a0thinking about building. We&#8217;ve been told we\u00a0will need a new church.\u00a0Land is available&#8211;for now. Money is scarce&#8211;yet\u00a0funders are out there. Our congregation has chosen to trust God, and so with\u00a0the money it has, we have hired an architect as well as business \/ fundraising consultants. We believe that\u00a0God wants to build a house as\u00a0a blessing to His people, to the\u00a0community, and to His glorious name.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Praise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two people attending church for the last few months&nbsp;have requested baptism.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Karen has had good gospel&nbsp;chats&nbsp;with a few of her ladies in recent weeks.<\/li><li>The Foodbank crisis we mentioned is coming to a gradual resolution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pray for the two baptismal candidates as they grown in the Lord.<\/li><li>Several serious personal situations in our church fellowship require prayer. Satan is trying to bring discouragement and discord.<\/li><li>Pray for the architect and consultants mentioned above. May God use them to be a blessing to the future of this&nbsp;ministry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Thank you for your prayers and support,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George and Karen<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.\u201d \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Psalm 127:1 Psalm 127 is said\u00a0to be written by Solomon.\u00a0This is the same\u00a0King\u00a0Solomon who\u00a0ordered the construction of the\u00a0magnificent House of worship in Jerusalem, which history calls &#8220;Solomon&#8217;s Temple&#8221;. Solomon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}