{"id":13589,"date":"2026-10-31T20:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13589"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:32:58","slug":"miraculously-bestowed-1-of-2-thursday-november-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/miraculously-bestowed-1-of-2-thursday-november-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Miraculously Bestowed (1 of 2)\u00a0&#8211; Thursday, November 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Isaiah 64:8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The task you receive \/ Leads you to believe\/ You\u2019re unable to achieve \/ What\u2019s been assigned \/ That doesn\u2019t align \/ With talent you can\u2019t find \/ It\u2019s too high a stake \/ So you pray God will take \/ What\u2019s certainly a mistake\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness often arise at the initial stage of an assignment from God.\u00a0 This was the case for Moses\u2014&#8221;I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue&#8221; (Exodus 4:10)\u2014and Gideon\u2014\u201cI am the least in my father&#8217;s house\u201d (Judges 6:15)\u2014and Jeremiah: \u201cThen said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child\u201d (Jeremiah 1:6).<\/p>\n<p>Have you received a baton? Though appreciative of having been selected, do you nevertheless have thoughts like those of Moses, Gideon, and Jeremiah that cause you to feel incapable? What changed their minds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand \u2013 Isaiah 64:8 The task you receive \/ Leads you to believe\/ You\u2019re unable to achieve \/ What\u2019s been assigned \/ That doesn\u2019t align \/ With talent you can\u2019t find &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/miraculously-bestowed-1-of-2-thursday-november-5-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miraculously Bestowed (1 of 2)\u00a0&#8211; Thursday, November 5, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13589\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}