{"id":158,"date":"2003-02-26T19:48:02","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greetings.gillespiesonline.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2003-02-26T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2003-02-26T18:48:02","slug":"why-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Why Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">We praise the Lord today that we are not asking your prayers for<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">comfort because of death of a dear friend<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">safety under gunfire<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">safety while evacuating through rebel-held territory<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">safety while returning to ICA<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">safety while trying to leave Abidjan etc.&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s amazing to us to look back and see all the &#8216;perils&#8217; God has brought us through in the past year. It also encourages us to know that He is in the future, too, already preparing our way. So we ask you to pray that we will know His plan.&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">The school board and mission leaders have been meeting this week to lay down guidelines\/stepping stones&nbsp;for the restart of ICA when Ivory Coast is safe. Please pray for their wisdom and ability to see clearly the way ahead.&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\">As our youth groups meet tonight at Dakar Academy, they are continuing their study in the &#8220;Why Wait&#8221; series &#8211; a study in purity.&nbsp;Pray that God will use these sessions to call out teens who will purpose in their hearts not to defile His temple. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We praise the Lord today that we are not asking your prayers for comfort because of death of a dear friend safety under gunfire safety while evacuating through rebel-held territory safety while returning to ICA safety while trying to leave Abidjan etc.&nbsp; It&#8217;s amazing to us to look back and see all the &#8216;perils&#8217; God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-term-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}