{"id":564,"date":"2015-07-01T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2015-07-01T19:05:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:05:59","slug":"thursday-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 12 <sup>43\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWhen an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. <sup>44\u00a0<\/sup>Then he says, \u2018I will return to my house from which I came.\u2019 And when he comes, he finds <em>it<\/em> empty, swept, and put in order. <sup>45\u00a0<\/sup>Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last <em>state<\/em> of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.\u201d <sup>46\u00a0<\/sup>While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. <sup>47\u00a0<\/sup>Then one said to Him, \u201cLook, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.\u201d<sup>48\u00a0<\/sup>But He answered and said to the one who told Him, \u201cWho is My mother and who are My brothers?\u201d <sup>49\u00a0<\/sup>And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, \u201cHere are My mother and My brothers! <sup>50\u00a0<\/sup>For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PRACTICAL APPLICATION: since it is God&#8217;s Will that all be a part of the\u00a0Church, we have a spiritual kinship with others in His Body. \u00a0This involves praying for other, helping if needed and other things, just as we would do for our &#8216;blood&#8217; family. \u00a0The great thing is that all are able to be a part of God&#8217;s family but many choose not to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 12 43\u00a0\u201cWhen an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44\u00a0Then he says, \u2018I will return to my house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}